One of the best leather fragrances out there. Realistic, smells fantastic.
Great grab and go freshy that can stand through the cold.
The smell is a 10/10. Smooth blend, love the cardamom and ginger, but the performance is not so great. I have a full bottle and I rarely wear it. I'd love to trade if anyone is interested.
Warm, sweet, smooth and balsamic.
Beautiful honey tobacco, lots of soft resinous warmth, smoothing vanilla, with patchouli adding a little tingle of green spice.
It is an amazing scent one of my favorites but does project and has no longevity.
I have over250 fragrances, and this one is my husbands favorite.
Agree with blue collar below, this is a summer banger. Yes I totally get the whole tobacco/rum thing being a winter vibe and it’s got that heavy boozy thing going for it but…. The real magic of this in my eyes is the transportive artistic nature of it, to me it’s pirates of the Caribbean and screams of tropical nights in Barbados. If I’m going on a summer holiday and looking at fragrances to take this is in the top 3, but never daytime, always after dusk. Magic ✨
Firstly, this couldn't be further from "oud" quite honestly. But..... It's a wonderful perfume, and of all the MFKs that haven't been discontinued, it's one of the best. It's a delicate, shimmering saffron/elemi fizz which goes to clean patchouli in the mid, then a sweet vanillic woody base after a few hours. It's totally inoffensive but without being boring, and it's one of the few in my collection that I wear on consecutive days. This and Oud Silk Mood EDP (which is the same thing plus rose and chamomile basically) are a solid pair with a cohesive effect. I love them both.
A beautiful, simply constructed but high quality blue fragrance. Perfect for any occasion when you just want to smell clean and fresh all day long. I layer this with a few things and it works well as a base layer. The biggest thing about this fragrance is how long it lasts. $300+ but I know when I spray this on, I’ll smell great all day long and then some. One of my favorite LV’s.
Very nice for the price (I got this when it was $60. I think it’s $110 now). Starts with grapefruit, but dries down to a leathery, woody musk.
Rose Incense sort of does what you’d expect it to, however I do find it seems to be lacking slightly on the incense part - it’s just rose on top of rose, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I find the scent pleasant and enjoyable, but it doesn’t smell like it costs hundreds of pounds at all, which is a bit of a let down. This bright, dewy note of damask rose comes across very light and airy, yet up close becomes more stemmy and a little peppery. Dry resins give the scent this almost leafy feel to the rose, thickening up the scent profile, but it doesn’t actually smell of incense at all - there’s no smoky facets or anything. Overall this is a straight up rose-water scent, it’s very basic and straightforward, and for those that adore rose this could be great, but for me it lacks depth and journey; I wouldn’t buy this personally.
Madame Rochas is the masterpiece of the great Guy Robert, a stunning creation which will be forever remembered as one of Rochas’ greatest perfumes. It takes the aldehydic floral theme of Arpège as its starting point but plays on the base which is warmer and more sensual. The scent opens with this great airy aldehydic accord alongside hesperidic citrus notes, alongside a gentle leafy green facet. The heart is composed of a classical floral harmony which is delicately fresh and soapy, whilst the base achieves that sensual effect through the use of sandalwood, musk, benzoin, coumarin and oakmoss. The result is something beautifully soft and leathery, a perfect example of French luxury and refinement. The sample I have is of the vintage EDC, and I already know I need to seek out a full bottle of this - it is utterly stunning and a must-have for any lover of classical French florals.
I have no experience with the original Absolue Pour Le Soir, and so unfortunately cannot make comparisons. What I can say however, is this is a beauty - I have often made it known I do not hold much respect for Kurkdjian as a perfumer, I find the majority of his work uninspired and dreary, but this is gorgeous. An overwhelmingly sweet and sticky note of honey blasts you in the face upon first spray, quite a realistic honey accord I must say, as it’s at once syrupy and sugary, but holds a certain bitterness. This sweetness is elevated by a standard Amber accord, the sappy facets furthered by an increase in labdanum, all intertwined by a guttural punch of cumin - which comes off satisfyingly filthy. For those that struggle with cumin, this will be an absolute no-go. But for those who crave an element of eroticism in their perfume, you will find it most welcome. I always found Grand Soir a little too boring, and this seems to be the perfect remedy.
