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is not Aventus or Green Irish Tweed, but this one.

A conglomerate of rose and eucalyptus. After you have survived the initial 15 to 30 minutes (for me these are not tragic, but I understand the criticism about the opening), a beautiful fragrance reveals itself to you.
At the beginning the eucalyptus screams at you with five exclamation marks, the rose behaves very intimidated. After 30 minutes, the eucalyptus loses its energy and now the hour(s) of the rose strikes, because it appears more and more. In my opinion, however, this is not a sweet, "marmalade" rose, but a dry, very masculine rose. The eucalyptus, on the other hand, is very green, woody but also minty.
If a balance between rose and eucalyptus has now been established, which also has a very balsamic and calming effect, this remains so for about six or seven hours.

Royal Mayfair can be worn at any time of year, whether 40°C in the shade or -10°C in winter. Always pleasant, very soothing. Casual but also noble. I must also say that this is the first Creed that in my opinion can actually be worn by royal members.

All in all one of my favorite fragrances, because it always goes and is extremely beautiful, noble but also calming.


(small side note: Of course I don't have any creed to try, but of those who have been tested so far, this one is the one I like the most... and I think it will stay that way.)

I have been looking for THE Vetiver scent for a long time. First I ended up at Encre Noire.
Although I've read a lot of negative things about this fragrance (dark, earthy, musty, old books,...), I actually thought that it smells quite ok - but one thing I've been thinking about, ISO E Super. My investigative research (I googled) confirmed my fear. Encre Noire consists of 55% ISO E Super. Since I'm not a big fan of the molecule (as long as you smell it as hard as Terre D'Hermes), I dropped Encre Noire like a hot potato and started looking for *my* vetiver scent.

It did not take long until Dior Vetiver was suggested to me. Nevertheless I tried myself through all my colleagues (but I still miss Ellie Saabs Vetiver).
After a long time there was the possibility of a sharing participation (thanks to Bajki).
My first reaction was, "Damn! I only bought 20ml."

It's fantastic.
Where the Vetiver competitors usually bury (earthy-green) Vetiver under citric notes, here it is the other way round.
Lightly earthy vetiver with dry, non-sweet coffee beans, with a grapefruit note in the background, which NEVER covers the vetiver, but at most has a supportive effect.
It's like discovering a new type of coffee (quote: DonJuanDeCat). He's right.
Dior Vetiver is a pleasing, incredibly beautiful fragrance, and by far the most beautiful vetiver fragrance I know of.

I don't think there is one. What you smell in the first 20 seconds stays. Speaking of staying! The performance isn't from bad parents either. 8h durability and a good Sillage is with me in it. Meaning Dior Vetiver plays tango between "A fragrance just for me" and "BAM!!! HAAAALLLOOOOO HERE AM I!!!!11!".

But now there is still a big point of criticism:
How did Dior get the idea to sell this wonderful fragrance only in Paris AND (allegedly) stop it? Which clever marketing foxes are there again at work?
Well, there's nothing I can do about that - just whine.

Dior Vetiver is a hard to find, but fantastic vetiver scent with coffee beans and delicate citrus, with very good performance.
If you like Vetiver and you have the opportunity, please try it. :-)

Yes, I know, dear mum, dear dad, dear friends and colleagues, dear world, I heard you - New York smells like grandpa - Yes. Yes. Yes. The memo of the world's lamenting has reached me. But you want me to tell you something?

It's ma vui blunzn!

I LOVE this fragrance.

Between lemon cake and animalism, somehow old-schoolig, but (in my eyes) completely new.
Fresh, but deep. New, but classy. The whole year at any time wearable and that also still to each cause. Whether with a white T-shirt in summer (moderately used), or in a suit at a gala in winter.
One thing is for sure: with this fragrance you are (almost) always perfectly dressed in an olfactory way (only exception: going out in the club).

In my opinion the fragrance hardly changes, but this is in no way tragic. Many notes are given, but mainly I smell:
- Lemon (but not the WC spray type)
- Spices (cinnamon and clove)
- Something "cute", slightly sweet
- Animalic (Styrax, beaver horny, musk and civet)
- Oak moss

New York stays with me the whole day, about 8 hours, also I smell him during the whole 8h at me. Would therefore exercise caution when applying, especially in summer.

