A dank, green, vegetal, smoky concoction.
Someone has freshly picked hallucinogenic jungle foliage and tossed it to smoulder on a wood fire. You wake up three days later with a sore head and dry mouth, naked and with indecipherable ritualistic symbols painted on your body.
Enormously tenacious and powerful, so best used sparingly and not in the vicinity of polite company.
According to other reviews, this is a dupe for JPG Ultramale, though I haven’t smelled that myself.
This fragrance is powerful but not too overpowering. It opens with strong aromatics, fresh mint, sweet pear, and warm spice. As it dries down, the aromatics remain, and a spicy woodiness emerges.
Alongside smooth vanilla, this is a banger.
A friend had this, and I sprayed it on my hand. Three days later, after two showers, one bath, and countless handwashes, I realised this morning that I could still smell it on my hand.
Amouage Purpose 50 is a total work of art. It is a meditation in three acts on resilience, light, and inner peace. It is demanding, complex, and of an almost painful beauty. It does not flatter you; it transports you and transforms you. It is not a purchase; it is the acquisition of an olfactory relic, an investment in what perfumery can offer at its highest, most spiritual, and most memorable. Simply monumental.
This is a beautiful scent! It doesn’t have an overly strong projection. I would say that the black tea note is predominate. Definitely smells like Imagination, with a twist. I also get the tea note that you pick up in Gris Charnel from BDK. The presentation is stunning. The bottles are like a slim Xerjoff bottle. And the price is under $60. Ainash has a high oil concentration, so they last longer than most designer fragrances. I recommend this brand.
Initio Oud For Greatness is much more than a fragrance; it is a state of mind. It is a dose of liquid confidence, a declaration of personal power. It has democratized oud by making it accessible, charismatic, and irresistibly alluring. Although its price is high, its quality/performance/emotion ratio is unmatched. This is not a purchase; it is an investment in your aura. A modern and essential masterpiece.
The perfume smells divine, with an enchanting scent of vanilla and amber. It lasts a very long time on clothing and requires little spraying, which means the bottle lasts a long time.
However, be careful, as this perfume is very prominent and "warm," making it not ideal for summer but rather for evenings or winter.
Outlands is not a fragrance accessible to everyone. It is an olfactory work of art that requires a certain maturity to be appreciated. It does not seek to please; it commands respect. Amouage has succeeded in capturing light in a bottle, creating an iris of a coldness and beauty that is almost painful. This is not a fragrance that one loves at first sight; it is a fragrance that one admires for eternity.
Its mineral and distant character may seem cold or impersonal to those who seek warmth or gourmand seduction.
Althair is a luxury bottle for winter. Parfums de Marly has succeeded in creating a masculine vanilla that avoids the pitfalls of being too sweet or too simple. With its notes of rum, noble woods, and absinthe, it possesses a rare complexity and depth in this category. It is not a fragrance that you wear; it is a golden and comforting second skin that you don for the most precious moments. An olfactory investment that is worth every penny.
Its very warm and intense character makes it less suitable for hot seasons or very formal and discreet environments.
Emporio Armani Stronger With You Intensely is much more than just a "strong version." It is a masterclass in the masculine gourmand-oriental genre. It successfully achieves the difficult challenge of being both sweet and masculine, gourmand and sophisticated, comforting and passionate. This is not a fragrance that you wear, it is a fragrance that you snuggle into. An essential bottle for anyone who wants to leave an unforgettable mark of sweetness and warmth.
Imagine a ray of sunshine captured in a bottle. It is the very essence of Imagination. The fragrance opens with a solar explosion where the zest of lemon dances with sparkling ginger, much more integrated and radiant than its counterpart in L'Immensité.
Then, the olfactory landscape changes: one enters a sanctuary of purity. A bouquet of white flowers, immaculate and delicate, evokes the creamy foam of an exceptional soap, creating an aura of persistent and sophisticated freshness.
But it is the arrival of a trail of green tea, fresh and slightly tannic, that gives this light its depth and character. This subtle bitterness is the backbone of the fragrance, preventing the cleanliness from becoming mundane and elevating the whole to the status of an icon. Imagination is not a perfume, it is a sensation: that of wearing perfectly clean linen, warmed by the sun. A triumph.
Citrus Batikanga is not just a perfume; it's a masterpiece of mastered contrasts. It captures the wild and complex beauty of nature. It is proof that innovation in perfumery is still very much alive. This isn't a loud love-at-first-scent, but a slow-burn, deep romance. A bottle that is an absolute must-try and will, most likely, earn a prime spot in your collection.
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The classic citrussy, gingery, woody, powdery, slightly aromatic blue BDC we all know and love but with a rich dark leathery base. More mature and deeper than the EDP and EDT. A truly beautiful scent. Masculine, wearable, popular, but insanely priced. Sauavge did and Elixir, so Chanel couldn't be left out could they.
