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post #61 of 120
2/23/10 at 7:26am
Montale Royal Aoud

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post #62 of 120
2/23/10 at 7:28am
Le Male
post #63 of 120
2/23/10 at 7:33am
Patou pour Homme (1980)
by Jean Patou

Top Notes: Hot Pepper, Lavender, Tarragon, Black Pepper, Bergamot, Galbanum
Middle Notes: Bourbon Vetiver, Cedar, Patchouli, Clary Sage
Base Notes: Oakmoss, Sandalwood, Mysore, Cistus Labdanum
post #64 of 120
2/23/10 at 7:40am
Habit Rouge (vintage Eau de Toilette) by Guerlain layered with a tiny bit of Habit Rouge l'Extrait (from a sample) by Guerlain



Old world meets new. Beautiful!
post #65 of 120
2/23/10 at 7:47am
Dior Fahrenheit Absolute homme edt
post #66 of 120
2/23/10 at 7:50am
Harris Marlborough cologne

post #67 of 120
2/23/10 at 8:00am
Shalimar Eau Légère Parfumée by Guerlain (2003, Mathilde Laurent)
post #68 of 120
2/23/10 at 8:05am
Envy for Men by Gucci
post #69 of 120
2/23/10 at 8:08am
post #70 of 120
2/23/10 at 8:16am
New York by Patricia de Nicolai
post #71 of 120
2/23/10 at 8:18am
HABIT ROUGE by Guerlain
post #72 of 120
2/23/10 at 8:31am
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ
for him

Notes include: Violet Leaf, Patchouli, Amber, Musk.


post #73 of 120
2/23/10 at 8:34am
Mitsouko EDP (Guerlain)
post #74 of 120
2/23/10 at 8:43am

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Quorum Silver
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post #75 of 120
2/23/10 at 8:45am
Creed - Santal Imperial
post #76 of 120
2/23/10 at 8:46am
Creed Millesime Imperial mmmmmmmmmm................
post #77 of 120
2/23/10 at 8:51am
Burberry London.
post #78 of 120
2/23/10 at 9:14am
Green Valley by Creed.....A Good day to all at Basenotes!!!
Gary
post #79 of 120
2/23/10 at 9:25am
SotE - L'Instant de Guerlain pour Homme.
post #80 of 120
2/23/10 at 9:35am
It looks like I'm going to spend this week wearing department store fragrances, which isn't a bad thing.

Halston Man

All too often I am in search of the next great little fragrance from the heretofore unknown little perfumer that I forget to sniff around at my local department store. One of the fragrances that has been a mainstay at my department store counter for over 30 years is Halston Z-14. I’ve always thought it to be an average fragrance that for the right guy would be above average but not this guy.

When I heard Carlos Benaim was taking the original Halston Z-14 and giving it a reworking and releasing it as Halston Man in 2009 I can’t say that I was rushing right out to try it. My local department store SA gave me a healthy sample of it and there it sat until it started to leak a bit. As I kept working around my sample drawer I kept getting a nice whiff of something. It wasn’t until days later that I picked up the leaking bottle and realized that the source was Halston Man. I was now a little more excited to wear it. When I realized how much I like M. Benaim’s re-interpretation of Polo in Polo Modern Reserve I decided I was a lot more excited to wear it.

The top of Halston Man starts fairly fruity with a mix of citrus and passion fruit. What keeps it from getting out of control, and too fruity for my taste, is the addition of artemisia as that note adds an herbal woody edge that counterbalances the fruit. The heart is a masculine lavender added to the cool zing of cardamom. I loved M. Benaim’s use of cardamom in Polo Modern Reserve and here, again, in Halston Man it adds a needed bit of spice to the lavender and allows the development to turn away from the fruit and toward the lavender. The base is a standard mix of patchouli, musk, and labdanum but while commonplace it is appropriate in balance to what has come before and well executed.

Halston Man has excellent longevity and above average sillage.

Halston Man is by no means a ground-breaking fragrance but it a competently composed designer fragrance and as these things go Carlos Benaim is proving to be quite the shrewd engineer when it comes to taking the familiar and making them interesting, again.

Have a Twinkly Tuesday everyone
post #81 of 120
2/23/10 at 9:36am
London
Burberry
2006



Top Notes: Bergamot, Lavender, Cinnamon leaves, Black pepper.

Heart Notes: Mimosa Flower, Port wine, Leather notes.

