Zauber600

What a rich fragrance! Yatagan has him as

'Woody-leathery green monster smoking smoke out of its mouth'

in his statement. And what can I say: That's it!
But not only:
During my test I could additionally recognize flowers - roses running through the whole fragrance - jasmine in the heart note and altogether a lot of soap.

The fragrance impression is that of a skilful mixture of Orient and Occident for lovers of expressive fragrances. And that's him. Shuhrah is not a quiet little water but definitely needs a stage and someone who wears the scent and not the other way around. Here also the ladies are asked to test: As an evening / winter fragrance it is certainly also beautiful on women's skin ... Smoke should not be No-Go!

Another reason for my comment is the similarity I found between the two after testing "Morning Chess": MC is greener, without flowers or soap but with leather and above all less sweet, but nevertheless on the move in similar regions.
One could say that Shuhrah is the Arab cousin with all oriental facets in contrast to the somewhat brittle American fragrance
The price difference is interesting here of course: The Rasasi costs a tenth of the quite high-priced Vilhelms. A try is always worth it here.

For whom: nerve-strong perfumos/perfumas (some shuhrahs have already migrated to the souk)

Durability and Sillage: At upper limit

When. When? Free time and safe to wear in cold weather in our culture better or of course as a fragrance for the evening/night

That was the first thing that crossed my mind while reading the fragrance pyramid (camomile). But that was relativized quite quickly during testing:
The scent describes - I use a picture - a well-groomed gentleman in Tweed + Cord leaving his Range Rover to go shopping. Harrod's, of course. Where else?
Somehow HfH reminds also of British landscapes, these beautiful rolling hills with the double hedges for the birds and the natural stone walls. So somehow VERY BRITISH, they did a good job with Bond.

The start with chamomile and additional spices is creamy and not too bright despite the star anise. Very pleasant to smell and the heart note with further - somewhat more bitter - spice, lavender/violet leaf adds green notes, which are supported in the base with high-quality leather and sandalwood. Discreet aquatics is also present at the end. Very valuable!

A restrained scent from the scents ... I see this very natural looking (despite surely existing synthetic) scent on a Mr. 40++. HfH is not boring .. rather solid in the sense of cultivated-conservative.

Bel Ami, Fougère Royale but also Grey Flannel are alternatives.

Thank you Angelliese!!

In NYC, in this case a small park called Gramercy Park in Manhattan from the 1840s, to which only the inhabitants of the immediate vicinity - if they have purchased a key each year beforehand - have access. That's what I call exclusive!

This New York park fragrance is - in contrast to Central Park, for example - also rather quiet as it corresponds to this rather grown environment with the beautiful old houses. Here it looks almost a bit like in Europe's big cities.

Actually no exciting scent, it starts fresh-creamy-green without you can recognize single notes, little sweetness ... in addition foliage and tart flower scents. Lily of the valley can be recognized just like the musk that acts as a base and gives the scent a fresh, almost cologne-like kick. The whole time you can also perceive a delicate aquatic note, which is present in many of the New Yorker bond scents and even represents the city on the water well.

Everything is really taken back here ... Synthetic is - as with many Bond No.9s - clearly present, the durability is good, but Gramercy Park quickly becomes a discreet skin scent and is therefore for all occasions and well wearable by everyone.

The European alternative is Eau de Lierre by Diptyque .. this one, however, harsher and with lower durability.

I quote here once the idea giver of the smell:

"Deep red velvet with a sensual feel; in the air there is a beguiling, intoxicating scent. Dim light in the corridors, wallpaper with luxuriant flower ornaments between the massive black doors ... the atmosphere in my favourite Parisian hotel still awakens the same thrill in me today as it did when I first took up a position on my own at the age of 21. Dirty Velvet interprets this ambience with his composition of tobacco leaves, vetiver, salt and sandalwood. A fragrance that stimulates, that has a subliminal dangerous effect - and is absolutely irresistible." - Jan Vilhelm Ahlgren

Interesting.
Just like the scent.
Are we all one?
Or not?

