Fruity, Sweet, creamy, fresh, woody and spicy.
An easy grab and go, great for warm weather.
The "simple" that was very well built!
A perfume with great quality and very high "pleasantness". I really like sweet perfumes and this one falls into that category, but how can I say... It has a sweetness that is very different from other perfumes that I like. Perhaps the vanilla here is somehow lighter and I can feel the lavender part much more, bringing a refreshing/aromatic aspect. I agree with some colleagues who said that it is not a complex aroma, but it manages to do the "simple" of vanilla/lavender very well. After the dry down, you can still feel the lightness that the perfume transmits, but with some more "woody" notes... But still in a way very light!!
On my skin, I managed to get an OK - good performance, with projection and lasting power of (2h - 3h) and (8h - 10h) respectively. I would say it could be used more for cold weather (day or night) and those days with a bit of sun and a bit of a colder breeze, with an autumn vibe. I don't know if I can consider it a "party" perfume, I easily believe that it can be overshadowed by other perfumes out there with greater projection and sweeter aromas (vanilla, toffee, caramel, fruity, etc.).
If you already like perfumes that are a bit sweet and especially perfumes with lavender, it's worth getting to know and trying. Don't expect a totally unique, complex and innovative aroma from this one. What it delivers is a perfume that is very appealing to the public and a light and very pleasant aroma throughout its evolution. It's definitely worth having in your collection but also getting to know the others versions of Valentino Uomo line...
Wonderful clean citrus none offensive easy to just grab and spray. Nothing special just nice to wear. You can wear it everywhere work gym church school doesn't matter it just smells good
Sweet floral rose scent slight powder note but not to feminine. Very pleasant rose scent
This is a fresh, spicy fragrance. This reminds me of a toned down Beekman Place by Bond no.9. It’s not as strong as Beekman place but on first sniff you get a clean soapy smell, with a blast of Basil. This is a fine, lower priced Beekman place. If you like that you can get this.
I have to say, that the opening few minutes are quite spectacular. It’s a powerful scent. Unfortunately after a few hours all the sweetness and all the glory is gone, and you’re left with a messy impression of L’Interdit Rouge. Tuberose and spice, but not nice at all.
Very very old person smelling. Like grandma vibes. I would associate this with a lady in her 70s🤣 This one ain't for me at all. Can't believe I bought into the hype kmt
Best of all time no competition it is too good and is the scent of my dreams this is better than my wife and kids (let me hit)
One of the best fragrances ever. The only downside is that it does not perform. The fragrance lasted two hours on my skin
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This perfume has only three notes—ink, coffee, and vetiver—and it’s supposed to evoke the smell of a man reading a newspaper in a café. I’m always hunting for an ink note and this one is among my favourite that I’ve smelled: it really does smell just like a newspaper. I can almost feel the newsprint on my fingers, inky letters rubbing off on my hands as my head fills with serif letters like a Cubist collage. Like many ink notes (Encre Noir or Fzotic’s Lampblack, say), this one is isolated from vetiver and it’s amazing how you get the distinct print-shop blackness along with the gentlemanly woodiness of the vetiver as fully separate smells, bound together by the caramelized aroma of roasting coffee beans, sweet and bitter at the same time. It’s airy and transparent, as if it were being conveyed to your nostrils by the steam of an espresso machine, and it conjures a very specific atmosphere. I picture a coffee bar in a black-and-white Italian neorealist movie (or the train-station scene in Italy Calvino’s 𝘐𝘧 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳), with rain outside, windows and glasses fogging up, everyone looking distinguished in grey suits and hats, raincoats and umbrellas. The vibe is mysterious and slightly melancholy, serious and bookish. I absolutely adore the fragrance, but the projection is extremely subtle, which might just be because I’m dabbing from a vial, but I really have to press my nose against my skin to smell it at all. It’s not a longevity issue: I can apply it in the morning and still smell it eight hours later, but it never gets beyond a skin scent. It’s also very linear, smells exactly the same through the whole duration. I really want to see how it performs when sprayed, because I love it, but it would be hard to justify a bottle if it’s always going to be so weak.
Sweet Ash is the sweatpants of fragrances—the kind you reach for on those days when comfort is key. Like shedding the day's roughness and sinking into something worn soft. As if comfort itself could hold memories of secluded landscapes and long, winding paths. A bit of wilderness, a chip of bark, a prickle of pine needles, a frill of moss, pressed and preserved, wrapped in a vanilla-scented hankie, tucked deep in a pocket where it's been gathering warmth and memory. It's the fragrance of a morning spent entirely indoors, sunlight filtering through half-closed curtains, creating a soft haze like a scrap of woodland folded and kept close. This is what you spray on when you're curled up on the sofa, feet tucked underneath you, a favorite mug of coffee steaming nearby, a collected volume of windswept travelers' borderland wanderings balanced on your knee—a quiet companion to those moments of absolute stillness, of being completely at ease, while only the characters in books are adventuring.
