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I got a sample almost 2 years ago and recently rediscovered it. Tried and immediately bought 100 ml.

Riflesso Blue Vibe has a very special secret. You can't tell what it actually smells like. Just as Anguilla85 has already mentioned.

But: extremely harmonious. Freshly washed man, not much sillage, unobtrusive. Durability good, after an office day of 8 hours is still a last residue on my skin to smell.
On the sample cardboard are numerous aromas listed:
(Quote)
Leather, amber, woody tobacco
Rum accord, yuzu fruit
Vermouth, nutty aromas, geranium
(end of quote)

Also true. And none of those are in the foreground or take a back seat. None of the flavors push themselves forward, none are suppressed. Nothing dominates and nothing is forgotten. But they are all in there. The combination or the development - that is, what you would otherwise write a review about - are simply not there. The fragrance doesn't develop, it just appears and is there, just as it is, and it's perfect.

Leathery is also kind of true. But if you imagine leathery to mean a not-quite-fresh biker, you're wrong. Here everything is finely aromatic and suitable for the most sensitive noses. Almost direction soap I would say. (See above: Freshly washed man).

Quite noble anyway. A man between 30 and 60 may wear this at any time. The fragrance is incredibly ingeniously constructed, has an enormous scope. Many popular fragrances, with which teens or even suits like to adorn themselves, and rightly so, can not really reach Riflesso Blue Vibe wirlich. As you can already tell, I am totally smitten. Riflesso Blue Vibe is so good that I would even put it here as a "signature scent".
But no, I won't, because that would mean downgrading other scents.

I give very happy 10 points out of 10.

Why did I try this?

From the same company I have Roi d'Orient, which I find sensationally good.
Yesterday I went to the Rituals shop to see if they had another good fragrance.

First of all, the answer: no, they don't.

The consultant was nice. The existing men's fragrances had unfortunately all the typical grandpa aroma, nope thanks.

Kindly, the nice lady has always recommended me exactly what I had previously pointed (yes, exactly that is particularly good andsoweiter).

When now nothing fit at all, we came to Eclat. That stood neither with the men nor with the women, but under a small spotlight extra. I sprayed it on. First impression: floral and heavy, but then: thin to meaningless. More feminine than masculine. And so it remained.
4 hours later, there was nothing left of the fragrance on my skin. Too bad.
Can forget quite loose

"Cuba City Hollywood for Men" is not actually a perfume at all. Rather, it's a decommissioned Romanian narrow-gauge railway built in 1940 to haul away large quantities of felled cedar trees using lignite-powered steam locomotives.

First, you get 30 minutes of pure incense. Immediately present. The secondary aromas have not yet had a chance to dare to the light. A coking piece of wood from an ancient juniper tree is also still there. Then the fragrance just manages the much needed emergency stop before a heavy gate blocks the siding to the tar factory. Walnuts. Resinous. Wintry. Brown in all its varieties. You'll be sprinkled with them in the cathedral of Нижний Новгород. Karelian smoke sauna. Very good experience of masculinity over 40. Mountainous. Old wood. Backwoods. Quite noble, like an extravagant furniture of precious wood.

- Bitingly present Catholic incense
- Sympathetically old school
- Romanian forest
- After an hour, the woody deeply resinous aromatic oily juniper smell lingers

The scent experience is just fun. Definitely a great nasal journey. I love all of these notes. Only as a perfume I would never have imagined. I was completely unfamiliar with perfumes like this before. I'll definitely be putting on "Hollywood" a lot more secretly in the home office. Outside I do not want to be caught with it.

Durability with me 5 hours.

Newly opened green flower shop. Where the flowers stand around and may not smell like flowers.

In barely 10 minutes, Black Edition pours out in a scent sprint from green to lemon to pine to moss to glass cleaner to carnation vase to balcony geraniums. The latter then remain present. Refreshing and convincing, with a slightly synthetic impression. Quite strong and self-confident, quite masculine. Sexy.

Whether jacket or tuxedo, does not matter at all.

Gladly I dare to go out on the street with it. Not only at Aldi people will secretly turn around after me.

But... what a shame! It's also the fastest fragrance ever. Develops quickly and is almost even faster already gone. Unfortunately. He has me namely well liked.

The cute woman at the checkout at Aldi wanted again only money from me. Is nothing new.

From Aldi I had to walk home alone. Without fans, and almost without fragrance.

Although cheap stuff, this is so far for me the fragrance that rattles off the most different stations in its chronological development. Other fragrances I like better overall. This one is pure sniffing fun. Very lively, differentiated development. A walk through half the perfume shop.

So, I'll try a concrete account:

Right at the beginning there is a pretty harmony: very aquatic, lavender, tart, green-yellow, fruity and with lily of the valley. Almost a little too girly.

After 10 minutes, the lilies of the valley disappear and a curd cheese with pieces of tangerine comes along. The accompanying sponge cake batter is not long in coming. A little tentative detour via celery stalks develops into a complete sponge roll with curd tangerine filling. Unfortunately irritated by an unnecessary piece of marzipan, which for a short time reminds of urinal candies.

Again 3 minutes after that, a bubble bath suddenly appears, says "blubb" and reminds of pine, lavender and soap.

Then again, something citrusy-feminine emerges.

Quite long remains the volatile, the aquatic predominant. I love that now, even if I'm long too old for it. The aquatic remains easily 3 hours there, I did not even know that is possible.

White Edition (the name is plausible, well chosen, I associate it with the icing sugar on the sponge cake roll) melts down for the last 2 hours to a balanced, powdery, light vanilla mainstream aroma, just the way I like it. It doesn't hurt anyone's feelings. But no one will ask you what perfume that is either.

It's a toy for fragrance fans. If you enjoy sniffing a whole story of fragrances off your wrists one after the other for an hour, this is the place for you.

I definitely like White Edition, would only wish for a longer shelf life. After 5-6 hours at the latest, everything is already over.

The flacon: awful. Looks like vaccine gone bad. So what.

From me there is for the fragrance itself 8 out of 10, for the durability unfortunately only 6. As I said, after 5 hours remains no more than a delicate, albeit beautiful hint of vanilla. Nachsprühen pushes the Schnupper roller coaster again.

Recommendation from me? Definitely yes. Be best blond and under 30, whether thick or thin, whether with or without a beard. I'm not in that demographic. That said, I love this fragrance and its remarkably graduated evolution. But only for the pure pleasure of myself. Home Office.

P.S: I also have Black Edition from Dunlop. That is completely different. You can get both together for almost just the postage on ebay. I'm glad I bought them. Now there's always something good in the house where I don't have to think twice about whether to use it today or not.