Hi Sabastian, great videos... very informative, thx for that. Could you review fragrances from any of the following brands: 1. Jack Black 2. MARCO SERUSSI 3. BOTANICAE 4. Denzel Collection 5. tfk ? Which the ones you think are worth buying? Also could you also review "HISTOIRES DE PARFUMS" house. Which one do you think are crowd pleasing?
But the rest I don't have videos for and will look into doing them. I may for sure do more DHP and TFK as those are easier for me! Thank you for the support! :)
@@ThePerfumeGuy hello thanks for your great review , and I wanna know which one between these two fragrances has better longevity and sillage , and thanks alot
Absolue pour le soir is my favourite Mfk, I love the mix of sweet and skanky. I had grand soir too , but finished my bottle. The though of re buying it 😢 Great to have a comparison between the two ,it'll be very helpful for alot of people 🙏
The analogy with music is very apt, Kurkdjian is a “musician” and these two fragrances are variations on the same theme. If Gran Soir were a beautiful domestic cat, Absolue would be a tiger, sensual and wild like a modern Shalimar.
I went to Neiman Marcus on Black Friday with the intent on buying Grand Soir but ended up with Oud Satin Mood because I just couldn’t get over how beautiful the scent is. I absolutely love Grand Soir and it’ll be for sure my next MFK purchase.
@@jg29271 the violet provides a little powderiness but it’s not the overwhelming smell and experience of the fragrance. I get a lychee smell from the top, then the rose, benzoin, and a little Oud remain for the life of the fragrance. I bought the EDP, I’ve never tried the extrait but that has to be absolutely nuclear. I sprayed the EDP twice and people told me they could smell me the minute I walked into a room.
I got the sample today that I bought of grand soir and I'm crazy for it. Now I have to find where I can get the best price. The sample I bought a generous size. I can't believe the sexy feeling of this perfume
I like challenging fragrances, I'm still very ignorant about all the different notes but I'm learning fast, I haven't tried any of this two, I want to but Ambre Sultan First, an then will go to the MFK, but I don't have any problem with animalic or skanky fragrances au contraire I love them!
I read in Russian version of Fragrantica that Absolue pour le Soir smells like " Sweaty Hamster in Honey" Actually this description of APLS interested me very much xD and I'm going to blind buy it.
Not a listed note at all but to me Grand Soir smells almost identical to many fine aged rums I’ve sipped. It’s a quite literal similarity really, not exaggerated or approximated. Might not be the perfumer’s intent but for me that’s exactly what it’s like.
I’ve just received my decant of Grand soir... I love it,it’s the perfect mix of ambery, vanillic and balsamic notes! It’s definitely my favourite MFK! Absolute pour le soir is too animalic for my tastes... and I love some animalic perfumes, but mostly with civet. And Ambre sultan is one of my favourite fragrances!!!
Hi Sebastian, what is your favorite amber between Ambre Sultan and Grand Soir? I love Ambre Sultan and Mitzah but I was thinking of adding Grand Soir. You have helped me discover a lot of fragrances that I looked over. I really appreciate you being part of this community. Thanks
Well it figures it is long gone :o( I am glad to hear about the differences between the two. I was going through all my decants from years ago when I was a scentsplit member, found this and put it on, not recalling what it was. I got this decant before there was ever a big deal over MFK or I was even aware of online perfume channels. Let's just say I have to find a bottle, so gorgeous! I am a vintage and chypre collector so it smells like heaven to me! Thank you for this video!
Depends if you like musky go with APLS or if you like it warm and gooey without the sexy musk of the APLS then go with GS. It just depends on what you like but both are fairly unisex! :)
Awesome review, I have both and really enjoy both. But Absolute Por Le S. Is very animalicé. But right my alley. Once it settles. Awesome. Should have never been just boutique 😒😏
The difference is simple - Apls smells skanky and urinal and Gs doesn't. That the main difference for me. Also Gs "warms" the skin better and becomes stronger and more projective over the time.
I just sampled Grand Soir looking to see if it could possibly surpass Ambre Sultan. It’s early days but I can’t get past a clear note of fresh celeriac?!
I'm such a fan of Absolue Pour Le Soir. I remember the whole hubbub about a certain characteristic about it, that I was a bit reserved about the sample I got from Twsited Lily. The sample was one from MFK themselves, not a dabber , and after I spritzed it, I felt a little ashamed that I loved it so much, for I wasn't supposed too. Grand Soir is good, but Absolue Pour le Soir is my favorite of the two. Great comparison Sebastian.
