Is it just me?

Anyone just want some simple scents? Seems like there are so many overly complicated scents, that you can't get a feel for what they'll be like by reading the scent notes.

Yeah, it's like a stew. I want to be able to recognize most of the ingredients by taste.
I feel the same way about classic rock and pop music. You can tell what instruments are being played, and listen to one of them at a time.

Scents are especially able to trigger memories. Camomile, for instance, always remind me of playing in my grandfather's hay barn with my cousins as a kid. If I can't recognize any part of a scent then it does not mean as much to me. Many new scents have absolutely no origin in Nature.

  The last 10 or 12 years of my life has been a series of affairs with “artisans” some ill fated some magnificent. It’s been fun. I’m more discerning now than I once was. Those early years when I wanted to try everything were fun although frequently disappointing.

Anyone just want some simple scents? Seems like there are so many overly complicated scents, that you can't get a feel for what they'll be like by reading the scent notes.

Yeah, it's like a stew. I want to be able to recognize most of the ingredients by taste.
I feel the same way about classic rock and pop music. You can tell what instruments are being played, and listen to one of them at a time.

Scents are especially able to trigger memories. Camomile, for instance, always remind me of playing in my grandfather's hay barn with my cousins as a kid. If I can't recognize any part of a scent then it does not mean as much to me. Many new scents have absolutely no origin in Nature.

I hear ya.
I was gonna say that some scents have so many notes (and without structure) that they don't even fit into a cognizable genre. Sticking to nature is a very good path. Maybe venture into simple/known cologne scents.

Anyone just want some simple scents? Seems like there are so many overly complicated scents, that you can't get a feel for what they'll be like by reading the scent notes.

Yeah, it's like a stew. I want to be able to recognize most of the ingredients by taste.
I feel the same way about classic rock and pop music. You can tell what instruments are being played, and listen to one of them at a time.

Scents are especially able to trigger memories. Camomile, for instance, always remind me of playing in my grandfather's hay barn with my cousins as a kid. If I can't recognize any part of a scent then it does not mean as much to me. Many new scents have absolutely no origin in Nature.

I recently purchase a Yamaha Genos2 arranger keyboard. It has 1900 built-in voices, but I have added even more as I love the variety. Many of those voices emultate acoustic instruments like pianos, pipe organs, violins, trumpets, clarinets, guitars, etc. But it also has a FM synth engine that replicates the tones of the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. Some of the synth voices have "absolutely no origin in Nature". However, many of those same sounds are recognizable in the popular rock and pop music of the 80s and 90s.

 If you look at the scent notes on most soaps, I believe you will find that most of them will be scents you will find in Nature. They will include various types of citrus, flowers, fruits, woods, herbs, spices, and resins. Simple fragrances will choose fragrances from one, or perhaps two of those categories on the fragrance wheel. A more complex fragrance might contain fragrances from several different categories. For example, the original complex fragrance is the Fougere' which is now the most common pattern for men's fragrances. It contains three basic notes: the floral scent of lavender, oakmoss from the woody category, and coumarin/tonka bean from the amber/resin category. Because these categories are contrasting rather than complementary, Fougere' does not fit well into the traditional fragrance wheel, yet the combination is wonderful. It is similar to accidentals in music that sometimes add beauty to the harmony, even though they might seem discordant at first.