Fragrance Reviews by moon_fish

Lemony citrus with dirty musk (something remind me the very same hairy musk of Kouros), with something like civet.
Maybe some frankincence. And something mushroom-like.
Allover it`s clean smooth cologne - like japanese could see french Napoleon who preferred unwashed women ;)

I should admit that Kouros is the scent of youngsters` perfume-initiation (you could not find a lion to kill in suburbs).
It`s a smell of good soccer players such as Gazza and Winni Jones, not metrosexuals` David Beckham and Christiano Ronaldo.
It`s an olphactive analog of live rotten cheese - more rotten than cheese.

A great Lavender scent - bright lavender with powerful powdery and cloudy tonka beans, that will settle in vanilla fields.

It`s one of the best from ELDO.
Gothic flowers: lily, ylang and jasmine with all those fruity and animalic undertones (indole, p-cresole, whatever) and added leather-musk.

Nowadays it`s quite fashionable to wear flowers for men - why not Charogne? (Oh, man, I know about the meaning of name - it does not worry me)

That`s just perfect summer scent - fresh and contemporary men`s cologne with powdery and tender undercurrent.
;)
I like it, I wear it, it lasts almost forever in its feminine side.

It is must-try for all leather fans. It`s not a mainstream leather - very dark, dense, incense-like.
As my friend used to tell: All the brigdes were burned down.

I`m with fragola. I like this experience (my wife definitely not).
I can smell a lot in common with L`Homme by YSL in this scent.
Allover impression for me - this is a Mermaid scent. Watery, fishy, and full of glamour.

Great idea to add some dry and herbal tobacco note (as from wet tobacco or cigar) - to sweet and fruity jasmine!
It`s one of the best scents of ELDO! :)

It`s one of the best renditions on the patchouly-cologne theme.
It`s very long-living and I wear it a lot as summer days getting hot.

I love this scent even though I see some similarities with my Yatagan by Caron too.
EdT is sharper and fresher version of Yatagan, like the young brother.

Well, I got not only fleurdorange scent used to calm down French kids.
I got also coffee-gourmand note which is rather good, and great sillage - leather, tobacco and amber.
Strange scent in gourmand area.
Gourmand leather?
Robinson Crusoe or Charlie Chaplin eating his boots? ;)

In order to be the same as a lot of Parisiennes with great historical perfume experience, this Caron-like scent is good.

It`s a classic made under scandalious name :)

Good green and sober cologne can be worn either men or women. Citrus are gone - and you have green violet leaves and moss. I should say that my friend - model working in Rome and London - used to wear it onto all castings to prevent any sexual harrassment!!!
Certainly an excellent green cologney fragrance for rainy weather!

Hes never met more pure, dry and earthy vetiver in the market. Two are close to it - Route du Vetiver MPG (which is refined by musk and blackcurrant) and Vetiver by Grandiflorum (which is sort of spoiled in the top and heart by Aniseed).
But only Etro takes its pure and wild dry root quality without going to citrus colognes (i.e. Guerlain, Carven etc) and make it simple stylish and pure presence.
It lacks in depth comparing to the oil but all refined versions made for wearing has the same feature.
Linear but stylish.

Yes, I`m with Opalsdad saying that Le Parfum de Therese smells alike Diorella, but more feminine (me thinks that it has more plums and melons, maybe more artificial than vintage Diorella)!
And yes, it is multigender scent to wear by either men or women. As almost all parfums made by Genius. Wonder how Frederic Malle make this gem alive again - archives of perfumers are always such a mess and some ingredients of past gone and forgotten...
Great legend about one person parfum - but for me it does not work as it is Diorella with a twist. Anyway - great fragrance!

That`s The dark brilliance!!! So concentrate in lavender, immortelle, sage and vanilla - it should named EDP. For me it is a breed of Caron pour Homme and Sables Annick Goutal (minus aniseed). Sweet but with understated noble refinement. Very Hedy, very Slimane.
My girlfriend wears it with a great pleasure as well! ;)

This brilliant perfume is forgotten. You hardly find it on e-bay. Nobody will understand you when you`d wear it.
But I love this perfume!!! It`s flowery chypre so excellent that I need an endless bottle. Classified as feminine, it is not a curly girly scent but sober autumn cologne for gentleman. Every note is so clear, I even can smell some mushroom accent in it!
Almighty God (or dear Santa)! Please, make its vintage bottle mine!

