this fragrance is better than you.
mid.
Smells like fierce, I picked mine up for $10 and still think you should just throw that ten towards something else. It smells fine but it’s genuinely the most npc fragrance you could imagine. This that normal smooth spongebob fragrance. That “hey, how are ya” fragrance.
Very similar to Vetyverio by Diptyque
Smells great and the bottle is beautiful. Lots of sandalwood. Performance is lousy. I need to see if it gets better as it macerates. I will reevalidate in 6 months.
This cologne has all of my most favorite essential oils!!
I feel Sexy just thing of using it!!!
The best frag from Crivelli. It’s warm and sexy. Love it.
Spice Must Flow is a fantastic fragrance combining warm spices like ginger, cinnamon, cardemom with a leathery sensual rose and incense. EdlO makes another fragrance which stands away from the trends, yes it is a rose scentered unisex scent, but it is softer, less loud and oud heavy. It is complex, yet simple and absolutly refined. And unisex without going a bit one way or the other. It can be worn by a gorgeous woman in a red dress and a man in jeans, a linnen shirt and a suède jacket. It‘s more about: does this scent suit you? or not?
I really love it because of this, it tells the story of the silk roads, I imagine the bazaars of Istanbul meeting the refined bars of Venice, the harsh warm desert meeting civilization with fragrant buildings, opulence and beauty. But i too give in to the whole Dune-thing, yes I can imagine the Arakis of the Freamen smell like this. but that’s all too the imagination of the wearer and the one who interacts with Him/her/them.
overall i think this is a triumph of Mathilde Bijaoui. EdlO strikes again as a fragrance house that doesn’t need to live by trends, but sets the road. SMF has a medium to soft sillage, a medium projection and a 10h longevity. Which is perfect for everyday wear or just an evening/night.
Amazing scent for the summer.
Very fresh, citrusy, woody and a little bit fougere and peppery/minty.
Decent sillage and longevity.
A BRIGHT sparkling aldehydic white floral. There is a very subtle green freshness too. Musky, soapy, and a little powdery, this is what I describe to people as super expensive fresh sheets.
It's potent, so the sheets will be with you all day!
Opens sweet and spicy on my skin. Cinnamon, cardamom balanced with the balsamic cirtus of elemi. Almost smokey woods are balanced with rich smooth vanilla.
Quite a festive scent, very grown up and sophisticated. Warming and cosy.
Fresh bright and clean citrus with zingy ginger. I much prefer the ginger here to L'Immensitie. I do like L'Immensitie, however have to be in the mood for it as I find the ginger overwhelming.
The delicate and soapy white florals turn this into a very lovely shower gel almost, not to talk down the scent, but that's what it reminds me of. The fresh, green, and slight bitter tea balance the soapiness well. I can see why this is so popular.
It was impossible for me to grasp this perfume at first. The first time I smelled it I thought it was like bin juice/Promise (which I also didn't like but now do like), but I've learned that with perfume, especially Amouage perfume, I should always try again (bar anything that turns my stomach).
I've completely come around now, and I find this to be a majestic, spectacular journey, almost unparalleled anywhere in the world of perfumery. I can't have a favourite Amouage, as they are all so bold, and it's so dependent on my mood and many other factors, but I think this one is about as genius as you can get, and perfectly represents Christopher Chong's creative vision, and the harmonious, wonderful repeated collaboration between him and Karine Vinchon Spehner over the years. What a beautiful way to end an era.
My original review:
"There's a lot going on here.
The opening for me is coconut and basil shoved in your face/up the nostrils before quickly making way for some vomity, poopy rotting fruit, with shit loads of syrupy sugar.
It's an assault on the senses, bearing no resemblance to the advertised notes (except the grapefruit) and is more like a Xerjoff than an Amouage. Sickly."
So so wrong on all counts!
I feel ashamed for comparing this to a Xerjoff. I'm figuratively slapping my wrists, and literally cringeing as I reread what I wrote 😅
The opening of this puts me off. The almost sickly sweet apple and honey? is fitting within the scope of the scent, but it's almost like artificial candy. However once this passes, and the sweet is replaced with dry green, it's much more me.
The patchouli adds a spicy green note, and the spices add warmth and comfort. This alongside a lovely leather and rose, mixed with dry papyrus almost reminds me of the galbanum leather combination from Vilhelm's Morning Chess. The sweetness does remain, however the musky green spicy leather is more prominent.
For a fragrance branded as neutral, as much as I don't buy into gendered fragrances, i'd consider this classically feminine, and quite vintage at that.
That said, APOM operns with an almost aldehydic sweet floral bomb, mostly white, but some of the creaminess of yellow.
As it settles, the lavender starts to peek in, noticible but nothing like a masculine blue lavender.
Also coming through is a wave of musky powderiness which carries on throughout.
On my skin, the vanilla isn't overly noticible, and definitely leans cool toned.
A pretty fragrance, that if I had to put a face to, it would be a wealthy older woman.
This starts off as a citrus bomb and then settles into ginger and neroli.
This is a really nice Vanilla fragrance.
This was blind buy worth amongst many other blind buys that never disappointed. I don't only smell the coffee that comes out of this, I feel it by heart.
Powdery and fruity. Leans female. Give this one plenty of time to dry down. The oud smell like poop, until it dries down.
Incensey and resiney. Strong and beautifu, but not for everyone.
Spicy freshy, powder, and can smell the ambergris. Beast mode performance.
This stuff is so good! You get a spicy creamy sweet lemon. Performance it amazin, 8 hours. Strong projection. The price is really good. Some may say that it smells synthetic, but I don’t think so.
This one is citrus at its best. You can expect the same performance out of it, as you would Bleu D Chanel Parfum.
Gorgeous and delicate smell. It’s fresh citrus and herbal. I get maybe 2 hours be needing to reapply. Very unfortunate that it doesn’t last long.
Very beautiful fragrance! Great performance, 12 hours. Love the way the honey comes through. It has a touch of citrus and cinnamon. It’s heavy, yet light. I feel it was crafted beautifully. You can tell how good the ingredients are when you smell it.
