The title and description of this scent intrigued me immediately when I read it.
And hey...isn't clever marketing sometimes just enough, to get you to sample a scent!? It worked. I ordered a sample (along with a handful of others) and I have to say, Burning Barbershop is quite unique and noteworthy.
The juice is dark brown, almost malt beer colored. If you're expecting to smell the 'barbershop' notes and then the 'burning' notes (like I was), you'll be cleverly surprised to realize that the order has been switched: All you smell when you apply it, is the smell of something burnt. Not acrid or sulphorous. Not smoky. Something that was burning or smoking and now smells burnt. I love that smell. You know, when you can smell a fire burning far away in your neighborhood and the smell that's carried along the wind? That smell.
The darker, almost leather-like elements of BB unfold in a similar fashion to Patchouli 24 by Le Labo and Lonestar Memories by Tauer - the smell of burnt wood, a slight tar resin smell and perhaps saddle leather. Never veering too far into the rubbery/synthetic territory of P24 or the smoked meat/hickory smell of LM. Which was good, since those accords give me a nasty headache.
The aromatics (specifically the lavender and a bit of the mint) are much more apparent while the scent has been on your skin for a while - almost as if they're rising out of the burnt atmosphere. I don't smell the lime. The vanilla makes itself apparent at the very end of the scent profile, but by then all of the accords have meshed together and the prevailing overall scent profile is: burnt aromatics.
I have worn fragrances that smelled very burnt. Eau de Fier by Annick Goutal; Essence of John Galliano by Diptyque. Scents that make me smell like I've exited a burning building. But in BB the lavender and mint temper the burnt woods and leathers perfectly - so the sillage (which is average) isn't pyromaniac-esque.
Longevity is average (all the scents are EdT). I think BB is very masculine smelling (whatever that means...). And yet it's a bold masculine fragrance that does not have incense. Incense is starting to become overused in perfumery IMO and it seems to be the default accord in so many recent 'bold' fragrances. Not this one. Clever marketing aside, it is small details like this, that make BB distinctive.
And hey...isn't clever marketing sometimes just enough, to get you to sample a scent!? It worked. I ordered a sample (along with a handful of others) and I have to say, Burning Barbershop is quite unique and noteworthy.
The juice is dark brown, almost malt beer colored. If you're expecting to smell the 'barbershop' notes and then the 'burning' notes (like I was), you'll be cleverly surprised to realize that the order has been switched: All you smell when you apply it, is the smell of something burnt. Not acrid or sulphorous. Not smoky. Something that was burning or smoking and now smells burnt. I love that smell. You know, when you can smell a fire burning far away in your neighborhood and the smell that's carried along the wind? That smell.
The darker, almost leather-like elements of BB unfold in a similar fashion to Patchouli 24 by Le Labo and Lonestar Memories by Tauer - the smell of burnt wood, a slight tar resin smell and perhaps saddle leather. Never veering too far into the rubbery/synthetic territory of P24 or the smoked meat/hickory smell of LM. Which was good, since those accords give me a nasty headache.
The aromatics (specifically the lavender and a bit of the mint) are much more apparent while the scent has been on your skin for a while - almost as if they're rising out of the burnt atmosphere. I don't smell the lime. The vanilla makes itself apparent at the very end of the scent profile, but by then all of the accords have meshed together and the prevailing overall scent profile is: burnt aromatics.
I have worn fragrances that smelled very burnt. Eau de Fier by Annick Goutal; Essence of John Galliano by Diptyque. Scents that make me smell like I've exited a burning building. But in BB the lavender and mint temper the burnt woods and leathers perfectly - so the sillage (which is average) isn't pyromaniac-esque.
Longevity is average (all the scents are EdT). I think BB is very masculine smelling (whatever that means...). And yet it's a bold masculine fragrance that does not have incense. Incense is starting to become overused in perfumery IMO and it seems to be the default accord in so many recent 'bold' fragrances. Not this one. Clever marketing aside, it is small details like this, that make BB distinctive.
