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.

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.