Bentley for Men Intense opens with the faintest brief spray of dulled citrus mingling with a sheen of black pepper, before quickly adding laurel spiced smooth boozy rum-laced incense to the early...
Skimming through the reviews of Habit Rouge it's apparent that this scent comes/came in many incarnations, wastly different. I've tried a current EdT. .. There's nothing masculine about this...
I dislike the original AdG, always have because of the bitterness and strange orange synthetic note. The Essenza after one wear won me over, smooth opening, soft woodiness once it settles down....
Disturbingly bad.
This opens up obscure, smoky, spicy and what seems like an attempt of a jasmine flower note. I have smelt jasmine notes from higher end perfumery and this is utterly...
This is the first Montale fragrance that I've liked enough to merit purchasing a full bottle. I would like to wax poetic about this frag, but Darvant and others have pretty much captured it's...
At least, that's what I get out of it. It's like a thinner, less rich, more synthetic take on Tonka Imperiale. While not a perfect replacement, I've never smelled something closer to Tonka Imperiale.
Iisagree.
I find the Guerlain to be sweeter, more refined, a touch floral, just overall a little more "feminine", while EdB is denser, thicker maybe a little corniferous?
Count me in as an Eau des Baux fan. Some similarities to Tonka Imperiale, though, like timaru, I find TI to be a bit sweeter and leaning a little towards the feminine side of unisex. Eau des Baux is a little more broody and heavy. I like both equally.
Maybe more now than before. I'm not a person that calls reformulation on most thing, but EdB has definitely changed, and to my nose for the worse. It used to be greener, and borderline sweet. Now it has went way past that border. Unusably sweet for me
Iisagree.
I find the Guerlain to be sweeter, more refined, a touch floral, just overall a little more "feminine", while EdB is denser, thicker maybe a little corniferous?
After seeing EDB almost unanimously defeat Burberry London in a "What should I get?" poll earlier this week, I'm becoming very interested in it. Never heard of it until this Monday.
eh, unless I'm missing something, I wouldn't really compare these two... I find the EdB has a sort of raspy dryness in the opening, and the T.I. has a cherry liquor accord, so those two aspects don't compare at all.
I don't know what formulation I have - it's a sample I got in a swap awhile back. I'm not saying it's a dead-ringer for Tonka Imperiale, but there's a strong tonka presence in my Eau des Baux, and that, mixed with a coniferous element, draws a lot of parallels to TI with its rosemary and tonka. I get a noticeable dose of IES in the drydown of EdB though, and it definitely is thinner and more masculine than TI.
I just think that fans of one would probably be fans of the other.