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Mr. Versatility
If you are looking for a hyper-versatile summer perfume to wear every day, Versace Eau Fraiche is definitely a great choice .. I have lots of summer perfumes but Eau Fraiche is the one I used the most last summer.
The structure is not so complex, it is citrusy but not a vibrant and pungent citrus, but more delicate and discreet, almost flattened, a light citrus accompanied by the sweetness of the star fruit, which makes this perfume quite unique, the slight sourness of bergamot and lemon is perfectly associated with the light creaminess of the fruit, a little reminiscent of Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Woman but less strident, more transparent, a slightly citrusy opening and a little fruit juice. The base is woody and slightly musky, there is a lot of iso and super, alone it would be quite anonymous but opening, a little citrus and a little fruit juice goes very well with the woody notes. A chemical citrus-woody-fruity, subtle, tropical, young, slightly aquatic, fresh, very casual but does not fall into banality. It feels like drinking an exotic fruit soda on the beaches of Miami.
An absolutely daytime scent, I would never wear it to a dinner or evening, great for a walk downtown in the morning, for the gym and for the beach. This is one of the few that I tolerate during sultry days, unfortunately like almost all fragrances of this kind, the duration is really weak, 5-6 hours and does not project much, I recommend going in overspray with this perfume, but given how much it costs , should not be a problem
Excellent entry-level perfume for boys, less suitable for adults, youthful, trendy, not a masterpiece, but if in the morning in the summer you are going to the office in a hurry or you are late and you do not know what to wear, with this do not go wrong
Rating: 7.5
The structure is not so complex, it is citrusy but not a vibrant and pungent citrus, but more delicate and discreet, almost flattened, a light citrus accompanied by the sweetness of the star fruit, which makes this perfume quite unique, the slight sourness of bergamot and lemon is perfectly associated with the light creaminess of the fruit, a little reminiscent of Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Woman but less strident, more transparent, a slightly citrusy opening and a little fruit juice. The base is woody and slightly musky, there is a lot of iso and super, alone it would be quite anonymous but opening, a little citrus and a little fruit juice goes very well with the woody notes. A chemical citrus-woody-fruity, subtle, tropical, young, slightly aquatic, fresh, very casual but does not fall into banality. It feels like drinking an exotic fruit soda on the beaches of Miami.
An absolutely daytime scent, I would never wear it to a dinner or evening, great for a walk downtown in the morning, for the gym and for the beach. This is one of the few that I tolerate during sultry days, unfortunately like almost all fragrances of this kind, the duration is really weak, 5-6 hours and does not project much, I recommend going in overspray with this perfume, but given how much it costs , should not be a problem
Excellent entry-level perfume for boys, less suitable for adults, youthful, trendy, not a masterpiece, but if in the morning in the summer you are going to the office in a hurry or you are late and you do not know what to wear, with this do not go wrong
Rating: 7.5
Il Profumo
This masterpiece is so difficult to review, I always find it difficult to explain that I particularly like them also because it is like dissecting my intimacy, it becomes a very personal thing and honestly I don't know where to start, but let's start with a similarity. Compared to modern perfumery, M7 is an orange spot in a sea of gray. It is certainly one of the most beautiful, original and fascinating perfumes I have ever smelled.
I went in search of M7 when the hype wasn't as high as it is now, as soon as I smelled it, I immediately felt that it had something different than all the other perfumes. Today it has become almost impossible to find, and deserves all the hype surrounding it.
To understand the essence in all its completeness it seems only right to start from the birth of this perfume.
In 2002, Tom Ford, creative director of Yves Santi Laurent deals with the marketing of the seventh fragrance of the group, for this reason it is called M7, and he succeeds very well, the bottle, the mysterious amber parallelepiped is more striking than the nude used as a testimonial, a trusted creation. in Morillas and Cavalier, not two common noses.
