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Cheap Imitation
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Reviews of things.
Thoughts on Frederic Malle Desert Gems (and Art Fair Musings) ft. The Night, The Moon, and Hope
something smells oudy in here
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Видео
Perfumer H Incense ft. Smoke, White Smoke and Charcoal with special guest LAVS
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delicate smoke
Frederic Malle Roses: Une Rose/Rose Tonnerre, Rose et Cuir, Lipstick Rose, Portrait of a Lady
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Tom Ford Black Lacquer Fragrance Impressions
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i must say when i re-entered the room after a shower the smell was quite present
Impressions Perfumer H Icons: Bergamot, Rain Cloud, Leather, Ink, and Smoke
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hushed elegance
One of a Kind: Parfum d'Empire, Louis Vuitton, Ormaie, Regime des Fleurs, Comme des Garcons and more
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ur the only one
Frederic Malle Green/Aromatic: Angelique, Geranium Pour M., Synthetic Jungle, Music for A While
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nature reimagined
Hall of Shame: Sampling Creed Carmina and Queen of Silk and Fendi Dolce Bacio and Ciao Amore
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nothing
10 Fragrances to Beat the Heat ft. Cartier, Guerlain, Les Indemodables, Vuitton, Chanel and more!
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it's not the heat, it's the humidity
Unboxing! Chanel Comète and No. 5 L'eau Limited Edition Drop Bottle
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Chanel-gasm
Frederic Malle Citrus ft. Bigarade Concentree, Cologne Indelible, Sale Gosse, and Outrageous
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elegant smells for inelegant weather
Candles! Featuring: Cire Trudon, Frederic Malle, MFK, Ostens, Celine, Malin and Goetz and more!
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scent yourself, scent your space
Serge Lutens Cuir Mauresque Blind Buy First Impressions!
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Serge Lutens Cuir Mauresque Blind Buy First Impressions!
Frederic Malle En Passant: Olivia Giacobetti's Melancholy Masterpiece
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Frederic Malle En Passant: Olivia Giacobetti's Melancholy Masterpiece
Impressions: Chanel Comète Les Exclusifs de Chanel
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Impressions: Chanel Comète Les Exclusifs de Chanel
First Impressions Revisited: Frederic Malle Uncut Gem, Dior New Look, Guerlain Shalimar Iris et al
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First Impressions Revisited: Frederic Malle Uncut Gem, Dior New Look, Guerlain Shalimar Iris et al
Impressions: Estée Lauder Legacy Collection curated by Frederic Malle
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Impressions: Estée Lauder Legacy Collection curated by Frederic Malle
Frederic Malle x Acne Studios First Impressions
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Frederic Malle x Acne Studios First Impressions
Fragrances for Spring 2024 ft: Serge Lutens, Frederic Malle, Chanel, Hermes, and Roberto Greco
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Fragrances for Spring 2024 ft: Serge Lutens, Frederic Malle, Chanel, Hermes, and Roberto Greco
Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist Impressions and Comparison
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Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist Impressions and Comparison
Hermes Leathers: Cuir d'Ange, Osmanthe Yunan, Agar Ebene, Galop, and Eau d'Hermes
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Hermes Leathers: Cuir d'Ange, Osmanthe Yunan, Agar Ebene, Galop, and Eau d'Hermes
A Special Unboxing: Serge Lutens A la Nuit and Strangelove
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A Special Unboxing: Serge Lutens A la Nuit and Strangelove
Thoughts on Guerlain l'Art et La Matière: Bois d'Armenie, Cuir Beluga, Spiriteuse Double Vanille...
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Thoughts on Guerlain l'Art et La Matière: Bois d'Armenie, Cuir Beluga, Spiriteuse Double Vanille...
Ånd Fragrance Discovery Set Impressions
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Ånd Fragrance Discovery Set Impressions
Impressions: Dior New Look and Guerlain Neroli Plein Sud
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Impressions: Dior New Look and Guerlain Neroli Plein Sud
Impressions: Thomas de Monaco Raw Gold, Fuego Futuro, Sol Salgado, and Grand Beau
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Impressions: Thomas de Monaco Raw Gold, Fuego Futuro, Sol Salgado, and Grand Beau
Fragrance Year in Review Part 2: The Samples
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Fragrance Year in Review Part 2: The Samples
Love your long videos and rants. You have a great soothing voice. Always looking forward to your videos x
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.
