Enormous fruity rose - like a masculine riff on Delina. Great value for money and huge performance

If you find Ormonde Jayne Montabaco to be too strong and too cheap then buy this

This is a spectacular perfume. Epitome of class and distinction. It’s not wildly ground breaking but the lemongrass and deertongue give it a herbal axis that the citrus and woods lean against and it works unspeakably. If you like stuff like Terre D Hermes then consider this a vast vast upgrade on performance quality and scent.

Chanel De Lanvin; you can buy them on the Etsy shop Insider Parfums

Hello. Just to clarify - we haven’t reformulated it at all. The batch is identical. There might be the odd micro variation between individual bottles but the fragrance is identical. Feel free to drop us a line at [email protected] if you would like to chat about it at all. Best wishes.

I’m obsessed with this. I’m not always a huge fan of cologne fragrances but this is incredible. A bright fresh clean top as you’d expect but it manages to smell and feel natural despite enduring forever - as it dries down it becomes a sweet vetiver that just smells great. Very expensive but if money not a concern then buy it. It’s beautiful.

If only Mr Z had in fact been left speechless. We’d all be spared his verbose gibberish. Instead I’ll say this is a reference level amber. Staggeringly good and insanely strong. No idea what’s happening with these people downvoting performance. It slays.

I really like this - it’s a good strong slightly old skool riff on a few things. Elements of cool water, some vetiver, a little pineapple and some aromatic notes that almost have a cumin like vibe. Ever so slightly animalic. Great performance too.

When I first heard the name @bybozoparis I was a bit confused. It seems such a peculiar name. It’s actually the name of the founders Grandfather, Fatah Bozo. The brands founder Khalid Hamoudi grew up in Kurdistan and the fragrances are all EDP and focus on natural ingredients. Presentation is nice and clean with a cool white box and a really cool logo. The caps are bespoked gold jobs and look way better than I’ve been able to get the photo to show. Fragrance wise this one is called In Law. It’s mostly saffron and vetiver to me. It opens with some bergamot (not listed) and some aromatic cloves but pretty soon transitions to a rooty vetiver with a little spice from the saffron and some depth from the Oud. This isn’t an Oud centric fragrance - rather its there in a support role to the vetiver. I’m having something of a vetiver fest at the moment. Perhaps it’s the change of the season. This one fits right in. Performance is pretty good. It’s not a monster but it’s no slouch either and that’s fine. The word that keeps coming back to me with this one is stylish. This is a stylish perfume.

I think it’s suffered from some weird expectations. People are likely to enthuse over a new Roja. Especially an affordable one like this. First batch was limited to 100 bottles and so it sold out quickly. It all adds to the hype. And then a load of people sold their bottles and the hype bubble was burst. So what’s going on? Well nothing really. I think this is a very nice fragrance. Citrus and mint with a woody sweet mossy base. Decent longevity. It wears a little close but that’s fine. It smells nice. It’s a bit out of type for Roja. We are used to the big Chypres and animalics, the ouds, leathers and other more challenging scents. So it’s a little unexpected but that doesn’t change the fact it smells great. For me - I’ve got lots in this space already so not certain I need it in my life but if you’ve got a gap for a nice citrus and mint fragrance this will do just lovely.

Alain Delon Iquitos is a weird combination of rose, clean bubbly aldehydes (soapy smells) and dirty animalic stuff. It’s revered as a classic. But to be honest it smells horrendous to me. It’s so brutal and jarring in its use of clean and dirty together that it doesn’t work at all. Think of it like this: a seriously sex dependent lothario takes a short break from sex for a moment to wash himself with his grandmothers best rose soap. He doesn’t change his clothes. That’s what this smells like. It might appeal to some but for me this is a hard pass. Sorry. Not sorry.