Less ambroxan which some may like however that also means less performance. That is very evident when tested side by side with original Uomo.
This will always be a classic. Never will get old. Can wear anytime, anyplace, anywhere....your birthday, his/hers birthday, their birthday, Jesus birthday, your mommas birthday, your daddy's birthday, the queens birthday...🤣🤣, im sure you get the message✌🏿.
Blue fragrance with bleu de chanel drydown. Have not smelt dylan blue so can't comment on similarities between the two.
Straight up Givenchy play intense!👌🏿
This is such a comfortable fragrance. Gently sweet but irresistible smooth😍😍😍😍. Just sexy sexy sexy. If black phantom was the dark handsome confident type then this is the more reserved, quiet yet suave kind😏
Now this right here is a fragrance for life!!!. Sweet but also somewhat salty. Not overly sweet as you might think based of the notes. Very well blended and sophisticatedly smooth. This is date night self made in a bottle. Point, blank, period!.
Although this is a beaut of a fragrance, the ambroxan is heavy so if that ain't your thing then you're better off getting the limited edition. Me personally, this is my shitttttt!!!!. Sweet gourmand all day every day😍. Oh and performance is superbly 👌🏿.
This is that 1 fragrance where you literally can't fault any part of it. If you don't like this then you are deceiving yourself lol.
Women's D&G Light Blue on dry down. Lasts forever.
Fantastic. Projection 8/10 Longevity 8/10 Closest to Creed Aventus of any fragrance out there.
I'm going to try to make this a short review, but Patchouli Intense is quite a complex animal and I could get locked into an incoherent ramble about the sensations and vibes I get from it. Let's keep it simple and stick to the basics, there's a comparison to Incense Oud by Nicolai a fragrance I purchased at the same time from the brand, and while it's true, they are quite different as well. Also my perceptions of this were not patchouli at first, I mean I didn't even like the fragrance but as it wore on I because more conscious of patchouli and the growing sense of a men's masculine framework of yesteryear. The opening is now peppery woods and heavy patchouli, but it's not dank, wet, hippy, it's dry and unique if I'm honest. I smell rose (and apparently geranium) but it's very low in the mix, I like it though it lends, depth and opulence. It's smooth and rounded can't say the basenotes listed here come through, accept of course for sandalwood. This is the curious blend of milky and edgeless and spicy, rough, woodshop working, sandalwood. It's BRILLIANT!!! I don't even feel I've run the full gamut of emotions where this fragrance is concerned and so far it's been a mulicolour rollercoaster, of love and hate, that is clearly an emotive fragrance, this is what we all want, Pat has achieved something here, and it's not even immediately apparent. I think I've said this in other reviews that there's something stuffy and traditional about Nicolai, something which never quite elevates them into perfumes you long for. However, across the board they are SOLID, and if you love perfume you can't help but admire them.
Wow! This is a fascinating brew from Pat! Not really Fig nor is it tea but the feeling and spirit of tea definitely comes through, same with fig I mean it's an unconventional fig, it's no stemone bomb but I think the fig accord is carefully entwined with the peachy osmanthus note which I think dominates this perfume. It's fresh, fruity, exotic and floral. The opening is like a big, cheerful peach/orange hybrid, after the initial juice phase it becomes drier and chalkier. Yet again Nicolai puts that sour mossy quality to juxtapose all the pleasant, well behaved and sweet stuff, it's almost like bittersweet caramel, bisabolene or something when it's settled down. Also the tea effect gives a sparkly metallic quality. It dries down to a completely different vibe, a bit less playful, more grown up. It's good. If you like fruity, florals check it out.
Revisiting Malle and as always stuff like this, en passant and eau de magnolia have this sense too as well as some I don't like as much like the Angelique one and L'eau d'Hiver is just conceptually superior (although seemingly simple) and perfectly executed. There's something very present about these Malle's they don't feel like they are respecting tradition but nor are they future facing trying to break new ground, or be the next trend. They are more accurately a moment, simply captured, and to me there's something comforting and liberating about them. It's as if the perfumers were recreating the beautiful head-space of a flower, what I mean is that there's a sense of 'air' a feeling of atmosphere, space, whatever you want to call it. Lys Mediteranee is carried to you upon the breeze, it's lovely. Smells oceanic, the ginger listed here actually is just perceivable ever so slightly, as well as a green tint to the florals, which are both exotic and familiarly wafted from various summer blossoms. I bought a small 10ml just to test the water, I see this as a functional, hot weather fragrance, to cool me off. I'm always going on about how perfume should be complex and 'do' lots of stuff well these are the exceptions, they don't do much, they are not really multilayered experiences, but rather zen calm, aromatherapy which allows you to clear your head. In fact this scent would be ideal for meditation. Despite all the praise it's far from my favourite Malle, but if you like lilies and florals in general this is so nice and light as a feather.
It's Sauvage at a budget price.
Hybrid of TF Soleil Blanc and Creed VIW. VERY addictive and longevity and projection is fantastic for a Zara frag.
