I was so close in purchasing lea dhiver but after i tested it at a FM boutique i was up in the air on it because of it's performance. I couldn't smell it much after like 3 hours. Do you also have this issue?
Nice one! Heeley has some good extraits (black labels) that I was impressed by. Ruade is not at discounters here unfortunately...😅 Patiently waiting for a deal
Chanel Cuir de Russie and Bois des Iles parfum is the most glorious autumn/winter scents. So smooth and comforting. I still moan that Chanel has discontinued them :(
The weather is getting there! Anyway, I’m forcing the fall fragrances myself as I tire easily of the summer wardrobe. Very jealous of your Cuir de Russie! Truly decadent. I nearly bought the Sycamore parfum last fall, but I am an unrepentant oversprayer, so I don’t trust myself to dab appropriately and go through $500 in a month lol. Completely agree about Heeley. Always good, always forgotten about. And I have never seen or heard of that vetiver one. I do love vetiver, so I need to seek it out.
Nice Mix. I got Rouade after your recent vid and love of a few other Parfum d’Empires. I really was surprised at the intensity! I have a few other full on ouds, so not sure why I was surprised, but was! Enjoying it, and glad I got it. Thx, and always looking forward to your recommendations!
Excellent list! Hoping you will do a full review of the entire Cartier Les Heures line. Also, love Guerlain Cuir Beluga. Curious to know which others from the L' Art & La Matiere line do you consider masterpieces? Thanks so much! :)
@@cme8174 I may have overstated with the word "masterpiece", got caught up in the heat of the moment. 😂 The only other I have so far is Embruns d'Ylang and I love it, but very much depends how you feel about tropical florals. I also think Spirituese Double Vanille is fantastic, and Bois d'armenie I like and highly respect but something about it isn't a love for me. Frenchy Lavande is also one of the best classic barbershop lavender masculines I've tried, a bit classic for my taste but really well done.
Couldn't agree more with your thoughts on Heeley and what Mathilde Laurent is doing. I've been digging into both the L'heures line and the Ouds.... Ruade recently jumped on my list... And now you've given me no choice but to put CDR Parfum on the list lol. Great fall list cheers ✌🏻
I tried this today and was shocked at how boring it was. The opening (literally the first minute TOPS) has a bit of a challenging varnishy smell. Sort of. It's kind of interesting. And then it's straight to the woody aroma chemical/incense drydown. Wtf?
Hey, about Musc 25, I got sample and Im so confused... A see this frag rather as a night out than day-to-day perfume. First impression was bad, now I am more into it... but still... price is crazy. I think this is better for a women, what you think?
Last month I bought a bottle A41 (2021) of FM the night. I blind bought this based on curiousity, I am familiar with fragrances that can be a little tough. Well was I underwhelmed. At first spritz, I immediately got reminded of the POAL dna. It has the same rose. Based on online reviews and people saying it smells fecal or funky, and to be fair I was kinda disappointed that I didn’t perceive it like that. None of it at all. Instead it had a really calm and quiet oud note. For me this isn’t oud heavy at all. I would say that it is POAL + a little bit of fuzzy not barnyardy oud. I had them both on each arm and I would say that POAL on me did perform an lasted way better. (The bottle was bought from an authorized store) I read that somewhere between 2015 and 2020, after the company got taken over, reformulations had been made. I never smelled the older ones, I can’t compare it unfortunately. The Moon is a showstopper
I was just as disappointed as you when I discovered that the jasmine wasn’t as prominent as I had expected. I agree with you that there is hints of the original Shalimar in the opening. But this only lasts for a few seconds!! I hardly detect any green notes but if I wet the spot on my skin where I sprayed this Millesime, the green notes suddenly appear and I can also smell fresh jasmine. Anyway, I’ve had several wears of this and I am no longer as disappointed as I was initially - it’s a good vanilla scent!
I agree that the opening is most interesting of all the millesimes (for me!). The leather behind the jasmine ❤. I do enjoy very much big indolic florals (particular favourite is Jasmin de Pays and Jasmin Antique) therefore the bias. Thank you for your review!
Thank you for this review, coincidentally I just finished my last few drops of A La Nuit the other day. If you like fresh jasmines, Aqua Allegoria Jasminora (now discontinued) can still be found on eBay and I quite like it. Based on yours and Persolaise's reviews, I'll probably skip this millesime and wait for the rose one. That said, I'm not convinced they're ever as good as the original, of which I'm a huge fan especially the EDC.
I consider myself so "lucky" that I absolutely adore the original Shalimar. Once I figured it out, it became the only vanilla fragrance I can stand, really. The rest feel too cheap, too "grocery store sheet cake frosting", too sweet.
@@RichMitch yes! 😂 I was just googling around after it had sold out in stores and there it was on QVC with a discount and free Shalimar body lotion, I couldn't resist that offer!
Hello I have OG edt Shalimar and Tonka Iris and now Jasmin. Tonka was so good and got even better. Iris wasn’t doing much when I first got it but a few months later is so good. The Jasmin has some slight animalic leather and I love that I haven’t made it to the dry down so we shall see but thanks for sharing your thoughts.
@@Indecencealicia hey appreciate your thoughts too! I never smelled the tonka, I'm not a big tonka fan so I never bothered but it seems to be a favorite. I also get that bit of leather in Jasmin but I wish it stuck around longer for me.