Very good cologne - best of 2005 year releases for me. Heavenly iris with herbs on top - but to prolong its beauty one must spray over ones dress, not on skin. For iris I`d go for Bois d`Iris by The Different Company.
Understated, muted fragrance for formal wear. Pity - from heart to base it is just neutral sweet, close to skin and almost-nothing-to-say-about scent.

It`s very beautiful oriental fragrance accented on sandalwood and spicy vanilla. Sorry it`s too sweet for me... and as every Chanel fragrance for men - it is strong and long-lasting!

Yes, this is the classic fragrance of 90-s. Every man weared it those times. Hard to wear it right now.
It needs a big break - please, stop to produce it just to make triumphal return after 50 years of forgettance!!

The cologne All Blacks Rugby team from New Zealand must wear dancing their Hakka!!! Mind you, they promise to kill other team every time they begin to play! ;)
So Antaeus does.
Two sprays more - and your neighbours in office would suffocate!.. Three more - and flyes would die!.. If you`re not The Boss (well, bad joke), better spray it once on your back. Or use walk-through method. Once.
Potent leather chypre, one of the best in category, and very good for using as a Kharismatic Fragrance. I used to wear it on tough meetings with Big Bad Bosses (well, it`s not only mine experience - all leather scents are good for making strong impressions). Do not forget to wear black!
So no doubts - it reminds me Al Pacino in Godfather every now and then...

To wear this, I should be sure that I`m in touch with my feminine side! Just because it`s Casanova-style fragrance - it fills you with seductive energy and make you feel like a understanding-all-she-says man!

I was happy to find this discontinued cologne in some forgotten little perfume store. I`m happy to have it till now.
It`s floral fragrance, beautifully made for men. It means that all flowers are muted (not as fresh and shining as in Knize Ten or Incense Givenchy) and interwoven with woody notes. Special accent onto amber, frankincense and benzoin - all those notes give to this Italian cologne some classic Eastern powdery-incensey-sappy chic and mystery.
The Best Cerruti cologne so far - but very underrated. And it`s a great chance to make it a signature scent!

Too heady for me - all those vibrant herbs just rips and shreds my nose unmercifully. I`m trying to forget that I spent money on it. I`d better stay with Nino Cerruti Original.

For my taste, it`s best masculine fragrance from Cartier. Warm and potent, it smells like The Real Man in good shape in his 40-s. I`d love if my memory would keep my father smelling of Santos. Pity, it would not. He always used Chypre.
Wear this, and it will add you 5-10 years in eyes of young girls... ;) And will add you some Bruce Willis character!

Just The Great jewelry-like bottle!!!
Scent itself is like a KGB agent - i.e. SHADY GREY. You would be pleased by him, all round, no sharp edges, nothing personal to remember - but you could not remind his face after 8 hours.
Yes, it`s polite and smooth floral gentleman cologne, and it fits grey suits perfectly. But not Hedy Slimane type - too designer! - it should remain something in the middle and easily become a crowd...
Typical face of former Soviet Union - but now it`s very unusual too see and smell it on the streets...

It`s quite a progressive scent for jewelry company - modern and mainstream fresh, airy and marine. I used to like it - but when almost everyone wearing it, I decide to change my preference to other line. I could not pick the vetiver note in this fresh air - but I clearly see lukewarm Love (not a passion declaration from advertising) in this scent. Maybe - that`s Love-to-work-in-stylish-office?

Bandit classified as feminine fragrance and I get it as must-have of Leather theme. But when I leave the bottle in my bathroom - it does not smell like a woman at all!
It has great chypre cuir sillage - warm floral but very powerful. Much better than Anteaus or any other masculine leather chypre I get the chance to smell... Now I`m going to find vintage perfume Bandit as it was changed dramatically from 40-s. Wormwood note (or something that has herbal properties) has gone completely in new version...
Highly recommend Bandit to all leather devoted!

