My brother walked into the bathroom and noticed four new bottles on the ever changing shelf by the mirror.
His comments:
Creed Green Valley : "Hmmm, nice. It smells like Alexander the Grape (a candy) mixed with sweet tarts."
Hermés Eau D'Orange Verte Concentré : "I like this."
Alexander McQueen Kingdom: "This smells like pussy."
(I giggled inwardly)
Creed Ambre Canelle: (smelled it for at least 30 seconds) "well... uh...it's powdery?"
OK, this review is going to focus only on Kingdom and Ambre Canelle.
I was really, really anticipating trying Kingdom based on everything I'd read. Well, when I tried it, I was immediately aroused. It was a physiological response-- like I'd popped a viagra. Really odd. It's never happened to me before. Still, I didn't get the whole sweat thing or that crotch thing all that overtly. Sure it smelled erotic and quite dirty... but it didn't quite strike me the way my brother described it-- and I've been intimate with more women than my brother has! I get the rose, sandalwood, and other things from it. And I guess when I back my nose away from it I do get some "snizz" out of it. Maybe, if I think about it. Too bad it's a lonely Friday night and I can't do an A/B test with the real thing.
I just don't know if I trust my nose. Because if I'd never been told what Kingdom was supposed to smell like, maybe it would never dawn on me. I don't get the cumin=BO thing. If I was given Kingdom and told nothing about it, I wouldn't think it to be all that offensive. I find it very feminine, natural and sexy. Hell, I might even have worn it myself, because it almost seemed unisex in a way.
I might just keep the bottle on my nightstand...
Ambre Canelle is quite a strange and powerful scent. Now this one I do find to be very dirty and sexual. I got it to see what ambergris is supposed to smell like for the sake of reference-- The first blast of AC is heavy on florals-- maybe rose or jasmine. And there is a heavy lumbering base of what I take to be ambergris. As it dries down it gets barbershop-y-- kind of into the territory of Helmut Lang. It's really dated. I don't think I'll wear it out. I didn't buy it so much for myself to wear anyway. I do find it really sexual though. Kind of something a "cougar" would smell like. This scent could be a real turn on, but it's sort of one of those scents that a woman would wear and everyone would turn and whisper amongst themselves, "that perfume STINKS"... and then if you were the guy she seduced, you might kind of think the same thing, but you'd wonder why it was making you so horny and full of vigor later when she got you home or out to her Camry...
His comments:
Creed Green Valley : "Hmmm, nice. It smells like Alexander the Grape (a candy) mixed with sweet tarts."
Hermés Eau D'Orange Verte Concentré : "I like this."
Alexander McQueen Kingdom: "This smells like pussy."
(I giggled inwardly)
Creed Ambre Canelle: (smelled it for at least 30 seconds) "well... uh...it's powdery?"
OK, this review is going to focus only on Kingdom and Ambre Canelle.
I was really, really anticipating trying Kingdom based on everything I'd read. Well, when I tried it, I was immediately aroused. It was a physiological response-- like I'd popped a viagra. Really odd. It's never happened to me before. Still, I didn't get the whole sweat thing or that crotch thing all that overtly. Sure it smelled erotic and quite dirty... but it didn't quite strike me the way my brother described it-- and I've been intimate with more women than my brother has! I get the rose, sandalwood, and other things from it. And I guess when I back my nose away from it I do get some "snizz" out of it. Maybe, if I think about it. Too bad it's a lonely Friday night and I can't do an A/B test with the real thing.
I just don't know if I trust my nose. Because if I'd never been told what Kingdom was supposed to smell like, maybe it would never dawn on me. I don't get the cumin=BO thing. If I was given Kingdom and told nothing about it, I wouldn't think it to be all that offensive. I find it very feminine, natural and sexy. Hell, I might even have worn it myself, because it almost seemed unisex in a way.
I might just keep the bottle on my nightstand...
Ambre Canelle is quite a strange and powerful scent. Now this one I do find to be very dirty and sexual. I got it to see what ambergris is supposed to smell like for the sake of reference-- The first blast of AC is heavy on florals-- maybe rose or jasmine. And there is a heavy lumbering base of what I take to be ambergris. As it dries down it gets barbershop-y-- kind of into the territory of Helmut Lang. It's really dated. I don't think I'll wear it out. I didn't buy it so much for myself to wear anyway. I do find it really sexual though. Kind of something a "cougar" would smell like. This scent could be a real turn on, but it's sort of one of those scents that a woman would wear and everyone would turn and whisper amongst themselves, "that perfume STINKS"... and then if you were the guy she seduced, you might kind of think the same thing, but you'd wonder why it was making you so horny and full of vigor later when she got you home or out to her Camry...
