Short and Sweet Fragrance Reviews by Carlos J. Powell AKA BFL Fragrance REVIEWS Perfume REVIEWS Cologne REVIEWS Original and Cover Music Videos Some COOKING You'll also get to know my fur babies Jean et Claude.
Randomly chose this video, as I just received a sample of this fragrance here in 2024, and it just happens to be SEPT. 27th!!! Whoa! Miss BFL. Nice perfume, btw.
I tested out on my arm the EDP version and could smell it clearly throughout the day and night. Even the next morning. For someone in the age group of 45 - 55 I think the EDP smells very much the same, but is just more grown up and smoother. Not loud in your face. I do like the EDT as well, but I think it's just a bit overwhelming for others. May be I'm wrong. I recently bought the NEW realise from the house of Versace Versace Eros (Energy) and I think it's absolutely amazing.
Years ago, when I owned and wore Bois du Portugal, I felt absolutely ravishing. It felt like a luxury and prestige that I hadn't experienced in my tough working class upbringing. I wanted so much to embody this aura of sophistication and class in my late 20s, to distance myself from what seemed to be more pedestrian and coarse. I bought into the myth of Creed, hook line and sinker, and wore a number of their fragrances, with Bois du Portugal seeming to be the culmination of what Creed offered. 16 or more years later, I would then discover the work of Patricia de Nicolai, and her New York Intense would turn out to be an even more refined approach to this style, at least to my nose, feeling even more refined and elegant. However, Bois du Portugal will always be a fond memory of a time that I was searching myself, before all the wisdom, when everything was new and exciting, in terms of my exploration in fragrance and in the world in general.
Loved and enjoyed ur review ! Keep them cmng more and educate us !!! I just blind bought velvet orchid since I always was using black orchid !!!!! But I fell for velvet order even more !!
First, I miss this man. 😢 Now... Beach Hut Man is my favorite fragrance. The best way I can describe how I think it smells is this: Think of the most pungent bar of irish Spring Original Scent ever, but with a camphorous, bitter mint note at the top. But, it doesn't smell like 1980's Irish Spring mixed with mint. More like a more effervescent Irish Spring. The opening always reminds me of taking a warm shower with a bar of Irish Spring, the way the hot vapors waft the soapy green scent straight up into your sinuses is perfectly emulated here with the mint note. Then, a couple hours into the drydown, this thing begins to smell less and less like Irish Spring as it changes into something thst smells EXACTLY like the drydown of the 2012 Eau Sauvage Parfum, so much so that I don't think I would be able to tell one from the other. That is not a bad thing. It's divine. It's exactly what a gentleman should smell like and it lasts forever. 10/10 (but Eau Sauvage parfum- the 2012 version-is better.)
I didn’t know about Carlos back when he was still here with us. (just got into fragrances a year ago) Just found him out. But man… he looks like such a pure, beautiful soul. So sad he passed away. I hope he had accepted Jesus as his Lord & Saviour… cause Mannn I’d like to see him again in Heaven.