Simply one of the most delicious masculine fragrances I've ever smelled. Magnificently smooth, sweet incense smoke laced with pungent but perfectly blended spices on a bed of leather and woody notes. It smells quite a lot like CDG 2 Man, but only the resinous amber drydown (the best part, imo), not the powdery-aldehydic opening notes.
When I was initially sampling it (from a dabber vial), I found Scorpio Rising even more velvety and refined than 2 Man. I was surprised, since you'd expect a perfume referencing Kenneth Anger’s infamous homoerotic occult biker film to smell a bit more dangerous, right?
Then I got a bigger spray sample and the difference is noticeable! From an atomizer, you get way more pungent, aromatic top notes (not just the warm-spicy ones) that feel a little skunky and swampy. Cannabis isn't a listed note, but the smoky-leathery-herbal facets combine to give a touch of bong water or body odour—which honestly makes me a little less enamoured with the fragrance but definitely evokes more of the occult-70s vibe that I had expected. Still an extremely sexy fragrance overall—pricey, but gorgeous.
To me, this is a “breakfast” perfume. It’s supposed to evoke a Japanese temple but I find its woody incense notes come across like a really nice shaving cream—masculine but not aggressive. Combined with the hint of coffee, the vibe is that you’re a guy who has a beautiful apartment in Kyoto (maybe your high rise has a view of the temple), tastefully furnished in Danish teak modernist furniture. Your stereo system is hi-fi. You have a subscription to Monocle. You’re waking up on a sunny day in a great mood because your creative projects are coming together just as you planned. You’re excited to get to work.
Centre Stage is one of the latest releases from the house of Thameen, a house I’m not too familiar with if I’m being honest. This is an interesting scent, one with facets I really enjoy, but also ones I absolutely detest - it presents me with a bit of a dilemma. This overwhelming surge of lavender hits you in the face upon first spray, with particular focus on the dry, peppery facets of this flower. There’s almost a classical, powdery aspect coming from the orris and white florals, which I find myself really enjoying. However this seems all but brutally ruined in the most barbaric way by an unwelcome overdose of amberwoods. If these amberwoods were not present, I’m confident I might even love this scent, but unfortunately they are - and so it remains only a like. I don’t understand the thought process, to boost longevity? It’s not worth ruining what could have been a beautiful scent.
I have long since been a lover of Cartier’s Oud Vanille, and so it’s high time I explore more from this line. Continuing with the theme of simplicity, Oud & Pink is all about oud and rose. I find it’s more focused on the rose aspect, with the oud being more of a whisper in the background. This rose note is surprisingly bright and pulpy, with a sharp, almost salty nuance as though there were a presence of geranium. It has the effect of a gentle, sweet rose-water; is unknowingly easy to wear, with only a touch of bitterness to suggest the subtle presence of an oud accord. Whilst I do enjoy this scent, I do wish the oud was more present. I don’t love it the way I do Oud Vanille, for the simple reason this is not the sort of rose I tend to gravitate to, as it is a note I’m rather picky about. Smells great though.
The Moon is a fabulous representation of a fruit oud perfume. Raspberry is one of my most hated notes of all time, in fact I hate almost all raspberry fragrances and could probably count the ones I do like on one hand - this is one of them. Whilst it’s not my favourite of the Desert Gems, it is gorgeous. The raspberry is intensely sweet and ripe, almost sugary like a purée, accompanied by other red berries and forest fruits. This sweetness is made velvety and exotic by an overdose of jammy saffron and rose, before developing into its thick, dark, almost powder oud and leather base. It’s not as bold or daring as The Night, which may be a relief to some, but that stinky-ness was a characteristic I loved. I would say this is my least favourite from Malle’s Desert Gems collection, but that doesn’t take away from the fact this is an absolutely stunning perfume.
To me, this is a “breakfast” perfume. It’s supposed to evoke a Japanese temple but I find its woody incense notes come across like a really nice shaving cream—masculine but not aggressive. Combined with the hint of coffee, the vibe is that you’re a guy who has a beautiful apartment in Kyoto (maybe your high rise has a view of the temple), tastefully furnished in Danish teak modernist furniture. Your stereo system is hi-fi; you make your coffee in a Moccamaster; you have a subscription to Monocle. You’re waking up on a sunny day in a great mood because your creative projects are coming together just as you planned. You’re excited to get to work.
Decent quality
A bargain at $40. Milky, slight coffee scent, but a little rubbery.
Vanilla and Tonka bomb!!
Sunrise in Sydney is my favourite in the Bujairami niche line so far!
Classy cirtus banger for sure!
This is so good, and I got this and Cognac Cafe for $40 when Galleria went out of business. This smells a lot like Layton, but without the performance. I love it.
I don't buy for a second that this is just labdanum. As a previous review said, it has a lot of cashmeran, this being the dominant note for me. It's a thin and piercing synthetic smell, like everything from this house, probably using the cheapest possible ingredients (and why not). As Bisch creations go it's on the wearable side, although I agree with the aforementioned reviewer that it gets annoying, because it's completely linear and lacks any sort of hook or charm. Not really a perfume, more like one of the molecule scents (05 Cashmeran to be specific but less repulsive).
