My three most personal scents that send me down memory lane, while still standing the test of time! Givenchy Insensé, Alain Delon Iquitos and Aramis Havana!
On one site a young man mentioned about Havana, " OLD Fashioned" , and for the "Grandpa's" out there . After many positive reviews I bought Havana about month ago . After a shower my wife said it is very nice but a little strong but this was after the initial application,( the BOMB went off) ! Days later I hopped in my car with my 17 year old daughter for a drive which she inquired about this amazing smell in the car and I told her its an oldies cologne and she said it s amazing compared to the other colognes out there . Thanks for the heads up Chris !
+silentleopard1 Dont bother about how other folks think about something you like. Havana is eternally gorgeous and uplifting and you can be proud of your Daughter for sensing this at such an young age. Bravo!
These days with the metrosexual (aka gender confused) crowd if it is not uni-sex, sweet or can't be worn by women it is labelled Old fashioned, grandpa. If you like a scent, wear it and wear it proudly. You are not a woman, not an insecure teenager, but a man and that confidence will exude.
I am getting a wonderful Cary Grant vibe in this video. Fabulous suit and wonderful scent memories. Iquitos ...I would love to get my nose on this one. It has been a fascination to me for a while now. It sounds simply amazing. I am a fan of Alain Delon too. The fabulous Havana...YES! I have not tried Insense but I am a fan of Givenchy so now it is on my must try list thanks to your excellent suggestion. Honestly Chris we have to get you more subscribers, you are so very good at this. Cheers!
Dear Lanier, your continous support and kind words do mean a lot to me and the Cary Grant vibe is an amazing compliment to get. I could get you a decant of Iquitos if you like, I have 1 and 1/2 bottles of the stuff. Let me know if you are interested and I can send it to you now problems! Thanks again for your nice words!
You are so very welcome Chris. I think your channel is one of the best of the best. I am uploading my review of Samourai right now and I talk about your wonderful reviews in it. I will be adding a link to your channel so that more people who love fragrance can discover your unique style. I would love to sample Iquitos. Just a little tiny sample would be lovely. I will send you a message on that. Thank you so much.
Hi Chris, just let you know, here I am in Taiwan (lived here 30 years) and as a lover of old school fragrances I still revisit your videos and I love them. I just blew my wad on a 100ml bottle of Iquitos for a crazy price. I couldn't hold back any more as I realise how much I love this fragrance. I love the muskiness of it and the aldehydes. Despite being quite a "macho" fragrance in the animalic Kouros style, it is also surprisingly warm, cosy and even, dare I say it, cuddly! A very relaxing and comforting scent, I feel. Of all the fragrances of the past five years I have only really enjoyed Carolina Herrera CH Men Prive, Prada L'homme Intense, and Carven Tardes (a powerhouse almond scent). Modern perfumery mostly leaves me cold. I smelled Dior Sauvage Elixir the other day and almost threw up - i swear it was just horrible. Gone are the days when you could put your nose to your wrist and enjoy all the beautiful notes in a fragrance (Guerlain Heritage, I'm looking at you!). Now it's just a synthetic mess! Anyway mate - we know what we love, and long live the old school! Stay healthy and happy - all the best from Taiwan.
Chris, thank you for doing this artistic, eloquent piece. It is exactly how I feel. On any trip I've ever gone on, I've picked up a fragrance specifically for the occasion, and every time I smell each of them, I'm immediately snapped back in time to wonderful travels...I just wish I had better taste back then (like you!) in fragrances. Se la vie! I'd love to try these.
+Sean Thanks Sean for the feedback and you know, taste is an individual thing and its good that we have different tastes because otherwise the world would be a boring place!
It was indeed very nice to see Insence, I had a 50 ml bottle bk in 1995 and truly loved it....i still hv the bottle wid me....its sad that givenchy stopped making it.
I totally agree on that fragrance brain triangle, i was gifted a certain fragrance more than 3 years ago at an extremely painful health struggle period, and to this day just taking a wiff of it is totally painful !
