Indeed the 2 reviews below are spot on!. Immediately I felt this is a classy gentleman scent and the first frag that came to mind was Amouage Reflection. However, towards the drydown the florals started to rear and the scent smelt very similiar to something feminine!, not sure if it's Dior Jadore but defo something feminine and popular🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Smells like a belch after a quality curry.
I mean talk about taking a long time to get around to commenting on this perfume, I guess I'd always dismissed it as 'nice' and at the back end of the aquatic era, being in the early 2000's it was kinda old hat at that point. But Cresp's Light Blue's have stood the test of time and are probably more popular (with enthusiasts) than the likes of a CK One or Issy Miyake or whatever, I'd hasten to argue (based on NO figures haha) but it seems that every woman has this (again, sweeping generalisation) and that I seem to notice it pop up and be mentioned more than some of the obvious freshies. I think it's cool in temperature and attitude, it exudes a sort of class for such a functional perfume. Lightly floral and hinting at something 'white' without any of the dreary, 'white floral' or even 'white musk' accord, Sure okay, it does, hahah, but seems really carefully balanced in the exact same way that the citrus is. It doesn't become Lemon pledge, nor does it's 'blue' character take it into windowlene territory. The blue, truly is lightweight and after SOOOOO many seminal takes on the aquatic and over use of azure molecules like Calone, it's nice to find something which does it all with a certain lightness of touch. I love it. The men's one ain't bad either (I shall have to revisit that) but not quite as appealing as this version for me. I might even get a bottle.
On first spray, with no expectations of what I was about to smell, I was taken aback just how familiar it smelled. I knew the dna instantly as I have a bottle of Layton. As it dries down, it doesn’t follow quite the same path and I have come to realise I hate ambroxan, so this is not for me.
A dazzling, fruity, woody, dirty, delicious scent in the ugliest bottle imaginable. I don't get the animalic thing others mention here, but rather a dirty patchouli vibe somewhere between Héritage and Patchouli Ardent. I must admit I haven't worn it too much, as I see it as quite esoteric and perhaps a bit challenging for general consumption, but I often wear it to bed, and I think I'm working up the boldness to pull it off in real life.
Sad to say this is NOT the one. Reviewers make out that this is pure chocolate....ermmmmm bitch where👀?. If a chocolate scent is what you are after, look elsewhere
This is a more wearable/tolerable version of Noir Extreme PARFUM
I want to write my review right now because I think in totally different way about this like many others and maybe this gives a different perspective for someone who is trying to understand what kind of the scent is this. I like this scent a lot and since I was a little bit disappointed with the Portraits line this was the one which pop out and I liked this, after two weeks I love this. My problem just was that I found this similar to something I already have. I was thinking and thinking and finally I found it: Initio’s Psychedelic Love. I know, there is REALLY different notes in those two and vanilla can’t explain the similarity which I smell in any kind of way. I don’t know how I can feel like this and if anyone feels the same? I just know that the opening and the dry down smells similar: PL is more intensive, deeper, more narcotic and long lasting while BY is all the time from the opening until the end more soft and weaker. The one thing why I write this review now: I was reading reviews after testing this now during two weeks and I don’t find anything similar to MFK Oud Satin Mood. OSM is powdery, oud vanilla rose and all those notes are in balance and you can really easily tell what is going there without reading the notes anywhere. In BY there is oud and there is vanilla but not even vanilla is so obvious. There is many notes beautifully blended in BY and I love both scents and if you own another one you definitely need to get your nose to another because those are TOTALLY different scents, beautiful different kind of scents. And if you like another one it’s not so obvious that you like both. For me the big question is: do I need “a weaker version” of Psychedelic Love? Those are definitely not the same but the smell in my left and right wrist appears pretty similar. I hope someone got the idea, my English is not so perfect though. Enjoy your perfumes. 🙂 Thank you for reading and I would appreciate a lot if you want to follow me on IG: @ninamariah_perfumes
Smells basic and underwhelming, kind of like some sort of cheap perfume for teenagers. I have the discovery box of five EDTs, and I'm not impressed. They smell very similar, and if this is what they chose to showcase the brand, I'm not going back for more.
I can't smell anything.
Simply beautiful. A masterpiece of perfumery which is now still available at an even more extortionate price as Frenchy Lavande (addendum: in the boutique they told me the new version has an added "touche de lavande", but to me it's identical). Worth it? 🤷 I bought a 2/3 full bottle from Etsy, the only cheaper option I could find on the whole internet, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to let go when it's finished. I'd better start saving!
The terrible performance is a plus point. This is awful. It reminds me of cheap instant coffee with a squeeze of concentrated lemon juice in it. The combination doesn't work, and it smells entirely synthetic, and there's a whiff of cigarette butt.
Sickly, synthetic, floral. Basic and cloying. The suede note doesn't work, but my main problem is how synthetic the whole thing smells. Horrible.
There's something similar enough to Tom Ford's Velvet Orchid to make me wish I was smelling Velvet Orchid, like this was the first mix of some rudemantary florals that went on to become the glorious floral psychedelia of the Tom Ford. It's not unpleasant, but it's very basic and linear. I appreciated it for a few moments but wouldn't go back for more. I'm starting to reach the conclusion that Jo Malone scents are overpriced, basic-ass children's perfumes.
A wispy scent that all but dissappears in seconds. What's the point if the performance is non-existant?
Very similar to Vetiver by Guerlain, but more acerbic and headachey in the opening, and with slightly worse performance. It's too similar for me to get excited about. If I'd chanced upon this before experiencing the Guerlain, I may have been different. The bottle is amazing. Update: I'm not a fan of layering but I have layered this with JPG Le Male Parfum and it makes two loud screamers more tolerable. EN alone may be an interesting scent but it's almost agressive, and I can't fathom wearing it anywhere (and I wear various other challenging scents).
