08/11/2020
Landshark321
522 Reviews
Landshark321
2
Nice boozy fruity brandy with resinous tones.
Rasei Fort La Whatever is a limited edition of 73 bottles sold by Luckyscent early this year, and I’m glad I acquired a decant to try out. It lives up the billing of being a strong, boozy mix with fruity tones, sort of “apply brandy with rum and woods,” and a sort of resinous funk that prevents it from being over-the-top sweet or gourmand. It’s very nice, only slightly grapey (as brandy is a fortified wine) and instead a sweet but balanced rum/apple/brandy. This is certainly something I’d recommend fans of boozy or fruity, or more specifically, brandy/cognac fragrances should try.
La Whatever not as sweet or tangy overall as another recent cognac release, Happyland Studio Fragrances El Goodo, but La Whatever does have a bit more resinous depth and density, so it packs a bit of a darker punch than El Goodo, one of my favorite releases from Happyland, and the first fragrance I thought of when reading about and smelling La Whatever.
La Whatever was not inexpensive, at $235 for 50ml, in line with the more expensive offerings of the Fort & Manle line, like Suleyman Le Magnifique and Bojnokopff, but its concentration is extrait, unlike the F&M EDPs, so one could argue it has a higher content of fragrance oils, relative to cost, than the F&Ms. Regardless, it’s very rich fragrance and appeals to some of my specific tastes.
8 out of 10
La Whatever not as sweet or tangy overall as another recent cognac release, Happyland Studio Fragrances El Goodo, but La Whatever does have a bit more resinous depth and density, so it packs a bit of a darker punch than El Goodo, one of my favorite releases from Happyland, and the first fragrance I thought of when reading about and smelling La Whatever.
La Whatever was not inexpensive, at $235 for 50ml, in line with the more expensive offerings of the Fort & Manle line, like Suleyman Le Magnifique and Bojnokopff, but its concentration is extrait, unlike the F&M EDPs, so one could argue it has a higher content of fragrance oils, relative to cost, than the F&Ms. Regardless, it’s very rich fragrance and appeals to some of my specific tastes.
8 out of 10
