Unsurprisingly I've never smelled anything like this in my life! The opening is a pungent and overwhelming, sweet yet savory, gourmand smell of barbeque sauce, mollasus, chipotle chili and pork. It specifically has a pork BBQ vibe to it like this bacon infused hot sauce I have at home. It does on the one hand perfectly evoke a summer barbeque but then later a cold, misty, 5th of November night on the other. The foody bit doesn't last all that long which is kinda a shame but also quite welcome, I mean as much as I love BBQ sauce I'm not sure I want to smell like it. The main body of City on fire....well its smoky of course and what starts out as smokehouse hickory wood chips turns to a more resinous tar like smoke. There's labdanum in here which smooths it out a bit. Then city on fire becomes a bonefide perfume totally worthy of more note than the inital quirkiness would have you believe. I really like it and this is from somebody who tried Jeke for the first time in the same week, I've got to say I think I prefer this? Jeke is quite different and much more intensive but City on Fire is extremely pleasant and wearable when it's dried down. Not massive performance wise but still good and surprising considering how strong and smokey it goes on. The drydown is that long drawn out 'papery' wood pulp thing that I often describe and was the same with the Cobra and Canary one.

Wow! I got this fragrance instantly and that's saying something because it goes on a distinctive journey. Opens with lavender and lemon with a soapy spice of cardamom which remains but settles back after a minute or so. Then waves of boozy coconut, nutmeg and black pepper. Then the kick of the spicy woods in the base with some olibanum in there...it's awesome! 'Sandalwood done right.'... is my opinion on this, it's just a masterful composition which clicks with me. I have to say it's instantly similar to Gucci Envy, a scent I sorely miss but Floris Santal might just be even better. It's not strong and performance is pretty average but I can live with that. It seems a little classier and more refined to my nose but I'm going off memory as I haven't smelled Envy in years now. I certainly wouldn't pay Ebay prices for a bottle these days, just get this. I'm getting this, no doubt about it.

My very first Olfattivo and I thought I'd go for the more masculine sounding of the samples I received. Cozumel opens well enough with a tiny hint of citrus and clary sage but is quickly populated by a dominant sandalwood. It comes over a bit like a milky, herbal brew which sweetens with tonka bean...It's wearable and everything but doesn't excite me strange really because I like sandalwood a lot. I think it's too subtle and not spicy enough nor does it have good enough notes surrounding it to bring out the creaminess. The drydown is very descrete and hints at getting a little bit dirtier but is still just quite pleasant. Not all that sure what to make of this? It definitely smells like some other scents I've tried so doesn't score well on originality either. Don't get me wrong though, it's a like not a love and performance was okay although it sits very close very quick.

A brilliantly blended citrus aromatic from a true pedigree perfume maker. The blend is perfect for me, Special 127 is a realistic, juicy, citrus which isn't too sharp, petitgrain and a hint of lavender. There's a white/yellow floral hint in there from ylang and neroli which adds a bit of body without being dominant and a hint of musk. This is a perfectly balanced classic cologne (well EDT) fragrance which is light and effervesant. I can't really speak to performance because I hardly applied any and it lasted about as well as I'd expected...by that I mean...not very. I'd say it's average juice but the citrus lasts quite well not just as top notes and changes on my skin. Floris make some good fragrances and the price is very reasonable, I'd recommend 127...it's nice.

I usually concur with Originaldeftom's reviews (from memory) but I have to say I had quite a nice experience with this. Now I've tried nearly all of this range in store at some time or another over the past few years and only the amber one stuck in my head. Now I have samples of the main ones I wanted to revisit and although this fragrance is named 'cuir' I take that with a soupcon of sodium chloride these days. The opening to me was sweet and flowery, a kind of raspberry amber and immediately crying niche and feminine. Then a light suede develops and that sweet jammy smell like a mixture of jasmine and rose (although not listed and probably not in here!)or something? The floral I can definitely smell is iris giving a woody powder. Although not prominent I've no doubt saffron is in here too because Cuir blanc has a soft, earthy cream to it. If you take nothing else away from reading this review the main thing I want to say is... CUIR BLANC DOES HAVE A BASE IN LEATHER. IT'S A SOFTER SWEETER AND MORE FEMININE VERSION OF TUSCAN LEATHER. However it doesn't have the lasting power or depth of the Tom Ford, only baring a passing resemblance and does have some lighter top notes. The performance was okay and I actually really liked it, despite being what I perceive as more feminine leaning.

