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My Signature
627 reviews
Sumptuous, syrupy jasmine on a thick bed of tuberose and tobacco. I don't get much vanilla, but the elemi gives it that special something you expect from Amouage. It's very delicious, and not at all light as some here are describing it. This is a loud perfume which could easily lead to regrets if used without due diligence. The drydown is why I put up with the needy opening, it's astounding.
It smells nice but there's something making me immediately anosmic, which is what I've come to expect from Rasquinet, a huge slug of woody amber nasal short circuiters. It's a shame to use this heavy handed modern style in the context of creative perfumery with such fine ingredients, because the ambrarome stops me from smelling them properly.
This is absolutely stunning. I wanted to dislike it due to the price, and I'd heard many negative or underwhelmed comments, but of the three, this is my coup de cœur, Reasons being second and Lustre in lacklustre third place. It smells like shoving your head into a barrel where someone has smeared lemon drizzle cake and lit an incense stick, absolutely heavenly. .... I've just realised it smells like L'Homme Idéal Intense but with infinitely better ingredients and a little sour twist in the base.
Not my favourite Bortnikoff, but I can't deny the quality and magic touch is there, I just don't enjoy this type of scent profile. If you wanted to like perfumes like Ani but find them too sledgehammery and cloying, you could give this a try. I do like the sandlewood drydown, and the performance is great.
I don't get any spices or cocoa apart from a fleeting Coca-Cola accord, it's simply the most pure essence of Guerlain, the base in all their perfumes, in its platonic ideal form. Too sweet for me to consider wearing regularly, but divine all the same.
Smells like having a cup of tea in the middle of Sephora surrounded by teenagers spraying cheap designer perfumes. No wait, it's more like a cup of tea that someone has squirted a dollop of generic men's shower gel into. I wanted to try this perfume for the longest time and I'm thoroughly underwhelmed so far. It may even be a scrubber, it's starting to annoy me after 15 minutes.
Nice but remarkably similar to way cheaper Serge Lutens scents such as Parole d'Eau. I mean, it is different, but it's not giving me anything that seems worth the extortionate price.
It's as if there were a Shalimar Flanker/Hybrid with AMan. Not terrible, but completely superfluous, and hugely inferior to Shalimar, AMen, Tonka Imperial, etc
This is nice perfume, but nothing as astounding as I'd have thought reading the gushing reviews here. It's not leather, it's orris and sandalwood, and of course lacks top notes and is totally linear, which I guess is deliberate. The quality, concept, packaging and performance are worthy of perhaps 150 euros MAX for 100ml. The price as it stands is farcical. But then someone must be paying it. If you want a truly beautiful suedey leather that costs a lot less than this try Clean Suede, which accomplishes this idea more successfully/less boringly.
Strong as all hell, be careful. The opening is A LOT, which is not to say it's bad, but it's very heady and needy, no subtlety at all. There's loud jasmine and a whole host of scratchy chemicals. After 30 mins the joy begins, as the flowers and aroma-chemical blob calm down and the cocoa comes through, along with the creamy base. Lovely. Nobody needs 100ml of this. I have 10ml and it'll probably last me 20 years. Far drydown smells exactly like Fève Gourmande.
