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Best/Favorite Gourmands?

Poll Results: Best/Favorite Gourmand?

 
  • 7% (11)
    Musc Ravageur
  • 4% (7)
    Rochas Man
  • 9% (15)
    A*men
  • 8% (13)
    Tobacco Vanille
  • 2% (4)
    Serge Lutens Arabie
  • 4% (7)
    Spirituese Double Vanille
  • 0% (1)
    Dulcis un Fundo
  • 5% (8)
    New Haarlem
  • 1% (2)
    Hypnotic Poison
  • 5% (8)
    A*Men Pure Malt
  • 1% (3)
    Givenchy Pi
  • 8% (13)
    Dior Homme Intense
  • 17% (27)
    L'instant Extreme Pour Homme
  • 2% (4)
    Lolita Lempicka
  • 0% (0)
    Un Bois Vanille
  • 3% (5)
    Ambre Narguile
  • 1% (2)
    Tea For Two
  • 1% (3)
    Hanae Mori
  • 4% (7)
    Back To Black
  • 10% (16)
    Other
156 Total Votes  
post #1 of 40
9/7/10 at 1:08pm
Thread Starter 
What are your favorite gourmands? If not listed pick other and put it down
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post #2 of 40
9/7/10 at 1:14pm
http://www.basenotes.net/threads/256...orite-Gourmand
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post #3 of 40
9/7/10 at 1:32pm
I like a lot of them, MR, RM, l'IdG jsut to name a few but MR I ike best, methinks.
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post #4 of 40
9/7/10 at 1:41pm
Musc Ravageur.
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post #5 of 40
9/7/10 at 2:57pm
Hypnotic Poison but I also do like Musc Ravageur and a few others like Arabie.
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post #6 of 40
9/7/10 at 3:01pm
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Originally Posted by MrFragranceReview View Post

What are your favorite gourmands? If not listed pick other and put it down

I vote for Heeley Sel Marine: Celery stalks - fresh, healthy, low calorie and usefull as a presentable fingerfood for stylish youngsters



The senior generation will - by personal experience - take a resemblance to oysters, especially on coctail parties in composition with champagne and the competitors fishy fragrances.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
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post #7 of 40
9/7/10 at 3:26pm
I'd prefer Amouage Gold on my husband. But, it's a matter of individual biochemistry.
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post #8 of 40
9/7/10 at 3:32pm
I prefer Yohji Homme. Discretion is a great quality for a gourmand, and it just smells great.

Tea for Two is a close second.
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post #9 of 40
9/7/10 at 3:34pm
Where is Sables?
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post #10 of 40
9/7/10 at 8:42pm
My favorite is Aomassai by Parfums Generale.
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post #11 of 40
9/8/10 at 6:01am
I love tobacco vanille and pure malt among others.
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post #12 of 40
9/8/10 at 6:11am
From that list, i only dislike amen, pi and back to black. I`d wear all the other, but my favorite pick would be Spiritueuse Double Vanille, that is a grown-up gourmand to me. For a low calorie gourmand, i`d choose, outside your list, Gaiac from M. Micallef.
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post #13 of 40
9/8/10 at 6:26am
I voted for A*Men because it is my favorite with specific gourmand qualities--the chocolate for example. It isn't my favorite on the list, which is probably Tea for Two.

I don't know what to do about the gourmand category, because, and this might be my hang up alone, I don't think that just any scent with a sweet/spice note counts as a food scent. Tea for Two is tea with some honey I think, but it isn't meant or felt to be a desert reminiscent thing.

A*Men I like because of its heavy powder and delightful tar quality balancing the chocolate.
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post #14 of 40
9/8/10 at 6:47am
I think Rochas Man is quite nice myself. I have a sample of Lacoste Elegance that is nice too with a bit of spice in the chocolate. I can live without the A*Men.
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post #15 of 40
9/8/10 at 6:58am
I chose Back to Black, but I also like L'Occitane's Eaux des Baux. Maybe I should call this "Eaux des Beaux," with my inclinations!
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post #16 of 40
9/8/10 at 7:00am
I love Rochas Man
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post #17 of 40
9/8/10 at 7:27am
I like most of them, jewels in my book would be Guerlain's DSV and DiorHI (right now at least).

cheers
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post #18 of 40
9/8/10 at 9:11am
My current fav, though not listed, is Gaultier² though Musc Ravageur and A*Men are a close 2nd and 3rd.
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post #19 of 40
9/8/10 at 9:13am
I like many, but I will give the nod to Musc Ravageur.
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post #20 of 40
9/8/10 at 9:15am
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Most of these aren't gourmands...
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post #21 of 40
9/9/10 at 4:07am
au masculin by lolita lempicka. i find it perfect.
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post #22 of 40
9/9/10 at 6:12am
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Most of these aren't gourmands...

