Wake up world! Wake up and smell the 90's, quite literally. Such a bold global proclamation deserves a better fragrance than this surely? Go back to sleep world, is more like it. Yeah I simply don't like this and it's not because I don't like DHM or Ambroxan, both great materials but I don't think this is showcasing an innovative way of using them. It smells to me of a lemon/bergamot opener on this insipid, pile of stuff, the soapy, herbal, 'man goo', that is dihydromyrcenol and some diffusive ambroxan and a hint of sickly coumarin warmth. I think it's a bit of nightmare actually and reminds me of stuff like Nikos Sculpture, oddly misshapen and ugly to most but with a strange beauty to the few. It also sort of reminds me a touch of 00's Gucci or even something which I like possibly Armani Code or something? But that's a prime example of how this kind of stuff (let's call it modern fougere) can be done right. I'm not mad at it, just disappointed but how could I not be, it's clearly supposed to make a statement, the bottle is dark as apposed to all the other Parle Moi perfumes, and the name screams a message, literally at the whole stricken space bauble we live on. Wake up!!!! The same message that was daubed in graffiti throughout the UK during the pandemic, as a 'deep' message to the sheeple.... man! pfffft!!! So whether the name is poignant to you or not, it certainly built up my expectations to a fever pitch, only to be deflated rather rapidly. Also Michel Almeriac making a 90's type, masculine (ok it's unisex marketed) hommage sounds on paper like something right up my street. It just isn't, I found it quite unpleasant.
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