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Around the middle of this year I had my dear Parfumo 168io send me a bottle of Cuir Vetiber (thanks again!).
At first I was disappointed in expectation of vetiver and woody underlined leather notes.
What I smelled was a vetiver opening that was immediately surrounded by sweet-creamy Tonka wood notes. There I had imagined something different but fortunately I had only one filling... I thought.
I first left this bottling and ticked off the scent for myself... but then I caught myself again and again grabbing the atomizer occasionally and still putting on a few sprayers of Cuir Vetiver...
Somehow I liked the vetiver-herbaceous, creamy wood note after all.
As Camey5000 already writes, I felt flattered, relaxed and cozy with this fragrance.

So Cuir Vetiver wandered then nevertheless into my collection and is now mostly for me a leisure scent on cooler days.

The bottle is simple but beautiful with the wooden lid. The spray head is pretty good. The Sillage is not very strong but perceptible at an arm's length.
The shelf life on my skin is about 5-6 hours, on my clothes the scent is still perceptible after one day

My conclusion: A feel-good bargain from Yves Rocher that you can treat yourself to without hesitation. ;-)

Especially in autumn and winter I'm, like many here, a fan of sweet scents. After I already had Dior Homme on my screen, I became aware of Valentino Uomo on several YouTube channels. However, the greater attention was paid to the 2016 Uomo Intense and so I decided to test it on occasion.
The opportunity arose in late summer at the Southhampton airport in duty free. But there the spray head of the VU Intense was broken and so I test the original version, which is the winner of the German perfume award "DUFTSTARS" 2015. ;-)
My impression after spraying on: at first surprisingly fresh with a quick iris note, which I personally like (although not listed here). Since I tested other scents, I put the test strip aside for the time being.
At home I pulled out the test strip again and was enthusiastic about this creamy coffee sweetness paired with the iris and slightly tart leather.
The fragrance landed immediately on my wish list and in September then in my collection. In October it finally got so cool that I wanted to put on the scent.
Since then, however, I have been struggling because the sweetness from the transition to the heart note seems excessive, almost intrusive and also very synthetic to me. I have already experienced something similar with the Ferragamo Uomo or with Mugler A* Men Pure Malt.
Since then I have been wondering if I am currently experiencing a change in my sense of smell or if it is perhaps due to the scents and the synthetics. Is it perhaps my last Gourmand fragrance, because I can no longer bear the exaggerated sweetness?
Basically I'm not a fan of the big performance monsters but prefer a lighter subtle fragrance. The base at Valentino Uomo pleases me after a few hours but again very well.
So I'm gonna let the Valentino move on and maybe test one of his brothers.
I haven't completely given up on the gourmand yet.

I've been preoccupied with this fragrance for quite some time, it has even been one of the reasons why I joined the Parfumo community, but one after the other...

It was around the end of the 90s, I must have been around 15 or 16 when I accidentally, through a friend, came across a miniature of Minotaure. The small bottle with the mythological lettering "Minotaure" immediately aroused my curiosity.
A first sniff brought me similar impressions as Ajlen describes in his commentary with fresh sweet, flowery woody notes.
To be honest, I couldn't tell if it was a men's or a women's fragrance, because my good friend had got the miniature from his sister and I didn't know anything about fragrances yet. But I liked the scent very much, so I kept the bottle and smelled it only occasionally, because the scent made me in a good mood in quiet moments.

As it is often the case in life, the miniature bottle was forgotten from time to time and I was all the more delighted when it fell into my hands again, because the scent still excited me after years. Then after several moves the miniature unfortunately got lost, maybe there was nothing left of the content... i still haven't forgotten the scent.

Sometime the thought came to me online once to make me on the search for the ominous Minotaure and see there, I quickly found what I was looking for. Funnily enough, it was only during the research that it became clear to me that the fragrance wasn't that old in the 90s.
A real treasure trove was this community with all ratings, classifications and comments, which not only Minotaure opened up for me... but let's stick with this one.

Since I only had the memory of Minotaure left, I was glad to be able to get a bottling here through the lovely Parfuma Beautycase, for that once again many thanks.
Unfortunately, this apparently newer reformulated version has turned out to be a bitter disappointment, as so often happens. The prelude still awakens the memory of the old fragrance miniature but then in the heart note the whole thing becomes very synthetic and there is added a hitherto unknown biting undertone that makes me think of ammonia. Now I ask myself, was my sense of smell different in former times, was the experience of smell embellished by memory or did the reformulation actually strike so badly here?
I will probably have to get a vintage version to check the impression before I give a rating here.
But a nice memory of a great fragrance experience will remain with me one way or the other. :-)

(P.S.: I wondered about the fragrance twinning. I have also tested Roma Uomo and find no similarity here.)

Since there are already many comments on the fragrance here, I would like to deal essentially briefly with the topic of fragrance twin. The two twins mentioned here (Nikos Sculpture and Dunhill Desire for a Man) come from the same perfumer (Michel Almairac), but in my opinion they are not at all alike. But more about this later.

Because of the price and the often mentioned references to Nikos Sculpture, I simply had to test it here. Often the scent twins are not as close to the respective scent as indicated and I have to say, I don't find Sculpture here at all. But right after spraying on I thought I had a more intense version of Dunhill Desire (red) on my wrist.
The start is not so pungent with the Jaguar but it meets the same sweet-heavy synthetic apple and also the further fragrance with woody notes towards a soft vanilla finish is as with the Desire only perhaps still somewhat smoother and more intensive. But it is also this intensity that can be felt as musty at the end if the dosage is too high, as Skr84 writes.

The funny thing is that Monsieur Almairac was not the creator here although he created the Dunhill Desire and is already responsible for Jaguar scents. Who knows if there was any influence...

However, like Dunhill Desire, I find Jaguar Classic Gold to be a good everyday allrounder. Because of the intensity you should not overdo it with this one, while the Dunhill can hardly be overdosed. Overall it is already very synthetic but for the price really a great fragrance and in comparison to the Desire even cheaper. For special occasions or business appointments there is certainly better but for the price (often only 14.99 Euro/ 100 ml online) you can do nothing wrong here.