My sample set should be arriving within a few hours. It'll be my first experience with ALD. Hearing you and everyone else's impressions has me really hyped.
I cant wait. Mine show up Wednesday. Really wanting to try that santal one with durian. Which 2 would you have blind bought bottles if this sample pack wasn't available? I'm curious how one gets such aged ingredients as well.
@@TherapeuticFragrance I'm happy to say I can easily live without santal galore now that I've got my nose on it lol. It smells good for sure, but you won't have any competition from me buying that one. Agar de Noir on the other hand, great perfume. I could get used to smelling like that one :)
I see what your trying to do hear Alejandro. LOL I will wear by themselves and try to have videos up of ones I will buy before release no promises. If not I will do a 3 minute video before launch of what I'm buying.
Therapeutic Fragrance just order the sample set , but I don’t know when I’m Going to receive it. Hopefully before all the fragrances go on sale... that’s why I was asking for your opinion Lol.... Do your thing musk lave may be similar to MEM ?
Yes musk lave is very nice and easy to wear, but I don’t like the design of the bottle, I don’t know if I will buy it or not cause I don’t like the design of the bottle, do you find the design is good ?
@@TherapeuticFragrance Thank you someone. We need to! We might have to go to his country but you might be lucky in the U.S. Over here, I doubt I'll find anything like that. Maybe find such vintage perfume collectors, they might know.
Mate I wish, I thought mine was going to get held up, when I saw it I just stopped everything and did the happy dance. My neighborhood thinks I'm crazy but I'm smelling Areej baby.
Musk Lave and Agar de Noir are my favs so far. Haven't had a chance to try Cuir de Russie. Not completely sold on Santal Galore, but the drydown was quite nice. Grandenia I sampled on a test strip - it's pretty but not for me. Agar de Noir may be a buy but it strikes me as a polarizing scent despite the positive forum reviews so far and definitely hard to wear...similar to W&P in that regard. I suspect Musk Lave will be the most popular in this collection; ALD's musk-heavy frags are all really, really good.
@@TherapeuticFragrance I have Siberian Musk and I've sampled Russian Musk. I hope we get a Russian Musk II because I regret not buying a bottle. Your "ALD ranked" video added to that regret. 😅 The try-before-you-buy process for this series was well-executed. Perhaps the other mega-hype houses follow suit? They should...
Yes musk lave is very nice and easy to wear, but I don’t like the design of the bottle, I don’t know if I will buy it or not cause I don’t like the design of the bottle, do you find the design is good ?
I’ve contacted the House of Le Dore, and they told me that the sample sets have completely sold out. In fact, they are concerned that they won’t be able to fulfill the orders that were already placed. Quite the conundrum. This means I will have to blind buy, which I hate. Which of these 5 fragrances would you recommend? Which of these lean more feminine? Thanks in advance.
I will be reviewing the ones I am buying. SG is the only one I would put at 50/50. I mean these are all over the place for people. I only think a couple will sell out right away unfortunately I think it will be the ones I will be reviewing.
Will know when you do. If I ever had information like that I would make it public as a news release or something. They know to keep quiet around me, LOL. Should be anytime.
USPS has my samples still stuck in Jersey City and I'm out West. Ordering kept crashing and had to order by card rather than Paypal just to get through - took 15 minutes even though I was signed in with all my details pre-filled, should have taken 3 minutes at most if all went smooth. My sample order from LuckyScent with USPS took 7 days after leaving store, stuck in LAX station just to cross one state line. With ALD I'd be willing to pay for DHL next time.
I feel like Attars showcase sandalwood better than spray format. I’ve been alittle let down on these reviews about Santal Galore. I was really hoping to hear that sandalwood was a bit more prominent. I’m still waiting on my samples so I’ll hold my tongue until they get here because I’ll probably end up eating my words. For now Agar De Noir seems the most promising!
Please listen to the others (BECAUSE OF LIMITATION). LOL in all seriousness this will be mis-understood. Until you start playing with the material I never understood what it did to other ingredients. The only attars I have seen them work in is where the sandalwood makes up almost the entire composition. Once you compose as a perfume it takes on the other notes and binds like an oil of love rather than show off on its own. I only know by playing around. To achieve a sandal only smell without synthetic it would have to be only a couple ingredients. I don't want to yamor on any more before my review, but I get what people are saying I haven't read I just get people this will be misunderstood and hidden for a few. I am holding back so much here. Can't wait to hear your thoughts after a couple full wearing. Don't mix on those days.
