Beautiful balance between a dry green oakmossy Chypre, and a fresh spicy/woody Eau de Cologne.

Chienoir opens fresh spicy/woody, with dry pepper and a slightly sweet/bitter orange and green juniper berry. I get a woody green neroli in the mid with opoponax carrying the spiciness into the mid. There is a bone-dry, almost mineralic oakmoss/patchouli accord running through from top to base. A dry tobacco and ambroxan-like musk join in the base to finish the perfume. Simply magnificent. Feels like an Ellena at his peak. Top marks to Breadle for this masterpiece!

Prada Infusion de Cedre (d’Iris Cedre, d’Homme)- Gives the best feeling of peeling an orange poolside, sunscreen wafting off your warm skin. Somewhere nearby, there’s a baby who was recently washed with Johnson’s no-more-tears shampoo. You finish your orange, lean back in your lounge, close your eyes, and put a sun-warmed old paperback over your nose for a pleasant snooze.

Simple top note of a sweet, almost rindy mandarin. Linear mid of soft neroli and powdery iris over a paper-like dusty cedar and soapy white musk base, warmed and slightly sweetened with benzoin, creating an almost fuzzy texture. This is Prada at its absolute best. Daniela (Roche) Andrier is a master.

Casa Blanca is somehow simultaneously a warm, spiced tobacco/boozy/leather fragrance, and a fruity/mineralic/sun-kissed sweet scent.

First thing I notice is a nice, warm, gentle cinnamon-like spice and a thickish fruity sweetness. Calling it fig here, but there’s not the signature leafy greenness. There is a kind of mineralic note that wafts in and out, playing with the fruitiness, refusing to be pinned down. Hard to really pick out the tea, I’m sure it’s just hiding in the blend adding a freshness to the fig/mineral combo. Very pleasant gentle saffron leather, sweet rum and tobacco round out the base.

The scent is not at all overwhelming or heavy, but it does last well with a decent trail. Essentially impossible to overspray. Unisex leaning masculine, quite sweet. All weather, some could consider it heavy for the hottest weather. 

Powderly lemon bon bon-like bergamot and sharp green-ish black pepper juxtaposed over sweet soft sandalwood and white musk.

Opens sharp peppery, green and lemony. Lemon quickly gives way to a sweetened powdery bergamot. pepperiness grows greener with a galbanum note that is pronounced without going over the top. Cedar comes in providing a bit of a woody backbone to the pepper in the mid as the powdery bergamot note dies down. A sweetened sandalwood and soft white musk grow in the base as the mid dies down. Leaves an almost vanillic sweetness on the skin after all else is gone.

You Doux is laying in bed with freshly moisturized skin just out of a bath using Dove bar soap to wash away the smoky smell of a bonfire.

Opens with a slight violet note, that kind of ghostly note that escapes you any time you try to pin it down. The violet note plays this same trick for a while. There is a well-done Palo Santo accord with incense which deftly avoids the overly smoky BBQ thing. I get a little bit of a sandalwood floating in and out along with an almost aldehydic soapiness. Ambroxan and ambrette create a skin-musk base. Simple, soapy, clean skin scent with a nice twist.

Mid-August, 95-degree day, 100% humidity. you wake up late, hungover. you rush out the door to work. You forgot to wash your pits and undercarriage... again. You go down to your job scraping barnacles off the pier at low tide. You catch a whiff of your rancid B.O., a waft of salty sea breeze sneaks in to relieve your nostrils for a fleeting moment, only to be overwhelmed by the fishy musk of the seals sunning themselves 100 feet away. You feel the metallic taste in your mouth of eminent vomit ...That was 2 days ago... and you still smell all of it in your clothes.

-Lattafa Atlas

Tenacious and synthetic metallic, bitter, greenish, inky, tea, very musky. Fantastic cooling, kind of indescribable fragrance.

Strong, classic, masculine, aromatic, citrus, floral, dry woody.

An opening of spicy aromatic petitgrain and bitter orange, quickly followed by a nice, green neroli. Orange blossom floralizes and sweetens the neroli, while carrot seeds add a slight powderiness in the mid. Cashmeran and woods combine to create a very nice dry woody base. Claims oak, I don't really detect a significant oak note, more cedar if anything specific. Has a feeling of a classic EDC-style fragrance with a significantly stronger woody base.

Futuristic, masculine cold damp earth and rose done in a clean, modern way. Bladerunner

A bit peppery with a little synthetic sweetness in the opening. Quickly a slight grayish, mineralic, damp earthiness appears, casting a kind of veil over a fairly prominent rose and a cold, slightly plasticky incense note in the mid. A synthesized patchouli derivative woody base with ambroxan. This is a fairly linear scent with many interesting aroma chemicals and futuristic synthetics.