This really smells like a typical Hermes fragrance. A grapefruit citrus opening that smells like your typical "eau de cologne" backed by peppery earthy grassy mineral notes. If you've smelled...
The eucalyptus, cedar and benzoin creates a cool, dry fragrance that doesn't have the medicinal qualities usually associated with that combination of notes. A great price, I'm glad YSL keeps...
I have actually done something of a full 180 on this - the first time I smelled it I thought it was absolutely horrid, just a harsh saltwater and little else. I did give it a few more tries, and...
The name Lys Fume is only half correct. The lily is there, the smoke is not. No complaint, though. This is a handsome and well composed floriental. Lily is the centerpiece but other elements...
Oud tends to be the gorilla in the room in a fragrance that uses it as the principle note. Oud being both potent and distinctive, the challenge is how to make an oud-centric perfume fundamentally...
Crown Perfumery's Crown Imperial. Very lemony/clean opening, herbal/wood/powder base.
Supposed to smell like an "Edwardian barbershop." Well, I read that before I actually smelled
it, so that might have something to do with it. But now you have too. The effect is
convincing.
I think all of the C&M scents give that shaving aura. Particularly the vintage Greenbrier if you can find a bottle. The new reformulation is not good in my opinion. I think Blenheim also does this