Fragrance Reviews by afraafra

Very unisex, top notes are playing second fiddle to the great sandalwood drydown, good for layering also.

Deserves the 5 star status from Turin IMO, good peppery opening, great cedar drydown and very long lasting,

Great fragrance, in the same vein as Clinique Happy and ADG, lasting power is great.

Issey Miyake L'Eau Bleue Pour Homme revisited, if you like that one then fine, but too sharp for me.

Could have so been made by Diptyque, not purely green but more of a floral, thr drydown is good and lasts quite a long time.

Sharp floral opening, rose and hyacinth, certainly not unisex, seems old fashioned to me

A green floral, smell of hyacinth is very apparent at opening, good longevity, too feminine in my opinion.Smells like a garden but a garden very different to the "Hermes" sort!

Reminds me of Caron Pour un homme, great drydown, the longevity isn't great on me though.

Great material, great bottle, but the iris note is a little overwhelming in my opinion. I prefer the 'Cologne" version which is more citrus and the iris is more subdued.

The original 212 men is much better, this is cloying, linear and reminds of Joop that I hate..staying power is average but sillage is good.

Appeared very modern to me, very unusual rose/pachouli and long lasting to . Turin has given the almost identical womens perfume made (very probably) by the same perfumer, Aromatic Elixir a 5 , so count Aramis 900 as a Turin 5 , it deserves it.

This is marketed as male scent in the Middle East, great sexy musk

The top notes are too harsh and the drydown is very long lasting and good , but I was expecting much more from this.

The fragrance features gardenia, amber, musk, citruses and precious woods, one of Bijan's best IMO, with great staying power, citrus opening, gardenia middle and very woody drydown, really good.

Very aromatic with
top notes are lavender, cloves and bergamot;
middle notes are lime, musk and vetiver;
base notes are sandalwood, citruses and cedar.
Very similar pyramid to Musc Ravageur, the only problem maybe longevity...

After the initial rather harsh opening, it quietens down and becomes highly enjoyable, similar to Polo green but with less green opening and great leathery drydown. Lasts for ever.

The intense version has a much better drydown..

Type the words Serge Lutens Muscs Koublai Khan into Google and you'll wind up with a deluge of hyperbole: "shocking and erotic", "raw, dirty and sensual", "musk, salt, armpit and leather, in that order", and my favorite piece of ridiculousness: "the aftermath of bodies intertwined in coitus".

Uh-huh. Right.

People, please -- can we have some perspective when it comes to talking about a frickin' perfume? One of the reviewers said she let her fourteen year old daughter smell Muscs Koublai Khan and the girl said that it smelled kind of pretty, like incense, which is a far more perceptive and honest statement than all the noise about skank, sweat and armpits her mother was raving on about.

I've been in a lot of locker rooms, played baseball, football, soccer and basketball with a lot of sweaty guys, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that there's nothing about Muscs Koublai Khan that smells remotely like a rank armpit or a sweat soaked guy, and I have this suspicion that some women (and some gay men) who review this perfume engage willingly in a kind of mass Harlequin Romance delusion about how men smell when they sweat.

Really, we don't smell anything like Muscs Koublai Khan when we sweat. If we did, we wouldn't need Muscs Koublai Khan, and need it we do if we desire to smell at all dashing or charming when standing at a doorway, a bunch of flowers clutched in one hand and a finger pressing the doorbell.

Muscs Koublai Khan is, instead, exactly how the level-headed fourteen year old girl described it -- a little sweet, a little smoky incense and kind of pretty (albeit underscored with a warm, rich synthetic musk for lots of depth). The rest of the twisted-knickers crowd twittering their skanky fantasies over Musc Koublai Khan reminds me of the same sort of reactions that get twittered over Caron's Yatagan -- since it doesn't smell like a powder-puff, the more, erm, delicate souls among us succumb to the vapors and immediately start hallucinating fecal matter and men's sweaty armpits.

Believe me, how they jump from a bottle of rather nice, lightly floral and smoothly musky cologne to writhing coitus, sweaty balls and "every secretion ever extracted from a mammalian backside all rolled into one" reveals far more about them than it does about Muscs Koublai Khan.

ref:
http://www.nathanbranch.com/2008/06/musc-koublai-khan-by-serge-lut.html

I think the opening is an overdose of rosemary, and it seems linear to me..

It reminds of rubber, grass and petroleum , if you wait for the drydown it is leathery and good though.

I don't know what note is it in the opening but I hated it from the start, washed it off immediately, I really am surprised at its popularity, I love Body Kouros BTW, as it is a completely different type of perfume.

Very sweet opening which I personally did not like, thogh I normally like gourmands, try before you buy.

You can smell the suede right from the start and it gradually drys down to a ambry finish nothing very original.

Very feminine even more so than Burburry Brit Gold for women!, it has rose in it and turns baby powdery in 5 minutes...I returned my bottle.

very gourmand and sweet, good drydown, made by Nathalie Lorson, of Kate Moss and Boucheron Saphir fame.

Notes are kiwi, lavender, mandarin orange,
mint, sage, cedar, bergamot,
white musk and lemon.

Has similarities with A men. very sexy and youthful, made by Oliver Cresp no less and notes are fresh lemon notes, Kalamanzi fruit, tagetes, sage, praline, cardamom, cinnamon, Tou balsam, rosewood, black amber, patchouli and ebony.

Created by Pierre Wargnye. Top notes are basil, grapefruit, lemon verbena and watermelon; middle notes are black currant, lavender and violet leaf; base notes are patchouli and woodsy notes.

Oriental woody fragrance for men. The noses behind this fragrance are Francis Demachy and Louise Turner. Good but I prefer Fhrenheit 0 degres.

very dated, gives me a headache, must be the lavender.

Great fresh scent created by Alberto Morillas. Has had many immitations, very popular with women, a must have.

Beautiful sweet scent with a great woody/vanilla drydown . made by Jacques Huclier.

An Acqua di Gio alternative, The nose behind this fragrance is Christopher Sheldrake, who is behind Daim Blond and Chergui. Top notes are banana leaf and fruity notes; middle notes are rosemary, lavender, sage and geranium; base notes are sandalwood, patchouli, oakmoss and cedar

Not anything special IMO, great longevity . topnotes of water and aldehydes. It is followed by woodsy and spicy character of the fragrance, light and translucent. The base is white musk, tonka beans and amber. .

Very light opening but good drydown, fav of the ladies. Top notes are rosemary, artemisia, lavender, basil, lemon verbena, bergamot and lemon;
middle notes are coriander, carnation, cinnamon, juniper and jasmine;
base notes are leather, sandalwood, fir, amber, patchouli, oakmoss, vetiver and cedar.

The fragrance was created by Annick Menardo. Top notes are chinese orange, tarragon and cactus; middle notes are african geranium, pimento and cedar; base notes are sandalwood, cedar and white musk. Great sweet scent, test before you buy though.

Very similar to Comme Des Garcons Man2 IMO, seems to be very linear I can smell only strong vetiver and wood. Very strong longitivity and sillage but gave me a headache

In find it a bit dated but as it has become a classic you must have it in your wardrobe!