Anyone know how I can find an earlier bottle of Grand Soir? Someone gave me a sample that I loved so I got the full bottle and it’s definitely lighter. Apparently amped up lavender and toned down vanilla and labdanum, it’s nice but disappointing honestly
I love the slightly pissy quality of the honey (in APLS)...Soooo “sexy”!! Did not like Cologne Pour le Soir at all! B-O-R-I-N-G😬. Grand Soir is gorgeous, but after APLS, it seems too simple!
Sounds like I gotta try APLS, grand soir is definitely nice and lasts all day and then some but, like you said nothing challenging or super interesting 🤷♂️ just very well done easy to wear benzoin heavy amber.
Sebastian? I love amber's; and bought & love Grand Soir, but it's not long-lasting. I actually always used Lagerfeld, and wanted a change, and I was torn between TF's Tobacco Vanille` and Grand Soir. So--GS won out. But it simply doesn't last that long. I bought it NIB/Retail so....anyway, I was wondering if you could suggest a longer-lasting, bolder, sexy, amber. I want it to last all day, not for a couple of hours. Thank you.
Could you have gotten a version of Grand Soir that might have gone bad? Where did you buy your bottle? If it's at a place like Neimans you might take it and exchange it. Or it could be nose fatigue or anosmia? Put it off for a week and come back to it and don't wear beast mode scents for a while cause when your nose gets used to beasts nothing compares to them. I hope that makes sense?
Ambre Fetiche is dark, dry and very very smoky. The dryness compares to Tauer LDDM but not scent just the dryness. If you want some sweetness maybe go with MPEG's amber? It's one of the best in the world. ruclips.net/video/tJl8MjgLxEo/видео.html
@@ThePerfumeGuy Thank you. I will pick-up a decant 5-10 mil. to start. MPEG sounds just what I'm looking for. Sexy. Amber, Musk, Vanilla, Benzo-something, Labda-spelling, that just screams eff me all over it. Thank you very much, Sebastian. peace & love
For me APLS is too smokey for my taste and I don’t really get anything animalic from it. I love Grand Soir. To me APLS and Grand Soir are completely different. I can see a comparison of APLS to Mitzah, but I love Mitzah; it’s got some smoke, but not overly so.
Absolue is too funky, needs to bathe for my taste. It gets even dirtier on my skin. I still have the gifted decant. I haven’t smelled the other yet. I love complicated scents, but this isn’t my taste.
Samples leak and become very "airy" and lose their potency. Trust me...there is nothing designer about it...beautiful and ultra powerful. But the drydown is sooo much more.
@@ThePerfumeGuy i appreciate your helpful reply! A friend of mine in overseas said her old Grand Soir one had that 'elegant old lady vibe' opening before it becomes a rich deep ambery vanilla. The one i have now is ambery and vanilla, like a very sweetened up root beer vanilla but no old granny opening. Wished there was a website who confirms reformulations what so ever.
Smelling Great Fragrance Reviews it’s such a shame as there’s so many things that are great about it. But once I got that thought in my head, I couldn’t get past it. Think it might be the benzoin.
Seriously, do you come here to watch my head or to hear about the Perfumes? If you’re coming here to watch my head then you’re coming here for the wrong freaking reasons.
Im so glad you mentioned musc ravageur by FM because it’s my favorite. I was definitely eyeing Pour Le Soir because im after that musc. I am so interested smelling the more animalic musc that once was in musc ravageur, so I’m grateful you pointed out Pour Le Soir and Musc Sultan are great ambers with musks. 🥰🫶🏻💕❤️
🆚Watch Absolue Pour Le Soir, Amber Sultan and Mitzah Comparison Video here: Absolue Pour Le Soir ruclips.net/video/zUBAjP5hhcA/видео.html 🆚
Hi Sabastian, great videos... very informative, thx for that. Could you review fragrances from any of the following brands: 1. Jack Black 2. MARCO SERUSSI 3. BOTANICAE 4. Denzel Collection 5. tfk ? Which the ones you think are worth buying? Also could you also review "HISTOIRES DE PARFUMS" house. Which one do you think are crowd pleasing?
Here's a playlist of Histoires De Parfums reviews: ruclips.net/video/IoG0TrnwZws/видео.html
Here's one TFK review: ruclips.net/video/rpIqwFfruPk/видео.html
But the rest I don't have videos for and will look into doing them. I may for sure do more DHP and TFK as those are easier for me! Thank you for the support! :)
@@ThePerfumeGuy hello thanks for your great review , and I wanna know which one between these two fragrances has better longevity and sillage , and thanks alot
Absolue pour le soir is my favourite Mfk, I love the mix of sweet and skanky.
