Jousset Parfums Gourmand Bakhoor Extrait de Parfum is a true gourmand scent that reminded me of dulce de leche; caramelized, nutty, milky, and honeyed in its sweetness at times. It was a linear scent and very much smelled the same 12 hours later as it did in the first hour, which is great if you...
Jousset Parfums Qahua Bunga 1 Extrait de Parfum is a gourmand fragrance that vacillates between almost caramelized coffee and bitter coffee with fruity, smoky notes and a hint of mint tea. It very much offered the notes listed as what I detected, and it had a linear progression, so if one loved the...
Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier Patchouli 1969 Eau de Parfum has a bouquet of earthy, damp patchouli with aromatic, spiced, green cardamom and citrus that just... dissipated in the first hour and left almost no trace behind. I re-tested and came up empty again after an hour.
I decided to still share my...
Naomi Goodsir Cuir Velours Eau de Parfum opens with sweet, almost fruity florals, with boozy rum and tendrils of tobacco smoke all spread over soft, supple leather. On my skin, this particular fragrance started to blur together within an hour and only became gauzier over time, but it tended to...
Amouage Interlude Man Perfume Eau de Parfum sets up with a spicy, more aromatic opening with minty oregano that is cooler, dusty, and almost dry, before leather and smoky incense emerge. The fragrance became increasingly resinous and balsamic over time with spiced, aromatic woods, deep, golden...
Akro Dark Eau de Parfum is intended to be a celebration of chocolate, and while the first few minutes gave dark chocolate with a hint of cinnamon, deep and rich, it didn't linger. It seemed to have patchouli in it, and then later, it was just dusty, aged leather and smokiness. The chocolate facets...
Akro Awake Eau de Parfum opens with photorealistic dark coffee, almost bitter before caramelizing, and being mixed with green cardamom and a hint of lemon citrus. For the first two hours, the cardamom ended up overwhelming the coffee, but then the coffee back as a soft diffusion of caramelized,...
La Via del Profumo Milano Caffe Eau de Parfum pulls out the less commonly played up facets of coffee initially; the coffee here is dark, bitter, and green with more medicinal notes, which then merges with spices (that read as cumin and cardamom to me). I didn't experience chocolate or cappuccino so...
Pierre Guillaume Paris Spicematic 11.2 Perfume is a cool, aromatic skin scent that features spearmint, ginger, and pine before shifting into a ginger, pine, and cedar combination that has touches of smoky incense before drying down to a whisper of lightly spiced and smoky cedar. The notes are listed...
Strangers Parfumerie Caffeine Honey Eau de Parfum feels like ordering a coffee and adding lots of syrups and flavorings to it; the opening more like a blast of roasted coffee dripped into a cup, followed by a drizzle of light, golden honey and a pump of vanilla and a pump of almond syrups. The whole...