When you read the description you think - because of the dark red velvet - actually rather of a dosshouse. Somewhat dusty perhaps and with the scent of wickedness.

My nose, however, says that we are dealing here with a complex green-brown scent. The start with the bitter but not sour Pomelo in combination with an almost poisonous green fig note is brilliant. This refreshes and cleans the nose for the other olfactory pleasures that will come. For me the fragrance now - after the strong top note - becomes much softer through the sweet tobacco which, mixed with the still fresh fig, grows together to a new fragrance. Now it changes from blue to dried light brown fig without its exuberant sweetness ... probably the tobacco tastes a bit astringent here with its mostly astringent appearance. Something different, I haven't smelled that note yet. Dried fig .. I don't even know in oriental scents. Now a noble nappa leather is added, sandalwood rounds off and after a while it becomes slightly salty-green with the vetiver. This mix results in a beautiful base note, but in between the poisonous green notes of the top note flash up every now and then and loosen the somewhat serious impression.

For me, the scent is now very close, is more perceptible on the clothes and blows around you discreetly with every movement. An exciting - rather masculine - fragrance (which of course can also be worn by the ladies), unusual in its ingredients and pleasant to wear.

It does not trigger head cinema for me - I am certainly blocked by Vilhelm's description - but that doesn't matter. Here at Parfumo we have a lot of perfumes that are full of fantasy. Maybe one of you will get this scent under your nose and feel the urge to write another comment. I am curious to see how the personal perception is there then.

.. .. ... in his lectures and books, that one should ALWAYS form one's own opinion and never just adopt the opinions of others. He is of course right with this statement ... but the convenience and other reasons sometimes prevent that.

So also with me: For lack of test possibility I took over the opinions expressed here to this smell 1 : 1 and did not consider it further, because I do not like 4711 and smells with strong Nerolinote anyway particularly.
A mistake, as it should turn out now, because I perceive Eau de New York completely differently. The tokens on the bottle with the names of different fragrances made me wonder and gave me the idea that EdNY should be a fresh conglomerate of several Bond°9 fragrances and thus a corporate identity fragrance composed.

It was written here of similarities to 4711, wondering that Vera Vanore didn't notice the similarity herself and called EdNY a copy of the German original 4711.
Sorry, I can't go along with that - even including different scents on the skin - for me EdNY is a fresh green aquatic with only small amounts of neroli.

After a hesperidic Colognestart - which has only a very distant 4711 impression - the flowers and herbs mentioned in the pyramid are quickly transferred. Now, at the latest, the suspicion of the fragrance conglomerate was confirmed with me. It smells similar to Green Irish Tweed or a mixture of the Bond°9 scents Chez Bond (soap-sweeter) and Riverside Drive (more herbaceous), both of which, according to the unanimous opinion of the American Youtube reviewers, represent an Americanized GIT version. In the base note, the usual notes of oakmoss, vetiver and musk for men's fragrances follow, which bring the fragrance to a classically elegant close.

It has to be said, however, that this fragrance has a somewhat synthetic effect, but this synthetic also has something to do with the long durability on the skin. Doesn't bother me in this and many other Bond°9s at all, it sets them apart from comparable scents - depending on your point of view - positive or negative.

I don't want to go further into the ambitious pricing and the sometimes somewhat unfortunate comments due to the mixture of price/fragrance (quality). Tip: The fragrances are now often available at much more moderate prices in the Inet from the well-known retailers.

I am happy to be able to enjoy this wonderful fragrance through a blind purchase.

For whom:
Free spirits and lovers of herb-fresh aquatic fragrances

When:
In the positive sense an Immergeher

Durability and Sillage:
For a citric green fragrance good ... 10 h ++ are easily accessible and the Sillage is well perceptible throughout ... EdNY is thus only slightly below the performance of GIT.

Note 1:
If you are looking for a summer fragrance with a long shelf life, Eau de New York can also be included in your considerations.

Note 2:
Also well suited for sports .. much better than some fragrances with 'Sport' in the name!