I think that rosewood makes SMN Vetiver close to Lorenzo Villoresi Vetiver - which is only Vetiver that come close to SMN and could be compared with.
So I believe this is Italian style cologney Vetiver - it has no iris as Guerlain has got.
Heavy and loaded with citrus, it has sour qualities before it comes to dry and old-mannered base vetiver.
I like it as much as LV stuff. But favourites are another - Serge Lutens, MPG Route du Vetiver, Annick Goutal...

One of my favourite feminine scents (and the very best from Caron)! I wear it a lot - and always wonder what masculine pair fragrance it could has?
It`s pity that there`s no men`s leather-tobacco line in Caron range... I imagine it dark and not-so-sweet, less-flowers, more quinoline and birch tar, may be with agarwood and cade oil.
Just one sniff - and one realises that Ernest Daltroff is Genius!!!
Tabac Blonde is scent of Mefisto: sweet words and dark thoughts, smile and tail; it`s your weakness and his strength, playing with you...

Everytime I see the name Cuir de Russie - I`m proud of my nation industry and French perfumery.
Take birch tar (which is used to polish officers` and cossacs leather boots) and make a Grand-perfume (which began a hysteria of tens-hundreds perfumes) from it?
Citrus, flowers - and oriental saps and balsams added to create a Path for others...
Till now leather frags are like comets - rare but very fabulous and mysterious guests.
Cuir de Russie is very uncommon fragrance - classic, soft and easy-to-wear, yet playing with its facets and strength. You could forget about it as it fades, and suddenly - WOW! - it is strong again!

I believe that all those legends over Royal Bain are just ridiculous PR attempts... Maybe distinguished sheikhs would buy it instead of real gems of Caron? Me - not!
I agree that it has chalk scent and could be easily replaces by powder scent... No champagne, just rose-vanilla-musc poor made. As Turin wrote - you need a lot of humor to wear it. Me - not.
I keep the bottle for its name and shape only.

Yes, it`s spicy bursting. Pepper, clove, cinnamon... I have vintage version of perfume - but I can not wear it on myself as it`s pungent and remind me dentistry.
Like with Sun, I`d better see its bright and blinding shining from a distance! The only way to smell it for me - to wear it under knees. The far, the better!

The very first impression was - The Baby Powder from my Soviet childhood!
Then - relaxation... Slightly powdery and woody musk and rose. I can not wear it on public - just have no such a wardrobe to match. At last - what was brought to Jesus newborn child? Myrrhe, Olibanum and Gold. That`s a part of bottle of Caron Parfum Sacre... Just add some rose, orris and spices! ;)

For me - it is the best Caron masculine scent. The masterpiece. Office, Christmas, dating, club, cinema, bar - everywhere. Mild spices and warm sillage. It was my only scent for half a year (well, others 200 frags were forgotten for that period of time).
I`m looking for the video The 3-rd man by Orson Welles - just to see what was the inspiration of this gem? Thumbs up!

The only reason I keep this frag is MUSKS!!!
Oranges, mint and pine-needles are usual and quickly fading notes. But musk IS just so animalistic and so dirty - I can not resist it when I`m in the mood... And I should comment - I I`m not a fan of musk at all, but in this fragrance it is just as I like it!

It`s the only Caron I`m quite indifferent to. Lavender is too short on me, vanilla is too long and sweet. I`d better wear Eau Noire by Dior.
Still have it - just for comparative purposes.

Classic Caron on the theme of citrus. I could only smell oranges and oakmoss in it. And famous Caron mild base (musk, myrrhe, rose?).
I could wear it - but better leave it on the shelf. And smell it sometimes - like a souvenir.

I remember that when my friend used to wear it - I always turn to the opened door with a thought `What a beautiful sexual FEMININE scent! It should be a gorgeous girl entering!`
But it was him who entered.
Great oriental fragrance - less is more!!!

My very first designer fragrance. I wore it every day since 1990 when I charge my friend to buy it from HAWAII and bring it to Siberia...
Now I keep a bottle as reminder of my perfumemania start... And found a lot of chemical properties...
Sharp flowery-woody cologne - I like feminine CK Eternity much more!!!

As it became The Must-Have for Caucasian taxi-drivers, students, and widespread in Russia - I quit it. Too common. Too mainstream. Too cheap-smelling.

Too much vanilla and smells-alike Pi Givenchy - for me it is fragrance to wear for girls not for myself.
So it`s fair oriental which waits until my supplies of Yohji Homme will end...

