DominikR

First of all a big thank you to AnaWinter for the bottling! :)
And now I don't even know how to start.
Maybe with the funny story that I started with 5 sprays and then merrily walked into the drop off at work. Without exception, everyone talked to me in the first 10 seconds I was in the room about the vanilla scent I was wearing behind me. Overdosed, a headache candidate.
Additionally, when you go into an isolation room fully veiled in a plastic gown and heat yourself through for 20 minutes, even more so.
It got to the point where I changed my clothes and used a washcloth to try to get that aggressive scent off me. Learned from this; the next day only 2 sprays.
You still pull a scent cloud behind you, but this one is much more subtle, but it was still present the whole 8,5h I spent at work, be it for others or for me. Really nice gourmand scent. The rose oud blend is probably not of natural origin considering the price, but on the other hand it doesn't smell synthetic. It just makes you hungry for sweets and mulled wine. A top winter fragrance and lives up to the hype.

What you should say about it; It is for a man really already at the pain threshold, as far as femininity is concerned. Personally, it does not bother me and I will also buy a full bottle but you have to like something and can wear.

Right off the bat, I came across MB Presence by accident and then bought an almost full bottle at a top price here at Parfumo.

First to the bottle: this is simple, elegant and the color of the liquid looks really delicious. Like a green apple, in which you want to bite purely, and exactly this sour feeling in the mouth I had when I saw them for the first time. The lid is unfortunately a little wobbly, but that's not bad.

When I first sprayed it on, I was met with a sharp, peppery, synthetic apple note. Reminiscent of Proraso aftershave from that big bottle.
This sharpness also says goodbye pretty quickly and you can feel the transition from sweet apple and mild cinnamon, which then actually also holds until the end until it then goes into an ambroxan mixture. So not really spectacular.

In itself yes a nice Freshie, which you can actually wear at any time of year to occasions. In the winter after the shower, in the summer as a daily Pargum, but like many in this price segment not long durable, which is why I'll probably consume the thing and will not buy more.
One should also expect no great development. But for 15 € you get the bottle already New and there goes that already clear.

"Tangerine in the face" is what I would say at the beginning. And I do not exaggerate. The whole thing was a blind buy and I was shocked by the smell. Crap, where do I get rid of it again" I thought to myself. Really musty and just repulsive.
Later, however, I perceived a beautiful spice, which I could not assign. To date, I knew as a fragrance also only Joop Homme, which develops in the course not too great (In retrospect, with a 10€/100ml fragrance not necessarily to be expected). Therefore, I did not understand that with the development of fragrances and was quite confused, where these olfactory impressions come from.
Anyway, my first YSL.
And with time, one smells already when spraying on a little more complexity than just the pure power of tangerine the first time.
The bottle I personally find very noble and the yellow color very appealing , at the spray head I have nothing to complain.
To the fragrance;
The first sentence probably meets it best. After about half an hour then also comes through a nice, pleasant oud, which I could not classify until recently also, because I just did not know how oud smells, until I smelled Essence Oud.
In combination with the mandarin just the hammer, whereby my little black perfume beginner heart does not yet know so many fragrances in the direction.
What I find a pity is that M7 is already after 2h and I perceive him only body close, later then only skin close and very flat.
All in all, a very getting used to fragrance, which certainly also not everyone can wear.
Next I want to treat myself times Mandarine di Amalfi by Tom Ford, but this time do not commit the mistake of blindbuy. :)

Long I had an eye on Aventus Creed, but the price, for a cheap apprentice unfortunately not affordable.
Then I followed the Youtube Channel Tuyau and got two videos with Aventus Creed clones in my recommendation, on the one hand with Club de Nuit and the other Rumz al Rasasi. The latter it was then, already alone because of the horny zebra.
And also in general, the bottle is very nice, except for the spray head, which is cheapest cheap plastic.

And now to the actual perfume. Since I still have no great experience in the world of Parfumo and with keeping apart the fragrance pyramid, I ask for forgiveness and hope that no one feels triggered by this.

When first sprayed on the back of the hand, the scent gives off a rather aggressive, artificial apple-pineapple note with cardamom in the background, which then subsides after 5 minutes, leaving a pleasant, smoky-fruity note that I can't quite interpret. I also imagine I smell jasmine, as in jasmine tea. That then blends with a leathery, mild musk over time.

I've read that previous bottlings of Creed are supposed to have smelled like this and, that they were far better than the new bottlings. What can I say, a really good fragrance, which also goes down well with work colleagues. I take him after 6h still well perceived, then only sporadically, if times a breeze comes from below. For 23€ I can not complain there.
I have already been allowed to try some fragrances, this is one that ranks you among my favorites.

Thanks for the attention and I forget, I'm still practicing so don't be mad.... ?