100% synthetic, ultra-modern, screechy, chemical warfare. I get the appeal, but it's just not feasible for people with busy lives to go around smelling like this. I would certainly lose clients if I did. I'm all for bold scents, but there's bold-stunning-classy and there's bold-needy-compensating, and this is in the latter category. Update: the mid stage up close is really beautiful, sort of nutty and leathery, whereas from a distance it's the chemical tuberose still.... But.... Next day, it's still projecting strongly from my skin. It's just way too strong. I don't like perfumes that stop me wearing something else the next day and after washing, and which are indelible on clothes.

Remarkably similar to Pour Un Homme but ten times more pricey Today I spayed one on each arm. There difference is only in the first twenty minutes, with the lavender of Rimbaud being more natural smelling and more effusive whilst being less screechy. But the dry down is 100% identical to my nose.

Oh my, it shouldn't work, but it's incredible. A massive blast of sweaty spices and cleaning product citrus assaults the senses, before rapidly giving way to a creamy blend of citrus and spices. It's soft and tender after the first 5 minutes, like a raging toddler who's suddenly calmed down. There's no base to speak of, so the journey is remarkably short for something so loud at first, but this lends itself to layering, and if it stayed like the opening for too long it would be oppressive. I've just layered this with ample soaky sprays of the heavily discontinued Fate Woman (a moment of behaving like I have the ability to shit out bank notes), and I'm in heaven. Update: it's Jean Marie Farina but maxed up to 1000!

Un verdadero Amouage, este es un transformador. Se abre muy similar a Oud Minérale, con un toque de ylang al lado, luego viene el cashmeran. Durante un tiempo, solo podía oler el cashmeran, pero luego cambió de nuevo y comencé a percibir una rica y realista sensación de madera. Parecía simple, resultó ser muy complejo, y me encanta. Este es fuerte, pero no abrumador. Definitivamente hay más de lo que sugieren las notas. Estoy percibiendo un toque de menta dulce, en algún lugar entre el geranio y la menta verde, y posiblemente un atisbo de jazmín, aunque tal vez eso sea el ylang disfrazado. Debajo de todo hay un pachulí de calidad excepcional, que se inclina hacia lo extremadamente seco y sin rastro de encurtido, y el cashmeran vuelve a aparecer para calentar ligeramente. Cuanto más tiempo lo llevo, más adictivo me parece. También vale la pena mencionar que, aunque no hay incienso identificable específicamente, hay una sensación general de incienso, supongo que el ADN de la casa, que es celestial para mí como amante del incienso. No se parece a nada más aparte del destello fugaz de Oud Minérale, pero eso probablemente sea solo el calone. El calone puede ser horrible con un ajuste en la dirección equivocada, pero esto es genial. Una última cosa, como han dicho otros, no se parece en nada a BH Man, yo difiero, creo que hay hilos comunes claros: maderas, menta, sal, por nombrar tres, y se siente relacionado si estás familiarizado con ambos.

An expensive leather bag containing lipstick, crayons and a half-eaten caramel-popcorn bar, all of which have become mushed up and smeared into the leather. For me the hour or two dry down is rooty iris, I love it.

Horrible, grosero clon de Aventus. Para mí, está a la par con Hacivat como la peor iteración de este concepto. Un acorde nauseabundo de vómito aparece en mi piel en 5 minutos. Para mí, esto huele más a vómito que Sombre.

Sickly tonka soup

It's like Oud Minérale with 30 teaspoons of sugar stirred in. It's difficult to discern much apart from the trademark Xerjoff diabetes-inducing sweetness. It's not the worst Xerjoff but I'd much rather wear something more refined and complex. Like the reviewer below, I also get tobacco, and a lot of it at that. ... OK yes, after 30 mins it's basically Tobacco Vanille, then it morphs into Ambre Nuit. This is way too sickly sweet for me, like everything from this company, so it's a taste thing. Nuclear performance which will gas everyone around you if that's what you like, I prefer not to be that guy.

This succeeds where Épices Exquises failed. The profile is very similar, but this one doesn't turn scratchy with the nasty patchouli note. Here, it's more complex, balanced, and high quality. It's a lovely cardamom perfume.

The most polite, elegant, classy little sparking aura of citrus and fig. The opening is incredible but dissappears in seconds and it has no projection/sillage to speak of, but I find that for situations like starting a new job, when I'm ill, when I don't want to be obviously wearlng perfume, it's perfect. Sometimes quiet is good.