The thing that makes this perfume special is the introduction of real agarwood, never used before by Western homes. Today there are an infinite number of perfumes containing oud, but with the difference that in M7 the oud is real and not synthetic, and also blends perfectly with the ingredients, it does not want to be a perfume made mainly of oud and more.
The opening of M7 is nothing short of overwhelming, aggressive, it is a paw of a tiger, medicinal, pungent spicy, dried herbs, mandarin rosemary and Haitian vetiver which then blend perfectly with amber, the round and woody oud, but not chewy as we are used to in modern perfumes. The perfume with the passage of time becomes sweeter, amber, dark, it lies gently on the skin remaining slightly powdery, deep, soft, modern despite being a 20-year-old perfume, it stimulates the senses, very versatile, and above all, elegant, masculine, oriental, absolutely three-dimensional, dense and damn sexy and long-lasting.
And there is another reason why they like M7 so much, by now I was tired of perfumes, I had boxes full of the usual cheap perfumes that now appear like mushrooms on the shelves of perfumeries, M7 was my key to perfumes vintage / discontinued, it made me understand you can find emotions in the bottle even in old perfumes, finding old gems has given me a lot of satisfactions that not even the best niche could give me.
I knew this review was going to be long and I'm sorry if I bored you.
I close with a banality but it is the harsh truth, they will never make perfumes like this again.
Rated 10/10
I went in search of M7 when the hype wasn't as high as it is now, as soon as I smelled it, I immediately felt that it had something different than all the other perfumes. Today it has become almost impossible to find, and deserves all the hype surrounding it.
To understand the essence in all its completeness it seems only right to start from the birth of this perfume.
In 2002, Tom Ford, creative director of Yves Santi Laurent deals with the marketing of the seventh fragrance of the group, for this reason it is called M7, and he succeeds very well, the bottle, the mysterious amber parallelepiped is more striking than the nude used as a testimonial, a trusted creation. in Morillas and Cavalier, not two common noses.
The thing that makes this perfume special is the introduction of real agarwood, never used before by Western homes. Today there are an infinite number of perfumes containing oud, but with the difference that in M7 the oud is real and not synthetic, and also blends perfectly with the ingredients, it does not want to be a perfume made mainly of oud and more.
The opening of M7 is nothing short of overwhelming, aggressive, it is a paw of a tiger, medicinal, pungent spicy, dried herbs, mandarin rosemary and Haitian vetiver which then blend perfectly with amber, the round and woody oud, but not chewy as we are used to in modern perfumes. The perfume with the passage of time becomes sweeter, amber, dark, it lies gently on the skin remaining slightly powdery, deep, soft, modern despite being a 20-year-old perfume, it stimulates the senses, very versatile, and above all, elegant, masculine, oriental, absolutely three-dimensional, dense and damn sexy and long-lasting.
And there is another reason why they like M7 so much, by now I was tired of perfumes, I had boxes full of the usual cheap perfumes that now appear like mushrooms on the shelves of perfumeries, M7 was my key to perfumes vintage / discontinued, it made me understand you can find emotions in the bottle even in old perfumes, finding old gems has given me a lot of satisfactions that not even the best niche could give me.
I knew this review was going to be long and I'm sorry if I bored you.
I close with a banality but it is the harsh truth, they will never make perfumes like this again.
Rated 10/10
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The shortest Nuit
I start by saying that this fragrance has undergone two fairly important reformulations, the first version (2009-2010) is the most intense and darker version, the second (2010-2015) has a fresher and brighter opening and equal duration, and the third (2016) rounder and less lasting.
La Nuit de l'homme is certainly the most talked about contemporary perfume of the French house. This has a thousand flaws, starting from longevity and complexity (non-existent) but tremendously pleasant.