UNMANNED PERFUME STAND 🤩
Are you following me everywhere I go in RUclips 😂
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
@@zatanoa thanks! I haven't smelled the latest from Dries but will do a video if I get my hands on a sample!
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.
@@zambowman 😂😂 ick indeed
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!
I’m curious, have you ever tried Experimentum Crucis by ELDO (2019)? It’s also a rose-patch made by Bisch that cites akigalawood too, but I find that the sharp, icy qualities work really well with the whole fruity-spicy-earthy composition. Even into the far dry down I think the sharp earthiness actually remains rather tame and attractive. Does this one get to you the same way as the other akigalawood bombs?
@@noottrev you know I think I have! I've got the ELDO semi complete discovery set and I think it's in there. My first real encounter with Akigalawood was ELDO Une Amourette and I remember finding it interesting the first time I smelled that. The akigala isn't my main issue with Barenia as it's pretty subtle here. It's just such a boring release. It feels like they tried to put a twist on the already tired "fruitchouli" profile by using akigala rather than full on patchouli.
I found this to be like a Twilly Flanker... Recently Porter Sa Peau used Akigalawood very well I thought
@@pradeep_sekar yea I can see a relation to Twilly! And yes totally, I think I mentioned Porter Sa Peau is the first time I saw Akigalawood in a notes list and it didn't pop out to me in the fragrance.
Top was nice the rest was rough imo. Feels like nagel laying the groundwork for bisch's style
Haha you found this guy's channel too 😆💪 as expected
@@RichMitch yes! Bisch seems to have his dirty little hands in this. 😂
@@legoguru3000 haha hey I've known Rich for years now it feels like!
@@cheapimitation2242 haha team duck 🦆
Hi there, nice video. I just covered the same topic myself in my blog (pixidisperfumes) if you are interested. I find that either citrus colognes that avoid the sweet trap of some citrus fruits like Mandarin (for ex. Mandarino by Laboratory Olfattivo, which is nice but too sweet for the heat), or aromatic forward scents generally do the trick. More unusually, , tea fragrances are quite good for the heat (The Vert Bulgari type) and so are cold incense perfumes that remind you of stepping into an old monastery (i.e Reliques d'Amour, Avignon, Cardinal etc. ). Anyway thats' my take after roasting in Rome for 2 months....
Been so curious about Perfumer H but haven't found them anywhere in LA. Loved this video!
Great Vid! Thx! Notes: the backlash AND the backlash on the backlash! LOVE IT! I wish you had a video for new people like me on the in and outs or ups and downs of the “fragrance community”. Or like a FAQ sheet or something.
Love that bottle of LAVS. I almost forgot about Unum. Alot of fond memories with this house...I remember when the 'previous' Twisted Lily would stock the whole range.
Interesting! I didn't realised Smoke's has alot of notes, and notes that I like. I need to sample that again on paper (my sweaty skin probably muddles the scent). The retailer here stocks Charcoal too, but sadly no White Smoke T_T
I had high hopes for Incense water, but the other 3 look promising
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Interesting
Calvin Klein CK2, a discontinued fragrance, has a similar laundry and foamy scent. I think anyone interested in this FM should try that
Promise’s dry down is beautiful. The moon has more berry on the oud.
It can’t be the 4th. The night, Dawn, Promise, Moon, and now hope. 5
Love your channel bro 💪🤘
@@legoguru3000 thanks so much!
Just came across this while on vacation, picked up a few other things and wasn't planning on getting more, but after testing it I couldn't help myself... Loving it on first wear, at least.
@@paulhayns nice! I find it a bit challenging but also addictive, I keep wanting to come back and smell it again.
