Scent/Fragrance of the Day - 2012

sachin said:

+2. Absolutely love Idaina Dento. Next on my wish list is Khashab.

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I have a sample coming. Looking forward to it!

Used Caswell-Massey Verbena.

London's is still having their 40% off sale so picked it up today on my way to the Post Office. While I was there I also picked up a C-M Lime that I will use later on in the week.

First time I have used C-M Verbena. Nice citrus start with a hint of floral after about 5 minutes then settles down to a nice lemon/lime/citrus scent.

A very nice, fresh scent.

Creed Silver Mountain Water.
This is one of the Creed fragrances that I think is not very good.
Sure it smells nice enough, but it lacks any "pop" or "pizzazz".
It smells too much like something I can get for 1/25 of the price.

Porsche Design Essence- liked it at first smell, but dry down turned me against it.

daverasi said:

How, or what words would you use to describe this one? Is it similar to anything we may know?

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"Whoa" then "this is what all the fuss is about??" then "hmm that's pretty nice."

Since I'm lazy, here's what I wrote last year:

"Well, I might need therapy, because I think I kind of like it.

The opening is very interesting, it's a powdery, floral musk, that gives way to the idodine and blood accords. While the blood is kind of faint, it's there in the background; I find the iodine note to be stronger and reminds me kind of bandaids or something metallic. I suppose it's the sandalwood in the base that provides a soft balancing quality and is playing around with the florals. The drydown is very sweet and floral, almost cloying, but not disgusting or putrid in the least.

I don't find this scent a wretched and repulsive as all of the reviews led me to believe, I was honestly nervous to wear this one, but I am starting to think I could wear this in public. I do like musk notes (civet, ambergris, castoreum, etc...) and find they work rather well with my body chemistry, though...

It's really not a vile beast IMO and it doesn't live up to the hype of the marketing campaign. For a better representation of sex, Serge Lutens' Musk Koublai Khan does it better (no pun inteded), because it's more novel like and doesn't intend to be a pornographic representation. Powdery feminine floral musks mixing with animalic masculine musks; think Conan the Barbarian coming home to his beauty queen wife in a grocery store romance novel...

Sorry for the essay"

It was ~70*F today, I was out and about for most of the day, no funny looks, nobody holding their nose, nobody throwing up or running away. Some reviewers either; never get past the opening, have a broken nose, can't dislocate from the negative things they've heard*, or simply want attention by casting a hyperbolic negative review.

It's not 2 girls 1 cup, it's a perfume...


*I'm starting to be of the belief that it would be better for frag heads to test scents without the names and just with a number, then only upon fully wearing them and getting a complete picture finding out what it is. Many a time I've tested scents that people have such extreme opinions about and they're anything but.

Dennard said:

Judging by some of the reviews I have read/watched, you might not want to know the answer to this question.

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Don't believe the hype.

Harris Arlington cologne

Amouage Jubilation XXV

Dc 1913

A cucumber/salty aquatic. This might be appealing to some, but I'm not too enamored with it.

Agar Aura - ​Idaina Dento

MPG Parfum d'Habit

Malle Musc Ravageur

Knize Ten

Guerlain Habit Rouge

git

Finishing up January and giving Dior Eau Noire a full wear

BRuhling said:

Profumo.it
Oud Caravan No. 1

I love this Oud! It's got a stark animalic leather to it that is very unlike anything else I've worn. I can't wait to see what this house did for Caravan No. 2! When you put this on, you are hit immediately with a primordial stink of leather, sweat, and manliness. As it mellows, the oud comes to the forefront, but the animalic leather never quite leaves. I definitely feel masculine with this scent on. And I can imagine wearing it as you charge across the desert in search of a maiden to rescue...

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I am wearing this one today. I agree completely with everything you say!