I tried the second version, as I said, the opening is very bright, aromatic, fresh spices, bergamot and lavender, after 5 minutes, there is a squintalade of cardamom and cumin, a strange aromatic sweetness, made slightly virile by cedar and vetivers who are barely heard. Just two lines to explain this perfume but just like that, I wouldn't know what else to add since it's really all there. Brief is the description, how short is the duration of this perfume, 4-5 hours maximum on the skin and barely perceptible sillage, however if we want to say it all, cardamom is cumin, they are so pleasant that they really like everyone, especially the most Young people.
A spicy-woody perfume, very subtle, not very complex, albeit pleasant but I can give it little more than enough. I see it a fragrance suitable for the evening, maybe for an appointment (given the reduced sillage, only the person who is attached to you would feel it) quite sexy and liked, but from a perfume called "La Nuit", you expect a intense, dense, decisive, intense, polarizing perfume and instead you find yourself a fragrance a sweet, subtle, simple, with zero evolution but nevertheless attracts-compliments. And to think that YSL has produced masterpieces such as M7, Opium, Jazz, and I, with the "peak" perfume of this maison, expected something else entirely.
Rating: 7
Mister Cocoa
This, together with M7, Dior Homme / Homme intense and Gucci Rush For men is undoubtedly among the best perfumes born after the 2000s. There is no niche that keeps boys, this perfume expresses quality, in every sense, quality of ingredients, artistic quality, quality in the composition of the ingredients, sensory quality, this is a gentle perfume. I don't like cataloging perfumes, much less poetizing when I talk about them, but believe me, if you present designer perfumes, niche perfumes, create a section of immortal perfumes, and this would certainly be part of it.
I prefer to talk to you about the Extreme version because it is the one I prefer, deeper, darker, slightly sweeter and greedy if we really want to say it, compared to the eau de toilette version, albeit good but it differs slightly, so as not to be redundant. the EDT version is classic and formal, the EDP version is more exclusive and courageous.
The opening is very closed and citrus, bright, pungent, star anise, resins and fresh flowers, jasmine, neroli and cocoa, the true protagonist of this perfume, already from the opening you can feel it, already want to enter and take part of the scene, a not sweet cocoa, but a bitter, earthy cocoa and now the most interesting part comes, the crystalline citrus bud opens for space tariff and an explosion of warm, enveloping, sweet, loaded pleasure, the cocoa mixes with the earthiness and to the woodiness of the Mysore sandal with patchouli, a bomb of soft, sweet and warm woodiness, earthy, slightly spicy, a sort of theobromic-vanilla bomb, very sexy, unique, refined.
A citrus fruit with a sweet-cocoa-woody heart, very masculine although tending to sweet, bright, classy, which makes you feel safe. It remains on the skin for a long time, it is very persistent, it is among the longest lasting perfumes in my collection.
A fresh citric opening that perfectly turns to a warm heart, sandalwood-chocolate, how did they do it? In my opinion they are the quality ingredients that distinguish this perfume, in many have tried to imitate it (JPG Kokorico, Nasomatto Pardon) failing miserably, even at home, the same Guerlain with the various reformulations have seriously compromised the goodness of this essence , I am talking about the first version, the one with the black frames to be clear, the next one with the clear edges and even worse the last one with the rectangular bottle, they lack quality, nuances, personalities , in evolution that distinguish it.
Unfortunately Guerlain has decided to stop it, I recommend you recover it, if you find it buy it blindly, it will be worth every penny. I love it.
Rating 9.5 / 10
I prefer to talk to you about the Extreme version because it is the one I prefer, deeper, darker, slightly sweeter and greedy if we really want to say it, compared to the eau de toilette version, albeit good but it differs slightly, so as not to be redundant. the EDT version is classic and formal, the EDP version is more exclusive and courageous.
The opening is very closed and citrus, bright, pungent, star anise, resins and fresh flowers, jasmine, neroli and cocoa, the true protagonist of this perfume, already from the opening you can feel it, already want to enter and take part of the scene, a not sweet cocoa, but a bitter, earthy cocoa and now the most interesting part comes, the crystalline citrus bud opens for space tariff and an explosion of warm, enveloping, sweet, loaded pleasure, the cocoa mixes with the earthiness and to the woodiness of the Mysore sandal with patchouli, a bomb of soft, sweet and warm woodiness, earthy, slightly spicy, a sort of theobromic-vanilla bomb, very sexy, unique, refined.