Muted cologney vetiver here, just for those who do not like vetiver at all. Office mainstream nothing-special smells-nice green scent. As vetiver-devoted person I should say it is a shame of Azzaro!!!

Hey guys, looking for chicks magnet!
Your attention here!
It`s just unfair they discontinued it...

I believe it`s the very first Cuir Chypre for men. And that`s why I like Aramis a lot - as a historic mark. Before - there`re only feminine things I can wear and like a lot - Cabochard Gres, Bandit Piguet etc...
There`re a lot of frags which were inspired by its success in 1965 - name just a few: Yatagan Caron, Le 3-rd Man Caron, Antaeus Chanel, etc...
Compared with them Aramis is just a pure idea of leather chypre - a slim skeleton not so rich, longlasting and lush... Anyway I like it a lot!

It`s herbal cologne hard to bear in first 10-15 minutes. Smells very sharp, herbal and a bit boozy... Is it absinthe, or aniseed Ouzo?
Then immortelle comes shining - and only for that I LOVE this frag!!!
In immortelle heart it reminds Eau Noire by Christian Dior - but Goutal has more acid of aniseed...
And sillage is just amazing!!! It is unique - and it could be bought just for it`s uniqueness!

First - the surname of Andree is PUTMAN! She is interior designer and made new golden design of Guerlain Headquarter Boutique in Paris (Champs d`Elisee, 68).
Very good watery cologne made by Olivia Giacobetti - Perfumer Fair of Water, as everyone can see in her line for IUNX Shiseido.
This frag (2002) is peppery woody water made from white pepper, driftwood, coriander leaves and flowers... It is light and simple - but very unusual. It has a lot of facets being on skin - and it`s perfect politcorrect yappie scent.

First of all - it`s modern version of Amouage made for youngsters in 1998. More fresh. More floral and less powdery. Some plum or other fruits. More transparent.
And it`s still fruity (maybe flowery) CHYPRE!
Mandarine, plum and fleur d`orange on the top; Rose, jasmine, orchid, ylang-ylang and heliotrope in the heart; frankincense, amber, sandalwood, patchouly, musk and vetiver - in the traditional base of Amouage perfumes.
I cannot wear Amouage Gold - but Silver Cologne is very wearable. And its chypre qualities are very distinctive - fresh citrus in the beginning and powdery labdanum-patchouly in base.
Hommage to Francois Coty and Guy Robert!

I believe that this scent in 80-s also is some kind of precursor of modern trend we smell today: men`s colognes smells like a women`s. Get in touch with your feminine side, being man! Not only rose note - but sweetness and intention to please. In that times perfumer chemists invented Heroic Rose (words of L. Turin) - so they put it everywhere, not only in feminine perfumes.

Good old eighties!
I even remember some imitations of this! Yes, it`s warm woody-spicy chypre that reminds me Yatagan by Caron. Woods are pine, juniper, cedar, and laurel. Spices - cinnamon and cloves. Mark Buxton made it years before he became a part of Comme de Garcons team.
Only one faul (which is quite good in office polit correctness era) - medium longevity..

It`s sunny flowery and sparkling Vetiver. If you don`t like powdery and soapy iris in Guerlain`s Vetiver - try it!
Beware addiction of it in summer days!

That`s good old chypre fleury. I~m glad that I found it. Vintage thing but in good shape.
I`d wear it when Coty Chypre smells too powdery for me.

I`d say it`s sweet fruity citrus in the beginning, then vibrant aromatic herbal-mossy beast (geranium, moss and sage) as you can see in a lot mens frags like Messer Jacopo, Succes Fou etc. The only differences I smell is more sweet (guava at the top) and more rounded (leather, amber) compared with its predecessors...
I`d rather like this contemporary chypre fleury scent.

Very simple and light eau de cologne supposed to use it more and more.
Brides should wear it as it`s truly wedding scent!

I`m glad to have this GEM because it spread my tastes to LOVE tuberose in mens fragrances.
Very manly and flowery.

Good, earthy and creamy version of Vetiver which is accented by pepper. Must-have!

Looks like a very complex cologne. Simply put: it is Grey Flannel with subtle flowery hint of Knize Ten. Not so long-lasting - compared with Grey Flannel...