Overall: 3/5 - It's a solid fragrance, but it's performance isn't the best. Only time anyone's ever noticed it is when I sprayed it about 8 times on the pulse points. Smells nice and clean but wouldn't buy it again.
Overall Scent: 5/5 - It's not for everyone, but I do love this smell. It's subtle but very refreshing and a decent compliment getter. Longevity is a downside compared to other Creed's, so I don't think it's worth the cost.
Overall Scent 5/5: Love the fresh, citrus smell. It's clean, it's iconic. Downside is every dude and their brother wears it, you won't stand out. This was the first expensive fragrance I've ever purchased and still get tons of compliments.
Overall Smell Rating: 5/5 - I love this citrusy, sweet, youthful scent. It's addicting to me personally and my girlfriend loves it. The youthful/sweetness isn't for everyone though.
Price/Value 3/5: A bit overpriced
Sillage 5/5: strong trail
Longevity 4/5: I get about 5-6 hours
It's a very citrusy, fresh, clean, soapy smell that is very nice & refreshing. It's longevity and price are the downsides. Feel like it only lasts 4 hours tops and the price is hard to justify. I love the clean, citrus smell to it and could rock it for every day use if I didn't feel like I had to reapply it half way through the day. I would recommend just getting a dupe (Game of Spade Full House is like a 95% match).
Like this scent but don’t love it. Longevity is solid on me (6 or so hours), but not worth the hype or the price. I think there are better spicy fragrances for the price/value. Overall a 3.5/5 for me.
10/10 scent. My first oud and it was not a let down. The Price/Value is the only downside of this fragrance for me, it’s expensive. However, it lasts 6-8 hours for me, smells incredible & sophisticated. Would recommend to anyone willing to pay for the price!
I absolutely love this scent. May not be year round for everyone but I absolutely would wear this year round. big compliment getter, overall a 4.75/5. Just a bit on the higher end for price
This scent is amazing, the initial top notes smell very clean, peppery, cinnamony and the base notes are delectable. Overall a 4.5/5 for me, only wish it lasted longer (still a solid 6 or so hours for me).
Vetiver by Guerlain reinterpreted by Xerjoff or Parfums de Marly or something. The edge is completely gone, and all of the rooty, earthiness has been replaced by a sickly, cloyingly sweet base,...so very sweet and pretty annoying. I'd like to say it's superfluous but it's actually probably a pretty smart move by Guerlain, to make an old classic marketable to the hordes who love crap like Initio and PDM. They really need to sort out their bottles if they want to reach this market though, it screams budget.
dank dungeon jasmine, a collection of skeletal cypress knees, and a patchouli oil-slicked leather executioner’s mask
While generally I don’t review fragrances that I don’t like (unless I somehow felt personally attacked by them and I had to be spiteful and petty about it) this one is so bizarre I can’t stop thinking about it, and if I’m thinking about it so much, I am probably going to write about it, and if that’s the case, it seems like a waste not to share those thoughts here, too. So, to get yourself in the mindset for this one, imagine the Lynchian dissonance and incongruity of the fish in the coffee percolator. This is neither fishy nor coffee-beany, but I think you know what I mean. Initially, this is a fleeting whiff of Korean banana milk, and overheated electronics, maybe the chubby plastic container spontaneously combusted, splattering frothy banana juice and frying circuit boards, and the whole arcade catches fire and burns down. The metallic ozone and static of sparking wires eventually and somehow inevitably– in the way dream logic feels perfectly reasonable and rational – gives way to a monstrously animalic indolic jasmine and somehow inexplicably becomes a barely perceptible smoky floral skin scent. I don’t think Y06-S is a scent you wear; it's an experience you endure. It’s bizarre and bewildering and a little bit nauseating, but I think it’s a good reminder that perfume is an art form, and art shouldn’t always be easy to digest. It should make us think a little bit.
