Sentiment for Men (2002)
by Escada

If you look at notes likes jackfruit, lombock pepper, and pink pepper and say, "I haven't seen those ones around much," there might be a good reason. When this gets grafted onto lime and then that gets grafted onto a traditional sandalwood/vetiver drydown (in an attempt to save this one?)...think less of it as "synthetic smelling" and something more like a horrible molecule. You are walking around wearing a horrible molecule.

I no longer own this fragrance, I think it was the second fragrance I ever bought. It is not good. Usually I feel that, even though a fragrance is not that good, its makers at least tried their best to do a good job. Not so here. This is a profoundly uninspired fruity fragrance. If you purchase this based on ignorance (like me) you will be forgiven, otherwise you are very guilty.

Fruity in a pineapple (I think from the jackfruit) sort of way with a slap in the face of some generic spices – particularly pepper and nutmeg. I often dislike synthetic fruity accords and Sentiment causes me to continue that tradition… The spices don’t work either except for providing a little more dullness to the already boring and cloying jackfruit. The generic vetiver and sandalwood of the base are completely overshadowed by the remnants of the opening and heart notes. The whole fragrance ends up cloying, synthetic, and pointless because absolutely nothing seems to work in it. Escada regularly churns out an awful lot of not very great fragrances, but they are usually better than this one.

This is one of those scents that may not be for everyone and it is something that you have to be in the mood for. At first try, it smelled like lavender scented pine sol to me and I walked away from it. When I got home though it turned into a deep woodsy fruity scent that had plenty of depth and I loved it and eventually I went back for it and I am glad I did.

Yes, there is a lot of artificiality on initial application, but drydown reveals a quiet, sophisticated scent. By no means a show-stopper, by no means offensive.

i smell very generic thing at the beginning ..then nothing !!!!!!!!!