You know, this might be an old video, but damn does is still effect, I feel sorry to not discover you eariler.. the beauty of the way you talked and described the fragrances, simply amazing.. it really made me feel, as someone to whom fragrances are a passion and a part of them, understand them and love them even more, and feel that warm feeling inside when realizing what they truly are.. I can't thank you enough for this beautiful presentation, just touching..
Now I know why I liked this channel. You remind me of Gary Oldman in Leon the professional. COOL! And ofcourse I like your lists. And since you like going back in time Leon the professional was the first movie I watched in a Theater in my first Visit to USA.The year of CK one. Once I smell CK one I instantly go back to 1994 and my first visit to USA.You are 100% correct its time machine in a bottle! Great Job!
What brought me back to the classics is Quorum by Antonio Puig. This stuff costs next to nothing but it beats down so many modern expensive fragrances with its class.
As a fan of aramis new west I'm hearing lots of love for havana and just ordered a bottle, looking forward to it, used to like Tuscany by aramis too. Nice vid. Thanks
I picked-up Havana last summer...it was okay, but I really started to enjoy this tobacco fragrance when during the Fall and Winter months. I'll have to check out Insense and Iquitos too.
Very well said! I feel the same way about fragrance! I was SO upset when Havana was discontinued- it's my favourite for my husband! Was beyond happy when they brought it back. What do you think of Dior Sauvage - in the black bottle?
Hi there, thanks. I havent tried the new Sauvage, usually too much hype kills my interest and I only explore new releases more deeply if they manage to survive on the shelves for at least a year....
Insense was my favorite and I loved Iquitos,but no we’re to be found anymore 🥲 Havana a still juse. Devin cologne was my favorite Aramis🥲 Love your reviews, brings back memories 👌
I'm a long time cigar smoker, and go figure, I really enjoy my tobacco scents! I love Aramis Havana, and D&G The One, and the likes, always goes well with a fine cigar! I liked D&G The One so much, I now have a 5oz or 150ml bottle, which gets a fair amount of use, out of all my other scents, its a staple, and Havana as well. Another great video, looking sharp my good man!! Cheers!
Chris, with your style and taste in the 3 exceptional colognes you've reviewed here, I think you'd be perfect for Eau Sauvage Parfum. It's pure class, lasts 12+ hours, and nothing like it on the market. Frankly, it fits you well my friend
Very nice and still very a descriptive look into your personal favourites. Much appreciate it . Will have to get my hand on the intense as I think I only had a mini of that one and can't remember the fragrance. Being an Elvis nut too, I will put Joe on my Evening prayer list as well. Long live the king and his team. Ps went to Les Miserables last night and wore KL homme , made the experience even better 😄
Perfumery is one of the most refined and ethereal inventions of mankind. It is perhaps the most fleetingly evanescent of all the human arts, but it is potentially also the most immediate and eternal. For all its abstractness there is a surprising quality of permanence about scent- a strange antithetical tension between the momentary and the transcendent. Fragrance can remind us not only of the intimate moments of our own lives; it can also transport us back through the long corridor of centuries-even to remotest antiquity-and make us the intimates of those that lived (and loved) long ago. Perfumes can carry us to archaic temple rituals, to the sorcery of the embalmer’s art, to Greek gymnasia and Roman bath houses, to the vanished court ceremonials of splendid ancient kings. We possess, in both text and image, extant recipes for ancient perfumes and aromatic unguents. Others may be extrapolated from the residue of organic compounds at the bottom of ancient pots. These physical traces of ancient perfumed oil may be studied and reconstructed among the test tubes and beakers of the chemistry laboratory through the marvels of modern technology. By means of Gas Chromatography, Mass Spectrography, and other scientific methods, the past can yield up to us its perfumed secrets. It is utterly amazing to me that we can precisely reproduce a scent familiar to the nostrils of an Eighteenth Dynasty Pharaoh and a Mycenaean warrior, a Judaean