Base Notes: Guaiac wood, Oakmoss, Opoponax, Tobacco leaf.
post #82 of 120
2/23/10 at 10:06am
Carven Homme.
post #83 of 120
2/23/10 at 10:22am
A taste
of Heaven

by
Kilian
post #84 of 120
2/23/10 at 10:30am
Hugo XY - a modern, fresh, clean, semi-aquatic sleeper-of-a-fragrance...I just gets the job done.
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post #85 of 120
2/23/10 at 10:32am
The One by D&G


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post #86 of 120
2/23/10 at 10:34am
Czech & Speake, Frankincense & Myrrh
post #87 of 120
2/23/10 at 10:59am
Frederic Malle
Musc Ravageur

post #88 of 120
2/23/10 at 11:26am
M7 (current) - Yves Saint Laurent
post #89 of 120
2/23/10 at 11:31am
Trying out Steven deMarcado's No. 11 (Cereus). A nice version of those thin, modern, vegetable, slightly sour, fragrances for the office, guaranteed not to offend anybody.
post #90 of 120
2/23/10 at 11:33am
Caron Impact Pour Un Homme
post #91 of 120
2/23/10 at 11:40am
Creed Vetiver.
post #92 of 120
2/23/10 at 11:51am
Route du Vetiver (vintage juice) by Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier



Why don't I wear this more often? I love it.
post #93 of 120
2/23/10 at 12:40pm
Grey Flannel
post #94 of 120
2/23/10 at 12:47pm
Guerlain L'Heure Bleue EdT circa 1970's
post #95 of 120
2/23/10 at 12:48pm
Montale Royal Aoud
post #96 of 120
2/23/10 at 12:50pm
Creed Week/Day Two- Royal English Leather

Smoooooth
post #97 of 120
2/23/10 at 12:53pm
Jicky edc after yoga class
post #98 of 120
2/23/10 at 1:23pm
Royal English Leather -Creed
post #99 of 120
2/23/10 at 1:32pm
Work - Hugo Boss Boss #6
Not work - Calvin Klein Contradiction for Men
post #100 of 120
2/23/10 at 1:34pm
Dior Homme Cologne for the day.
post #101 of 120
2/23/10 at 1:42pm
Back to Frapin - L'Humaniste for today
post #102 of 120
2/23/10 at 2:11pm
Cuiron
post #103 of 120
2/23/10 at 2:49pm
Varvatos Rock Vol. 1
post #104 of 120
2/23/10 at 3:00pm
C&S No. 88 from an official sample. Loving the sandalwood! Not getting the rose as I expected, though.
post #105 of 120
2/23/10 at 3:03pm
Musc Ravageur
post #106 of 120
2/23/10 at 3:34pm
Serge Lutens - Fille en Aiguilles
post #107 of 120
2/23/10 at 5:09pm
Sheesh, what a day. I wore Diptyque Philosykos today, but was too busy to ever really get to enjoy it.
This evening I'm wearing Dior Eau Noire and it couldn't be more perfect. It's such a peaceful, settling scent.

post #108 of 120
2/23/10 at 5:13pm
Guerlain Homme
post #109 of 120
2/23/10 at 5:49pm
Cartier Declaration.

Not bad, now that the note of BO has faded away.
post #110 of 120
2/23/10 at 5:59pm
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Santal Noble - MPG
post #111 of 120
2/23/10 at 6:35pm
creed silver mountain water
post #112 of 120
2/23/10 at 6:40pm
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Caswell-Massey Jockey Club tonight
post #113 of 120
2/23/10 at 7:34pm
Serge Lutens - Borneo 1834
post #114 of 120
2/23/10 at 7:35pm
SotE

post #115 of 120
2/23/10 at 7:45pm
Patou PH for me, too.
post #116 of 120
2/23/10 at 7:49pm
Guerlain Héritage EDT
post #117 of 120
2/23/10 at 7:58pm
Hermessence Ambre Narguile by Hermes

post #118 of 120
2/23/10 at 9:34pm


Bvlgari Aqva
post #119 of 120
2/23/10 at 9:42pm
For work:



Cereus Pour Homme No. 5


For the evening:



Comme des Garcons Incense: Ourazazate
post #120 of 120
2/23/10 at 10:11pm
Chanel Allure, again... its been like 5 days now, I just got it and can't get enough of it. I will try my best to reach for something else tomorrow
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