@@TherapeuticFragrance I did a full wear today, and the progressions are interesting. The part I found to like the most was the smoke that poked through at different times. It does sit close to the skin. 8 hours in and I have to put nose to skin to smell. I do think that this one will be a love for some and ho hum for others.
Mr.J I agree with all of that. This reminds of the days with Indolis and Walimah. Stong voiced people only know about oud, musk and darker ingredients. I have said many time this is where Adam is underrated as a perfumer. This work is really good composition wise. Smell is not for all, but the composition.
@@TherapeuticFragrance it was worth a shot! If anyone is in the know its you! I subscribed to their newsletter so hopefully they'll let us know and not surprise drop it on us. Also funny side story my siberian husky mix dog likes to smell cuir de russie on the paper strip!
@@TherapeuticFragrance What's true about that they say Cuir remembers W&P? How about Musk Lave and Santal Galore? You can send email if you prefer or not answer, however you want
Therapeutic Fragrance looking forward to more thoughts. Just swiped Musk Lave. I got the lavender and right now its sweet. Hopefully it doesn’t stay too sweet
@@TherapeuticFragrance nope...just had that one sprayed on. I sprayed once on my arm and one spray on my clothes. Might be a skin chemistry thing coz the one which I sprayed on my skin evolved a bit differently than the one on my clothes.
@@TherapeuticFragrance He blends it so well, that to an untrained nose like mine it becomes very difficult to pinpoint the exact notes.... especially notes like the beaver tail which I have never smelled before.😁 BTW, just out of curiosity, do you get a little bit of Russian Oud vibe from Agar de Noir and YSL Opium vibe from Grandenia?
Life is not the same You need to fight Chuck Norris to get some Your fragrance journey is not complete It's your bowser to take down... Sorry feeling sarcastic. Agar De Noir is in that line but not the same thing. Oud Luwak is the closest but it is no Russian Oud.
Oud from a 30-year-old........ Tree. for a second there you had me thinking he bought it from a 30-year-old merchant because of the long pause can you imagine if I stopped the video right there and went about my day the whole time I'm thinking why did he mention that he bought it from a 30-year-old merchant?
I knew you'd love these... Cuir de Russie is like 3-way mashup of War & Peace, Koh-I-Noir and Antiquity. Those are the ones I'm getting. My girl wants a bottle of this!
Waiting for my full collection pre-order to arrive. Thanks for your take on these, looking forward to trying them.
Niclas, it was risky but the risk will pay off.
@@TherapeuticFragrance Tell me about it. Didn't plan to, but got caught up in the moment. 😄
I've been there
My sample set should be arriving within a few hours. It'll be my first experience with ALD. Hearing you and everyone else's impressions has me really hyped.
What a collection to start off with. Seriously though.
This was awesome Brandon. I'm cracking my set open this weekend. Might watch this again while experiencing.
You have it? Oh the constraint I admire it so much.
Haha. I do have it. I want to give them my full attention and make it an event. Also the promotional videos for these were 🙌
You did the videos? LOL I'll have to watch. Haven't seen them yet. Was to busy trying to play refresh the website.
Therapeutic Fragrance haha! No I DIDN’T do them:) They were just beautifully well done. Maybe next time tho🤞
I KNOW A GUY:)
Man look at you trying to stay calm lol. Thanks for the first reactions!
Yes on three of them.😊😊😊
Nice video. Will you be doing a review and rating of Agar de Noir?
Thanks for your impressions. I can’t wait to try mine when I get them.
Oh no you still haven't gotten samples?
I cant wait. Mine show up Wednesday. Really wanting to try that santal one with durian. Which 2 would you have blind bought bottles if this sample pack wasn't available? I'm curious how one gets such aged ingredients as well.
The full bottle show up Wednesday? Awesome.
@@TherapeuticFragrance no the sample pack lol
Gotcha, still have time to decide.
@@TherapeuticFragrance I'm happy to say I can easily live without santal galore now that I've got my nose on it lol. It smells good for sure, but you won't have any competition from me buying that one. Agar de Noir on the other hand, great perfume. I could get used to smelling like that one :)
Nice that's what makes us all different.
