Burberry Brit and D&G The One : Similarities or just my nose?

So I've been wearing 'The One' off samples for a few weeks until I finally scored a new 125ml bottle very cheaply. Although I was reading in another thread about Burberry Brit which I had never tried and by judging off the first few I smelled from the Burberry house I had no interest although many mentioned the powdery nature to it. That intrigued me enough to give it a paper test and was further intrigued.

I got a sample and have been wearing it today lounging around the house. It totally has a similar smell of The One in the background with the powdery overtones that dominate. At least from my one testing this is what I'm getting.

Am I off track with my nose on this or are there others out here who found the same thing? I really like it. Probably the only one from the Burberry house I'd even consider wearing.

Top notes are quite different for sure. I'm talking about once you get into the dry down. I don't get anything feminine about the Brit dry down. Sure the powder lingers but the further you get into it that powder subsides and leaves something very similar to 'The One'. Not identical, as 'The One' is still a bit more boozy and more masculine in the dry down but there are some similarity. I only got a tester and they kind of short changed me on the fill at the store, didn't give me but one test off it so I'd probably get a more defined read with another wearing.

I like it enough to buy it and I can get a 125ml for $31 through some online source. I was planning on getting a couple others through them and I get free shipping if I pass a threshold and the extra bottle would do it. Pay around $18 for shipping on the order or get one more bottle for $31 and it's free....easy choice...lol. Won't be till next month though unfortunately. I've overbought this month cause I found some really good deals.

Oh, there's zero powder from The One. I just found in the background of Brit had this undertone that reminded me of The One. A day removed and one little test of a scent with no chance to compare and it's a distant memory! LOL. I'm going to have to score another sample of Brit and tell the SA to fill it up so I can get a few tests out of it. I'll do a paper and back of hand side by side after a nice long hot shower to see if it's me nose or if I'm really getting the similar notes.

I'd like to get a bottle of Brit but it won't be for another few weeks. I have my order planned out already for this one online source. Like 5 frags and it'll cost me about $80 with shipping for the big sizes on all of them. No blind buys in the bunch. Well, maybe one for the thrill of it since the price will be pretty cheap..heh

What I'm saying is what The One has in the forefront Brit has in the background, but The One has no powder at all, while Brit just surrounds the scent in the powder. I'm not saying the two are alike. They aren't that much alike other than the background note of Brit is something I find in the forefront of The One. Brit has the powder surrounding the whole scent while The One has no powder at all. So it's really easy to say they aren't alike in that respect but it's not what I'm getting at.

I guess I'll do a little side by side and follow up on this idea. I could be wrong but I'll see. Of course I wore The One 36 hours earlier, a couple showers and another frag of separation before I did the Brit test so could there have The One lingering on my arm? I doubt it with the longevity issues of The One but you never know, huh.

So you are saying you've had 4 people say the same thing I'm saying BUT you don't agree?.....Interesting......

You also think 'The One' is fruity? Interesting......

I don't think you were mean. I would have chosen a completely different word which I'll keep to myself otherwise I'd be mean...I will leave it at.... very interesting!

I guess you have a reading comprehension problem as well. You might want to read my original post again and reevaluate your assumptions. Just cause you have some self published video blog doesn't make your nose any better or your analysis any more accurate than mine. You may think your nose is a classically trained olfactory master but it's just a booger keeper like the rest of ours.

I know what I smell, and can match nose hairs with anyone. But I did only get one test wearing of the cologne and admitted there may have been some residual scent on my arm that could have potentially altered my identification of notes. Especially if Brit is a softer frag that doesn't have a heavy hand so to speak there could have been something else that transpired...like I perspired! I was open to other's opinion and am not afraid to learn every day.

You on the other hand seem to have this self righteous, egocentric position about your own opinion. Coming in with a 'don't want to be mean but' bombastic attitude towards another person's opinion and experience. Welcome to reality but there isn't 'right' or 'wrong', when it comes to personal experience and opinion about matters that are subjective. Trying to call someone's experience about a fragrance 'right' or 'wrong' is like trying to tell someone they are right or wrong about what they hear about music or what they see in a piece of art.

It's subjective, life is subjective. Come off your pedestal, park your high horse by the trough and open your mind to learn that life is not always just about 'right' and 'wrong' and not everything can be quantified with empirical data. You may have sensed sarcasm in my post but that too is subjective. What I truly was feeling when posting that may have been a completely different thing. But it's not 'right' or 'wrong'....it is what it is.

Calling names. Shows a lack of intelligence and an absence of a point. Time to grow up. I didn't call you any names, I just disagreed with your opinion and had issue with your attitude towards mine.

Pick a fight. I wasn't the one who came into a thread started by someone else with a 'don't want to be mean' attitude and telling them their 'nose is off'. Seems like you were out to pick a fight, not I.

Racist? You don't even know me and to be honest I don't even know you. But when someone plays the racist card it can mean only one thing. They themselves are the true racist.

Don't like you? Again, I don't even know you. Never seen your fragrance reviews, don't know who you are. Never saw you post here other than the one where you responded to my post. That's the basis of my knowledge about you.

I feel comfortable about what I've posted in this thread, or anywhere on this forum. You on the other hand seem like you are defensive. That's some pretty weak sauce your bringin' in here... u mad?

LOL!

This thread should be locked before it gets out of hand. I see this with no benefit coming from it. When people start calling names and pulling the race card there's not much that can end well for it. Mods do us a favor and kill it. As the thread starter I'd have no problem with that happening. I actually would invite it... oh wait...I did!

Both have cardamon, ginger and cedarwood in their notes as well as one having orange blossom and the other green mandarin which both produce a kind of green orange note. Out of 9 and 10 notes for each of them they share about a third of their notes with identical ones. But people would rather have me believe my nose is broken instead of it possibly being really sensitive....lol.

I've been wearing The One quite a bit lately and I've been noticing that though it has sillage and projection issues the longevity on the skin and clothes aren't part of that. I've even picked up whiffs of it on my skin a day or so later even after showering and applying another scent. So it very well may be that the base notes of The One got picked up again and somewhat amplified on my skin by the similar in common notes in Brit and detected by my nose.

I'm getting close to tracking down a bottle of Brit within a week or two so will test this theory and compare side by side to see if it's just cross mingling traces or similarities in notes independently between the two my nose is picking up.

I know I probably will get bashed by another Burberry comparison but I scored a practically full 100ml bottle of London from a local guy thinning his collection and it really strikes me as a 'lighter' and more youthful take on what is brought by Kors for Men on the dry down. Tops notes not so much but once you get past the fruity and spicy opening in London it really moves into a boozy and smokey place like Kors does without it being syrupy like the latter. I didn't like London at first in the store as cinnamon in a frag doesn't do anything for me but with a chance to explore it on my skin from a cheap addition to my wardrobe it really is a pleasant and unique experience.

So I expect more slamming on my comparison point of view again. LOL...go for it!

Finally scored myself a bottle of Brit and after a side by side testing on an arm each test I stand by my original assertion. Once the two dry down there is a very common thread running through both of them. Sure one is powdery and the other boozy. One is muted and understated the other is more bright and sweet but when you strip away the obvious differences the heart of the two that comes out during the dry down is similar.

No I'm not saying these two are 'the same', they aren't 'the same'. Similarities in the heart of the dry down... absolutely.

I have been wearing these two quite a bit lately and the commonalities in the two are even more apparent to me. Again it's hard to tell ...er smell, because they are presented in two completely different ways. The very different top notes will lead a nose away from the similarities and disguise them.