Fragrance Reviews by Maximiliani

I got two samples of the original "female" version and this just to see since people regard the original Infusion so highly and there are claims of it's unisex properties. They both are beautiful, the original being sweet in a non-obtrusive and gentile manner that brings about images of clean linens. They smell quite similar to me, both like really really expensive soap, which I like. D'Homme is a bit soapier and far more quiet (which is a bit odd considering the original's lightness) The original of course has more punch and floral embellishment, perfumey but not heady, which while beautiful I'm afraid might be a bit too feminine to wear for me. D'Homme to me is a good alternative or training wheels until one might feel comfortable wearing the original.

I recently became hooked on a variation of the actual drink yerbamate made by a local tea company Honest Tea. It has fast become one of my favorite drinks. Their Yerbamate has a small bit of limeade in it, which perhaps makes it so appealing, and deliciously sweet (without being bad for you, they're an awesome company) and this cologne is in many ways very, very similar.

Very pretty, I would love to smell this on girls my age (nineteen). The opening is nice and sharp, and being raised with a father who wears Guerlain Vetiver, I find myself very fond of somewhat sharp(ish) green openings. This is sweeter than it is sharp but is certainly green, but in a somewhat dry kind of way, like grass and hay, which most certainly agrees with the notes shown above. Powdery and slightly feminine it is a great gentle scent that is more meadow than chunk of grass and earth. I sense a "whiteness" about it, maybe the powder, but it is very fresh and I can agree with ludwigslady, there is a slight creamy cooked sugar/vanilla lurking somewhere in the background to my nose that kinda does remind me of creme brulee. Maybe the overall effect really is a sweetened yerba-mate drink.

Very nice, any girl or a guy with a nice tan could pull this off.

I am at heart quite a nature boy and have spent many hours outside. I owe this love of nature to early vacations I took when I was little, the Bahamas when I was three, and then Sanibel when I was four. I remember very little from my trip to the Bahamas, little bits and parts appear and go. What I can remember though were drinking coconut milk from coconuts that my dad would collect for me. With Philosykos, I can certainly see the coconut associations, but I'm not too sure that's entirely correct, the milky sweetness is certainly evocative, and if it really is coconut, it is a very pure and light one. I must agree with surreality about the banana-leaf note though, I would call much of the scent more evocative of the copious amounts of clear, ever-so-slightly-thicker-than-water fluid that drip from the cut leaf stems than coconut I think. I know this from tending my own potted dwarf trees and at the nursery where I work. It's sweet, but not floral and not entirely vegetative and not entirely pleasant, it's unusual. Here the milky sweet of coconut/banana-leaf and supposed figs or green tea and I get somewhat of a dry grass/hay which are all together extremely palatable. Very nice, archetypal summer in a bottle and great for both sexes (naturally). Reminds me of Hemmingway a little bit, with his tropical home. I like it a lot, but I'm unsure if my pale skin and features can pull such a nice sweet scent that begs for a Mediterranean style tan.

On an ending note, I did plant myself a sugar fig a few weeks ago, I will be comparing the scents and experiences I receive from the plant in comparison to this nice tropical (not neccesarily or entirely Mediterranean) composition.

This is actually quite realistic, I was entirely surprised. You can smell the chocolate and the butter and I guess the brown sugar batter too. Well done. My mother keeps pushing me to find a fragrance that smells like chocolate chip cookies, on the assumption that people would love it like they did in that movie with that angel or something.

My only gripe is that the cocoa is a tad sweet and reminds me of a fake chocolate factory ride at Hershey Park, and thus leans it closer to being a feminine fragrance for me, though, guys should try it and see how the girls react.

I've been looking for a first cologne for myself, and since I've always loved my dad's Guerlain Vetiver, I browsed all that Guerlain has to offer. Being ever curious and a terrible romantic, I saw that this one was practically unisex so I ordered a small sample vintage edt of this to just smell. I was totally surprised when I first opened the little bottle, the opening is very very "Guerlain" I guess, I don't know any other way to put it. I could just tell that it was a Guerlain. There must be some notes in there that they later reused in Vetiver or something. That sharp opening. Very odd and with that in mind I totally agree with ponderous's review, it DOES smell like a cologne when you open the tube (or I guess normally, first spray) but then flow into something feminine once on the skin. The last part of the fragrance, I guess that typical Guerlain vanilla is very nice, it does smell like "skin" but not in a sweaty way.

Being only eighteen I'm not terribly sure, as a guy, I could pull this off despite it's possible unisex tendencies. I need some outside opinions from the family. I caution other men though, you gotta smell it and try it on your skin. Application I think, needs to be light, otherwise the oakmoss and powder can be overly sweet and be perceived as "old". Despite a possible miss for my own wearing, I can't deny, however that this is a beautiful scent. I would be drawn to a girl my age wearing this, for sure.
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I bought a sample of this scent in hopes that it would be "green" enough for myself to wear, going by the comments of it being unisex, but when I received my sample it was a bit too floral, but not in a bad way, as it is a most wonderful scent. It's very zen.

There is most certainly a sharpness to the scent that certainly does evoke the smell of some miscellaneous white lily by a pond but not in a essential oil kinda way, there is something there keeping the floral in check, and the resulting balance creates something that is unusually "natural" without it being "natural". The only way to describe it's composition I guess is similar to that of Scandinavian furniture design: clean, straight horizontal lines, little embellishment, and
My sample gets a happy ending however, I gave it to my mom and she's really enjoying the sample.