I've spent my fair share of money on perfumes, but it stung a little when I saw something in the chemist at this price point. Hope it's not a sign of things to come. Lucky I grabbed a few samples and ... Santa... Is bringing the full bottle 🤣
Lightsource by Andrea Maack is amazing, and it puts me in a positive headspace for a great day. It opens with bright lemon and green fig, then moves into petitgrain, star jasmine, and crystal rose, and finishes with pink pepper and black pepper. This is a perfectly unisex fragrance.
Wow, just wow. Incredible scent all around. The performance, the bottle, the projection is amazing. This could easily become someone’s signature scent. if you were debating on getting this or the original reflection man. Without a doubt I would pick this every time!
When someone uses the term aftershave to describe everything masculine-leaning perfume related - this is what they mean.
This smells like what the word aftershave brings to my mind.
Fresh and citrussy, green, aromatic, and woody.
It has that creamy woodiness, and slight warm spice accompanying the above to give the fougère barbershop smell.
A really nice perfume I could imagine on someone's well dressed father.
My immediate reaction of Prophecy: "this is an incense for the GIRLIES." Not austere or monastic or churchy or smoky-sacred; this is more of a "burn this stuff in the background of your IG reels while Hozier sings something brooding about desire and divinity and you arrange rose quartz crystals on your nightstand" vibe. Pastel tarot deck spirituality. De-saturated dragon's blood. A dreaming without a dreamer, that ethereal mystical atmosphere floating free, no deep spiritual practice required. An outer light reflected or an inner light unveiled, either way it's been retouched for social media, aesthetic enlightenment run through a vintage Lightroom filter. Creamy, almost fruity, almost floral incense—except not quite incense; aureate suffusion that smells like how luxe body cream feels. Whipped honey vibe; you could take a juicy bite of this tawny chunk of resin. Baby's first incense, but I can see how it becomes A Whole Vibe, build an entire aesthetic around it. The DSH site notes that it's a bestseller, which makes perfect sense...it works well enough for what it's trying to be, but it's too sweet, too fluffy for me. My prophecies need a bit more doom and gloom.
Seminalis conjures a malodorous nebula of intentional discomfort - woody-musky, creamy-milky amberette-sandalwood that chokes every molecule of breathable air in your personal bubble. Suffocating, claustrophobic, the insidious intrusion of someone who knows exactly how close is too close and crosses that line anyway, transforming intimate proximity into a power play through malice and deliberate predation. This isn't the primal biological magnetism Orto Parisi's marketing suggests, but something far more sinister and actually far more gross - not the stench but the suffocating whiff of someone crowding your personal space. The creep who leans in too close and calls it magnetism, who calls your discomfort 'tension' and your retreat "playing hard to get." Someone who corners you against walls in small spaces, follows too closely on the street, continues conversations you're clearly trying to end. Someone who remembers details you never shared, shows up where you are "coincidentally." Someone who gets off on violating boundaries because they've learned that making people squirm can feel like power, who frames invasion as intimacy and calls obsession devotion.
A little burlap sack of herbs, a little spell-bag, green, dry, peppery, sharp, that you tucked in the back of your freezer for safe-keeping. You forgot it entirely and found it freeze-dried and iced over hidden by a bag of peas years later and just in the corner beyond it, you see something strange. A shimmering-glimmering fissure, a glowing rift. What appears to be a portal in the very back of your frigidaire. Sea salt air wafts cleanly from it, cerulean waves dazzling in the far distance (is it ocean or alien horizon? unclear) and most peculiar, sandy pathy lined densely with something very much the shape of pine trees, fragrant boughs heavy with gleaming drifts of snow.
Creamy, fruity, floral and cosy. It's so comforting and warm on my skin. Reminds me of You Fleur.
Fragratica says this is supposed to smell like a JPG, but I highly disagree. This is niche quality. I’m picking up a beautiful oak moss scent with a blue twist. I’m not picking up sweet pineapple, or coconut, maybe a slight fresh pineapple. Haven’t yet tested the performance but it smells heavenly.
it smells as if you were sipping a glass of aged whisky, while wearing a leather jacket next to a campfire, surrounded by sage. The scent is very linear, basically the same smell from opening to dry down; heavy on the Booze, amber and leather, with some smokiness and a little hint of the fierce Dna plus sage. it’s by far the best fierce and the only one worth it personally.
the best fragrance gucci has put out. You get a little Terre d’Hermes and a little Dior Fahrenheit
Boom! you get one of the greatest frags you’ll ever smell.
Pretty good fragrance, especially for the price! Under $20. I would say it seems to outperform most designers. Only downside is, you can tell the ingredients may be more synthetic. This one reminds me of a mix between YSL Y EDP, and Paco Rabonne Invictus. Should go ahead and pick it up.
Just trying it for the first day today. Opens peppery and with a hint of herb from the coriander. Quickly picks up some of the frankincense and maybe hints of cinnamon. But other than the pepper it really is heavy in the cedar and other woods in the base. Very close to the skin and only about four to five hours. I need to wear this more to decide if it is a keeper or not.
