Preferred Stock

5/5 My bottle of the House of Stetson release is a bit sharper and brighter in the top than my more recent versions by Coty.

Preferred Stock A rather blunt pun between investing in a financial product and owning a cologne that pays out dividends, perhaps by having the market value of one's own personal stock be profitably preferred. In the 1990s, Preferred Stock's black, rectangular bottle with a grid pattern, suggesting both skyscrapers and spreadsheets, would have readily hinted at elan and potency in both boardroom and bedroom settings. Today, comparing a 1990s splash bottle by Coty, with a recent spray bottle made after the 2021 transfer to Stetson (Scent Beauty Inc.), one can easily detect that Preferred Stock is one of many men's scents incrementally reformulated to lean more towards the fresh and aquatic mega-trend. The earlier Coty formulation is a complexly aromatic fougere, fairly similar to its chief competitor, Drakkar Noir, ...yet compared to the Guy Laroche classic, Coty-era Preferred Stock leans even more deeply ambered and woody. In contrast the more recent Stetson product, leans lighter and more greenly aquatic. An upped dose of dihydromyrcenol likely explains much of the change, as it shifts the scent profile a step toward that wet sour tang found in Cool Water, Creed's GIT, Aspen, ...and AXE Cool Ocean, etc. etc, many more. Of course, this transformation is by no means complete. Preferred Stock is still a much more land-loving, forested fougere, in. comparison to the aquatic fougeres listed above, ..but that fragrant forest now grows closer to a scented sea. I notice even the dark glass of the bottle has been changed from slate gray (Coty) to deep blue (Stetson).

new bottles are made scent beauty .picked up a small bottle of the cologne not the monster it was in the 90's but still smells like preferred stock just not the powerhouse it was . seems like every time its re released its more weaker

Who tf gave PS a 5/5 lmao this is a fragrance site not the country club. It's an old school obnoxious fragrance, definitely a 3 / 5 and that's being nice 😂

One of a group of Fougeres of the era. Drakkar, Paco Rabanne Pour Homme and others. Nostalgic.