king or a Canaanite merchant, a Roman lady of leisure, or an ancient labourer toiling on some magnificent building project (the workmen who constructed the Great Pyramid were regularly issued perfumed ointments along with their rations). It is remarkable to experience firsthand the fabulous scents told about in the Gospel stories, of the myrrh and frankincense of the adoring Magi, or the exotic ‘spikenard’ with which the sister of Lazarus, much to the annoyance of Iscariot, anointed the feet of Jesus. There is beguiling poetry lying deep within the dormant organic compounds recovered from fragments of ancient pottery. When stirred from their millennial slumber, the ancient molecules reveal with astonishing clarity the sensory perception of an alien world. Once qualified and quantified, the ghostly residues are released back into life, brimming anew with all the energetic vibrancy and exuberance of their ancient youth. Through the meticulous application of the chemist’s craft, these compounds are resurrected from their stony graves and delivered from oblivion, their faint, colourless remains once more made spectacularly vivid and concrete. Once the organic code has been deciphered, the fragrance memories which had been securely locked away for millennia are revived to delight us as they did those who treasured them long before. Things forgotten are remembered, the broken vessel is made whole, the dusty relic new, and the scents of a thousand springtimes past begin their olfactory ascent back into the world of the living. Yes, fragrance IS-figuratively and literally-a time machine.
Very vivid and nice illustration . I dought it is possible to unveil all the secrets- but i enjoy the stories and theories of olifaction and their ephimeral effects. But hold on to something that vanished long ago and try to bring it back into the world of the living? Who do you want to appease. Forgotten scents remind me of a long past love story. There came a time and there was a reason to forget. There were difficulties. Something just did not work out and stand the test of time. So are they not just translucent art of the era-of that moment in time- designed to enchant but to have a fleeting, trancient, and temporary materialty? Perishable, evanascent, vanishing ... holding you in their grasp only for a short moment and not only delight and please- but sometimes also distract you.. For an eternity it has been the desire to find answers to understand the love and fascination of why they charm us, woo us, change the spirit and hypnotize us once they are set free. You seem to be one who understands the difficulties between men and women. How seldom it works out. Yet, we all keep trying like fools.
Nicholas Goldsworthy - It may difficult to believe, but I assure you: on the basis of the advances made in such technologies as gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, it IS possible to isolate the precise molecules of residue compounds from artefacts, and to recreate ancient aromatics with astonishing accuracy. I’m an archaeologist specializing in ancient organics; over the years, my colleagues and I have reverse engineered dozens of ancient perfumes.
Great video, just wish I could hear it better :). My three all time fragrances are: Versailles Cologne pour Homme - Jean Desprez(discontinued), Halston Z-14 and Van Cleef and Arpels pour homme.
Havana : I owned it also at release, liked it but never loved it. There's something too strong in the drydown, I don't know if it is ambroxan or some other modern molecule.I love the middle notes though, orange with spices I would say.
Hello I owned Insensé at the time of release. I've always wondered if there was a slight aquatic note in this one (calone). I guess yes, but not sure. Anyway, great cologne.
How I wish to find affordable a decant of samourai this fragrance evoke a so important memory in my life, I really need to revisit this time tunnel of emotions once again, You are Keanu Reeves style on this video,all the best bro
Thanks for your videos: they are always out of the ordinary, but in a positive, intelligent way. Finding Iquitos seems impossible.... My "time machine" fragrance is Drakkar Noir.
I have 3 favorite scents, Havana, PS by Paul Sebastian, and Z-14 (vintage). Glad to see my good friend Havana getting some respect! It's incredible for spring and summer (comes alive in warm weather). It's pretty tame in the winter cold though, so I don't recommend it year-round.
