MichaNase

Who does not know it, you wake up in the morning and think to yourself: In Corona times, something new is tried again. So at Marlou cheaply ordered the three fragrances. The most wearable for me is Poudrextase. It is a very light powdery, slightly animalic rose. I have smelled this same accord before. Namely, in 1 Million - Absolutely Gold (I don't consciously remember smelling the original 1 Million before). In reviews of 1 Million - Absolutely Gold, there were opinions that the scent was a bit too feminine floral or reeked of urine. The scent doesn't qualify as animalic (it does at Fragrantica, though), which is probably because either no one trusts a Rabanne mainstay to be animalic or the niches here just missed the scent. Or you just expect that a niche house then just MUST be extremely animalic, is there in the program.
I find both fragrances, Poudrextase and 1 Million - Absolutely Gold similar animalic and floral, whereby Poudrextase is still a little more animalic and floral. However, the embellishment and embedding of 1 Million - Absolutely Gold is also missing, which makes Poudrextase a bit naked and exposed and also a bit more feminine.
Nevertheless, I like him!

Jeanette stood in front of the mirror. She had put on her leopard print dress. Even though she was over 40, her figure had held up well. She tugged at her dress until all the wrinkles were gone.
Now it was her turn for mascara, which she routinely applied. After that, the perfume. The scent that rose to her nose was artificial, sweet and fruity (yet a bit dry) and reminded her of Emily Strawberry from her childhood. That was a long time ago, a lot had happened since then, and she wiped her memory aside.
Jeanette threw on her faux fur coat and took the last sip of champagne from the champagne glass to get herself in the mood.

Then she stalked out and closed the apartment door behind her.

This scent is for Manfred the zombie. Just risen from the grave again, he creates more and more competition when he is hungry and bites a human guy again. Therefore, it needs new ways to impress a Zombina.

He now does this by smelling like Halloween Man X. Hupps, we must be careful that the finger does not break off when the spray head is operated and schwupps escapes the beautifully designed bottle a cloud of perfume. Modern synthethics for the modern zombie. Artificial cardamom? Lemon? Pretty generic, but also flies away again quickly.

Then comes a musty note, I guess that's supposed to be leather with coffee. Both is such a synthetic replica, that it is in combination the olfactory representation of the following taste: you're just at the dentist, just got tartar removed, there is still some blood in the mouth and you rinse out.
The scent is absolutely astringent.

Manfred is sure that the zombinas are on it. As long as their legs are not yet rotted away anyhow.

For me, Halloween Man X is nix, more than once full test wear did not go, then set at each further attempt the Abwaschzwang, because I got sick. I find the animalic Musc Ravageur or Lui by Mazzolari lighter, more pleasant and more wearable. Too bad about the petrochemical raw materials.

Layton is a strange fellow for my nose. No matter how strongly I scent myself with it, I always take only a breath was. No matter whether a hint of the sillage flies into my nose or whether I sniff directly at the sprayed place.

The opening is kind of discordant, spices and some sweetness. Apple I smell but only because I read here that apple should be in it. I can understand that some smell something mentholy here, that seems to be the combination of the spices with the acid. But that subsides quickly.

After wearing several times, I can also understand that one smells out apple and cake. With me, however, it is only the case when I focus on it and smell directly on the sprayed area. Mainly I smell spices, wood and sweetness. What continues seamlessly into the drydown.

The sillage and durability are extremely long, because the whole day always come to me small fragrance clouds. However, the scent is the exact opposite of intense for me. He is so super mild for my nose that I hardly get him. For this he is then too expensive for me.

At a time when the shops were still open, after reading the Parfumo forum at length, I headed to Turquoise to sniff Ultramale.

So went there, grabbed bottle and sprayed on the back of the hand. Briefly waited and smelled. Then sniffed again. And suddenly emerges from the far corner of my memories a picture. It must have been in the early 90s. I was painting as a kid with felt tip pens that had different smells at the same time. They were the neighbor's daughter's crayons. One pen smelled like strawberry, the other like banana. Extremely artificial, so that even as a child it was clear to me that this could not be healthy. With one pencil, however, I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to smell like.
Forward to today: knowing that Ultramale contains pear, a light went on for me.

The felt-tip pen, whose scent I couldn't identify at the time, was supposed to smell like pear! It smelled exactly like Ultramale. Ok Ultramale has a few other components, but the pear was unmistakable. That made me suddenly laugh, first because the memory had completely slipped my mind and second because I didn't want to smell like a cheap felt tip pen. Incidentally, these pens are totally dried out quickly and were then no longer usable.

I still had a sample sent to me here in the souk for review. So that I can travel in my mind back in time.