This is such an amazing hyper realistic gourmand fragrance !
Exactly smells like brown sugar, vanilla ice cream and coffee.
Perfect for the fall & winter !
This is a very light twist of the original Cedrat Boise.
Basically Cedrat Boise but without the fruity part, and with a little bit of Oud (I almost don't smell it).
This is a more woody, more masculine version of Cedrat Boise.
If you already have Cedrat Boise, this is not worth buy IMO.
Otherwise, I definitly recommend it. Super nice everyday scent !
I like the scent, but it reminds me of the green pear flavored swedish icecream called "Piggelin" (and I don't know yet if thats a good or bad thing). A faint airy fruity spring-summery skin-scent. The sillage and longevity are a bit underwhelming. Doesn't last 30 minutes on my skin.
I was lucky to be presented to 1996 only a couple of months ago and it has forever changed my own fragrance podium. It combines two of my favorite notes in perfumery to perfection: the Iris and the leather, in such a spicy and earthy way. The kind of fragrance that makes my shoulders drop from the very first sniff. I am obsessed. This is so charming and comfortable, definitely long lasting on me, more than the average selection from Byredo. I would consider the sillage moderate. This fragrance is the sophisticated dimension of you, on a leather jacket, for sure.
It is wonderful, summery, casual. Gently enveloping, perfect for summer. It stays close to the skin but comes alive again and again in the warmth of the sun.
Why do I have this in my heavily curated collection?
The reason is purely functionality. It's because I needed an easy reach, easing going, great smelling scent I can wear while being active in the daytime outdoors/during events/lessons/sport or whatever. I love the heady scents. But, sometimes I just want an easy spritz.
Superleggera smells exceptionally good in a modernized generic sort of way. Let's take Allure DNA, freshen it up and update it with modern woody materials and clean white musks. It's Chanel, so it's done to perfection. Everything is perfectly placed and it's never too much or loud and obnoxious. Living up to its namesakeSuperleggera is light and airy with a little masculine edge. The scent is sharp, citrus fresh for about an hour, then moves onto the translucent woods and ambery patchouli musk. It is here that it leaves the sport realm and dives into elegance.
10/10 in this designer scent profile
love the bottle but I literally use her as a room spray
and enough champagne....... to fill the nile!
Fresh, very melancholy scent! I’ve received many compliments on this fragrance. It is a aquatic scent.
Didn't liked it at first, but I retried it months later and I really enjoy it now.
It's leaning slightly feminine, making it sexy on a man IMO.
Great longevity and sillage.
Dusty arid desert sands, the ash fallen into place. The cosmic entity of the phoenix force, manifested, a fiery, radiant being incubated in an ambery powdery incense elixir. Resinous and animalic. Lilith’s breath blown in your face, with a hypnotizing flash of iridescent light. Aglow… for within lies the code.
3am on your stoop with a flat cherry cola in one hand and a half-smoked joint in the other
Beautiful, earthy, dirty with a hint of sexy.
You can't go wrong with creed
The Need To Fly starts of as a crisp tonic bases summer cocktail, with fresh spices. After one hour it reminds me a bit more of absinth, with a crispy fennel/anise combined with some fresh woodiness. At the end, an hour or 4-5 into the fragrance’s life you get a soft skin like woody freshness with a very soft like leathery note. It is a very lovely daily scent that gives the wearer a nice evolution in fragrance. It’s a lovely crisp fresh fragrance that comes to it own on a lovely warm day.
"This is me, this is how I perceive myself in a scent"
Here I describe what most fragrance lovers chase but rarely find—a scent that doesn’t just smell good, but reflects you. Not an accessory, not a mask—a mirror.
Mx is special precisely because it discards boundaries and embraces nuance. That hazy blend of woods, spice, musk, and freshness—it doesn't push a narrative, it holds space. It's warm and open, textured but clean, grounded yet somehow ethereal.
BTW, we can do better than “masculine” or “feminine.” Those words can be shortcuts that flatten things, especially with art like this. A scent can be Grounded, Expansive, Radiant, Shadow, Tactile, Weightles
Or like Mx—fluid, soulful, and fully alive.
Myrrh Shadow 403 smells like the Crypt Keeper's signature ice cream flavor, an inexplicable combination of sour medicinal powders and resinous, demulcent sweetness. Apothecary ice cream served in dusty parlors where softly spiced cola syrup was dispensed by skeletal hands, bittersweet olde-timey remedies dispensed, ironically, in a dusty tomb lined with crumbling marble shelves and cobweb-draped medicine bottles, stone walls saturated with the balsamic phantasmagoria of centuries-old incense. It vaguely recalls the whispery smoke and mysterious veils of Annick Goutal Myrrh Ardente - except Myrrh Shadow 403 emerged from the freezer creamier, sweeter, colder: mystical tree resins churned into midnight, ghoulish horror host gelato.
This is a new DNA 🧬
This would smell amazing on an architect or engineer of some kind
This is joy to wear and transitions quite a bit. Starts very bright with a juicy slightly sweet citrus supported by an ambery backbone and the obvious orange blossom. After around 30 mins the musk appears and continues throughout the length of the wear, mixed beautifully with the citrus. As the citrus subsides the fragrance gets sweeter and the musk dances around you in fleeting whiffs. Some would say it slightly feminine, but any man who enjoys florals or musk will enjoy the wear.
This is massively underrated. On the surface it seems like simple fresh fragrance, bright and metallic, almost fizzy. As it dries down there is a complex mix of patchouli and blonde woods. The freshness stays throughout but it has woody backbone with hints of musk.
Meander by Amouage has the melancholic dewy woodiness that I love to bring out on a rainy day. It's all frankincense, and sandalwood with some subdued floral facets floating around. It's morose, yet gorgeous.
In a house full of heady complex perfumery, Meander is always overlooked due to its simplistic nature. This to me makes it unique in the house of Amouage. The bottle is 💯
Incense Rori feels like building an altar to the temple of dreams - not that it smells like any of these things individually, but the way someone in a dream can be your mother even if they look nothing like her, the golden balsamic woodiness conjures walnut and mulberry and rosewood; the creamy gentle spice suggests whipped orange blossom honey, marigold-infused sandalwood attar, ink perfumed with clove and honey and musk. Applied before sleep and still whispering the next afternoon, it becomes a nightly ritual for dream incubation, precious enough to justify its price not for special occasions but because sleep itself is the special occasion, the potent pantheon of dreams deserving its own sacred preparations.
Sweet, warm, spicy, cosy.
If you like By The Fireplace or Angel's Share, but want something sweeter, this should fit the bill, however for the price it's not unique or long lasting enough
My thoughts and the case for Tygar.
Smoother than, L'Immensite (less ginger bite) not as sporadic, floral, and loud as The Hedonist and the use of higher quality natural ingredients than Vibrato makes Tygar imo, the best in class. Tygar inspired a wave of great perfumes, some of which are listed above. However, the price is absurd and it's hard to justify the cost when Vibrato comes so close and remains much cheaper. If you come across a good deal then grab it, but $400+ for something that isn't even using real ambergris blows my mind. Like LV this is a luxury item.
The scent itself comes across as eye squinting citrus and fresh with ginger spice, but then mellows out nicely with musks, green patchouli and ambroxan. It has great longevity and a noticeable scent cloud. Lovely creation
