I don’t normally talk about the individual ratings I give these things but before I do anything else I feel like I need to this time, because I gave the presentation a three, because I DO think the bottles on these look handsome, and especially this one because the green look is lovely, but this is the second time I’ve bought a FOMO where the cap isn’t worth a damn when you try picking it up by it, and on top of that the paint on it has started coming off IN LITERAL CLUMPS. If you go through my reviews you’ll see I mostly collect on the affordable end of the spectrum but even I’ll say, in some ways you really DO get what you bloody paid for. 

At the risk of sounding really pretentious, when I first sprayed this one, I got a bit emotional. I asked for a 50ml for Christmas years ago, but really I was much too young for it because I treated it with zero respect. I oversprayed it, I wore it out of season, I wore doing everything and anything, and obviously eventually I ran out of it, and then when o asked for it again I found out it was discontinued, which at the time I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WAS A THING THAT COULD HAPPEN, which made me really sad. Then years later when I realised I was collecting this stuff I decided to look up what it was going for secondhand, saw THOSE prices, and decided I was probably never going to own a bottle of it ever again, which made me even sadder. 

So it goes without saying that when I saw news about FOMO’S upcoming release and how they weren’t even being slightly coy about what they were cloning, I got UNREASONABLY overjoyed, and then when it arrived, like I’ve already said, it hit me in my feels immediately because it smelled exactly how I remembered it and a bunch of good memories came flooding back. If anything it smells A BIT BETTER than I remembered because it’s definitely stronger and more full-bodied than the bottle I had, which makes sense because I got my bottle on the cusp of it going away and it had been reformulated at least once before that. 

I read a review of the original in GQ Magazine back in the day (yes I subscribed to GQ when I was a teenager, don’t look at me like that, nobody here is strictly normal are they?), and the guy writing about it said it smelled like “wet leather driving gloves,” which is a VERY poncy GQ way of describing a perfume, but at the same time I get where he was coming from, because there there’s definitely a damp quality to this, musty in a clean, green way. It’s weird because apparently there’s no leather in it, and I think they’d say if there was because this one’s got something like 33,000 notes listed, but I think it might me the citruses and the florals coming together not accidentally make a bit of a leather accord, especially the grapefruit and the rose of I had to guess. It’s classy but also a bit rugged which I’m drawn to, which is hilarious because if you ask me I’m neither of those things. Wear this one’s time with a suit and colour other than black or grey on a