In 2020, a wedding guest smelled something extraordinary on a stranger and was too shy to ask what it was. What followed became frag-Reddit's longest-running detective story: six years of periodic "does anyone recognise this description?" posts.
The description — "honeyed tobacco, church incense, and something like warm stone after rain" — became a community in-joke, then a genuine crowdsourced investigation involving fragrance chemists, vintage collectors, and one person who claimed to have attended the same wedding.
The breakthrough came from a Polish collector who recognised the "warm stone" note as a signature of a small house that closed in 2015. Bottle located, purchased at auction, delivered.
The final update made the front page: "It arrived. I opened it. It's exactly what I remembered. I cried. My wife thinks I'm ridiculous. 10/10 would spend six years again." This hobby is stupid and we love it.