Althair est une bouteille de luxe pour l'hiver. Parfums de Marly a réussi à créer un vanillé masculin qui évite les écueils du trop sucré ou du trop simple. Grâce à ses notes de rhum, de bois nobles et d'absinthe, il possède une complexité et une profondeur rares dans ce registre. Ce n'est pas un parfum que l'on porte, c'est une seconde peau dorée et réconfortante que l'on revêt pour les moments les plus précieux. Un investissement olfactif qui vaut chaque centime.
Son caractère très chaud et intense le rend peu adapté aux saisons chaudes ou aux environnements très formels et discrets.
Emporio Armani Stronger With You Intensely est bien plus qu'une simple "version forte". C'est une masterclass dans le genre gourmand-oriental masculin. Il réussit le pari difficile d'être à la fois doux et viril, gourmand et sophistiqué, réconfortant et passionné. Ce n'est pas un parfum que l'on porte, c'est un parfum dans lequel on se blottit. Un flacon incontournable pour celui qui veut laisser une trace inoubliable de douceur et de chaleur.
Imaginez un rayon de soleil capturé dans un flacon. C'est l'essence même d'Imagination. Le parfum s'ouvre sur une explosion solaire où le zeste de citron danse avec un gingembre étincelant, bien plus intégré et porteur de lumière que son homologue dans L'Immensité.
Puis, le paysage olfactif change : on pénètre dans un sanctuaire de pureté. Un bouquet de fleurs blanches, immaculé et délicat, évoque la mousse onctueuse d'un savon exceptionnel, créant une aura de fraîcheur persistante et sophistiquée.
Mais c'est l'arrivée d'un sillage de thé vert, frais et légèrement tannique, qui donne à cette lumière son relief et son caractère. Cette amertume subtile est la colonne vertébrale du parfum, empêchant la propreté de devenir banale et élevant l'ensemble au rang d'icône. Imagination n'est pas un parfum, c'est une sensation : celle de porter un linge parfaitement propre, réchauffé par le soleil. Un triomphe.
Citrus Batikanga is not just a perfume; it's a masterpiece of mastered contrasts. It captures the wild and complex beauty of nature. It is proof that innovation in perfumery is still very much alive. This isn't a loud love-at-first-scent, but a slow-burn, deep romance. A bottle that is an absolute must-try and will, most likely, earn a prime spot in your collection.
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The classic citrussy, gingery, woody, powdery, slightly aromatic blue BDC we all know and love but with a rich dark leathery base. More mature and deeper than the EDP and EDT. A truly beautiful scent. Masculine, wearable, popular, but insanely priced. Sauavge did and Elixir, so Chanel couldn't be left out could they.
I've spent my fair share of money on perfumes, but it stung a little when I saw something in the chemist at this price point. Hope it's not a sign of things to come. Lucky I grabbed a few samples and ... Santa... Is bringing the full bottle 🤣
Lightsource by Andrea Maack is amazing, and it puts me in a positive headspace for a great day. It opens with bright lemon and green fig, then moves into petitgrain, star jasmine, and crystal rose, and finishes with pink pepper and black pepper. This is a perfectly unisex fragrance.
Wow, just wow. Incredible scent all around. The performance, the bottle, the projection is amazing. This could easily become someone’s signature scent. if you were debating on getting this or the original reflection man. Without a doubt I would pick this every time!
When someone uses the term aftershave to describe everything masculine-leaning perfume related - this is what they mean.
This smells like what the word aftershave brings to my mind.
Fresh and citrussy, green, aromatic, and woody.
It has that creamy woodiness, and slight warm spice accompanying the above to give the fougère barbershop smell.
A really nice perfume I could imagine on someone's well dressed father.
My immediate reaction of Prophecy: "this is an incense for the GIRLIES." Not austere or monastic or churchy or smoky-sacred; this is more of a "burn this stuff in the background of your IG reels while Hozier sings something brooding about desire and divinity and you arrange rose quartz crystals on your nightstand" vibe. Pastel tarot deck spirituality. De-saturated dragon's blood. A dreaming without a dreamer, that ethereal mystical atmosphere floating free, no deep spiritual practice required. An outer light reflected or an inner light unveiled, either way it's been retouched for social media, aesthetic enlightenment run through a vintage Lightroom filter. Creamy, almost fruity, almost floral incense—except not quite incense; aureate suffusion that smells like how luxe body cream feels. Whipped honey vibe; you could take a juicy bite of this tawny chunk of resin. Baby's first incense, but I can see how it becomes A Whole Vibe, build an entire aesthetic around it. The DSH site notes that it's a bestseller, which makes perfect sense...it works well enough for what it's trying to be, but it's too sweet, too fluffy for me. My prophecies need a bit more doom and gloom.
