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Let me get started by mentioning this is the first time I wear this fragrance so perhaps I'll come back and edit this comment entirely but here it goes.

The reason why this fragrance is confusing to me starts with the notes, a summery salty fragrance with myrrh and oud? that sounds daring an challenging, even the reviews go from one side of the spectrum to the other.
When I received the fragrance I couldn't wait anymore so I sprayed on a paper strip and the opening was strong, the oud was borderline funky and the myrrh was intense but after a few minutes it changed completely and what was left was a slightly salty citrusy white floral leaning heavily into unisex and even a bit more feminine. After a while I sprayed in my wrist and the result was different, the oud was on the backseat with the myrrh providing a slightly resinous backbone to a slightly salty citrus white floral, very nice. Today I'm fully wearing and the result is different, very similar to what I experienced on the wrist but the oud and myrrh are just as prominent so it is a very interesting fragrance but not something I'd consider for a summer day or the beach.

Have you tried Zaharoff signature? the way the oud plays in with that fougere providing warmth and strength, it feels similar here but with a fresh fragrance.

I'm probably going to change my mind as time goes by but so far this is what I get out of Shelter Island. Don't blind buy as I did

According to most youtube reviewers Nightvistion EDP was an improvement over the EDT which isn't saying much considering how awful the EDT is. It was the curiosity of how much improvement there was what lead me to purchase.

The EDT is a generic, synthetic, boring and uninspired. It's a lesser version of many other fragrances that has flooded the market with it's Invictus inspired style and there's nothing wrong with V&R wanting their piece of the pie but they missed the spot by far. EDP feels like a do-over where they indeed improved on the formula but just by a bit. Nightvision EDP feels like a mess, just not as messy as the previous but a mess nonetheless.
Sweetness in here is not as syrupy as the previous, it's more resinous which makes it far more tolerable but it's still too sweet for my taste, it feels like they wanted to make a more mature version but with this level of sweetness it feels aimed for youngsters and this is quite confusing. Spice-wise there aren't that many spices or perhaps they're just drowned by the sweetness which is a shame and perhaps the only high point is the performance. Performance is great, very long lasting I'm just not sure I want this scent to stay with me for that long.

This is a slight improvement on a formula that was broken and tired to begin with, I'm just glad they gave up and went back to what they do fine with Infrared.

First I want to say I LOVE ATH and his brand is just amazing to me, actually 13 out of the last 14 fragrances I've purchased in Maxaroma are from the ATH house (some 10ml,s some 30mls and mostly 50mls). His summery or fresh scents are really nice but they have (IMO) a flaw, they are all the same fragrance, well they aren't actually the same, allow me to elaborate.
The recipe is clear, use a bit of you signature 'clean skin accord', lots of ambroxan (like a butt load) and then add some additional flavoring, just not too much and voila! I really have trouble telling Neon from Legend from Haze (Blue) from Haze (Black) from Odyssey, they seem like the same formula 80% ambroxan, 10% clean skin accord and the remaining 10% is a mix of pineapple, grapefruit, lemon, begamot and orange and what appears to me is that each one of those is just a rebalancing of that last 10% and sure Neon does have that pineapple and it's stronger but they are all very similar and even if Ozone is a bit apart from them it still a not so distant cousin so yeah, I'd like them to be different, to feel like different alternatives and not to be redundant but they are all great just don't get them all as I did.

Back to Ozone, even though it follows the same recipe the flavoring here is different so it does give you a different edge to it, I love that you get hints of coconut instead of a strong 'sun tan lotion' feel, this is basically an ambroxan fragrance with hints of coconut and a drop of bergamot and I love it.

I wouldn't call it a summer frag, it's a bit heavy or dense to the scorching summer days, perhaps the warmer end of spring and beginning of autumn are the best time to rock this one

Performance is quite good, just what you'd expect from the brand.

Even though the Uomo line is on par (or arguably better) with the Dior Homme line or the Prada Homme clearly Uomo Acqua falls short versus Dior Homme Eau and Prada l'Homme Eau.

I recall this fresher, heavy on the tomato leaf, powdery and very nice but now that I finally got ahold of it it's way powderier than I recall, it's also sweeter so tonka seems to be front and center and maybe it's my mind playing tricks on my but this is nowhere as nice as I recall.

It's ok, I'll wear it now and then but it's not going to be visited as often as many others in its category

I'm a sucker for mint in fragrances and to be honest most of the mint oriented fragrances fail IMHO. Either their mint is too synthetic or to candy like, too fleeting or to subtle so it's been hard to find the right mint fragrance and when I first heard about L'Homme Ideal Cool it went straight into my wishlist, I was hyped because of the great track record of this line.

L'Homme Ideal Cool gets a lot of hate and not for being bad or having bad performance but because it's supposed to come out to replace one of the line's darlings, L'Homme Ideal Cologne which was discontinued. I love the Cologne version, it's just amazing and I'm fortunate enough to have one bottle so I just couldn't hate Cool for a decision that was made by Guerlain.

When I first tried Cool at a store I loved it, I was enveloped by that opening which is as much as you can get from a tester bottle and a strip but I never got to try it again. Seemed to have disappeared from every department store so I just couldn't remember exactly how it smelled, thought it was discontinued just like the one it came to replace. Could this be? Fast forward a couple of years and I found a 50ml at a discounter and I didn't even think about it, I purchased as quick as I could and I finally got it.

Cool opens with mint for sure, but it's not a sharp or synthetic mint, it's more of a herbal mint. The almond is there but not as present as Cologne, I wish it has a bit more of that almond but it's fine, you do get the hints of it now and then and I also get a some bergamot, vetiver and the patchouli however it's more of a greener version of both, Cool feels very herbal to me.

They say smells are very connected to memories and I recall when I was a kid there was a soap (shower soap) my mom used to buy, it was green and very herbal and I loved it so, needless to say I love L'Homme Ideal Cool