Bookmarked. WIll watch the vid after I gave mine a first try, want to go in blind. After that, this is the place to be
Appreciated Brian! Blind is best.
People have asked me if I'm Russian too. I tell them, 'nah, I'm never in a hurry."
I get the never in a hurry, but they always seem to have every base covered possible.
Great review bro!! Thanks for being the first one to make a review about ALD 6th collection.... which would be your top 3 ?
I see what your trying to do hear Alejandro. LOL I will wear by themselves and try to have videos up of ones I will buy before release no promises. If not I will do a 3 minute video before launch of what I'm buying.
Therapeutic Fragrance thanks , appreciate your kind words!
Have you had a chance to sample yet? Or are you going to decide on day of. Will do my best to help people like that out.
Therapeutic Fragrance just order the sample set , but I don’t know when I’m
Going to receive it. Hopefully before all the fragrances go on sale... that’s why I was asking for your opinion Lol....
Do your thing musk lave may be similar to MEM ?
NOt even in the same country
Just wow
The dry down on musk lave is phenomenal. Powdery lavender with musk. My second favorite is cuir de russie.
Nice Dean, very nice!
Yes musk lave is very nice and easy to wear, but I don’t like the design of the bottle, I don’t know if I will buy it or not cause I don’t like the design of the bottle, do you find the design is good ?
I am LOVING agar and Grandenia so far.
What a combo😁😁
Looking forward to my sample set getting here soon!!!
Hey Christopher, I feel ya I was almost the last one to receive my Bloodline order:)
You have it already 😯 Wow. Looking forward to the review. I tried asking about those aged materials too. No luck.
Perfumers secrets just as bas as magicians. The further you go the more these open up I have found.
@@TherapeuticFragrance Hahahahaha. This is very true.
Someone just commented he buys them at auctions, we need to find these auctions.
@@TherapeuticFragrance Thank you someone. We need to! We might have to go to his country but you might be lucky in the U.S. Over here, I doubt I'll find anything like that. Maybe find such vintage perfume collectors, they might know.
You never know Ikram. These older cultures keep some of this stuff very hidden.
I pre ordered the sample set, you any idea when it'll arrive?
Mate I wish, I thought mine was going to get held up, when I saw it I just stopped everything and did the happy dance. My neighborhood thinks I'm crazy but I'm smelling Areej baby.
@@TherapeuticFragrance haha man loves a perfume delivery. Can you keep me informed of when these get released?
Yeah I will be doing a review of a couple and will announce in them.
@@TherapeuticFragrance they just arrived!
You are one I can't wait to hear from, make sure you wear them one at a time the silage is part of the beauty with Areej.
Damn DHL killing it, mines out for delivery. Thanks for the vid, got me watching at 2x stoked haha.
You have DHL? I had USPS
@@TherapeuticFragrance Yep. Paid for USPS, but I guess maybe for Canada he decided to go with DHL to be safe?
Most likely. Probably quicker with DHL. USPS is a toss up.
Musk Lave and Agar de Noir are my favs so far. Haven't had a chance to try Cuir de Russie. Not completely sold on Santal Galore, but the drydown was quite nice. Grandenia I sampled on a test strip - it's pretty but not for me. Agar de Noir may be a buy but it strikes me as a polarizing scent despite the positive forum reviews so far and definitely hard to wear...similar to W&P in that regard. I suspect Musk Lave will be the most popular in this collection; ALD's musk-heavy frags are all really, really good.
Hey P, so lucky we can sample. My mind has been changed already. Do you own any other musks from Areej?
@@TherapeuticFragrance I have Siberian Musk and I've sampled Russian Musk. I hope we get a Russian Musk II because I regret not buying a bottle. Your "ALD ranked" video added to that regret. 😅 The try-before-you-buy process for this series was well-executed. Perhaps the other mega-hype houses follow suit? They should...
I hope so. RA is on the forefront and blazing the way for all. A lot of credit to him for doing this.
Yes musk lave is very nice and easy to wear, but I don’t like the design of the bottle, I don’t know if I will buy it or not cause I don’t like the design of the bottle, do you find the design is good ?
Hate I didn’t grab this sample set.Need to final smell some of his creations.Nice first impressions brother.
Still a chance at full bottles. Man FJ this stuff is up your alley.
Therapeutic Fragrance From everything you said I’m starting to think that.Keep up amazing work brother.
Appreciate it.
