M7 Fresh (2004)
by Yves Saint Laurent

Froot loops? Yes please!!! Bought this one blind off of the reviews, one of my best blind buys to date. It is a little smokey after it dries down a bit. Fresh but dark, fruity yet classy. Made me appreciate the original M7 more, but I still won't wear it. For me this is the perfect version of M7.

Picked up a small bottle on E-bay due to the buzz. This is another scent that is completely different than anything else. Grapefruit Blast(no fruit loops or fruit in my mind)I consider Tom Ford for Men fruity but this is Cedar(like a fine classical guitar or on the negative side a hamster cage)mixed with Cinnamon and a little bit of of a cool breeze.The Cedar/Cinnamon last for about an hour and then resolves to a semi-sweet mild but different M-7 warmth. If you can handle M-7 you will like M-7fresh.If you can find it!

The grapefruit is obvious right from the first spray, and there’s a strong lime element in the opening, too. It is a pretty straightforward grapefruit / citrus accord — very fresh and enticing — one of the freshest, most enjoyable, and yet wearable citrus opening I’ve experienced. The next note I get is smoke — a really beautiful smoke that doesn’t last long, but reappears sporadically — it seems to float in and out of the grapefruit accord. The opening citrus lasts for a long time on my skin and then slowly transforms to a darker accord complete with a mild ginger and a growing in strength aoud. This is the about the same accord as in the original M7, though less potent, fresher, but still retaining a significant amount of the drama and darkness of the original. For the dry down I don’t get a musk but I do get an excellent vetiver. M7 Fresh does not have the longevity of the original, but it does have a complete personality half borrowed and half new. And I like this new creation even better than the old. Great fragrance.

This fragrance has a clean/smooth scent with the same wonderful dry down as its big brother M7. An olfactory delight! This is my signature Spring/Summer scent.

Bought a 3.3oz from eBay for $60 and sorry to rain down on people's parade, but it smells like Fruity Pebbles, not Fruit Loops. Sorry to disappoint all Fruit Loops fans out there, this ain't for you. The cedar and citrus balance back and forth both in the initial spray and drydown, though the citrus is more apparent in the initial spray and the cedar is more apparent in the drydown. Not certain this should be considered summer wear, but it fits just right for those "good" days, not "good" nights.

Wow. These reviews are spot on. Lime/Citrus/'Fruit-Loop' opening (but in a totally good way) drying down to a mellower more subdued M7 agarwood. Off to purchase it in Europe!