I had grand soir too , but finished my bottle. The though of re buying it 😢
Great to have a comparison between the two ,it'll be very helpful for alot of people 🙏
The analogy with music is very apt, Kurkdjian is a “musician” and these two fragrances are variations on the same theme. If Gran Soir were a beautiful domestic cat, Absolue would be a tiger, sensual and wild like a modern Shalimar.
I went to Neiman Marcus on Black Friday with the intent on buying Grand Soir but ended up with Oud Satin Mood because I just couldn’t get over how beautiful the scent is. I absolutely love Grand Soir and it’ll be for sure my next MFK purchase.
I am obsessed with Oud Satin Mood 💙
Is Satin mood very powdery? Which one did you get edp or extrait on the satin mood?
@@jg29271 the violet provides a little powderiness but it’s not the overwhelming smell and experience of the fragrance. I get a lychee smell from the top, then the rose, benzoin, and a little Oud remain for the life of the fragrance. I bought the EDP, I’ve never tried the extrait but that has to be absolutely nuclear. I sprayed the EDP twice and people told me they could smell me the minute I walked into a room.
Are there any perfumes like Absolue Pour Le Soir? I'm so sad I didn't even know it existed and these two I wish were in my collection together.
I got the sample today that I bought of grand soir and I'm crazy for it. Now I have to find where I can get the best price. The sample I bought a generous size. I can't believe the sexy feeling of this perfume
Absolue pour le Soir is IMO the best perfume in MFK collection. Wonderfully warm, spicy, animalic, inscensy
I sure love this one! :)
I like challenging fragrances, I'm still very ignorant about all the different notes but I'm learning fast, I haven't tried any of this two, I want to but Ambre Sultan First, an then will go to the MFK, but I don't have any problem with animalic or skanky fragrances au contraire I love them!
Love love Absolue Pour Le Soir, bought it off a Basenote member for a song some years ago. I wish I had used it more sparingly. Oh well.
It's certainly a great scent! :)
What can i say, this was a very very professional review thank you !!!!!!!!!!
Great review Sebastian, Pour le soir for me is one of my favorite. I prefer it to Grand soir, I find it boring..Cheers!
I read in Russian version of Fragrantica that Absolue pour le Soir smells like " Sweaty Hamster in Honey" Actually this description of APLS interested me very much xD and I'm going to blind buy it.
Not a listed note at all but to me Grand Soir smells almost identical to many fine aged rums I’ve sipped. It’s a quite literal similarity really, not exaggerated or approximated. Might not be the perfumer’s intent but for me that’s exactly what it’s like.
Lol bot even close
Have tried APLS, its really nice but I'm sticking with Grand Soir. Sucker for Vanilla drydown.
I’ve just received my decant of Grand soir... I love it,it’s the perfect mix of ambery, vanillic and balsamic notes! It’s definitely my favourite MFK! Absolute pour le soir is too animalic for my tastes... and I love some animalic perfumes, but mostly with civet. And Ambre sultan is one of my favourite fragrances!!!
Thank you for doing this video Sebastian. I had been waiting for this one.
thank you for the great review... can this be unisex or femininely? I love boozy honey fragrances.
I've just ordered it but I've heard unisex slightly more masculine than feminine though
Hi Sebastian, what is your favorite amber between Ambre Sultan and Grand Soir? I love Ambre Sultan and Mitzah but I was thinking of adding Grand Soir. You have helped me discover a lot of fragrances that I looked over. I really appreciate you being part of this community. Thanks
Thanks for the suggestion Sebastian cause I love Apres Le Soir and Grand Soir. I purchased my bottle of APLS from Galleries Lafayette Haussmann.
Awesome that you got to get this one in Paris! :)
Great video and I enjoyed it and I'm going to try these fragrances and have a blessed day
Thank you so much for uploading this, which I was curious about. I'm always getting a lot of help
- A subscriber from South Korea
Though I like Grand Soir, it can get boring and sickening on me 😬 , APLS is gorgeous and I don’t get tired wearing it, lovely and sexy scent 💯 🔥❤️
I have Grand soir and I love it, but is APLS better??
APLS is my favorite from the line
Well it figures it is long gone :o( I am glad to hear about the differences between the two. I was going through all my decants from years ago when I was a scentsplit member, found this and put it on, not recalling what it was. I got this decant before there was ever a big deal over MFK or I was even aware of online perfume channels. Let's just say I have to find a bottle, so gorgeous! I am a vintage and chypre collector so it smells like heaven to me! Thank you for this video!
I have both and your on point with these frags. Well described Sebastian 😋
Thank you! :)
Fabulous channel, really enjoying your reviews - keep up the great work 😊from the U.K.