I am an absolute fiend for the lush, fevered va-va-voom of tuberose, and it's always a good time to see how that is interpreted through the lenses of different perfumers. Sarah Baker's Charade bursts onto the stage with a ditzy dame of a tuberose, not the classic, opulent diva you might have been expecting. This one's all mischievous effervescence; imagine the voices of Queenie Goldstein or Betty Boop, breathy, giggling champagne and honey whisper. But plot twist! While our dizzy tuberose distracted you with her artful, ambrosial chicanery, a vegetal ferniness emerges, and a Lothlorien elf steps out of the shadows, a sylvan arrow aimed at your heart. The luxuriance of the tuberose intertwines with the verdant notes, vining our two stars together, creating a captivating tension. Ylang-ylang adds a softly decaying languor, while styrax and benzoin weave a faint trail of smoky, balsamic sweetness. The leather accord seems like it would be out of place, but it’s the earthy, oily leather fanny-packed director holding this unlikely theatrical production together
How do I say this without being unkind? Shangri-La from Hiram Green is less lush and harmonious utopian promised land and more a Hieronymus Bosch-envisioned hellish menagerie, blighted and bedeviled, doomed and damned--all the horror and grandeur and unbridled madness of the cosmos, distilled into one raspingly chaotic scent. The initial blast of overripe, fermented peaches and citrus fruit frizzles acridly at us, trumpeted straight out of a bizarre monster’s glossy pink backside; jasmine’s balmy decay wraps us in a fuzzy, fevered winding-sheet of a golden-throned man-eating bird, to remind us that all is vanity and the pleasures of the flesh are fleeting, and the strangely spiced kisses of a porcine nun linger on your skin like a grotesque memento from a carnival of depravity. In what twisted mind is this a Shangri-La? I think Hiram Green is having one over on us.
Eris Perfumes Mx is the slithering, unsettling echo of an intrusive thought, a fixation, a compulsion that thrums beneath your skin and stirs unease and intrigue in equal measure. Hypnotizing tendrils of saffron, a musky murmur of something primal, something unnerving. Velvety sandalwood, a plushness of warmth, of comfort, but something's not quite right. A shivery nip of ginger, a prick of pepper, sharp, sudden, jolting you awake, reminding you that you’re not yourself. The mirror wavers, reflects the eyes of a stranger you don't recognize, a smile playing on lips that aren't yours. Secretive, intimate, and sheer, this is the perfume of a whisper that clings to you, the memory of actions you can't explain, of choices you didn't make. Are they yours, these yearnings, or have you become a fascination, a vessel for the uninvited, a maddening allure let loose from the dark?
EDIT: After I'd written all of this based on a very strong recollection that it brought up for me, I realized I wrote all of this slithery gorgeous malevolence about a perfume that celebrates freeing oneself from gender binaries... and that if one didn't know me, this review could be taken as me as someone who is freaked out or grossed out about that. Or something equally as unfortunate that I would hate to have ascribed to me. Nooooooo! Please don't think that it's not that at all. I love the concept, the execution, and the inspiration for this perfume! This particular review was prompted by how the fragrance reminded me of what was happening in Lois Duncan's YA thriller Stranger With My Face, wherein a teenager realizes that her jealous twin sister has been astral projecting into her body at night and making her do terrible things!
The current formulation (at least, the sample I got from Jovoy a couple of months ago) has an extremely loud and persistent kiwi note, and in general the perfume is VERY loud and agressive. I liked it though, and when I found a 100ml on Vinted for under 100 euros I didn't hesitate. The batch of my flacon is from 2020, and while being the same on the opening, it develops very differently. The synthetic fruit note is instead more natural smelling, and it quickly withdraws, allowing a rich mix of resins, amber and incense to take over. I get the walnut here, whereas in the more modern version I can't find it. This is probably full of synthetics, but the effect is much more old-school and natural seeming, not a million miles away from one of the old Serge Lutens ambers. While at first I thought, oh OK this is more wearable and tame than the sample I have, but I kind of like the craziness of the sample, the more I wear this old batch, the gladder I feel that I got this one. Don't get me wrong, it's still loud and it's still fruity, but it seems more classy and polished, and way less screechy and needy. The lack of top-note fanfare for hours allows me to perceive the ginger, benzoin, and leather, and overall there's a sort of cola accord that I didn't get at all from the sample. Another thing I get here which I struggled to perceive in the sample is the immortelle, which is perhaps why it put me in mind of some of Uncle Serge's œuvre. It's wondeful and maple syrupy!