A citrus fruit with a sweet-cocoa-woody heart, very masculine although tending to sweet, bright, classy, which makes you feel safe. It remains on the skin for a long time, it is very persistent, it is among the longest lasting perfumes in my collection.
A fresh citric opening that perfectly turns to a warm heart, sandalwood-chocolate, how did they do it? In my opinion they are the quality ingredients that distinguish this perfume, in many have tried to imitate it (JPG Kokorico, Nasomatto Pardon) failing miserably, even at home, the same Guerlain with the various reformulations have seriously compromised the goodness of this essence , I am talking about the first version, the one with the black frames to be clear, the next one with the clear edges and even worse the last one with the rectangular bottle, they lack quality, nuances, personalities , in evolution that distinguish it.
Unfortunately Guerlain has decided to stop it, I recommend you recover it, if you find it buy it blindly, it will be worth every penny. I love it.
Rating 9.5 / 10
Just Rocky
I have to congratulate Zadig & voltaire, many of the perfumes of this house draw on the complexity and artistic sense of niche perfumes, at first I had underestimated just rock, believing that it was the mainstream perfume of the house, the perfume dedicated to the younger public, the sweet of the house to be clear, but I was wrong.
Just-rock is absolutely a mature, warm, soft, woody and vanilla-flavored, compact perfume when I smell the trunk of a tree. The opening, together with TF oud wood, is the most woody one I have ever heard, wood, incense, and very delicate spices, oriental the perfume is very aggressive and courageous, then the bark begins to dissolve and the vanilla pops out, a not too sweet vanilla, almost bitter, made even more frightening by incense, accompanied by patchouli and amber, has the right sweetness and softness that you would like from a good masculine perfume, firm and hard, that embraces and pampers you like a cashmere scarf.
It is a perfume as I said without frills, without edges or notes that prevail more than the others, but emerge at the same time, it is an oak trunk with everything inside it incensed dark vanilla, slightly dusty.
Sillage and performance are average, after the perfume it remains discreet on the skin, it is not a perfume that wants to capture attention but despite this I have received several compliments.
It is very underrated, apparently, but I prefer it to this one, albeit good, but I see it less warm, smoother and more incensed, even more minimal than just rock. It is a fragrance that I definitely can't wait. to use it in Autumn or Winter, very formal, distinct, but with that masculine sweetness that attracts attention, never over the top,a perfume straightforward. Little rock, very rocky.
Rating 8/10
Just-rock is absolutely a mature, warm, soft, woody and vanilla-flavored, compact perfume when I smell the trunk of a tree. The opening, together with TF oud wood, is the most woody one I have ever heard, wood, incense, and very delicate spices, oriental the perfume is very aggressive and courageous, then the bark begins to dissolve and the vanilla pops out, a not too sweet vanilla, almost bitter, made even more frightening by incense, accompanied by patchouli and amber, has the right sweetness and softness that you would like from a good masculine perfume, firm and hard, that embraces and pampers you like a cashmere scarf.
It is a perfume as I said without frills, without edges or notes that prevail more than the others, but emerge at the same time, it is an oak trunk with everything inside it incensed dark vanilla, slightly dusty.
Sillage and performance are average, after the perfume it remains discreet on the skin, it is not a perfume that wants to capture attention but despite this I have received several compliments.
It is very underrated, apparently, but I prefer it to this one, albeit good, but I see it less warm, smoother and more incensed, even more minimal than just rock. It is a fragrance that I definitely can't wait. to use it in Autumn or Winter, very formal, distinct, but with that masculine sweetness that attracts attention, never over the top,a perfume straightforward. Little rock, very rocky.
Rating 8/10