Thank you! :)
I have Grand soir and I love it, but is APLS better??
Which of the two fragrances you consider is more appropiate for women.
Depends if you like musky go with APLS or if you like it warm and gooey without the sexy musk of the APLS then go with GS. It just depends on what you like but both are fairly unisex! :)
@@ThePerfumeGuy thank you so much
Awesome review, I have both and really enjoy both. But Absolute Por Le S. Is very animalicé. But right my alley. Once it settles. Awesome. Should have never been just boutique 😒😏
The difference is simple - Apls smells skanky and urinal and Gs doesn't. That the main difference for me. Also Gs "warms" the skin better and becomes stronger and more projective over the time.
My anwer: "Lumière Noire pour homme ;)
Apls cologne what’s the difference?6.4 bottle going for 145 pounds is it worth it ?
I just sampled Grand Soir looking to see if it could possibly surpass Ambre Sultan. It’s early days but I can’t get past a clear note of fresh celeriac?!
Great review i wanted to know the differences a long time ago
You had me at musk
Yes, you can get on their websites. Shipped worldwide and free shipping.
I'm such a fan of Absolue Pour Le Soir.
I remember the whole hubbub about a certain characteristic about it, that I was a bit reserved about the sample I got from
Twsited Lily. The sample was one from MFK themselves, not a dabber , and after I spritzed it, I felt a little ashamed that I loved it so much, for I wasn't supposed too. Grand Soir is good, but Absolue Pour le Soir is my favorite of the two.
Great comparison Sebastian.
Can i wear this in the spring, that’s the big question for me
I had bad experience with absolute pour le soir back in 2010 and thought that orange juice was still being produced 😅. Gotta. Check out grand soir
Grand Soir is nice...but Absolute Pour Le Soir absolutely murderes it :)
HA! ;)
Is the cumin note similar to rose 31 or declaration from Cartier. Trying to get a feel for this after buying GS AND CPLS
Anyone know how I can find an earlier bottle of Grand Soir? Someone gave me a sample that I loved so I got the full bottle and it’s definitely lighter. Apparently amped up lavender and toned down vanilla and labdanum, it’s nice but disappointing honestly
Absolue Pour Le Soir for me but then TF Amber Absolute/Tobacco Oud Intense are my fave right now?
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Great review. Thanks.
Sabastian i liked your review and personality you are very great personality man; i am from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦
I love Absolue Pour Le Soir❤️ it’s one of my top 5 niche frag.
I love the slightly pissy quality of the honey (in APLS)...Soooo “sexy”!! Did not like Cologne Pour le Soir at all! B-O-R-I-N-G😬. Grand Soir is gorgeous, but after APLS, it seems too simple!
AHA exactly huh?
Your welcome...Your Welcome...happy i was able to introduce this to you! Grand Soir that is
ADRIAN?
@@ThePerfumeGuy exactly..
EXACTLY ITS ME!!
Great video,thx mate. cheers Amber Gold-CK is great Amber IMHO .cost in Sweden 75 bucks. good price thu!!
So is is Cumin or Coumarin which is banned in modern perfumery?
Neither
Sounds like I gotta try APLS, grand soir is definitely nice and lasts all day and then some but, like you said nothing challenging or super interesting 🤷♂️ just very well done easy to wear benzoin heavy amber.
Yes please try APLS! Keep me posted! :)
Thank you Sebatian for another great video! I have MFK Grand Soir and love it but not want to smell Absolue Pour Le Soir : ) xoxo
Sebastian? I love amber's; and bought & love Grand Soir, but it's not long-lasting. I actually always used Lagerfeld, and wanted a change, and I was torn between TF's Tobacco Vanille` and Grand Soir. So--GS won out. But it simply doesn't last that long. I bought it NIB/Retail so....anyway, I was wondering if you could suggest a longer-lasting, bolder, sexy, amber. I want it to last all day, not for a couple of hours. Thank you.
Could you have gotten a version of Grand Soir that might have gone bad? Where did you buy your bottle? If it's at a place like Neimans you might take it and exchange it. Or it could be nose fatigue or anosmia? Put it off for a week and come back to it and don't wear beast mode scents for a while cause when your nose gets used to beasts nothing compares to them. I hope that makes sense?