Very wearable rose saffron oud fragrance. very powdery definitely a love it or hate it
This is one of my favorites for the summer time. Overall a very pleasant citrus scent for the summer with some nice florals hindered slightly by the performance. It opens with a burst of citrus, mostly orange and tangerine but I get a hint of lime. Dries down after about an hour to some very pleasant florals. The florals are what I think makes this a unisex fragrance, as the neroli and the other florals I would say lean a bit more masculine but can definitely be worn by a female. The florals are the heart of the fragrance and once they dry off I can’t really smell the listed base notes. It projects well for the first hour then tapers down to a weaker projection. I find that when I wear this it lasts about 6 hours. Obviously as a Tom Ford fragrance it is wildly overpriced for just 50 mL, but I would recommend this fragrance for the summer just due to how good it smells.
This, on my skin, is a beautiful airy, fresh, salty coconut with minimal sweetness.
It's not a coconut body lotion, it's fresh cut open with coconut water dripping.
There's a very delicate green note and a subtle and warmth from amber, but overall it's light fresh salty coconut.
Perfect delicate scent for summer. Genderless. Something to go with a warm evening and light clothes.
After several hours it's still very noticible on skin. The salty coconut remains, along with an airy, woody, slightly metallic twinge.
I've seen other commentary that this is akin to Another 13 with coconut. And a mix of rave reviews, and ones who hate it or get no coconut. Presume this is to do with Iso E Super?
The only time I've disliked an Iso E Super scent is one from ELDO that I can't recall the name off - it was far too abrasive.
I have Sans Fleurs and Triad, both of which I love, and find completely dynamic, each wear giving a journey that's never quite the same as the last. Now I have Lao Oud, and it's totally in the same ball park. What's really strange is that it opens like BAM stinky poo in your face, then suddenly drops off to leave a chocolate, honey oud fragrance, which left me slightly disappointed, but actually, wait a minute, it comes back stronger than ever, and it keeps doing this, playing hide and seek, but somehow each time it comes back with more of a vengeance. In the dry down I find it very similar to Sans Fleurs, although smelling them side by side reveals a multitude of differences, but i think it's that they both have the same sort of oud plus little to no floral element, and a dose of vanilla. This perfume is an absolute beast, and now comes just below Triad in terms of scary, monstrous beast frag. This is easier to wear than Triad (due to Triad's epic latrine filled with hyraceum) if you can get past the opening minutes, which I love, but which do take me aback every time. Update: no, the drydown doesn't remind me of Sans Fleurs, the mid does. The actual drydown suddenly reveals a dry, realistic coffee smell, like fresh ground coffee beans, absolutely marvelous and unexpected!
This is a warm, comforting, enveloping scent. Gourmand leaning but not too much so.
It is spicy, resinous and incensey.
It is smooth and creamy and consuming. The cacao isn't too bitter and adds just enough sweetness.
The ambergris is just stunning. Salty, smooth waxy perfection. It's a tincture of 7% natural and ethically sourced ambergris. No synthetics here. I believe the Hyraceum is also authentic and ethically sourced.
The animalics are very well balanced considering the mix of ambergris, hyraceum and castoreum.
The opening is just incredible with a blast of warm creamy spices and ambergris.
Once settled, it is smokey, smooth and creamy, with spices dancing in and out through warm skin, fur, and vanilla.
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Amazing smooth sweet and a little spicy fragrance projects like crazy and lasts 14+ hours on my skin
Nice fresh woody aromatic scent The lavender and violet leaf gives it a nice fresh touch. Perfect daily wear for spring and summer. It opens like most other Paco Rabanne frags, sweet, but not as sweet as the others in the invictus line. You pick up on the pepper and floral notes as it dries down. Once it dries down you start to get the Cashmeran and musk giving it sort of a woody profile. This is a good daily pick and go grab for errands.