Hugely overpriced fragrance. The first 5 minutes of this are wonderful, rich chocolate and orange, a familiar scent but unusual enough in perfumery. After that, however, it gets dominated by a clean white musk and the chocolate that was so good in the opening drops off far, far too quickly, leaving you with a synthetic, candied orange and white musk, with the telltale Xerjoff vanilla in the base. I can't smell any oud in this whatsoever, there is a very light, very clean leather-like scent that lies buried deep down that I suppose could be the oud, but it has barely any presence and makes this smell akin to the interior of a new, relatively fancy car. This is not a bad fragrance at all, it's actually perfectly pleasant and about 90% on the route to being brilliant, but I can't help but feel let down by both the promise of something much deeper and richer after the spectacular opening that falls far too flat, far too quickly. If it maintained the deep, thick and rich chocolate from the opening it would be stunning, but without it, it struggles to leave the realm of "just good enough" and for the asking price, that's well... not good enough.
Fresh, fruity, aquatic. Very close to Creed SMW.
Shocked and stunned how beautiful this is. Comes back to perfume being about feeling and emotion which doesn't sit right with my scientist, Vulcan, got to dissect and understand everything brain. Sometimes you just gotta accept something for what it is. And this is a resplendent cologne type scent. The top notes of citrus permeate and last right through I get a twist of lime more than anything else, oh of course bergamot. Not surprised at the mention of galbanum and herbs, there's subtle greenery. Then it's a gentle breezy heart of nondescript muguet. Sounds a bit neggy but I mean it in a... switch off spock brain and stop relentlessly trying to 'KNOW' everything & just let it happen...kinda way. Clearly jasmine in here but perfectly low key. (Edit: just spritzed it again and the opening actually has a banana/cheese smell of florals and real civet almost, but tropical exotic ylang/jasmine which dies back) The Pat finishes you off with a little clump of moss, and her signature off-ness, bitter effect making it superior to most other citrus fragrances that don't seem to understand you need that element to make it even remotely interesting. So it's not really strong or hugely long lived but who cares? the citrus does bleed downwards and remain (somewhat) so it's great in that respect too. I LOVED weekend in Normandy. I sampled it twice and couldn't stop thinking about it over many other Nicolai's I love. It's just one of those lovely things I had to have.
Citrus cologne, little clump of moss. It's very Nicolai, very French but I think it's not the neroli form the name. People have different expectations of what a neroli (named) perfume is and I think people might tend toward thinking of soapy, waxy, white florals, (Tom Ford or Mugler cologne) or a edc type deal, I mean clearly this leans towards the latter and it is nice to see a departure from the former but neroli is a strange and wonderful material. Not least because it varies quite a bit but because it's usually combined with more orange, petitgrain, orange flower materials, all of which themselves are changeable and all from the same place ultimately, an orange tree. This is lovely and all that but it's just not very exciting and I say that as a lover of the brand and a fan of some of the other lighter weight citrus offerings in the line. Doesn't quite do it for me but Cap Neroli is fine. It's a fine perfume.
Fresh rhubarb and nothing else. Good longevity and projection. Cannabis? You need words with your dealer. lol. Definitely not.
Loud citrus/green opening that ultimately dries down to Acqua di Gio. Great longevity.
Clone of Tom Ford Noir. Smells nothing like Dior Homme.
Okay, so I'm a musk guy, especially the cozy, the dainty, the powdery. All of which this is. The pear note in the opening is Soooo pronounced it kinda throws me a little coupled with the 'whiteness' and clean nature of the musk and ethereal whisp of rose. However, as soon as it starts warming up an regressing into it's powder state it's a gorgeous, snuggley, apricot powder puff and very subtly spiced carnation, with warm tones underneath, it's basically a million classic perfumes but with the musky, pillowiness turned up to eleven, with very creamy, sandalwood development too. There's a few modern takes on these soft, musk themes out there but this is not one of them, (well apart from the fruity melon/pear top I suppose) it's classic, classic, classic as you'd expect from PdN. I mean I like it, I like it a lot, it feels like a real bedrock of perfumery, but does it stimulate me on a deeper level? does it compel me to buy? I have to be picky and say no, the opening doesn't appeal to me, which is nickpicking at this point because a good 90% of the wearing does. The truth of the matter is it's almost a given that these perfumes are going to well made and smell good, but how many from this brand do you really need in your collection? I would answer only the ones which speak to/and/or/Spellbind you.
Very interesting fougere, kinda on the darker side but not the sweet, annoying, tobacco cliche the name might suggest and of course it wasn't going to be from Nicolai. It's got lavender in it, and a kind of chunky, licorice smell, with a tobacco character and heaviness no doubt but a definite cleaner, Barbershop, urinal cake sort of vibe. I sort of like it, but I'm kinda passing on it. Unless wearing this perfume properly (instead of on my wrist a couple of times) yields any different results I will be sure to update this review below, but I can see my mind changing from ....meh...next! Update: 01/12/23 Undoubtedly there's stuff I like about this fragrance, the 'soft spicy' being the top of the accords on this fragrantica page being one element of that, and it's clearly continuing Patricia's traditional yet also unique approach to fragrance, I get an impression of way more complexity to her formulas than the end result conveys on first sniff. The bit I can't get away from with this fragrance is the smell of baby wipe factory. Yes, specific I know, but also not because I work in this area and the wipes and various surfactants, detergents, compounds and fragrances used in these places are pretty varied but when amassed they have this ubiquitous hyper soapy smell, which at first not unpleasant, starts to knock you sick shy of the hour mark, then you become somewhat accustomed to after a few hours (if you can stand it) That's the bad bit though, close to the skin you do get this less diffuse, blonde, TABAC smell, I like it, it sort of flips for me and that be kinda intresting but also a bit demanding of the wearer and I find some Nicolai's to be hard work and I don't always want that.
