This is a great fragrance, light on it's feet citrus & pepper combining to create a lovely freshness. Everything Lalique do oozes class, not overly pretentious and very reasonably priced. I often wonder why they're not more mainstream and in more stores. I kind of glad in a way because I think that would take some of the magic and exclusivity away. Okay so @freddiefingers is going to kick my ass again over this...and dude I don't just think everything smells like GIT! But... Just for a fleeting moment in the opening this reminds me of Creed Green Irish Tweed... anyone with me? I like to think my nose is not completely shot and I'm not going totally mad! I'm not saying they smell the same either it's only the opening and it's no where near as herby or prominent as GIT and the drydown is totally different, any vague resemblance is gone totally. Is it the ceder, oakmoss, lemon leaf?? something in there is creating this effect and I swear I'm not imagining it!

As soon as I smelled this I was bowled over! Fig scents to me are almost always aimed at women and where I'm not a huge lover of the note anyway I keep coming across fragrances which contain fig. I'm drawn to them without prior knowledge that they are going to be there, so now I just go with it. This one is the most outragously figgy scent you could imagine. It explodes out of the bottle with the most lush, ripe, gorgeous smell. I have the Acqua di Parma Blu Med Fico and that is very mellow and understated in comparison. Originality is the key to all the scents in the Diptyque line although the ingredients are similar to others used across the perfumery industry they are able to set themselves apart from the crowd with some wonderful smelling fragrances. Everything I've smelled so far (only about 6 of them) is stunningly good at a fairly reasonable price. The best fig scent I've smelled hands down and it drys down beautifully giving a little coconut...magic! Update: I still love this but my girlfriend really doesn't she said "If you get it... don't wear it when I'm around." Knowing I have juice to pick from but still that's not the point I thought this (although figgy) had a wider appeal and was pretty inoffensive to most tastes.

Revisited this after a few months and I still love it. Very fresh and invigorating as all Jo Malone scents but this is special in vetiver fragrance terms. Never realised how fruity the top notes were until I retried it yesterday the citrus zings and works perfectly with the very gentle spice and woody character. This might just be my favourite citrus/vetiver combo and I've sniffed out quite a few. It's a perfect composition.

I'm a big fan of Jo Malone despite most of the fragrances being fresh and for women. I'm a huge fan of the vetiver and this is along the same lines even woodier infact. I really enjoy it an actual composition without an obvious name of the ingredients which are inside the bottle. Easily unisex but the lady at Jo Malone said this was more aimed at men and I can see why. Smells great.

Okay Burberry London has legendary status among fragrance heads, very rarely do I see a top winter line up that this one isn't a part of. How fitting we are entering wintertime and I'm posting a review due to the fact I too turn to this fragrance in the colder months. I'm not going to spout cliches like "...Christmas in a bottle" or anything but that's truly not a bad description. I'm surprised to see that Fir or pine is not a note listed here because that's the first thing I get from London, a very green, sappy note. That disperses quickly and your instantly into the warm heart of this juice and it is warm and super welcoming. Sweet, mulled wine, cinnamon spice, woods...it truly is as good as everyone describes, maybe even better? Even the bottle is wrapped up warm for the cold weather what more could you ask for?

