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Okay so I only tried this briefly, in store, on a blotter, so perhaps I'm not the best equipped to review it, but let's face it....when did I ever let a little thing like that stop me hey? So this is compared here to a bewildering array of completely different perfumes, which sometimes makes me feel there's some element of trolling going on or something? It's actually far more likely that the accords contained within this perfume are derivative of all of these perfumes, due to the uniqueness of our individual sniffers and perhaps you could say, the lack of the same uniqueness in perfume itself. First comparison is to Layton by PdM and again, although I haven't given this an extensive sniff I'd like to think that if this smelled like the abominable Layton, I would be able to sniff it out in an instant. It's rare that I say I hate a perfume but I can categorically state, for the record that I hate Layton, but my first impression of Impact Intense was pretty positive, more on that in a minute. Coming back to Layton I hate it's stupid Fratboy face, it's place in the 'community', it's insipid, fruity, creaminess. The fact that those top notes can lure you in to thinking, actually this is quite a fancy reimagining of Boss bottled and is kinda those things, but when you wear it, it's just awful. It's perfume for people who hate perfume, I stick to my guns on that and should be jettisoned into the sun with Cedrat Boise! Impact Intense to me at least smelled of that kinda fresh, preppy TH I remember from the 90's a kind of aqua throwback, and sure I'll go with a pear or apple note in the top to lure you in. Then I thought it was quite a peppery affair of the transparent, cedar, vetiver variety, not going overboard here but that sort of JCE vibes, simple uncomplicated, fruity/citrus and woody cologne, punctuated by spice. In this case I thought it owes more to the likes of a Marc Jacobs BANG! or Carbone de Balmain than to Layton and Stronger with you, but hey what the hell do I know? This is an interesting bottle design, if a bit....well....fuck ugly. It looks like a plunger and who knows maybe this will detonate the men's designer game? I doubt it though, but what I do respect is that Impact intense is not treading the awful line of Phantom or Scandal or other absolute SHITE released for men recently, which I guess is something. I think it's not bold enough to be anything other than an outlier but on paper (quite literally) I really quite liked it. Watch this space for the update, it might be terrible on skin and god forbid it actually does smell like Layton.