Dang bro they were up there for a while on the site. Would love to see your thoughts
I’ve contacted the House of Le Dore, and they told me that the sample sets have completely sold out. In fact, they are concerned that they won’t be able to fulfill the orders that were already placed. Quite the conundrum. This means I will have to blind buy, which I hate. Which of these 5 fragrances would you recommend? Which of these lean more feminine? Thanks in advance.
I will be reviewing the ones I am buying. SG is the only one I would put at 50/50. I mean these are all over the place for people. I only think a couple will sell out right away unfortunately I think it will be the ones I will be reviewing.
Therapeutic Fragrance Yes, I totally agree with you. SG will fly out the door sadly, and the only one I am persuaded to blind buy.
Therapeutic Fragrance Do you know when the full size bottles will be released?
Will know when you do. If I ever had information like that I would make it public as a news release or something. They know to keep quiet around me, LOL. Should be anytime.
USPS has my samples still stuck in Jersey City and I'm out West. Ordering kept crashing and had to order by card rather than Paypal just to get through - took 15 minutes even though I was signed in with all my details pre-filled, should have taken 3 minutes at most if all went smooth. My sample order from LuckyScent with USPS took 7 days after leaving store, stuck in LAX station just to cross one state line. With ALD I'd be willing to pay for DHL next time.
Ouch. Yes unfortunate with this, they are all learning about technology.
I feel like Attars showcase sandalwood better than spray format. I’ve been alittle let down on these reviews about Santal Galore. I was really hoping to hear that sandalwood was a bit more prominent. I’m still waiting on my samples so I’ll hold my tongue until they get here because I’ll probably end up eating my words. For now Agar De Noir seems the most promising!
Please listen to the others (BECAUSE OF LIMITATION). LOL in all seriousness this will be mis-understood. Until you start playing with the material I never understood what it did to other ingredients. The only attars I have seen them work in is where the sandalwood makes up almost the entire composition. Once you compose as a perfume it takes on the other notes and binds like an oil of love rather than show off on its own. I only know by playing around. To achieve a sandal only smell without synthetic it would have to be only a couple ingredients. I don't want to yamor on any more before my review, but I get what people are saying I haven't read I just get people this will be misunderstood and hidden for a few. I am holding back so much here. Can't wait to hear your thoughts after a couple full wearing. Don't mix on those days.
@@TherapeuticFragrance I did a full wear today, and the progressions are interesting. The part I found to like the most was the smoke that poked through at different times. It does sit close to the skin. 8 hours in and I have to put nose to skin to smell. I do think that this one will be a love for some and ho hum for others.
Mr.J I agree with all of that. This reminds of the days with Indolis and Walimah. Stong voiced people only know about oud, musk and darker ingredients. I have said many time this is where Adam is underrated as a perfumer. This work is really good composition wise. Smell is not for all, but the composition.
I was going to say SG reminds me of the reaction to Walimah
Nice @geoffrey
What is the release date Brandon?? I gotta try to get at least 1 of them
If I knew it would be a video all by itself that would get more views than anything. Sorry not privileged to that kind of top secret stuff.
@@TherapeuticFragrance it was worth a shot! If anyone is in the know its you! I subscribed to their newsletter so hopefully they'll let us know and not surprise drop it on us. Also funny side story my siberian husky mix dog likes to smell cuir de russie on the paper strip!
Oh yeah. My bull dog loves castoreum. She goes crazy for it.
8:42 ''It's breathable dark'', then he proceeds to cough 🤣😂 Jinxed it.
I actually coughed a bit more the only part I cut in whole vid, which is rare for me.🤣🤣🤣
@@TherapeuticFragrance Yeah, I figured you cut the cough fest. Hahaha.
That fragrance as art is something else.
@@TherapeuticFragrance Absolutely.
@@TherapeuticFragrance santal galore is 🔥, does bring me back to first whiff of walimah and remind me of it
Best review
Oakmoss... WHAT? On Santal Galore... It comes in to balance the sweet fruit with bitter about 20-30 minutes in and its NICE!
I am so scared to talk about this fragrance. Bloodline is as about all I could take this year.
I think Santele Galore is going to be the first one to go. That's probably the musk lavender
Good guesses.