Okay so I went to my local perfume counter and said to some of the women there..."You know me by now...what else do you have that I will like?" I always use certain fragrances as a reference to (hopefully) help them alert me to new ones...In this case it was Robert Piguet 'Bois Noir' and Amouage Interlude Man. She came up with this one from DSquared. It was a new one to me, the He Woods are a mixed bag and I'm not overly keen really...but I figured hey I'll try it! A pale comparison with Bois Noir which is in another league(not even gonna mention Interlude) was my conclusion. It smelled cheaper, I'd figured they were the same price but when I discovered this one was half the price it changed my perspective slightly. Really not a bad effort at the high end opulence that I crave from a spicy, Oudy, smokey, Incense scent at a designer price. Also the rose strikes a pretty good balance in Potion Royal Black, all in all not bad. For me though, I like designer fragrances for being a composition that you wouldn't see in the niche realm and this attempt is slightly redundant for me. It just highlights that If I want this sort of smell I will have to be prepared to pay for it and in truth will get something much much better than this. Update: My original point above was not very objective. I'm speaking as somebody who loves dark, eastern, incense fragrances and is prepared to pay top dollar so this doesn't really appeal to me...but more broadly speaking this might be the finest designer fragrance you can get and not to be sniffed at! (If you pardon the pun...this most definitely should be sniffed at! in a really good way.) Tried this again the otherday as I was really quite impressed the by this the first time, considering it's price point. It starts out as a really smokey mess quite frankly and is very pungent with spices and I'm not sure what it's supposed to be? You can actually sniff through the layers of resinous, smoke and reveal what struck me as an almost feminine rose scent underneath. However, as it dries down it seems to get deeper and darker and in the very deep drydown 8+ hours it becomes my favorite a gorgeous leather (Think almost Tuscan leather or Clive Christian 'C' PRAISE INDEED!) but by then it's so faint it's just barely in the realms of existence. Quite a journey this fragrance takes you on...layered and really a bold outing for a designer house with awesome longevity, so well done to DSquared.

As a big fan of masculine woody fragrances I am naturally going to love this right? Well I do and I don't there's a symphony of different characters of woody notes in here but it's just not very bold...maybe that's a good thing? It's a great gentle fragrance and I'd wear it in a heartbeat so maybe I'm just managing my expectations because they were so high with it being called 'Wonderwoods' and all. Update: having tried this numerous times now I'm starting to come around to the fact that this one is actually pretty spectacular and a much better example of a masculine woody fragrance than the DSquared HeWood line for example. It has grown and grown on me, Wonderwood is definitely one of if not THE best in the standard CDG range.

I completely echo @Maddyrain's review I was expecting something uber green from this and instead the generic fresh, aquatic I've smelled before. However, It's a very nice smelling scent and an inoffensive alternative to the mainstays of Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein and the like for roughly the same price so why not get this? It's not bad.

Spices, Amber, incense? On paper this was stacking up to be a olfactory wet dream for me and as such I couldn't wait to sample it's goodness. Now that I have, the best word to describe it is... Weird! I'm really not a fan at all...I never let it drydown properly due to an erge to get it off my skin as quickly as possible. I wanted to like it so bad too, it's brave and very different it strikes me as be very excentric, extroverted. I can just imagine some hip young fashion conscious french gentleman the kind who would wear a CDG jacket with lots of ruffled fabric on the lapels and arms smelling like this...needless to say not my scene AT ALL! I like saffron but all I get in the opening is awful booziness and spice attack, turmeric galore!!! Maybe I'm not being fair and the drydown is nice but yet again I can't get past the opening, a real shame because CDG do some great fragrances.

Tried this a while back and found it enjoyable but wasn't sure if it was a keeper or one I wanted to add to my collection. Thankfully now I have a small decant just in time for the cold weather and I have to say it's an absolute knockout!!! I thought it was quite linear and first a beautifully dense, warm, endulgent, boozy plumy scent that hits you straight away and doesn't let up right into the drydown. That would be enough to sell me but just as it gets a little sweet you get deep, wet, woody oud and all this within seconds of stiffing. Step outside into the cold winter air, you can smell yourself and it's divine. The main change for me is that the fruit and wood suddenly seem dry this makes for an interesting twist. As this dries down you get more of the exotic florals coming through and a touch of vanilla which is the true heart of this fragrance although the plum note remains throughout and the oud is an ever present base. Frankly, I'm stunned by this fragrance, mainly by the way it develops. Although there's much more to it than fruitiness and sweetness if you don't like that you would probably dismiss this fragrance. If you find Tobacco vanille too sweet you probably won't enjoy this either. More fruits and Oud please in fragrances because this is another triumph from Tom Ford.