Hope has thai oud compared to the Night which has Indian oud Thai oud is usually Aquilaria Crassna species whereas Indian oud is Aquilaria Agallocha two very different types of trees and different oud oil products The promise doesn’t have oud at all only cypriol and other woody oils
I was hoping to buy the travel size sprayer of this and saw the price. 😆😆😆
Great vid. I love your take on reformulations heard in multiple vids. So refreshing, basically buy it or not, stop going on and on abt it. Love it. Got the itch for Une Rose.
@@orosz4001 thank you!
I don't really care for the Tom Ford fragrances. They often smell like something I have smelled before and the price point is too much for me. I did own the sadly discontinued Jonquille de Nuit that I adore, but I don't think it will be released again, if it does it will probably not be the same.
Excited to hear it is in NYC! I’m going to pop by the shop to try! I too hope there is one more still in the work. It was a very unceremonious departure!
@@orosz4001 let me know what you think when you try it!
I like it! An easier Night and an easier Promise. I have the others, and this very well may be the last Malle Malle, so I think I may “have” to get it. Glad I saw your vid that it hit NYC!
No rose de nuit 😢
My bad wrong brand 😂
I bought a full bottle of Rose Tonnerre and Rose & Cuir recently. I was waiting for a low enough price from discounters but seeing prices continue to rise up, I thought now was the time to bite. I quite enjoy Lipstick Rose, which seems like a more fleshed out version of Chanel's Msia to me. POAL should be something I like, but somehow I never wanted it enough. It's very well made though. I might bite if I see a low enough price or a miniature. Supposedly they use to advertise like 10% rose oil was used...I don't know if this was true...a blogger told me. Although 10% would have exceed IFRA restrictions and possibly it was a rose extract with the allergens removed. About Rose Tonnerre and Une Rose, I've heard many many times from women who have been long time perfumistas (50+ years) about the tragedy of its reformulation. They never complain about reformulations unless it's Une Rose lol. For me, my relationship has always been with the modern Une Rose/ Rose Tonnerre. Its just a happy and joyful reconstructed/ deconstructed rose to me.
I've always seen POAL as an early sketch for the modern rose-oud profiles. I need to revisit it again soon.
nice video! i luuuurve roses but Une Rose is so dark and almost Addams Family-esque that I struggle to wear it here in sunny Southern California. Strange, because i don’t find it “heavy,” just moody. a beautiful and strange perfume.
@@zambowman Adams family rose is the perfect description! And true I can't enjoy it at all in warmer weather.
What a great overview, inspired me to take out some of mine.Much like you, I have a nostalgic affinity with the brand. I discovered the line at Barney’s here in LA at the beginning of my fragrance journey. Lipstick Rose is great and the shower gel was really nice. I ended up going with Portrait about the time it came out. It is gorgeous but it devours me and sadly sits barely used. Lipstick still tempts me from time to time. BTW liking the tableau you always set up for reviews👍🏽
@@frankangel2833 ooh Lipstick Rose in the shower does sound nice! You may like Portrait more now, it only took me 10+ years to come around to it. 😂 I do believe people who say it's less strong now are correct, but still smells great to me and I might say I like it even more now than the earlier versions since it's less over powering.
(Une Rose/Rose Tonnere) is super complex to me, I own it and in each season it can smell a bit different, it does feel a bit like an russian roulette, sometimes it can smell a bit too harsh but other times the most expensive smelling rose scent
@@sepehrabdoli489 yea totally! To be honest I wasn't totally loving it the last time I wore it, I think it was still a bit too warm and humid. It's a real shapeshifter depending on climate and my mood!
@@cheapimitation2242 this might sound delulu, but I also have noticed that you really have to spray this gently like twice or three time max in different skin spot, I feel like if you spray it at the same spot it makes it go bad and extremely sour
Excellent Compilation! Only Lancôme has released 11 roses at once 😅
@@pradeep_sekar lol that's a lot of roses!
Loving the videos! All of these are great imo, but The Night and Rose & Cuir are the only Malle roses I own atm. Regretfully sold Une Rose, looking to get another soon... Cheers!
@@paulhayns wish I could've included The Night here but I've only tested it once in passing at the Malle boutique. If I ever get the chance to know it better I will post my impressions!
