Very aromatic, dry, with herbal tones and some sweetness in the opening.
Some balsamic woody tones support and develop.
This Is much drier, softer, and more aromatic than Santal 33.
A luxury desert spa, this is what I’m reminded of.
The Mica dessert bloom essential oil smells exactly Ike the dessert after it rains. I've had it for 2 years, and I am just running out. Not strong, but it doesn't take much to let someone know you are there.
I don't find this faecal or stinky, it's more like a cosy exotic barnyard, warm, damp hay, animals, some honey and a teensy touch of something floral in the dry down, and most of all RESINS! For me this is an incense perfume. I find it easy to wear but then my bar is already low as I have loads of really stinky perfumes, pure oud oils, etc. I don't find anything that difficult to wear except badly made shite. This is becoming a firm favourite. It feels like a distant cousin of Absolue Pour le Soir to me. Update: wearing it on a chilly December day, it's incredible. I do smell like a farmyard, and it is a soup of synthetic animalics, but it's dosed and balanced perfectly so as not to be obnoxious, cloying or too loud. The best perfume from this house IMO.
Smells like buttered popcorn. Not good.
Outstanding fragrance. Opulent. You will need many wears to truly appreciate it as a beginner.
It smells like simple vanilla musky cake, very close to the EOS body lotion. The sillage is as terrible as a body lotion. It has more longevity than a body lotion but that is about it. I think it's a shame they even call this a perfume.
Smells like a Strawberry Peach Milkshake, but not too sweet. Lasts forever and has great sillage. After about 10 hours, the base smells a lot like the base of Erba Pura (before it's completely different though)
10/10 recommend
By testing this one I’ve found out that I absolutely despise the smell of neroli…
Such a beautiful vanilla! I detect a very subtle sourness in here which goes so well with the sweetness of the other notes. I have to reapply this one every 4-5 hours but it’s so worth it. Plus I really like the bottle design, it’s so sleek and unpretentious. One of my best discoveries of this year, for sure!
Grown. Classic. Timeless. Chic. Intentional or not, Donna The Gold is a nod to the golden era of designer perfumery when florals were unapologetic and bottled femininity boldly disregarded pleasing the crowd.
Sweet mandarin gives a sparkling and juicy opening to a heady gardenia, robust and lush a she opens quickly after. She sings, a long and longing solo that isn’t quite long enough when a demure coconut joins her to add a deep harmony.
This is a freshly done sleek updo, natural face with a bold red lip, gold jewelry, deep red manicure… this is a woman who knows who she is and walks in it without apology. This is golden, and stunningly so.
3 words. Poo and cacao! 🤢🤢🤢🤢
My wife recommended them to me. She really likes it and I enjoy it as well. For me it’s all year fragrance but she doesn’t allow me to wear it in Summer 😅
The ambitious, possibly deranged brief for this fragrance is that it's supposed to evoke the streets of Paris during the French revolution: smoke, gunpowder, houses ablaze, crazed horses and desperate riders, the leather of boots and saddles, oil for muskets and sabres, and touch of incense from churches offering sanctuary and promising peace after the terror. That’s a lot of drama for a perfume, and it really does feel torrid, rebellious, and uncompromising, but with an undercurrent of mystery and luxury. There’s an overpowering blast of dry, woody smoke off the top that’s a little acrid but also resinous, warm, sweet, and almost savoury—it could be gunpowder and burning buildings, but it has a touch of campfire and bbq, perhaps from the aromatic elemi, angelica, and juniper, which come close to suggesting grilled meat when combined with the flinty and fleshy smells of leather, birch tar, and cade oil. (Speaking of which, the official pyramid on this perfume seems frankly misleading—how can Lyn Harris possibly be wringing all this leather and smoke out of the five listed notes here: Elemi, Angelica, Papyrus, Juniper, and Cedarwood?) Moreover, once the ashy haze starts to clear, the warm, clean sweetness of a refined liturgical incense starts to emerge (I would swear it’s olibanum) and the leathery aroma starts to feel more like the bindings of antique books or the upholstery of polished mahogany furniture. The papyrus note begins to suggests the faintly musty, tobacco-ish sweetness of aging pages. All of a sudden, you find that you’re watching the street battle at a remove, from behind the sheltering walls of an elegant monastic library. At this point, Revolution starts to feel quite similar to another Trudon fragrance, Yann Vasnier’s Mortel, which is a delicious but much more straightforward Catholic-church incense. I’m quite divided in my opinion about Revolution. On the one hand, I find the opening excessive—I really don’t want such intense smokiness, even though I find the experience of it quite intoxicating. It’s a good perfume to apply 30 minutes before you plan to be anywhere, but even in the more tranquil drydown, a touch of the ashy charcoal turmoil persists. Mortel comes close to giving you just the drydown phase of Revolution, but it lacks the mixed threat and thrill of burning and the leathery-papery suggestion of books. Both are very good, and Revolution is a seriously impressive fragrance even if I’m not sure I could wear it often.
Got a 3ml sample and gave it to my son. It’s serviceable with decent longevity. Kind of a cousin to something like Chanel Platinum Egoiste. A nice clean fresh scent profile with added points from me for not being sweet or vanillic, but not worth a full bottle purchase. I think Canyon is the best thing I’ve smelled from B&BW. I wish they’d bring back Gardenia and Sweet Pea perfumes for women. Those were freaking HEAVENLY.
It's a great scent, but in 2024, there are at least two dupes (Le Bonbon & Ambery Saffron) that are 99% the same so I wouldn't pay full price for the bottle. I love my small travel spray but I won't go further than that.
