Fragrance Reviews by nohay

This one would probably set a new definition to coolness. This is as cool as it gets.

I have much appreciation to the basic Dior Homme, which strikes me as new and original. The intense version is indeed intensified formula of the first, the leather notes are much more present, it is less sweet – to sum it up: It's bolder. It's the kind of fragrance that creeps under your skin, your radar – vey close and not immediately conceived. On top of that there's the coolest bottle ever.
Many perfumes call themselves black – this is one of the few that really deserves it. Wearing it feels like wearing a dark cloaks…

Definitely my new signature fragrance.

I have this theory that a great fragrance has to have at least one "wrong", disturbing note in it, so when you try it, your first response is "what the hell". This quirky character is shared among all the great ones, from Vetiver (which I admire but will never wear) to Fahrenheit (which I proudly do) to Miel. When My girlfriend wore it, it took me some time to like it. it IS unique, at first encounter almost unwearable. Finally I got to like it on her, but on me it smells better. The weirdest thing is that I can't recognize any of the notes. Perhaps the jelly-honey opening, but that's were it ends. To me it's the first true unisex fragrance I got to know. Sadly not all Lutens fragrances are that bold.

It's been said here that this one isn't all that black, and I agree. I had high expectations from this one but it's just a very pleasant fragrance. I can't smell the rubber, which is much more evident in Dior PH for example, and although I admire Menardo's works, I think that one is more Bulgari (meanning "nice fragrance") than Menardo.

After reading the reviews, my joy was beyond measurement when I ran into this Lutens shelf in Gum in Moscow. Alas... I can't figure out why people admiring this fragrance, to me it's a simple chocolate smell. I was going to buy it blindly, it was all there in the reviews, the comparisons to Lolita, the high reputation Lutens's fragrance gets among the members of basenotes, The matureness, the uniqueness... Well, forget the anise, Douce and Lolita has nothing in common beside being food-based-fragrance. And judging from the back of my hand, the dry down also isn't something to write home about. I know Koublai and I know Miel, which are, liking them or not, are at least fragrances that aren't like anything else, bold and uncompromising. After trying a number of this cool slim Lutens bottles my feeling is "don't believe the hype". From a niche perfumer I was hoping for more.

The top notes are quiet alluring, but once the green grass-floral opening fades it becomes, to me, simply repulsive. I guess it's because this fragrance (like YSL's and Chanel's) was copied in so many ways, from cheap perfumes going through cheap deodorants and air-freshener, and ending up in soap. In these days, IMHO, these fragrances just don't make it through. Maybe in a decade or two they'll emerge and regain their high reputation. As for now... God, I have to wash that soap off the back of my hand...

This fragrance is so much fun. I love anise but this one, dumb is it may sound, makes me feel like wearing new clothes, turnning every day to a little party. It's the 1st fragrance that I don't give a damn if others find it sexy, it just makes me feel so f* cool.

The opening is quite nice, if you like Lolita, to quote ones review, you'll like this one. True, but only for 20 minutes. After that it gets this sickening balm like odour which I had to wash off ASAP. Funny thing though, after that it became nice again. It's not Lolita.

It's probably me, and it concerns both YSL and Chanel fragrance. At first they smells quite unique, makes you want to dig in to them, but when you do, well, there's nothing there. And where that horrible synthetic feeling comes from?
To be exact, I wouldn't find them terrible, if only I could get rid of that (sorry for being obscure) "sense of lack". Otherwise they would be really nice perfumes, but then again, nothing special.

Before I met my girlfriend I was really a straight guy when it came to perfumes. When she first got me to smell Fahrenheit I thought it was terrible, too much of everything. I got to hand it to her, she was right. This is probably the best fragrance in the world. The trouble now is that I can't be satisfied with really great, but unfortunately, "straight" fragrances, say Boss (Gray) or Lalique (Blue). I was drawn completely to the dark side. So, be ware, it's a wonderful slippy road.