Excellent video once again. IMO you have the best Frederic Malle series on RUclips right now. I'm only familiar with Portrait of a Lady and it's one of my least favorite Malle unfortunately. Too strong on the ISO E Super and patchouli in the base. I need to try the others.
@@perroli aww thanks, I'm blushing! ☺️
I love your deep dives
@@mikeczyz thank you!
Fantastic
I think it's the fifth desert gems release (promise, night, dawn, moon, hope)
Right!
Promise is such a sledgehammer 🔨
Literally might be my top fragrance of all time for me. Such a banger 💯
@@RichMitch did you notice the dry down of Hope gets pretty dire? I'm still smelling the card in my room and 3 days later there is still a powerful amberwoody smell that'll singe the nose hairs. 😫
@@cheapimitation2242 yep absolutely. It's essentially just promise with a nice incense note at 3x the price!
Love the Headhunters cover on the book.
None of the Frederic Malle's ouds smells remotely closed to any natural oud I've smelt or even my sample of cypriol oil. I wonder what type of oud do they use in there. I believe Malle himself has standards and wouldn't pull a fast one on us but I am puzzled by the type of oud accord in his releases.
@@gunmetal2445 yea I totally know what you mean!
@@gunmetal2445 I wonder if it has something to do with Frederic's desire for clarity, like how the vetiver in Vetiver Extraordiaire is so scrubbed clean of any undesirable components. Maybe he takes the same approach to oud. I must say I don't particularly like the results, it ends up being a bit dry and unrelenting.
@@cheapimitation2242 I am going to ask the oudh enthusiast that i know if there’s any oud oils that have a dry leathery quality. It might be something Ive never encountered before.
@@cheapimitation2242 I've come to discover that most high end artisanal oud oils are free from funk/ animalics have minimal of it - the key is the way it is distilled/ extracted. This was what I was expecting to smell from the high priced oudh line. I was really hoping Malle would invest and use top shelf stuff (presuming here). But saying that, the natural Oudh oil is not loud or aggressive enough to stand alongside the woody ambers so it would be a waste of an expensive material. Maybe Malle has a different objective then what I think is the perfect Oudh scent.
Have you smelled the night? It has a very animalic oud smell probably what you think of a more traditional oud smell. But i really don’t care for that smell. The oud in promise is perfect to me.
Just found your channel. Great video, I do the same with Selfridges, I do miss the freebees from the Chanel Boutique, but the price difference doesn't justify the freebees. I'll have to check out the Chanel Beauty Boutique in Manhattan sometime. Keep up the good work!
I'd like try it but their prices are outrageous
Definitely will be trying this. Thanks for covering it. I've always wondered how their RTW survives....I rarely see anyone in the stores. In general, quite curious how brands that are more known for their clothing sustain themselves. They must need to sell truckloads of perfumes to pay the rent.
Sounds interesting, might actually consider sampling after being completely done with the private blend. Thanks!
Nice review as usual man. I like the bottle, price is absolutely insane though like most of the private blends are now. I have a recommendation though if you haven't trie it before, Jul et Mad Stairway to Heaven. It's a unique aldehydic fragrance. 💪
Great Review. I also share similar feelings about Tom Ford fragrances. I remember liking Plum Japonais.
@@frankangel2833 thanks! I don't think I ever tried that one but it does sound nice.
Great review! I am looking forward to trying it. I’ve only ever loved a couple of TFs, but the long-discontinued darling Japon Noir is one of them, and it really was utterly unique. This sounds like it might be of a similar mood. That said, the price on these is now to a point where I feel like I would be the butt of an inside joke if I actually paid it. You would really need to fall head over heels or have literally more money than you knew what to do with.
@@DaveNYC thanks! Yes that's the thing, to spend that kind of money I have to be really head over heels "can't live without it". I like this one, it's probably the best I've smelled from the brand in the last several years. But if I had $400 to burn there's about 100 other things I'd buy first.
@@cheapimitation2242 I just did the math, and if Chanel was priced the same per ml., the large Exclusifs would be $1620! Insanity.
Spot on! I feel pretty much the same on everything TF. You are distinctive in what you do here. I really like it.
@@marhoc6040 thank you!