1 spray = delicate clean musk Several sprays = wait a minute, there's a dirty skank hiding under the freshly laundered sheets and they will do ANYTHING. I love this, it's deceptively complex, a strange mix of steamed aldehydes, salty skin and zesty sparkle. Nasomatto never fails to impress me, even with the ones I can't wear, but this is a favourite.

This gets compared to Beach Hut Woman, and while the first 2 seconds when the spray is airborne DO smell remarkably similar, there is a crucial difference afterwards. Beach Hut Woman is a beautiful example of the restrained use of calone, discreetly peeping from amongst a delicate chorus of effervescent notes. White Whale has a big fishy glut of calone, or perhaps some other similar chemical, that I find irritating and nauseating, and that's just with a teensy spray from a 2ml sample.. It's horrible. If you can't find Beach Hut Woman I'd recommend cutting your losses and moving on.

This is like the congealed, coagulated hardcore essence of 70s and 80s oriental bangers, which, thanks to CDG, we get to experience without having to tolerate the aldehydes which have turned with age which come with most vintages. It's incredible, a real classic, whore-ish fanfare of a perfume and a love letter to a genre which is all but dead now.

I swoon when I catch this in the air. Criminal of Amouage to discontinue this. It's perfect.

It smells fine, fits the Sauvage bill perfectly if you like that type of thing, but WTF is going on with the milky appearance, and worse still the sticky, tacky skin it gives you. This is the first time I've scrubbed something off not because of smell, but because I felt like I had food smeared on me. Do we need perfume that doesn't contain alcohol? Not if it does that. For the record, it still smells very strong after washing, so maybe that's it. Put it on, wash off the slime, Bob's your uncle.

I hate the other Sauvages, but aside from the weird texture on my skin, I love this. It's a great resiny lavender, not too musky, and has great performance. A gem, in my opinion.

This is an amber perfume, not an oud perfume, continuing the common trend to name perfumes "oud" that don't contain oud. This one isn't even trying to smell like oud. But, it is nice, very rich and elegant.

It's OK, unremarkable really. It brings to mind certain masculine Guerlains, halfway between a Homme Idéal flanker and an Absolus d'Orient, but they do it better, plus the performance here is [insert wet balloon deflation noise].

Unfortunalty this comes off as juvenile on my skin, and not in an acceptable way (like Zouzou or Dans Paris by Celine, for example), and worse still, it smells cheap. That aside, I also don't appreciate the combination of ultra-sweet, milky notes and apple, it gets nauseating. I don't think it's a terrible perfume but it's not for me and I don't want to smell it on anyone around me.