Last but not least even Luca Turin, the ugly biophysicist, gave this one here (+ the Intense Version) 10/10 and said if he went to a desert island, that would be the scent he took with him.
Whether one gives weight to the word of this God of the perfume world, appointed by the community, is left to everyone. The good man has a huge specialist knowledge, although I contradict him more than I agree - everything is in the eye of the beholder. Here, however, he's absolutely right.

New York is fantastic.

I would like to think that in the one year since I became a scent addict, I have "tasted" a good amount of scents, especially across the bed. From the typical shower scent to the faecal oud scent there was a lot to see.
I would also like to say that I love Nasomatto. From the black Afghan, the hard Duro over the chocolaty Pardon up to the alcoholic Baraonda, I like them all. But I haven't experienced what I'm about to face with embarrassment. Cause "hit" hits it pretty good.

It's also very hard for me to describe this one, because I had to wash it off after three quarters of an hour, because I couldn't stand it anymore.
Sprayed on, it starts with a fruity note, I think I smell peach. In addition, there is an olfactory interpretation of the colour green, which in my opinion is not a natural note. On top of that (and this is actually the joke here) there is a medically-chemically-striking note, which makes this perfume in my eyes absolutely unwearable and unbelievably unpleasant. This stinging touch has some disinfectant-mäßgies, the worst sort of chemistry factory in the third world. Normally a danger sign for chemical substances would have to be attached here.
Since, as I described above, I had to wash them off after three quarters of an hour, I can unfortunately say nothing about the course. Nothing happened in the 45 minutes.

The performance is as criminal as the scent. A sprayer from one of these 2ml TZ (which really don't give off much liquid per sprayer) was enough to smell the scent in the whole staircase after I went to get the mail for several hours afterwards.

The bottle design is the only highlight here.

Nasomatto means, if you can believe the Internet, "crazy nose".
Crazy nose and embarrassment - a really good description, because in my opinion this is one of the most intolerable and especially unpleasant scents I have smelled so far.

The fairies in the forest whispered in my ear that this was one of THE autumn scents.
"Wonderful! Best thing you can spray on yourself in the fall. Try this one," said a good friend of mine.
Many a Youtuber, or the "influencers" known since 2018, literally get into orgasmic ecstasy when one pronounces the name "Cape Heartache" in the beginning.
"Absolutely gorgeous!"
"The best Fall scent out there!"
"This is the second bottle I've gone through."

Well, wait, wait Burli, I thought to myself, now pack your enthusiasm horses, which are stretched before the Hypetrain, immediately again. "Memoirs of a Trespasser" was a disappointment in itself. Skepticism was now the order of the day.
On the other hand, Robin Williams (may this genius rest in peace) meant 30 years ago - Carpe Diem. So what can go wrong?

Well. Many things, it seems to me.

If you spray on your colleagues, the promised strawberry note will immediately clap your face. But that's not a "Oh, I harvested my own strawberry plant - see how good the smell" strawberry note, but rather the "I just bought myself a bulk pack of cream strawberry candies for 0.80 euros" synthetic strawberry note
The second major element of the fragrance is the imitation of a coniferous forest. This one is very well done and the real highlight here. Green, autumnal, a mixture of freshly crushed needles with a hint of forest soil.

But it becomes really problematic when these two components meet, because then it results in a cough syrup-esque structure. I once had an antibiotic when I was a kid that smelled the same. But when the wind blows from another direction and aerates the other nostril, it smells like bad strawberry yoghurt. This is the variety which is extended with wood chips and which contains the "real" strawberry pieces.

All in all, disappointment No. 2 is out of the house.
If you had put this strawberry boil back by 50% and concentrated more on the coniferous forest, yes, you would have created a wonderful creation. But like this? No, I'm good. Pfiat di and baba.

Tl;dr: Synthetic strawberry note as in strawberry sweets + cough syrup + bad strawberry yoghurt + a really good coniferous forest scent.