Conquistador is a really elegant fragrance from start to finish, a nicely pitched opulent dusty, Labdanic sandalwood amber accord accented with a leathery iris, right from the start. It feels more like a L'air du dessert esque appeal for me. Defintely a touch of vanilla or benzoin and a syrupy boozy, oudish smell later (sometimes patchouli can do this) so yeah, that's quite a lot of things I know, but I got some good progression out of this, which I think speaks to the inherent quality of the stuff. To it's credit, Conquistador didn't feel like just another iris/orris perfume which let's face it are fairly commonplace in 'niche' perfume and if I'm honest even the worst ones are pretty good, because everyone loves orris materials whether natural or bases or whatever, it's a pretty safe bet. This feels safe but also very nicely done and as I mentioned not tropey, for me it's not 'Dior Homme plus xyz' I think that's a little reductive. I have to give credit where credit is due and although I wasn't blown away, Franck Muller have produced some consistently good products here.