Landski

This scent seems to depend extremely on the skin (and/or nose) of the wearer. With the descriptions here of "mouldy earth", "rotten wood" and "mouldy rags" I wonder if we are really talking about the same scent...

The patchouli is only perceived here as a base, very subtle (and very beautiful!), but if I had to classify the fragrance with a keyword, I would rather call it "Vanilla-Orientals" than "Patchouli".

Name or no name - the fragrance is brilliantly coordinated - never too sweet, never too spicy, never too heavy - really brilliant!

Durability and Sillage are so weak on my skin that I first thought that they had made me a dupe here in the souk. Then I actually scrounged a test specimen in the Chanel-Store on site, but unfortunately it is the same: The smell becomes very fast very close to the body and after at the latest 3 hours I can perceive the smell only if I put my nose directly on the skin. Of the Chanel scents I know, it is definitely one of the most reserved (together with Coco Mademoiselle Eau Privé)

Conclusion: An extraordinarily beautiful fragrance - also unisex - which everyone should try on themselves. But with the (even by Chanel standards) very handsome price, the performance could not convince me.

My mum has a big box at home with Advent and Christmas decorations, which is taken out of the cellar every year in December. When you open it, it smells EXACTLY like this scent: 30 year old, dusty fir branches.

Hypaer gets plus points, because he actually immediately started this head cinema with me. Minus points are for the miserable durability and silage - within 3 hours it fades out completely linear. Sorry, this is not possible in this price range!

There are huge question marks overall for this unspectacular fragrance, which would perhaps make more sense as a Christmassy room scent than as a body scent. I only know the rather ingenious "Ultrae" from Aether and wonder what the perfumers have thanked for it....

In search of an affordable oud scent and because of the high ratings here in the forum I tried this Rasasi. Two sprayers, and - BOOM! OMG, that was 2 sprayers too much...

The perfume smells leathery, spicy, smoky, kind of liqueur-like at the beginning - sorry, but it just smells like "party cellar the morning after". And then the plastic bottle looks like a flask. As a target audience for this fragrance, I can imagine, if at all, men over 40 or rather 50. And when I say "in the beginning", I mean at least the first 6 hours. Shelf life and silage are extreme!

Towards evening (or even the next day) - when the stink has finally dissipated - a skin-tight, soft, almost delicate, incredibly beautiful aquatic scent remains. Wow! Sensational! Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde! I've never experienced anything like it before.

I tried it for a few more days - I thought to myself "Such a complex scent, maybe you have to smell it first..." - but it just didn't work. Maybe it's really a cultural problem.

Last year in summer I bought a bottle of Escentric 04 and found it to be a great summer scent! It is super-citric, a bit bitter, but at the same time wonderfully fluffy and light, with a woody base. In the course of time it becomes softer and lasts for a citric fragrance super long

This summer I sprayed the scent on again and found it somehow funny right away. Hmm, did I really like it that much last year? Somehow there was a musty note from the beginning, hard to describe, somehow "grandma's handbag". In the further course, but unfortunately only over several hours, the impression increasingly settled and in the drydown the smell was then again completely the old one.

So I dug out my old Escentric Discovery set from the bottom drawer and tested both versions against each other in the left and right crook of my arm. In fact - the scent from the test tube smelled as light and fresh as I remembered it, but the scent from my bottle always smelled musty even after further tests.

I know this effect from 10 (or more) year old vintage perfumes, but after only one season - I've never experienced anything like it. I'd be interested to know if someone else has also observed this phenomenon.

When I stumbled upon the Bvlgari Aqva series years ago, the Toniq did not yet exist, only the original Aqva and Aqva Marine. As a huge Aquaten fan I tested them against each other several times (because they are quite similar) and then stayed with the Marine, which was simply fresher and also kept my skin longer.

The following summer I discovered Toniq and was blown away! A bitter note (which admittedly takes some getting used to at first) that develops beautifully and prevents the fragrance from slipping into the "shower gel triviality" like many other aquatic plants. In my opinion, the most exciting of the Aqva series (at least among the turquoise-blue flankers - I don't know the Amara) and with 6.5 here at Parfumo hopelessly underrated.