Best Vetiver in my opinion fluctuates between this and Guerlain Vetiver. What I love about EN is it's versatility and the fact that it never turns pickley, unlike most Vetiver drydowns. This is perfect for rainy autumn.
Very nice. Opening is a cross between Dior Eau Noire and Dior Ambre Nuit. Drydown is Roja Enigma pour cologne
Like some Creed fragrances I've tried, this is very heavy on the ambergris. It's really not for me.
The epitome of 80s toxic masculinity, absolutely ghastly.
Look for a good deal, I got 50ml for 100 euros. The performance is great, the scent is wonderful. Fruity and smoky, not too sweet, classic. Update: I sprayed twice, once on the neck/upper chest and one on a wrist and pressed wrists together. It belted out all morning and afternoon, to the point where I was slightly embarrassed by its strength when taking the metro through Paris. The scent is great, but it's very obnoxious, so I'll be treading carefully in future. The good news is my 50ml will last me forever.
It took me a long time to give this perfume a chance, due to the mire of crazy BS you have to wade through when attempting to research it. Once I got it and smelled it, I liked it, but I was still too self-conscious to wear it out, as I associate this perfume with a certain type of person, and didn't want others to link me to that association. Pathetic? Maybe, but it's my perogative, and it's the same reason I wouldn't walk around in Burberry or Barbour jackets. To each their own, after all. So now I'm wearing Aventus on a sunny, warm, spring day (F batch for those who that means something to). I can see why people love the opening, and then why they are disappointed by the smoky dry down, but for me the dry down is the magic part. Once the smoke calms down, a lovely sweet jasmine blooms and starts to radiate off the skin. And little moments of patchouli and ambergris come and go, it's so lovely. For me pineapple is right at the top and I don't get much blackcurrant. I love the fruity opening but I'm glad it doesn't stick around as I think it would grate on me quite quickly. So for me, this perfume is the best of a certain ilk, the ilk where we find Bleu de Chanel etc. And it really is the best of that blue masculin genre for me, but I don't think I'm ever gonna be wearing it more than a couple of times a year. Also I get great performance, almost brutally relentless in fact.
A screeching, macho nightmare for seedy young city "alphas" who take loads of coke and cheat on their girlfriends. Headache-inducingly sweet, with tobacco, but the kind of tobacco smell you'd get by holding an unlit Marlboro light to your nose. It reminds me of 90s scents, although I can't put my finger on which. It's just a screaming, bravado stench that slaps you in the face and pinches your arse, and definitely without consent. It's the guy who wears Sauvage after he's won a couple of thousand on the lottery.
It's good quality, but I don't like the ambergris, which dominates the rest of the notes. It's very overpowering and the vetiver loses its shimmer as a result. Not bad but not great.
I love vetiver, and I love TF fragrances but this is underwhelming. It's like Vetiver by Guerlain watered down with the most recent, under-performing formulations of Bleu de Chanel EDP, then watered down some more. It's not a bad scent, but it's too bland, and there are many other, better, vetivers out there for a lot less. Update: it gets better in the dry down, very creamy, and stronger and more persistent than I expected.
Warm, round and rich. Belle Ame is a spectacularly well executed perfume which for me is based around a gorgeous but not atypical iris/orris scent with a musky, vanillic bedfellow of tonka absolute which really chimes in more in the latter stages. Initially I found it more than mildly leathery, the ginger gives a pop of freshness in the opening and again works incredibly well with orris materials. There's a huge dollop of jus ne sais quoi in this, a mysterious quality which takes it away from being just another niche brand iris/orris of which there are many, very good ones, but many which have similar tropes, tricks and material combinations, despite what the note listing here might suggest, it's not another of those. Cacao for example is one of those tropes with orris perfumes and in all fairness it's here, but it doesn't feel played out. I actually felt it was so subtle as to be more like a particularly chocolate faceted benzoin. Also, despite all my patter about originality and uniqueness, my immediate association was with Dior Homme Parfum, this is clearly different in many ways and smells like an elevated more natural version of what is a superb perfume in the Dior, so it's definitely not a diss! It has been suggested to me that this is quite a misleading comparison (by parties who shall remain nameless) but it really isn't. So fuck you Dad!!!! This is the second part in Les Abstraits inital trio of releases and represents the beginning of the healing process after La Douleur exquise and it truly is a beautiful soul, and masterfully made perfume which just like the first release, doesn't give away all it's secrets right away. It's a very mature and measured approach which is in it for the long haul and to stand the test of time, rather than the temporal, 'look at me', instant gratification culture of perfume products. Again, Bravo Eugen and crew for making the world a better place by creating art that is worthy of discussion, praise and your money.
There's been no reviews for this? Wow! Probably says a lot. Well I won't. Yes, consider this the preamble to what could be a three word review. 'A bad Spicebomb.' It's reductive to compare like that but this really is a shitty version of Spicebomb. I mean Barbour is a pretty iconic brand and all they could muster was a peppery opening and tingle of juniper which I thought was very on brand. Then it takes a detour into that preponderance of pink berry, spice nonsense and wood/amber/spice, sweet but ultimately hollow. Spicebomb is not hollow, how could I love that one so but be sickened by this? While acknowleging what a debt this owes to it's forebear? Well that is the fine line perfume treads between the sublime (not that V&R Spicebomb is) and the the ridiculous (which Barbour actually deserves to be called) It did trick me for a moment that it might've been the olfactory equivalent of the countryfile green, wax jacket or biker clobber they are famed for. Barbour missed a trick here and I think they could've made something really weird and wonderful, instead of something meh.
