Fresh, very melancholy scent! I’ve received many compliments on this fragrance. It is a aquatic scent.
Didn't liked it at first, but I retried it months later and I really enjoy it now.
It's leaning slightly feminine, making it sexy on a man IMO.
Great longevity and sillage.
Dusty arid desert sands, the ash fallen into place. The cosmic entity of the phoenix force, manifested, a fiery, radiant being incubated in an ambery powdery incense elixir. Resinous and animalic. Lilith’s breath blown in your face, with a hypnotizing flash of iridescent light. Aglow… for within lies the code.
3am on your stoop with a flat cherry cola in one hand and a half-smoked joint in the other
Beautiful, earthy, dirty with a hint of sexy.
You can't go wrong with creed
The Need To Fly starts of as a crisp tonic bases summer cocktail, with fresh spices. After one hour it reminds me a bit more of absinth, with a crispy fennel/anise combined with some fresh woodiness. At the end, an hour or 4-5 into the fragrance’s life you get a soft skin like woody freshness with a very soft like leathery note. It is a very lovely daily scent that gives the wearer a nice evolution in fragrance. It’s a lovely crisp fresh fragrance that comes to it own on a lovely warm day.
"This is me, this is how I perceive myself in a scent"
Here I describe what most fragrance lovers chase but rarely find—a scent that doesn’t just smell good, but reflects you. Not an accessory, not a mask—a mirror.
Mx is special precisely because it discards boundaries and embraces nuance. That hazy blend of woods, spice, musk, and freshness—it doesn't push a narrative, it holds space. It's warm and open, textured but clean, grounded yet somehow ethereal.
BTW, we can do better than “masculine” or “feminine.” Those words can be shortcuts that flatten things, especially with art like this. A scent can be Grounded, Expansive, Radiant, Shadow, Tactile, Weightles
Or like Mx—fluid, soulful, and fully alive.
Myrrh Shadow 403 smells like the Crypt Keeper's signature ice cream flavor, an inexplicable combination of sour medicinal powders and resinous, demulcent sweetness. Apothecary ice cream served in dusty parlors where softly spiced cola syrup was dispensed by skeletal hands, bittersweet olde-timey remedies dispensed, ironically, in a dusty tomb lined with crumbling marble shelves and cobweb-draped medicine bottles, stone walls saturated with the balsamic phantasmagoria of centuries-old incense. It vaguely recalls the whispery smoke and mysterious veils of Annick Goutal Myrrh Ardente - except Myrrh Shadow 403 emerged from the freezer creamier, sweeter, colder: mystical tree resins churned into midnight, ghoulish horror host gelato.
This is a new DNA 🧬
This would smell amazing on an architect or engineer of some kind
Meander by Amouage has the melancholic dewy woodiness that I love to bring out on a rainy day. It's all frankincense, and sandalwood with some subdued floral facets floating around. It's morose, yet gorgeous.
In a house full of heady complex perfumery, Meander is always overlooked due to its simplistic nature. This to me makes it unique in the house of Amouage. The bottle is 💯
Incense Rori feels like building an altar to the temple of dreams - not that it smells like any of these things individually, but the way someone in a dream can be your mother even if they look nothing like her, the golden balsamic woodiness conjures walnut and mulberry and rosewood; the creamy gentle spice suggests whipped orange blossom honey, marigold-infused sandalwood attar, ink perfumed with clove and honey and musk. Applied before sleep and still whispering the next afternoon, it becomes a nightly ritual for dream incubation, precious enough to justify its price not for special occasions but because sleep itself is the special occasion, the potent pantheon of dreams deserving its own sacred preparations.
Sweet, warm, spicy, cosy.
If you like By The Fireplace or Angel's Share, but want something sweeter, this should fit the bill, however for the price it's not unique or long lasting enough
My thoughts and the case for Tygar.
Smoother than, L'Immensite (less ginger bite) not as sporadic, floral, and loud as The Hedonist and the use of higher quality natural ingredients than Vibrato makes Tygar imo, the best in class. Tygar inspired a wave of great perfumes, some of which are listed above. However, the price is absurd and it's hard to justify the cost when Vibrato comes so close and remains much cheaper. If you come across a good deal then grab it, but $400+ for something that isn't even using real ambergris blows my mind. Like LV this is a luxury item.
The scent itself comes across as eye squinting citrus and fresh with ginger spice, but then mellows out nicely with musks, green patchouli and ambroxan. It has great longevity and a noticeable scent cloud. Lovely creation
its super good all year round complement getter
Can an ineffable thing also be a platonic ideal? Tissue-thin blossoms suspended in pale evening light; bees' dreams of endlessly circling invisible nectar sources, the unfurling verdancy of early spring touched with the faintest breath of honey, petals so delicate and precisely what linden should smell like that you can only point and say "there, that." It's everything it should be, and only just that.
I tried to like this and I had it for a number of years, but it's just tosweet and scratchy for me. Very sharp sweet apple, fruit that almost has a red wine quality. People seem to love it.
It's a powerhouse so you better be into it.
Just picked this up and at first I was surprised by this very natural outdoorsy cold crisp pine forest and juniper scent. But, there is a depth, a warmth in there radiating underneath, making it suitable for the colder months. After a few wears this scent presents different layers and complexity. It's stunning and quite persistent for an eaux fraîches. It's exquisite really, but you have to like a natural woody accord.
Tero is a briljant scent, it’s not a gourmand, not a spicy nor a woody scent, it’s it all at the same time and it takes the best of all the different kinds. It opens as a peppery spicy scent, with sweet and opulent notes of cinnamon, sechuan pepper and slight pepper notes, going into a sweet-salty caramel with deep, warm woods and ambery base. To me it’s a hidden gem, it’s a masterpiece of perfumery by Carlos Benaim and lets the audience engage with a scent that is not purely 1 sort. It’s oriental meets west, warm woody, spicy scent of indulgence and opulence.
it comes to its own in winter as in summer, it depends on what vibe you want to get. Its longevity is out of this world, it gives projection, but not in an intrusive way. it’s elegant, bohemien and opulent at the same time and it takes you on a journey, as a masterpiece fragrance should.
Reminds me of the posh british countryside. Only like to wear this in autumn.
The EDP starts as a peppery, pine-like, aromatic vanilla, with the creamy aspect of it staying in the background. As the scent develops, the pepper and aromatic notes allow the vanilla to shine. The incense's smokiness and some woodiness join the vanilla, which becomes the star of the show. It's like a pure, cold and powdery, yet warm and cozy vanilla with a hint of spiciness and smokiness. Longevity is great (12h on my skin), especially on clothes (+24h) while the sillage is moderate
This is not just another floral. It has a dried flower petal quality that is almost tea-like. It isn't old fashioned but also isn't a youthful juicy fruity floral. It us just really good. I get lots of compliments when I wear it.
This scent is clean and green! It isn't too earthy and it isn't sweet. It is so balanced, fresh and bright without citrus. It's dry in a good way. I'd wear it year round but it really sings in hot weather.
This is a wonderful lipstick powdery scent that has a burst of sweet fruit in the opening. I love waxy makeup scents, and this one is special because of the brightness on top. It is quite diffusive and lasts a long time.