A fragrance without balance is no fragrance in my book and Bull's blood does a very good balancing act. I deliberately try not to read too many reviews before I try a fragrance for the first time. This one kept it's allure (except for a few mentions in the Cobra/canary reviews.)until I eventually did wear it, I honestly didn't know what to expect. I think the 'skankiness' is overstated but definitely present in the first couple of hours anyway. Opening is bright and metallic at first but dirty at the same time and quickly Rose and costus are dominant. The rose becomes full bodied, deep and darkly sweet but offset with something slightly unpleasant. It is a barnyard type fecal note but nothing too bad. Reminds me of the slightly manure like smell you get with a nice cuban cigar...so tobacco although not obvious might just be in here? Perhaps a rose that's been fertilized with Bull's shit (not lies) rather than Bull's blood? You know what though? I'm actually not complaining because it offers up a very interesting nasal conundrum...do I like this or not? Well I think it's very clever and captures what I think Josh Meyers intended. So if you are a lover of impassioned, animal or rose fragrances this will be right up your street. I would draw a parallel with my love of red wine. I was always somebody who enjoyed the mid bodied, fruity wines and saw nothing wrong with a nice Merlot or cabernet sauvignon. As your tastes develop though you start to enjoy more full bodied affairs like Spanish Rioja. It's much the same with fragrance. Bloods blood is quite brave but not too carried away, it's refined enough to appeal to a wider range of people than you might first expect. The opening is okay but I'm not the biggest rose guy at the best of times and although I find it interesting I wouldn't wear it. However, I will say of the deep drydown (after 8 hours or so) that it is one of the most beautiful skin scents you could imagine. This is much like Montale aouds the strong rose and oud takes hours to become a lovely creamy remnant. I think it must be the patchouli/rose and musk which remains with none of that unpleasantness. Bulls blood is worth checking out.

Personally I can smell the quality divide between bois secret and Givenchy Pi...but for that it is very similar as it dries down. I like Pi and wear it often at night unfortunately it has a odd bitter edge to it which cheapens what is a lovely creamy sweet fragrance this fortunately doesn't have quite have that. The opening is different smelling more like a spicy sandalwood and nutmeg but then getting sweeter and sweeter which killed the initial interest in minutes. The Tonka beans in here, essentially smell like an almond/vanilla coming across too sweet and perhaps not to everyone's taste. I certainly don't find this to be a masculine flavour except for sitting on a woody base, and was surprised to see it classified as such. I wouldn't wear this fragrance but if you like this sort of thing and are prepared to pay for it this Evody is a more refined and slightly longer lasting Pi. Not for me.

This is the first fragrance I've tried from Imaginary authors and I have some preconceived ideas about what I'm going to get from them. Well TC&TC confirms them. Imediately I'm reminded of the strange but uniquely interesting fragrances from 4160 Tuesdays. I think it's the hippified 'hay' note in here but it makes me think of brown envelopes or that rough sugar paper you used to get as a kid in school. Coupled with that is top notes of sharp lemon and a smokey approximation of leather and woods. It seems like a balance is struck between them as it dries down but certainly not in the opening, that just serves to have gut punch impact. This gets better as it dries down to be fair, the lemon is less sharp the hay settles to a woody skin scent a bit like vetiver with hints of patchouli and tobacco (well more like ashtray) gently smoky and tar like. Personally I don't like it and can't really understand a desire to smell like this but... is it 'bad'? Well, not really. It's kinda okay and a odder composition just made for the sake of it. I look forward to trespasser and bulls blood.

Loved this fragrance. Right from the off it's a fruity floral musk of the highest quality. Hints of sweet jasmine and iris with the greener more floral quality of hyacinth but never dominant. However the main theme I get is more fruits, pineapple, musk and later woods. The base is warmer with hints of amber and the patchouli coming on stronger in the drydown. This is a perfect summer scent and I'm surprised it's 'for women' because very much appeals to me. Not bad performance too for this kind of scent. Accento is good stuff from Xerjoff and quite different to the others of theirs I've sampled. Also I'm a sucker for the ridiculously opulent purple velvet flacon and heavy gold Xerjoff stopper. A good effort.

I've been waiting to try Jeke for a long time now...too long! I honestly thought I was being conspired against, first of all it was difficult to find a sample (would be the only slumberhouse out of stock) and when I did eventually order a sample from Luckyscent they missed it off my order! (not that I'm dissing Luckyscent they provide an excellent service the majority of the time.) I thought I was destined to never try this one but I managed to get a sample over the weekend and wow! Wow...in a bad way (to begin with) the opening is atomic!!!! The juice stains your skin with a hefty, smokey onslaught of bangin' resins, the darkest patchouli and forest smoke. It's very nearly too much even for me and I was anticipating Jeke as being a holy grail of sorts. It kinda reminds me of both le labo Oud and Patchouli fragrances, (both of which I don't like) so oily smokey and dark. Then it settles down and becomes nicer. Then Jeke dries down properly and becomes a real "wow!" fragrance. This is what I was looking for from the notes. What I love is the benzoin and labdanum so sharp but smooth at the same time and this is a premium quality example of that. Really settled in now and the benzoin is like a dusty library book amber but without any softness of vanilla, just raw and unadulterated. The smokiness remains but subdues very nicely into a kind of pipe tobacco and patchouli, it's as thick and dense as you could possibly imagine but sits quite close to the skin, other than occasional wafting reminders. Conclusions are that I do in fact think Jeke is a superb fragrance and not totally unexpected but still not quite worth adding to my collection. I have to say I prefer the pine smoke of Norne and that's odd because I'm a total resin fanatic. If Slumberhouse's trick (or niche) is smokey, dark, unusual or uncompromising fragrances which it undoubtedly is, then I'm more than happy with that effect I get from Norne.