Ladies and Gentlemen,
Since I'm the self proclaimed number one fan of Puredistance M, I thought my last review should be about Fetish Pour Homme.
It's been said elsewhere that Mr.Dove was working on M and Fetish simultaneously, and kept Fetish for his own line because he felt it to be better than M.
What does Fetish EDP smell like?
If you like castoreum, Fetish will be delightful, because that's just about all you get. You really have to struggle to smell any similar DNA of M. If I was doing a blind smell, there's no way I would be comparing to M. The castoreum strangles the rest of the notes, reducing the whole thing down to a one note samba. The sillage is good, and it has some tenacity. You wll defintely smell it on your clothes the next day. I do enjoy a scent that does that, but with Fetish, I wish I didn't still smell it the morning after. It reminded me of one of those drunken one night stands with a barfly, that we all wish we didn't experience. You know, you wake up in the morning, look over, and OMG, what did I do now.
Fetish is not even in the same league as M. M has a wow factor from the first whiff, and continues to blow my mind all day, each and everytime I wear it. I have been wearing M regularly for over two years now, and never tire of it.
Sophistication is a hallmark of a Puredistance scent, and Fetish has none.
Just as a side note. Yesterday when I was wearing Fetish at work, my fellow co-workers said I stank, and that's never happened to me when wearing M (two of my co-workers have purchased M for themselves, even though they never spent more than $80 on a bottle before). I guess my co-workers don't like castoreum.
All I can say is Roja was having a bad day when he decided Fetish was superior, or Jan Ewoud Vos did a switch when Roja wasn't looking. I really believe the only reason M turned out so good is because Jan Ewoud Vos was intimately involved in the process, because Roja hasn't really created anything for his own line that makes me want a bottle. Think about it for a minute. Why isn't Roja churning out masterpieces for his own line? I don't know, but I can hypothesize he needs someone like Jan Ewoud Vos to let him know when it's right.
Roja seems so out of touch when creating perfumes for his own line. I read somewhere that Roja himself thought he would be remembered for his Vetiver. Wow! Does someone really want to be remembered for a Guerlain clone? Isabelle Doyen will be remembered for her work on Turtle Vetiver Exercise #1. Why? Because it's art, and one of the best and unique vetivers ever. I went through a bottle and miss having some around, yet I still have some Roja Dove Vetiver Extrait sitting in my sample pile collecting dust, where it belongs. Roja Dove's vetiver reminds me of Aqua Velva After Shave by comparison. Well, on second thought, everybody does remember Aqua Velva, and maybe Roja is right, and I'm wrong.
Good Night and Good Luck
Since I'm the self proclaimed number one fan of Puredistance M, I thought my last review should be about Fetish Pour Homme.
It's been said elsewhere that Mr.Dove was working on M and Fetish simultaneously, and kept Fetish for his own line because he felt it to be better than M.
What does Fetish EDP smell like?
If you like castoreum, Fetish will be delightful, because that's just about all you get. You really have to struggle to smell any similar DNA of M. If I was doing a blind smell, there's no way I would be comparing to M. The castoreum strangles the rest of the notes, reducing the whole thing down to a one note samba. The sillage is good, and it has some tenacity. You wll defintely smell it on your clothes the next day. I do enjoy a scent that does that, but with Fetish, I wish I didn't still smell it the morning after. It reminded me of one of those drunken one night stands with a barfly, that we all wish we didn't experience. You know, you wake up in the morning, look over, and OMG, what did I do now.
Fetish is not even in the same league as M. M has a wow factor from the first whiff, and continues to blow my mind all day, each and everytime I wear it. I have been wearing M regularly for over two years now, and never tire of it.
Sophistication is a hallmark of a Puredistance scent, and Fetish has none.
Just as a side note. Yesterday when I was wearing Fetish at work, my fellow co-workers said I stank, and that's never happened to me when wearing M (two of my co-workers have purchased M for themselves, even though they never spent more than $80 on a bottle before). I guess my co-workers don't like castoreum.
All I can say is Roja was having a bad day when he decided Fetish was superior, or Jan Ewoud Vos did a switch when Roja wasn't looking. I really believe the only reason M turned out so good is because Jan Ewoud Vos was intimately involved in the process, because Roja hasn't really created anything for his own line that makes me want a bottle. Think about it for a minute. Why isn't Roja churning out masterpieces for his own line? I don't know, but I can hypothesize he needs someone like Jan Ewoud Vos to let him know when it's right.
Roja seems so out of touch when creating perfumes for his own line. I read somewhere that Roja himself thought he would be remembered for his Vetiver. Wow! Does someone really want to be remembered for a Guerlain clone? Isabelle Doyen will be remembered for her work on Turtle Vetiver Exercise #1. Why? Because it's art, and one of the best and unique vetivers ever. I went through a bottle and miss having some around, yet I still have some Roja Dove Vetiver Extrait sitting in my sample pile collecting dust, where it belongs. Roja Dove's vetiver reminds me of Aqua Velva After Shave by comparison. Well, on second thought, everybody does remember Aqua Velva, and maybe Roja is right, and I'm wrong.
Good Night and Good Luck