I saw you mention on Dacob's video that the EDP has changed and it's better now. Do you still feel that way? I was interested in getting a bottle of the EDP but I've not tried the recent formulations.
@@perroli I haven't done any thorough side by side so I can't be sure if the fragrance changed or if I just came around to like it more. The newer one did feel a bit lighter and more dry and there was kind of a dank musty note I didn't love when I tried it in the past which I didn't notice anymore. If there was any change I'd say it's not massive, maybe not even a reformulation but just a different crop of vetiver could give a slightly different feel. It's also entirely possible it smells exactly the same but it just suddenly clicked for me. Either way I'd say that you can buy the most current with confidence that it's still smelling good.
Ah yes, she made it just like how Lamy made Lamyland. How egotistical it is to just step into perfumery and spits on the faces of all the perfumers who dedicated their efforts into studying and crafting the art of perfume their whole lives like that. I'll be lenient and say it's just bad PR, but even then I'd expected more from my favourite fashion houses. Just give credit to your perfumers ffs
Hey! Im gonna order the 8x15ml hermessence gift set. Can i ask which of the hermessence line are your favorites? Love your channel btw. If you can give me a top 8 pls (excluding ambre narguile since i already own that)
@@benjidufourg1423 oh gosh it's hard to choose for someone else but I'll try: Cuir d'ange, Epice Marine, Rose Ikebana, Vetiver Tonka are 4 must have for me. The rest depends so much on your taste but I'd add: Santal Massoia, Agar Ebene, Osmanthe Yunan, Violet Volynka.
@@cheapimitation2242thank you ♥️ your voice is my favorite from all the channels that im following on youtube. Plz keep your channel alive for as long as possible :b
I was pleasantly surprised by this one, it's totally me in a bottle. I need to sniff Paris Paris again now that you brought it up. I am praying to the perfume gods everyday that this line ends up on the grey market cause those retail prices are crazy.
@@gunmetal2445 unfortunately not much hope for that, but at least they have recently launched a travel size option 2 x 20ml for $175 which comes out to less per ml than a full bottle.
@@cheapimitation2242 Good you brought that up. I just called up my SA to enquire about that. It seems they are only offering it for certain scents at my location.
Actually sounds like it would be up my alley compared to their more recent, modern creations. Unfortunately the price on their fragrances is completely obscene.
How are mass market perfumes able to use noticeable quantities of real oud? Wouldn't such a variable material be too inconsistent to cover thousands of bottles?
What a great discovery this channel is! Nice to hear some adjacent conversation about art, design and philosophy and not only 'what this new release smells like'. I'm by no means an expert nor an 'intellectual voice' but it seems to me that the postmodern point of the 'fall of grand narratives' is another attempt to totalize the contemporary social/human condition and it's been captured by global capitalism with great cinicism: we can no longer say there's BAD fashion, art, music, perfume, etc as long as it SELLS. The personal opinion is more individual than ever yet the consenssus isn't and never was (by authority then, by something else now). Anyway, pardon my ramble, I felt I needed to drop a few lines about this lol. Cheers!
Another great video. I find the desert gems the least interesting line from FM. It's a hard sell when you have so many other brands with oud offerings that are just as good (if not better) for 1/3 the price. The heavy reliance on amberwoods is also quite unlike the brand.
@@paulhayns Yes of course it's all subjective. You can find the Strangelove heavily discounted quite often. I personally much prefer the blending and ingredients.
Great vid. The slice of life commentary adds depth! Really wondering what your scent of the day was that you showed up to the Armory Show wearing, before you found the unbelievably unmaned Malles? PS- Love the Malle Moon Wearing Rage inducing theory!!! So good! If it’s not already a redit thread, it should be.
Haha I forgot to mention that and the answer is wild, I was wearing Superstitious! It’s also such a big fragrance I must have been leaving a cloud in my wake. 😂
Thanks again for yet another great video (also the novel in the background is fantastic!) Would love to hear your thoughts on the new Dries Van Noten scents as well if possible
Yikes, the only thing worse then bad perfume is a generic perfume :( But I am sure people will buy it so they can wear it with that Hermes cuffs....if thats still a trend.
ick. it really seems cheesy for an Hermes to have a bunch of fantasy notes (butterfly lily? miracle berry?) and to highlight akigalawoood as a selling point in the blurb.
I totally concur with your impressions. There are pleasant, sweet, elements offset and ultimately overshadowed by that sharp, screechy, wood. Leans ‘high-end hair care product’. It also does not strike me as overtly ‘feminine’ (whatever that means in relation to fragrance in 2024), despite it being marketed to women. You may or may not be aware that Barénia is the name of one of Hermès’ saddle leathers that debuted in the 1970s; it’s tanned in a special way and has a unique waxy feel, appearance, and aging character-and one that they only rarely put into production on select handbag releases. So there is some built-in Hermès lore or mystique that the fragrance would seem to be channelling, one supposes. That said, did you get *any* leather accord here? I did not. 🤷🏻♂️ Certainly not of an expected kind. Though I haven’t sniffed a Birkin made of Barénia! Perhaps the fragrance gets close to that scent… Finally, Paddock will be rolled out internationally in early 2025. No need to hop over to Paris.
@@EyeByBrian yea agree, I also don't get any leather here. I suppose some ppl get a leathery smell from Akigalawood but I certainly don't. Great news about Paddock, I'm very keen to try it!
