Spicy, bright, woody, aromatic, and powdery.
The pencil shavings twinge from ambroxan also adds a brightness.
It's an easy go to, but also easy to over do.
This one takes a little getting used to, since it's not quite what I expected: I thought it would be a mossy, earthy, leathery incense, but it's very predominantly a spicy rose scent with some dusty herbal touches of immortelle and myrrh and orris waxiness. Genteel and sweet with a rustic-yet-cozy animalic quality: Mr. Tumnus strolling home through a hedge maze with a bouquet of roses, but small animals have been relieving themselves in the undergrowth. The bouquet is accented with weeds and tied with a fancy ribbon. Quirky, but I could see it growing on me!
Smells like babypowder, a bit too powdery. I can not detect any particular note. It can be a cozy bedtime fragrance maybe.
Heath Ledger (Joker) signature sent
Smells like Gotham basically
When you buy it let it sit and macerate for about 2-4 months
To me this smells like the camphor you put on a body for the janazah
Probably the hardest fragrance to wear in my collection
While this may not be everyone's cup of tea I think what they did here was take the OG POL and made it slightly more mass appealing
One thing I take note of is how good it performs off my skin it lasts about 10 hours with the first 3 hours having insane projection and sent trail
Do not over spray this as you will go nose blind and lose out on the experience of the notes transitioning from opening to dry down
I've had this for almost a month and really tried to give it a chance, but I can't seem to get over the strong nutty scent from it throughout. It smells good on the tester strip however once it just doesn't sit well with my body chemistry all I can smell is the hazelnut. It does perform better than the OG though, lasted at least 12 hours on my clothes and 6+ hrs on my skin.
I agree with all of the other reviewers but I also get mint and vetiver vibes from the opening and mid. This is 100% genderless, and has the classic watery Ellena feel with the surprising subsequent performance.
I got this scent because I saw that is a dupe or inspiration of Amouage Reflection. I find it to be pleasant, clean, and masculine, but not overpowering. The bottle is horrible, but don’t let that deceive you, it holds quality juice inside.
The best clone of grand soir by MFK
This thing is insanely strong
If you're not into middle eastern style oud stay clear
Good luck getting a bottle at a decent price people are certainly price gouging with this one
This is one of my favorite freshies literally smells like water
This is ridiculously cheap for the quality you get for the price
Sad to say I barely wear this cause of how hot it gets where I live but man this is a must have if you love leather fragrances
Worth every single penny you pay for
In my opinion this is Top 5 fragrances of all time so sad to see it get a reformulation potentially getting discontinued soon I need to get myself a bottle of this before they do
One of the best from Amouage. Very spicy, slightly smoky. It dries down to a peppery, leathery scent and the performance is great. This is very classy and one of my favorites.
At its core, Seraphim Blue smells like a really (really) nice coconut scented sunscreen lotion... but this over simplification doesn't really do it justice.
There is enough depth to this fragrance, that as poetic as it sounds, there is some truth in saying it actually smells like being on a beach while wearing a really nice coconut scented suncreen lotion. In fact, the late stages of the dry down on Seraphim Blue actually have a slightly salty and aquatic touch that very much remind me of just having stepped out of the ocean.
But it isn't a perfect scent. The green notes (apple, eucalyptus, etc.) are only really pronounced (to my nose at least) in a fairly brief opening. I am sure they contribute to the lasting fragrance, but they certainly don't remain in any prominent way.
Like most Zaharoff fragrances (at least the ones I own), the initial opening is also very harsh, to the point of being almost off putting. I believe this to be due to the alcohol they use... but it fades fast, and whatever they use definitely gives this (and other Zaharoff fragrances) great performance.
I wore this to work on the day I am writing this review, in the blazing heat of the Australian summer, and I continued to smell this every time I moved for well over five hours. And it lasted at least another four to five hours as a skin/intimate scent after that.
The sillage also seems excellent, as four to five hours in to wearing this, someone standing at greater than an arms length from me commented on the fragrance. And that was outdoors too.
Overall, this is an extremely pleasant (at least past the initial opening) and interesting summer/spring fragrance that really excels in the heat.
I have tried the OG
The clone is just much more enjoyable to me
Insane bang for buck
Not a clone of Gris Dior but they have their similarities
It’s a great versatile fragrance all year round for many occasions. It has a great balance of freshness and woodiness. It lasts a great deal through out the day and projects fairly well. And the dry down smells like slightly musky woods drenched in ginger but not overly.
It does smell very good, but the downside is the price and I've smelt this fragrance on a ton of people, so not a unique smell.
I've been wracking my brains trying to come up with something creative or interesting to say about this scent. Usually, I love diving deep into a fragrance, weaving dreams and memories into the description, finding those strange and perfect metaphors that capture not just how something smells but how it makes you feel. Different aspects of this scent seem to appear to and appeal to different people - some are catching the nuttiness, others are picking up on the palo santo, while to me it smells exactly like a can of vanilla frosting. Yet we're all arriving at the same emotional destination: comfort. After two weeks of being ripped from my introverted little sanctuary to spend every waking moment with Yvan’s family for the holidays, I have been crabby and frazzled, and I've found myself instinctively reaching for this one. It's fluffy, cozy, creamy comfort that somehow manages to stay light and airy rather than cloying, and despite being fundamentally a vanilla scent, it never tips over into grossly tooth-aching sweetness. The longer it wears, though, I'm catching more nuances - that lush, pillowy marshmallow frosting eases into warm, ambery-woody musk the longer it wears. Is it groundbreaking? No? Have I reinvented the wheel with this review? Sadly, also no. But maybe there's value in collective experience - in many voices confirming that yes, sometimes what you need isn't a complex artistic statement, but just this simple comfort, this quiet permission to rest.
Very clean and soapy. Can wear it for any occasion. The performance is pretty average but it smells great. You get the soapy lavender with some sweet musk throughout.
Very clean, salty, slightly watery, blue fragrance. Good value for what you can pick it up for at discounters. Nothing groundbreaking but you can wear it for pretty much anything. The performance is below average but it’s cheap so you can just spray more or carry a decant with you.
Smells about 90% similar to LV Imagination and for a dupe it has pretty good longevity around 6h on skin and I would recommend it if you don’t have money for the original.