PS is outstanding in my opinion. It's one of the best performers period for sillage and longevity. Just a monster, 1 spray, seriously. It definitely has an old-school barbershop vibe to it, but in a good way (well to me that's good haha). It's an oriental and has a very soft, almost velvety feel to it yet it lacks sweetness that many orientals have. Some gentle florals, spices, a little sweetness and oakmoss. It's been said that it's like an EDP version of Old Spice. I definitely get a bay-rum vibe to it. Overall, it puts out an upscale, well-dressed aura. It's been a huge seller in the US for decades, yet it's rarely talked about. I wouldn't wear PS in the summer heat because it would just take over. But for every other season, it would work, day or night. It might smell too dressy to be worn casually. Now there are some reviews on certain sites that mention not being impressed at all or even saying they smelled a "dirty" note in it that they hated. Yet others rave over it. This is because there are TONS of counterfeit bottles of PS out there. I know, I got one. I had 2 bottles of PS, one from Marshalls and another tester I bought on Ebay. The one from Ebay clearly was a counterfeit, it was garbage and I smelled the dirty note some have mentioned. The color was different, the smell was totally different. But the authentic PS, it's freaking beautiful stuff and there are absolutely no off-putting notes. The only way I can see someone not enjoying PS (authentic) is if they think it smells dated (came out in the late 70's). It's really kind of unique IMO, yet some claim it resembles Obsession and I can see that, but they're different enough to tell apart for sure. It's complex, screams "classy" and as you can tell, I highly recommend it.
blackcurrant is my favorite note not only in fragrances, sadly most decent ones I found are opium ysl(discontinued) and vagabond Prince enchanted Forest. incense is my new Target for hunting, I already can't see it in regular stores I shop. is it discontinued? I see it had square bottle, that differs from yours, which one I should search? again thx for new idea, dunno how could I miss that one, maybe the name confused me... do you have any recommendations where I can find this one?
HI, its spelled Insensé. Its hard to find indeed. Very randomly available. But if U like blackcurrant ( like i do) U can also check out Trussardi Jeans (man) which has a playful, blackcurrant much more prominent than Insensé which is rather flowery.
Thanks for answear. I already tried to find trussardi jeans - it is also discontinued, and is very hard to find, i gave up searching it like 2 years ago :) Anyway thank u for recomendation, if u got any other ideas please let me know. I managed to find Insense ultramarine yestarday after i watched ur review, did u tried this one? on fragrantica it is said it has watermelon notes, i'm afraid they can make the sound of this frag too generic...
I've just ordered two 7ml miniatures of Alain Delon Iquitos (full 100 ml bottle is soo expensive). In a couple of days I will know how is it to be transported to amazon jungle.
scent land U are STAR... in fragrance reviews and recommendations.......I was very lucky to get iquitos and .....wow....I had this lovely lady say to me on the train in quote....'u smell like a Real Man'....what she meant she had a beautiful smile on her face. keep on d videos. bless
very good question. the answer is no. but it has a reason. at the time of this video I did not own Lagerfeld Photo or Versace Versus which are both in my all time top 3. Delon would stay but rather with the first fragrance AD then Iquitos. Insense and Havana are still also among my fav ones of course.
@@scentland4753 cheers for the reply dude and I would love to sample Lagerfeld Photo, gonna keep an eye out for a bottle. Yes Havana is wonderful, I love a lot of Aramis. As for the Delon scents, very interesting and having watched your vids on them they sound very appealing..best to you sir
At first when i saw "incense" i thought "This dude seems doesn't have a taste" although i don't know how it smells, but when i saw you bring "Iquitos" in, dammmn, i rethought and gone "damn, he has a great taste".
@@minafouad78 absolutely not. The closest was Nino by Nino Cerruti (1979) similar floral green vibe but soapy. Lapidus PH Sport is very similar to that
@@scentland4753 Normally you speak in low decibels.. So, I think, it's better to keep the mic closer. Sometimes it's needed to replay to keenly listen.
I found in 2017 a Insensé in a perfumary with some treasures. Also mine is a tester 100ml. I get florals and also some smoke or insence... a great frangrance... great performance...floral but for man.
