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.

It’s not for everyone. It smells like I’d imagine a dental surgery on a spaceship. All very hard and sharp metallic edges. There’s an apple note but it’s a futuristic apple. Not made of fruit. It’s made of aluminium. Which I guess is why we need the dental surgery. Long lasting. Durable. Metallic. Sometimes I catch a whiff of it in the air and think it's delicious, and then I find the metal again. And it's obnoxious. This is a marmite fragrance. And I still can't decide if I love it or hate it. It's about 97% hate. But just maybe I could love it. Which makes no sense. Good day.

Slightly nutty amber for me. Huge performance. Beautifully executed. Reminds me slightly of Xerjoff Amber Star. Others will disagree.

I’m not amazing at recognising notes. In fact I’m quite poor at it. Maybe better than your average muggle but certainly it’s not my super power. I particularly struggle with differentiating herbal notes. So as soon as I smelled this I was pretty pleased with myself as the tarragon note was so obvious. It’s got a herbal greenness to it but also an almost aniseed note. It’s unmistakable. It immediately conjures up memories of cooking with my mum when I was a kid and using tarragon. Of course tarragon isn’t listed. So much for my self congratulation. But whatever. To me this is a citrus and tarragon fragrance. Verging on aniseed. It’s very polite and dries down to a pleasant ambergris and earthy vetiver base. Very very classy as you’d expect from Guerlain. Not beast mode. But ideal summer wears