Fortitude Robert Graham 2016

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Fortitude is a popular perfume by Robert Graham for men and was released in 2016. The scent is spicy-sweet. The production was apparently discontinued.

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Perfumers

Ilias Ermenidis, Firmenich

Fragrance Notes

Tobacco absolute

Patchouli

Tonka bean

Ratings

Scent

8.130 Ratings

Longevity

7.827 Ratings

Sillage

7.327 Ratings

Bottle

8.746 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 04.05.2021.

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09/04/2020

10
Scent 9
Longevity 9
Sillage 10
Bottle

Rquill67
204 Reviews

Rquill67

Helpful Review 4

A sweet and spicy tobacco with great performance!

Robert Graham’s Fortitude is a sweet tobacco and tonka fragrance with a spicy / boozy opening. There’s definitely a small hint of an old school herbal vibe with patchouli to round out this fragrance. If you don’t like fougere’s don’t let my “herbal” comment deter you from purchasing for your fragrance collection; because this is a gourmand tobacco at its finest and is simply amazing! After the strong aromatic opening, the patchouli holds this fragrance together in the dry down.

To my nose, and on my skin, this fragrance reminds me of Pure Havane and Pure Malt from the house of Mugler. There are many other fragrance comparisons I could make, and what sets this apart is the herbal quality as well as the longevity and performance. This is not a skin scent. This does have good sillage and projection. You will get compliments because people will be able to smell this delicious fragrance when you walk past them.

I give this a 10 / 10 and I’m really looking forward to using this in the fall and winter. Very comforting. This is one of this must haves in my opinion if you like sweet gourmands with tobacco and whiskey.

01/30/2019

7
Scent 9
Longevity 8
Sillage 9
Bottle

Konsalik

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Konsalik

Top Review 10

Feel the Wrath of the Broadsword of Tonka-Zukka!

The assumption already expressed in my statement that this is a variation of the "Héritage" theme adapted to the modern taste of fragrance was not invalidated even after some further test runs. On the contrary, the impression has intensified. More precisely: It seems as if the aim was to reproduce the basic scent impression of the Guerlain classic with as few components and a broad brushstroke as possible, so that the olfactory centre of the user simply has less work to understand what is being offered.

Now one could say that in 2016 a company had to "fortitude" (i.e. "strength" in the sense of "steadfastness") in order to recreate and bring to market a somewhat outmoded composition such as "Héritage", especially as the provocatively short list of scores seems very proud and convinced by its own imaginative power ("We have a clear vision and take only the bare essentials!") - as does the bottle, which at the same time appears aristocratic and archaic and defenceless! However, when looking at the current bestseller lists, the perfumer seems to have lost his steadfastness, so that he took the precaution of pulling out the proven vanilla tonka sugar syrup broadsword to neuter the listed tobacco and patchouli content. And so it is this vanilla sweetness keeping everything in check that separates "Fortitude" from "Héritage" by a clear trench (as well as the absence of the coriander note, which I always assumed constituted the character of "Héritages", but there are probably countless possible workarounds; what do I know as a layman...).

That sounds like a rip now, but it's not a rip. I'm not always in the condition for Guerlain's cryptic-complex exploits. Some days are just too prosaic for that. And Fortitude smells good yes.

PS: "Héritage" minus coriander plus vanilla... Hmm, what's that supposed to give a rough estimate of the thumb, gentlemen? That's right, I did. In this respect, this fragrance is by no means a pure men's fragrance, but also something for the lady who would like to have another variation from the wide cosmos of the "Shalimar" cousins in her closet.

01/08/2019

6
Scent 8
Longevity 9
Sillage 9
Bottle

FabianO

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FabianO

Helpful Review 5

(Over-)powerful tonka bean input

Well, my fresh bottling will have to leave me again, I had hoped for a lot more with regard to the above tobacco absolute. I also miss the patchouli in "Fortitude" to a considerable extent, which I usually like very much.

No, tonka bean fans (to whom I hardly count myself) are most likely to shout "Hurray!!!" here. Undoubtedly, Robert Graham has created a buttery-soft, lovely (for me exorbitantly overloved) fragrance here.
It is bursting with caramel, vanilla, slightly buttery tonka beans that are also somewhat baked.

Sometimes something like a lightly dried tobacco leaf actually flashes through, but unfortunately only to a very modest extent.

In my Insta wine blog, which I currently "feed" much more frequently than my Parfumo commentary database, I would probably focus on a rather lovely Californian as a parallel, who could have turned out to be like "Fortitude". Unfortunately, the fragrance is very marshy in its over-extracted sweetness and sweetness, it lacks a counter aroma. No acid, no tannin - hard to get down, ice cold at most. :-)

The very beautiful, somehow Scottish flacon also aroused other ideas about the fragrance in advance. I don't know if an Earl or McSomething would feel so comfortable with this room-filling permanent sweetener. But tonka bean fans - he might make you addicted! ;-)