Wow got it already Brandon 😍😍😍... Amazing still waiting for mine 😁😁😁
USPS came through. Was working seeing everyone else post yesterday about them. 😁😁😁
Therapeutic Fragrance Can’t wait get my hands on them after this video , Santal Galore sounds mind blowing 🙏🙏🙏
It's different than what you would expect. Almost shouldn't be called Santal, but I do think it's mind blowing so far.
Therapeutic Fragrance I am more excited about that durian than Sandalwood 😁... So anything will be a win for me 😁😁😁
Yes Ranju I think you will be one to understand what sandalwood does in a composition it is quite unique and well composed.
Ain’t gonna lie. The race is ON
SHHHHHHH. 😁😁😁😁 To late for all of that. The lid is off on this house. Still a few houses this year that haven't spread like this fortunately.
Therapeutic Fragrance At this point smelling these, it’s not about which one I like most, but rather is there one I don’t want
And there is so much available hold your horses for next week. It's nut's.
Therapeutic Fragrance You weren’t joking. Just grabbed 2 Dixit & Zaks and a Pomare’s. Eyeing some Motifs
Nice, man!
Thank you!
@@TherapeuticFragrance What's true about that they say Cuir remembers W&P? How about Musk Lave and Santal Galore? You can send email if you prefer or not answer, however you want
Great video. You have a favorite?
Hey Anthony I do have a favorite, more to come here.
Therapeutic Fragrance looking forward to more thoughts. Just swiped Musk Lave. I got the lavender and right now its sweet. Hopefully it doesn’t stay too sweet
Today was my first spray of it. Swiping definitely adds the sweetness and spraying made it a lot more aromatic. The fragrance is aptly named
You do have a faint resemblance to Zangief. Shorter and more refined but maybe these guys have street fighter in their subconscious.
I sprayed Cuir de Russie on my forearm... it reminded me a lot of Russian Musk😁
WOW, I did not get that at all Rohan, Did you have any of these others sprayed on, because there is one.
@@TherapeuticFragrance nope...just had that one sprayed on. I sprayed once on my arm and one spray on my clothes. Might be a skin chemistry thing coz the one which I sprayed on my skin evolved a bit differently than the one on my clothes.
I just smelled the one I sprayed on the note card today and It's so animalic. The beaver tail is loud. Kind of like it.
@@TherapeuticFragrance He blends it so well, that to an untrained nose like mine it becomes very difficult to pinpoint the exact notes.... especially notes like the beaver tail which I have never smelled before.😁
BTW, just out of curiosity, do you get a little bit of Russian Oud vibe from Agar de Noir and YSL Opium vibe from Grandenia?
YES on RO.
He made a post about the aged material. Gets quite a bit from auctions.
I missed that and I would love to be at these auctions.
Are you reading problem near power spect 😁😁.
I refused so long, it's time. I literally said everyone is making everything smaller.😁😁
If you missed out on Russian Oud......
Life is not the same
You need to fight Chuck Norris to get some
Your fragrance journey is not complete
It's your bowser to take down...
Sorry feeling sarcastic. Agar De Noir is in that line but not the same thing. Oud Luwak is the closest but it is no Russian Oud.
Fancy box. Ensar just came in a DHL. Bag. With damaged parfum boxes.
What was damaged? ouch!
Oud from a 30-year-old........ Tree. for a second there you had me thinking he bought it from a 30-year-old merchant because of the long pause can you imagine if I stopped the video right there and went about my day the whole time I'm thinking why did he mention that he bought it from a 30-year-old merchant?
Very lost on this comment. Where was this at in the video?
So,, are you Russian? Your Russian right. Lamfao.
If it hasn't happened over five times for totally random different places and people wouldn't even think it was weird.
Adam always faces away from the camera. Odd.
It's hard doing this camera thing. I see habits I do that would never do otherwise.
I knew you'd love these... Cuir de Russie is like 3-way mashup of War & Peace, Koh-I-Noir and Antiquity. Those are the ones I'm getting. My girl wants a bottle of this!
People who bought the entire collection aren't gonna be disappointed!
No they are not. Hopefully half of them did not go to one person for resale!
HE"S BACK!!!
@@TherapeuticFragrance i was fortunate to grab a full set as well as a sample set. Have to wait until Saturday for my samples unfortunately
Hey Ryan this is not like the last two collections these are special.
A little rough on the denture
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Lol. Breathable dark. Cough cough hack.. lol..
LOL that's what Ikram said. I cut a ton of it out as well.
Still another good video..
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