Perhaps. I bought it from a distributor on Amazone
Ambre Fetiche is dark, dry and very very smoky. The dryness compares to Tauer LDDM but not scent just the dryness. If you want some sweetness maybe go with MPEG's amber? It's one of the best in the world. ruclips.net/video/tJl8MjgLxEo/видео.html
Also yes I find APLS more of a benzoin and honey amber with cumin. Be warned it's not recommended for blind buys unless you like cumin and musk! :)
@@ThePerfumeGuy Thank you. I will pick-up a decant 5-10 mil. to start. MPEG sounds just what I'm looking for. Sexy. Amber, Musk, Vanilla, Benzo-something, Labda-spelling, that just screams eff me all over it. Thank you very much, Sebastian. peace & love
For me APLS is too smokey for my taste and I don’t really get anything animalic from it. I love Grand Soir. To me APLS and Grand Soir are completely different. I can see a comparison of APLS to Mitzah, but I love Mitzah; it’s got some smoke, but not overly so.
Sebastian Do you have or tried Oud cashmere Mood?
Of course it's my most fave of the Ouds.
I see APLS is gone from the MFK website?
I just ordered the 200ml bottle of Cologne Pour le Soir however.
Oh crap! Is it’s out of stock temporarily or just removed completely?
MFK launched in 2009, APLS came out in 2010, so one year.
Nobody can compete with you when it comes to quality of content.Been trying to order APLS and CDG off the official site but it doesn't work
Call them. They are very nice and will place an order and follow up via email with receipts/tracking number etc! :)
@@ThePerfumeGuy wow..i had no idea..great chance to practice speaking some french.thanks
Is this a summer cologne?
No
Their site doesn’t actually ship worldwide. Doesn’t ship to the US at all
They have shipped to me but perhaps I called and asked them.
I ordered from them three times in September 2019 and they shipped to Virginia SUPER quickly (in under a week)!
I also get the cacao/chocolate undertone
Absolue is too funky, needs to bathe for my taste. It gets even dirtier on my skin. I still have the gifted decant. I haven’t smelled the other yet. I love complicated scents, but this isn’t my taste.
blindbought apls and i love it!!!
Awesome! :)
i had a sample of grand soir.. gave it away. its good but i think it smells like a lot like some designers!
Samples leak and become very "airy" and lose their potency. Trust me...there is nothing designer about it...beautiful and ultra powerful. But the drydown is sooo much more.
@@toneyclayton485 bought it from mfk website
Hello. Do you know if Grand Soir sold now has been reformulated from the first batch in 2016?
Most likely for sure!! As fragrances are always getting reformulated! :)
@@ThePerfumeGuy i appreciate your helpful reply! A friend of mine in overseas said her old Grand Soir one had that 'elegant old lady vibe' opening before it becomes a rich deep ambery vanilla. The one i have now is ambery and vanilla, like a very sweetened up root beer vanilla but no old granny opening. Wished there was a website who confirms reformulations what so ever.
how similar is it to miza?
Hi did you watch this video?
ruclips.net/video/zUBAjP5hhcA/видео.html
One of the main attractions of Pour Le Soir is that it captures the bedroom scent of a big night of sex between a man and a woman, no holds barred.
😂
😯Your grand soir is almost gone. You need a refill.
I remember Absolu being kind of animalic, does anyone else find that?
Well never mind haha, hadn’t tried absolu in a longggg time so I wasn’t sure
Smells like a lot of other fragrances for cheaper; Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan cross Chopard's Oud Malaki
I love both so much. Have you ever smelt Akkad by Lubin Sebastian? I've heard it's quite similar to Mitzah!
I have but a while ago. Might have to get a bottle of AKKAD. I do enjoy it! :)
His next perfume creation for this year is going to be masculine.
Grand Soir is a beautiful sweet amber. Absolute Pour Le Soir has a strange smell of dried urine, like walking past a suspect alleyway.
I can see that smell of dried urine! LOL! ;)
Smelling Great Fragrance Reviews it’s such a shame as there’s so many things that are great about it. But once I got that thought in my head, I couldn’t get past it. Think it might be the benzoin.
For the love of God, lose the Cap
For the love of GOD it’s not going anywhere!!! Stop it already! Jesus freaking Christ!!!
Seriously, do you come here to watch my head or to hear about the Perfumes? If you’re coming here to watch my head then you’re coming here for the wrong freaking reasons.
Smelling Great Fragrance Reviews don’t bother, i like your hat , it adds a personal touch ! Keep up the good work with the reviews :)
Im so glad you mentioned musc ravageur by FM because it’s my favorite. I was definitely eyeing Pour Le Soir because im after that musc. I am so interested smelling the more animalic musc that once was in musc ravageur, so I’m grateful you pointed out Pour Le Soir and Musc Sultan are great ambers with musks. 🥰🫶🏻💕❤️
Absolue Pour Le Soir for me but then TF Amber Absolute/Tobacco Oud Intense are my fave right now?
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