Seminalis conjures a malodorous nebula of intentional discomfort - woody-musky, creamy-milky amberette-sandalwood that chokes every molecule of breathable air in your personal bubble. Suffocating, claustrophobic, the insidious intrusion of someone who knows exactly how close is too close and crosses that line anyway, transforming intimate proximity into a power play through malice and deliberate predation. This isn't the primal biological magnetism Orto Parisi's marketing suggests, but something far more sinister and actually far more gross - not the stench but the suffocating whiff of someone crowding your personal space. The creep who leans in too close and calls it magnetism, who calls your discomfort 'tension' and your retreat "playing hard to get." Someone who corners you against walls in small spaces, follows too closely on the street, continues conversations you're clearly trying to end. Someone who remembers details you never shared, shows up where you are "coincidentally." Someone who gets off on violating boundaries because they've learned that making people squirm can feel like power, who frames invasion as intimacy and calls obsession devotion.
A little burlap sack of herbs, a little spell-bag, green, dry, peppery, sharp, that you tucked in the back of your freezer for safe-keeping. You forgot it entirely and found it freeze-dried and iced over hidden by a bag of peas years later and just in the corner beyond it, you see something strange. A shimmering-glimmering fissure, a glowing rift. What appears to be a portal in the very back of your frigidaire. Sea salt air wafts cleanly from it, cerulean waves dazzling in the far distance (is it ocean or alien horizon? unclear) and most peculiar, sandy pathy lined densely with something very much the shape of pine trees, fragrant boughs heavy with gleaming drifts of snow.
Creamy, fruity, floral and cosy. It's so comforting and warm on my skin. Reminds me of You Fleur.
Fragratica says this is supposed to smell like a JPG, but I highly disagree. This is niche quality. I’m picking up a beautiful oak moss scent with a blue twist. I’m not picking up sweet pineapple, or coconut, maybe a slight fresh pineapple. Haven’t yet tested the performance but it smells heavenly.
it smells as if you were sipping a glass of aged whisky, while wearing a leather jacket next to a campfire, surrounded by sage. The scent is very linear, basically the same smell from opening to dry down; heavy on the Booze, amber and leather, with some smokiness and a little hint of the fierce Dna plus sage. it’s by far the best fierce and the only one worth it personally.
the best fragrance gucci has put out. You get a little Terre d’Hermes and a little Dior Fahrenheit
Boom! you get one of the greatest frags you’ll ever smell.
Pretty good fragrance, especially for the price! Under $20. I would say it seems to outperform most designers. Only downside is, you can tell the ingredients may be more synthetic. This one reminds me of a mix between YSL Y EDP, and Paco Rabonne Invictus. Should go ahead and pick it up.
Just trying it for the first day today. Opens peppery and with a hint of herb from the coriander. Quickly picks up some of the frankincense and maybe hints of cinnamon. But other than the pepper it really is heavy in the cedar and other woods in the base. Very close to the skin and only about four to five hours. I need to wear this more to decide if it is a keeper or not.
my wife wears this one and i can’t get enough of it, it smells delicious. she’s always getting compliments on it.
Smells like a yummy cupcakes in a bottle. Slightly powdery I get a little bit of the moss but in such a subtle and endearing way. In simpler terms it gives clean girl making a statement but keeping it cute.
Sweet, smooth, warm, and cosy.
Creamy vanilla with a little animalic touch accompanied by gentle aromatics.
High quality, and very close to Haltane. Lasts a long time, projects loudly and it's a great value.
nice
Fall has arrived, and this scent is like a warm embrace with cooler notes. Beautiful, close to the skin, yet a companion throughout the day.
Smells good, a lot like Aventus, but the longevity is abysmal. To me, this smells absolutely nothing like Sauvage Elixir.