That's what i though...
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post #23 of 40
9/9/10 at 3:48pm
Frapin 1270
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post #24 of 40
4/13/12 at 11:17pm
Honestly? How does a line-up of the best male gourmands ever not include one of the most influential and timelessly delicious scents of our time? Jean Paul Gaultier's "Le Male"? I think this notable exclusion, as well as the absence of Versace's, "The Dreamer" seriously harms the "validity" of your survey, although I laud it's existence anyhow. Thank you for throwing something like this out there.
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post #25 of 40
4/13/12 at 11:20pm
SdV followed by New Haarlem
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post #26 of 40
4/13/12 at 11:21pm
L'instant Extreme Pour Homme but like many others.
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post #27 of 40
4/13/12 at 11:36pm
Non of the ones from the list is really stand out above the others in term of quality. For uniqueness, I'll go with Arabie since it's gourmand in a dried fruit way instead of vanilla-y or chocolate-y like others. Musc Ravageur and Hanae Mori are the worst of the bunch since the smell make me sick
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post #28 of 40
4/14/12 at 12:21am
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Originally Posted by Smyle12 View Post

Honestly? How does a line-up of the best male gourmands ever not include one of the most influential and timelessly delicious scents of our time? Jean Paul Gaultier's "Le Male"? I think this notable exclusion, as well as the absence of Versace's, "The Dreamer" seriously harms the "validity" of your survey, although I laud it's existence anyhow. Thank you for throwing something like this out there.

I don't see any gourmand aspect to Le Male or The Dreamer.
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post #29 of 40
4/14/12 at 3:09am
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Originally Posted by KMF View Post

Most of these aren't gourmands...

... That's what i though...

It's seems quite a large % of people seem to mistaken the gourmand genre with just "sweet dessert-y" type notes - when in fact any frag' with mostly any "food-y" type notes, (whether sweet or not), can/could be considered a Gourmand.

( Which is probably what "WildThingy" was humorously hinting at .... (??) )


But, I suppose some of those choices are a touch suspect as "Gourmands" gourmands ....
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post #30 of 40
4/14/12 at 3:17am
Originally Posted by Smyle12
"Honestly? How does a line-up of the best male gourmands ever not include one of the most influential and timelessly delicious scents of our time? Jean Paul Gaultier's "Le Male"? I think this notable exclusion, as well as the absence of Versace's, "The Dreamer" seriously harms the "validity" of your survey, although I laud it's existence anyhow. Thank you for throwing something like this out there."

I don't see any gourmand aspect to Le Male or The Dreamer.


Yes indeed, quite correct ! ... Just the mere large dose of vanilla at the base of Le Male is hardly enough to make it a "Gourmand" (as the rest of the majority notes are not "foody" at all, as they'd need to be.) ... And The Dreamer is not a "Gourmand" AT ALL, I'm afraid.
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post #31 of 40
4/14/12 at 10:14am
A nice list, but my favorites are not there.

1740 - Histoires de Parfums
Jubilation XXV - Amouage
1697 - Frapin

and a newcomer that I really love, feeling quite gourmandish on me is...

Sharif - Abdes Salam Attar / La Via del Profumo
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post #32 of 40
10/13/12 at 11:57pm
Tonka Imperiale
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post #33 of 40
10/14/12 at 1:18am
Definitely Pure Malt.
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post #34 of 40
10/14/12 at 4:33am
L'instant Extreme Pour Homme, but I also like Ambre Narguile, Arabie, Tea for Two, and Pult Malt.
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post #35 of 40
10/14/12 at 1:52pm
"Other": Hermès Vétiver Tonka
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post #36 of 40
10/14/12 at 2:04pm
On this list, MR, TV and SDV. All are excellent.
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post #37 of 40
10/14/12 at 7:33pm
Although I have much new-found, love/respect for Givenchy Pi, LIDGE is the best on this list (that I have smelled).
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post #38 of 40
10/14/12 at 7:51pm
I have still yet to try quite a few of the classics on this list, but New Haarlem has really started impressing more as the weather's gotten colder here.
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post #39 of 40
10/14/12 at 7:54pm
I picked DHI but there are so many good ones on that list.
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post #40 of 40
10/14/12 at 8:35pm




Yohji Homme
Theorema (women's)
Oud Maison Francis Kurkdjian - woody oriental that can easily feel like a semi-gourmand oriental
A*Men Pure Malt


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