Tea at BG is Roja’s final creation before his departure as the credited perfumer of Roja Parfums - of course it is a horrifically overpriced publicity stunt limited to just 130 bottles. Tea is a note Roja has not tackled before, and I admit he seems to have accomplished well, however I do not find myself thinking this smells like a thousand dollar scent. Ripe, juicy figs and dewy blackcurrant are actually at the forefront of this scent, sweet and refreshing in their partnership with citrus fruits and a whisper of basil. The tea is dry and slightly earthy, with soft grassy facets amplified by hay, alongside a pronounced peppery kick. The scent is significantly dry, but thankfully the fruits balance this rather beautifully. I enjoy this scent, it’s pleasant, but it doesn’t feel like a Roja creation - it lacks the signature flair and characteristic ‘sparkle’ of his better offerings. Who knows if he really is the perfumer behind this, or if he ever was for anything, but this perfume certainly signifies a change in the wind for the house; one I do not find comforting or reassuring.
Im no expert so I will just say... Fresh, vibrant, summer...
Smells fantastic, it's the new favourite in my growing collection
Absolutely love this scent. Such a soft rose and creamy white chocolate scent. Not juvenile and definitely not too sweet.
I was initially disappointed with 2 Man because it’s so different from CDG 2, which I adore—I felt like labelling this as a flanker is misleading since it’s almost a completely different scent. I also found this one to be less adventurous and original, its masculine flavour a bit too close to more commercial mens’ fragrances. After spending more time with it, though, I have to say it’s grown on me. I’ve come to appreciate how it does share some of the same DNA that I love in CDG 2: mainly the interplay of aldehydes, spices, and incense, though it subtracts 2’s complex cybernetic florals for a subtle iris and does away with the tea accord. Though it doesn’t include “ink” in the official description like 2 does, I find it still gives a hint of that “magazine-page” scent that I like so much in the sister fragrance. Plus, as the weather cooled into fall and winter, I really started to appreciate its leathery, slightly smoky spiced-amber drydown, which is satisfyingly warm and resinous—a lovely twist on the signature clean-incense base of so many CDG perfumes. I find it to be a sophisticated, somewhat bookish masculine fragrance that’s neither too loud nor too conservative. My only complaint is that the aldehydic top notes are both fresh and powdery in a way that reads a bit too much like deodorant (which is what initially put me off)—I prefer how it smells after an hour or two, but the longevity is actually not tremendous, so the drydown phase doesn’t last that long. I also eventually discovered Eris’ Scorpio Rising, which feels like it took the drydown phase of 2 Man and made it sweeter, richer, and more powerful—it’s three times the price, but (unfortunately!) I think it might be worth it.
I love it! It smells like the juiciest greenest apple/peach that I have ever tasted. I started salivating at first whiff.
#etro #mahogany is an absolute revelation!!! It smells of something I can’t place, it’s familiar but not like anything remotely in fashion these days. Very vintage, like uncool 80’s perhaps early 90’s dawn of the aquatic, outlying flanker. Does it remind me a touch of Guy Laroche Horizon? That’s a pretty hideous ‘Manimal’ of a fragrance so I might be being a bit mean/inaccurate because this is very pleasurably musky, certainly later on and Horizon is an openly stinky, B.O and melon lolly, seaside mashup! The opening is a spicy, herbal thing, has a boozy, fresh transparency, it’s zingy with citrus but it’s one of those low lying scents which build overtime, their angularities gradually smoothed over. The name Mahogany suggests wood no? I’m not a moron for thinking that right? But although I’d loosely describe this as a woody musk, it’s not really all that woody, certainly not a positive wood note, except perhaps sandalwood adding to the creamy, pink hue of the musks in the drydown.
Opens very citrussy. Smells almost like a lemon candy in the beginning. Once it settles it is complex with a lot of notes.
I especially gets notes of bergamot, tea and juniper.
I'm no expert but i really enjoy this scent. The bottle is cool and the package comes with built in light ✨️
Totally unique vanilla that never ventures into gourmand sweetness
An interesting scent that I find hard to place an occasion for.
On my skin, the herbal, aromatic notes are very forward making it almost savoury. The artesmia mixed with white wine and citrussy notes are by far most prominent. The mix of them is giving me a slight metallic note like pencil shavings. Maybe it's Iso E, maybe it's brain trickery.
I'm not getting much sweetness, but a delicate incense is trying to peek through.
After 3 hours the aromatic notes have softened just a bit, but the wine and artesmia notes are still dominant over any balsamic warmth I expected.
For me the only downside is not long lasting. Plus u have to give this one at-least a month on your shelf and it is 10/10
Lovely springscent and one of my favorite from the Jo Malone line. Unfortunately the lasting power is so bad that I have decided not to get it. Would be great to see a EdT version in the future.
