A beautiful potent leafy green tobacco dipped in honey and left to dry on a musky vetiver. Very classy. Mental expensive.

Northman by Alexander. The Northman did not come to fuck around. Have you ever seen the video of the techno viking dancing through the streets? He's wearing Northman. I guarantee it. The initial hit from the fragrance is bewildering. Yes. It's an incense - smokey and austere. But wait. Is that? What? It's a huge hit of absinthe. Have you ever drank absinthe? That shit will ruin your weekend. This smells very absinthe-y! But what starts terrifying actually gently smooths out into a sweet smokey eternal base that is vaguely but only vaguely reminiscent of Interlude. I don't know that this is necessarily the most versatile perfume you'll ever try but it sure as hell kicks up a stink. Eau De Techno Viking. Bravo.

I picked this up for a bargain on eBay and to be honest it’s absolutely brilliant. One of my favourite new arrivals of 2024. I paid £60 which was great. I’d happily pay double that for such an excellent perfume so well presented. Amazing glass. The fragrance smells like some mad boozy cocktail - Duchafour at his bonkers best IMO.

I have a bottle from 2015. I must be losing my marbles as to me it smells very similar to Balenciaga Pour Homme. Huh?

I don’t care about this perfume realy. It smells pleasant but it has zero emotional resonance for me. It means nothing. It’s like the dreary drunken cousin of Egoiste Platinum that you don’t want to get stuck talking to at a dinner party because he’ll bore you to tears with increasingly uninteresting anecdotes. Mediocrity in extremis.

I was surprised by how much I like this. Clean and fresh citrus with vetiver. It’s hardly ground breaking but it manages to smell bright and sharp and kinda natural (I mean it smells like something in nature rather than a comment on the amount of naturals used) and performance is pretty decent if not mind blowing. It’s substantially easier to love than the bunch of other attempts at “stronger TDH” like Sospiro Adnante (or whatever it is now) and the Montale Red Vetiver. Solid take on citrus Vetiver.

Strange perfume alchemy - I’m not a fan of yellow florals or the ambrofix molecule and yet this somehow works. It’s weirdly evocative of childhood memories of spring with a hazy honey covering the nostalgia in something pleasing. Odd and wonderful.

This fragrance is awful. Saccharin and vulgar, it’s like being water boarded with custard.

A gloomy, greasy haired biker stands in front of an opening to a cave in a damp forest. He’s holding a bouquet of violets. He ushers you in and you sit together quietly on a leather couch listening to the sounds of the woodland. You notice some mushrooms and wonder whether you left the heating on at home.

Smells borderline identical to a Starbucks chai latte - nice. If you like that sort of thing.