I would concur with Yatagan - although I like the opening but the drydown is lovely.
Habit Rouge scared the living crap out of me first time I smelled it. But thereafter it was a deep and abiding love affair. That drydown was created on Mount Olympus by the gods themselves.
I like the opening of Heritage to be honest, but can see that it could overpower the uninitiated. In fact it has done once or twice when I have first put it on. The drydown is one of the all time greats however.
I also agree with Hammam Bouquet, which I absolutely hated the first time I encountered it, but it now is one of my all time favourites.
Another one which is a big muscly punch in the face is Lagerfeld Classic in its original formulation. I am led to believe that this may have been reformulated fairly recently, because I sampled this in a shop recently and it was sooo much tamer. My bottle is a couple of years old and it still smacks you down with a piledriver like the Undertaker before turning into one of the warmest and comfortingly solid drydowns out there.
Habit Rouge scared the living crap out of me first time I smelled it. But thereafter it was a deep and abiding love affair. That drydown was created on Mount Olympus by the gods themselves.
I like the opening of Heritage to be honest, but can see that it could overpower the uninitiated. In fact it has done once or twice when I have first put it on. The drydown is one of the all time greats however.
I also agree with Hammam Bouquet, which I absolutely hated the first time I encountered it, but it now is one of my all time favourites.
Another one which is a big muscly punch in the face is Lagerfeld Classic in its original formulation. I am led to believe that this may have been reformulated fairly recently, because I sampled this in a shop recently and it was sooo much tamer. My bottle is a couple of years old and it still smacks you down with a piledriver like the Undertaker before turning into one of the warmest and comfortingly solid drydowns out there.
