Fragrance Reviews

Fragrance Reviews by irish

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Arcus by Amouage

What?!! A $150 Escape? That is all I got. Calone, fruits, weak longevity and linearity.

4 Sprays. Longevity: 6 Hours. Sillage 60 cm.
02 November 2008

Ice*Men by Thierry Mugler

An aquatic with patchoulli? Who would have thunk? The overall efect is a balanced aquatic scent with a note of dirt. It is very different from previous TM creations.

3 sprays. Longevity: 7 Hours. Sillage: 40 cm.
02 November 2008

Ambre Sultan by Serge Lutens Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido

Now this is a true amber!
I am not sure that is a good thing, but it is definitelly natural and very reminicent of Southamerican copal. It is dry, sticky and sirupy. It smells like a forest during a dry winter: dead leaves and resin.
01 November 2008

Fleurs d'Oranger by Serge Lutens Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido

This is a masculine point of view.

This fragrances is a Floral Oriental, sweet and heavy. The Orange Flower note is not very peculiar and the overall scent is pretty linear. Much more appropriate for a woman than a man. It has good longevity and good sillage, but it will not be a sillage emanating from me.
01 November 2008

Fumerie Turque by Serge Lutens Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido

Old dust, smoke and vintage leather. My girlfrinds says it smells like a sweaty me. I am so egocenric that I will give this a thumbs up.
01 November 2008

Rousse by Serge Lutens Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido

Carnation? Jasmine?
sniff... sniff...
Argh! Help! I am in Cinnamon hell! And not gourmand cinnamon, but BIG RED© kind of cinnamon...
Get Skai instead.
01 November 2008

Jordan by Michael by Michael Jordan

Smells Like CK one and Chrome. Same Family of safe, unisex, kind of aquatic scents. The difference is its tremendous longevity. On me, it is one of the top 5 that last the most.
04 June 2008

Coney Island by Bond No. 9

Pathetitc mixture of set sail saint barts (fake margarita and fake guava) and CDG soda. A fruity, creamy, aquatic combo that fails to stay together as a fragrance.
16 May 2008

Allure Homme Sport Cologne by Chanel

Stupid names... Chanel should be more creative and actually come up with something new every time they come up with a new fragrance. That said this one is very nice. People complain about logevity but come on! It says COLOGNE. That is why it is a 5 oz bottle. It is very nice, reminiscent of D&G Light BLue for woman.
26 April 2008

Blue Amber by Montale

So I open the envelope were my fragrance was scent... it smelled, well, like amber. Old, aged, vintage amber. Innocently I smell the atomizer, ah! there you are vanilla! Should I? should I spray it on my wrist? So I do. A mushroom cloud is formed where my house used to be. Some people reported that on a radius of 20 km, 60 year old women cried remembering their first love, 40 year old women had mild orgasms. 30 yo were droped to their knees on spasmic nirvana, and the 20 yo gagged and threw up. Some other people said the warm brezee that followed made the man feel more manly and the women more luxurious.

But I wouldn´t know. All I saw and smelled was an old tree rip itself in half and suddenly ignite. Maybe in a gesture of melacholy, maybe in an effort of liberation.
19 April 2008

Jovan White Musk for Men by Jovan

This is one the reasons I keep smelling drugstore fragrances. Every now and then I will find a nice surprise clean, easy to wear, very unisex and very skin-like, though a bit synthetic.
15 April 2008

Fleur du Male by Jean Paul Gaultier

The world was note prepared to smell this... This may be appreciated by some basnoters but in general it is seen as "way too Floral". IMO, this is an excellent scent, just some years ahead of its time.
15 April 2008

White Musk by Montale

The scent of a baby... beautiful, pure and clean.... a bit feminine but that is only because of its softness. Indeed a Great White Musk. The first time I wore it, I dreamt that GF was pregnant!
14 April 2008

Geir by Geir Ness

10 seconds after application.
It is there... not offensive, that is good.
1 hour later.
it is still there, cool... I smell ahh... natural.
3 hours later.
A ball of grass rolls in front of you... It smells... nice.
6 hours later.
You hear a Cricket chirping... you smell nice someone says. Its Geir I say. And then we forget about it.

This is the the perfect gift for someone you do not know. Nice and safe scent... too nice and safe
13 November 2007

cK be by Calvin Klein

CK: So 90´s, so mainstram, so juvenile... I think.

But when I sit down on a windy friday afternoon to consider fragrances for what they are and aprecaite their value beyond names, I start to see. CK One, CK Be, Eternity Summer, Obsession Night, Crave are modest mainstream wonders.

CK Be is a weird scent. Not Masculine or femenine, just undefined. It has a GREAT longevity and sometimes it reminds me a little bit to Bulgari Black, and yet other times I feel that this is a Commes des Gacons type of scent. When you are not trying to impress or offend or if you just want to stand out by your simple weirdness, use CK Be. CK Be smells like using Converse, a black Tshirt and Jeans.
08 November 2007

Virgin Island Water by Creed

meh... coconut, lime and salt; it makes me hungry. In my opinion it is not worth the money as it is just too bland, simple, unimaginative. Compared to Erolfa, SMW, and MI, this scent is a rather mediocre creation from creed. TRue, they improved the longevity but they delivered linearity. I can think of many scents under $30 that smell more complex and distinctive (Including a couple of CK's).
23 October 2007

Unforgivable by Sean John

At the begining I did like this scent. However, it has the worst shelf life ever. If you are going to buy it, get a small bottle, I didn't even get trough half of mine.
17 July 2007
 
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