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Crisp cedar
When I first tried this, I did not like it. I am pretty sure I had a dud sample, as it smelled like celery. About a year ago I tried this again and realised what an excellent fragrance it is. It is a spicy cedar fragrance that to me is an exemplar of its type.
There is a pepperiness about this fragrance which complements the cedar perfectly and a dry spicy accord that gives this a crispness missing in other cedar scents I have tried. Visit makes me think of Terre d'Hermes, which in my opinion is an inferior fragrance as I find it a little 'muddy', whereas Visit has an aromatic aspect, probably due to the incense. It is like the offspring of Bulgari pour homme and TdH, but much better than either of those two and it is much cheaper too! The sillage and longevity are more than respectable.
There is a pepperiness about this fragrance which complements the cedar perfectly and a dry spicy accord that gives this a crispness missing in other cedar scents I have tried. Visit makes me think of Terre d'Hermes, which in my opinion is an inferior fragrance as I find it a little 'muddy', whereas Visit has an aromatic aspect, probably due to the incense. It is like the offspring of Bulgari pour homme and TdH, but much better than either of those two and it is much cheaper too! The sillage and longevity are more than respectable.
Rotting Logs and peat bogs
Yatagan for me is one of those fragrances I really don't wear as much as I should or could. It really gives me everything I want from a fragrance, strength, longevity, woods, herbs, the smell of animal posteriors... I really love the rotting forest feeling I get from this.
Like Kouros, this is one of those fragrances that really push the envelope of decency. It's like a gamekeeper's leather satchel full of wild herbs and wood shavings and carrying the scent of decay. Not the rancid smell of death, but the smell of humus and fungi growing on logs. I understand the soup references (though Agua Brava is much more evocative of soup to me). The richness of the notes found in Yatagan makes it quite different from most of what is released nowadays.
For those who are fans of the Hobbit Movie, Radagast the brown would wear Yatagan.
Like Kouros, this is one of those fragrances that really push the envelope of decency. It's like a gamekeeper's leather satchel full of wild herbs and wood shavings and carrying the scent of decay. Not the rancid smell of death, but the smell of humus and fungi growing on logs. I understand the soup references (though Agua Brava is much more evocative of soup to me). The richness of the notes found in Yatagan makes it quite different from most of what is released nowadays.
For those who are fans of the Hobbit Movie, Radagast the brown would wear Yatagan.
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Leather and patchouli delight
Even though this is not my absolute number one favourite, it comes a close second. The richness of the patchouli and leather accord are astounding. I really love patchouli and this smells awesome! I have had bottles of patchouli essential oil and they were nothing compared with Givenchy Gentleman. It is almost as though the creators have found some way to make a more intense form of the essential oil! This is one heavy fragrance, full of organic denseness. I have the vintage and reformulation, and while the vintage is more animalistic, the reformulation is my favourite if the two (it is the woodiness that does it for me). I like that it can be worn in summer, autumn, winter or spring and I find my self wearing it much more often than Kouros, my favourite. the sillage and longevity are excellent and this one stays edgy all the way through its life on the skin: there is no gentle ending for this one!
THE Masterpiece
Right at the start of my fragrance collecting, I encountered Kouros. It appeared mysteriously on the shelves of my local Kmart, a variety store that generally, in Australia, carries nothing more fancy than Axe (Lynx) or Blue Stratos. The store apparently had a failed venture into fragrances and I definitely benefitted from it. Two 50ml bottles cost me $14.40 in total and I bought the bottles unsniffed. When I got home I opened up one box and sprayed, whoa, I was sold straight away.
For me the brilliance of this polarising fragrance is how close it comes to being utterly repulsive, but holds enough back to be magnificent. The sweetness, aromatic notes and civet are balanced so well that I cannot imagine a more perfect blend. The recent reformulation really strips the power away from Kouros and tones down the animalistic aspect big time. I find it hard to identify individual notes in Kouros, but a honeyed, animalistic spicy fragrance is how I would describe it. The sillage and longevity are colossal, at least with the previous formulation, the current one is still, however, good but nowhere near the older.
My wife can barely stand this fragrance (the same with Lapidus pour Homme), but other women I know absolutely love it. As this is my first review on Parfumo, I thought I would start with what I consider to be THE masterpiece of male perfumery.
For me the brilliance of this polarising fragrance is how close it comes to being utterly repulsive, but holds enough back to be magnificent. The sweetness, aromatic notes and civet are balanced so well that I cannot imagine a more perfect blend. The recent reformulation really strips the power away from Kouros and tones down the animalistic aspect big time. I find it hard to identify individual notes in Kouros, but a honeyed, animalistic spicy fragrance is how I would describe it. The sillage and longevity are colossal, at least with the previous formulation, the current one is still, however, good but nowhere near the older.
My wife can barely stand this fragrance (the same with Lapidus pour Homme), but other women I know absolutely love it. As this is my first review on Parfumo, I thought I would start with what I consider to be THE masterpiece of male perfumery.