I live in Brazil and have to pay crazy money for niche stuff—almost $200 for Montale and $350 or more for Penhaligon's. So this Christmas, I am traveling to Mexico to my mom's house. I ordered stuff from Jomashop to be delivered there. I ordered Xerjoff Alexandria II Anniversary, Silver Oud, and Interlude by Amouage. Since I can't wait to smell them, I just bought this one. Ethnic Oud should be a dupe for Interlude Man, so now I am smelling Ethnic Oud, and it is really good. Magical. So I am happy because I guess Interlude is going to be even more incredible. I use Arab dupes to back up my niche fragrances, so if I want to smell like African Leather by Memo on a Sunday morning, I just put on Afro Leather by Maison Alhambra and save my original Memo. If I want to wear Tuscan Leather while I wear shorts and a T-shirt to drive my kids to school, I just use Toscano Leather by Maison Alhambra and save the real one for a night out. Sometimes I buy a well-rated Arab dupe to see if I would like the original. I don’t like to waste money on decants because, as I said, here in Brazil, prices are silly, and I can buy a Maison Alhambra for the price of a couple of niche decants... Ethnic Oud is GOOD! Approved!
There is such a thing as perfume that is TOO long lasting and this falls into that category. When I first smelled this, I was deeply disturbed by how long it lasted, I disliked it. I came back to it almost a year later and realized that I like it- but only sprayed in a location away from my nose and 1 tiny spray.
I don't think there is another perfume out there that will smell remotely close to this. This is an exquisite Jasmine scent with a hint of rice, followed by a candied floral background. It's expensive but worth it for the price.
Smells nice on others, not on me. I'm also not fond of saffron note. Metallic, medicinal, and almost smell like blood. I feel like being inside a sterile room of a hospital. I imagine someone wearing a lab coat wearing this.
Absolutely the finest Men’s designer fragrance. A true masterpiece.
If you are in the market for a smoky fragrance that smells like maybe the smoke cleared after a super-beardy wizard threw a mystical resin into a fire to conjure an ancient dragon lord or something, but the dragon flew away and the wizard has gone to bed and the fire has burned down so that only the embers are smoldering and the deeply scented, resinous smoke has seeped into all the old wooden beams in the top-most tower room where all the magical shit is locked up...well, The Holy Mountain may be the scent for you.
Released in 2010
Classified as a Cyhpre Fruity
Noses behind the scent was a collaboration between father and son Oliver and Erwin Creed, 6th and 7th Generation Creeds respectively.
Aventus was created to celebrate strength, vision and success, inspired by the dramatic life of war, peace and romance lived by Emperor Napoleon.
Top Notes: blackcurrant, bergamot, apple and pineapple. Heart Notes: Rose, dry birch, Moroccan jasmine and patchouli Base Notes: oak moss, musk, ambergris, and vanilla
Opens up very smokey and woody, very powerful and masculine, after which you pick up subtle fruits such as the pineapple, blackcurrant and green apple. For the first couple hours the scent has a sour vibe, which might be from the apple. As the scent develops, it becomes sweeter and the fruity notes start becoming more prominent, with the woodiness in the background. On my skin it's starts off smokey and woody, but becomes sweeter as the scent develops, with the pineapple being more prominent in the drydown. gentle vanilla helping with the sweetness in the drydown.
Its not massively complex scent, but its so incredibly pleasing. Its by far one of the best smelling scents out there, its truly intoxicating.
Incredibly versatile, great for both day or night (mostly day for me), and would work great for every season, though best suited to the warmer months. Versatile in terms of occasions too, can be used for pretty much any occasion, swiss army knife fragrance, suitable for work, date, night out, formal and casual.
Performance is outstanding for a fragrance of this type, for a warm weather fragrance, the longevity around 10 hours with excellent projection is fantastic which is one of the reasons why it can be used all year round, as its strong enough to cut through the cold.
People will notice you with this fragrance, like I've said projection is excellent and so is sillage. Been complimented at work, by family and friends. I did get one comment that it was very strong, someone a few feet away from me could smell it. Someone else at work commented that their former boss used to wear it, in her words "drowned himself in it". Received many compliments regarding this scent.
Negative popularity, which makes it quite annoying, I rarely smell fragrances when i'm out but I have smelt this at restaurants, at the gym and at shisha lounges.
Overall rating is 5/5.
Classified as an Oriental Floral
Notes: Patchouli, Vanilla, Rose and Oud
Sweet and dark, jammy rose scent. Opens up with a blast of patchouli and rose, has a very sweet and bright, subtle paint like scent. The scent after a few minutes starts becoming slightly smokier and has a warm spicy nuance from a saffron note. The oud adds a smokey woody base but is very subtle and very much a backing player. As the scent develops into the drydown, the vanilla really blends well with the rose, creating a very syrupy jam like rose scent. Oud is very much in the background but its always there, the rose and vanilla really are the most prominent aspect of the scent. The rose becomes richer into the dry down, compared with the opening where it is very sweet and bright. The scent has a velvety feel.
Longevity is beast mode, I could smell it the next morning in the shower, after spraying the evening before as my scent of the night. Projection is excellent for the first couple of hours, after which it is average, you still have a nice scent cloud around you, but it doesn't scream off your skin, which might not be a bad thing, becomes a skin scent around the 7 hour mark.
This is a brilliant night wear scent during the fall and winter and as far as occasions go, I would wear this for dates and formal occasions.
Overall rating 4/5.
I was insistently attempting to smell something in Messe de Minuit that I wouldn’t recognize anyway ….I’ve never been to midnight mass in my life. Once I realized this, but also that I was able to appreciate it any, way, I was able to connect it to something that I am quite well acquainted with: its subtly sour, musty scent reminded me of a shadowed corner of a used bookshop; towering piles of moldering books stacked on sagging rotted wood shelves….a corner that hasn’t seen sunlight in years, books that are touched by human hands rarely, if at all. All of this. Now it is a scent that makes sense to me.
