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Completely overrated and overpriced mainstream water ...
After I got my hands on the original tester of the Reflection Man again today, I dared to do another - and now also last - test, since this fragrance is currently runner-up in the perfume ranking and therefore must have something special that justifies this high rating, but has remained hidden from me so far. As with Dior's Homme Intense, which I unfortunately had to tear off completely in 2015 after multiple testing, contrary to the also very high ratings at the time, I was disappointed once again today, I am completely at a loss because of the fantastic rating and exuberant adulation and have to start a further tear-off, without wanting to offend all the enthusiastic users ...
Are we really talking about the same scent?
Amouage has produced truly exceptional fragrances and was certainly one of my favorite brands at the beginning of my semi-professional perfume career in 2015, whereby I mean the fragrances before Braken Man; especially noteworthy for me here are such unusual beauties as Memoir Man, Jubilation XXV Man, Epic Man and other fine fellows; Reflection Man in its very European adaptation is not one of them in my opinion ...
I really did give Reflection Man several chances in larger intervals and today I approached the test rather unbiased, but I still come to the same conclusion as in the last tests: Amouage Reflection Man seems to me like a highly pimped and bloated version of Jean Paul Gaultlier's "Le Male", which I found completely creepy and olfactorically unacceptable already at its release, although in the heart and base note it is much more complex and in the ingredients it is of higher quality.
RM is olfactorically the same as JPG's creepy water on my skin, is similarly overpoweringly obtrusive, dominant, penetrating, sweet, almost vulgar and unfortunately lacks all the elegance and refinement on my skin that I have read about in the many comments. Therefore I can neither understand the high ratings nor the many praises that have been written down about this creation by many perfumers; I can hardly understand why this fragrance seems to me like an olfactory tsunami that covers everything, even though it is part of the fragrance pyramid. Maybe RM and my skin chemistry just don't match, although it looks similarly creepy on paper or my best friend's skin ...
No offense - it's nice that this creation enchants so many people, because that's exactly what a perfume is supposed to do, so RM certainly has its raison d'être and should be celebrated. But the charms of Reflection Man will probably remain closed to me forever, so we probably won't meet again in this life, despite the general enthusiasm of the forum :-(
Are we really talking about the same scent?
Amouage has produced truly exceptional fragrances and was certainly one of my favorite brands at the beginning of my semi-professional perfume career in 2015, whereby I mean the fragrances before Braken Man; especially noteworthy for me here are such unusual beauties as Memoir Man, Jubilation XXV Man, Epic Man and other fine fellows; Reflection Man in its very European adaptation is not one of them in my opinion ...
I really did give Reflection Man several chances in larger intervals and today I approached the test rather unbiased, but I still come to the same conclusion as in the last tests: Amouage Reflection Man seems to me like a highly pimped and bloated version of Jean Paul Gaultlier's "Le Male", which I found completely creepy and olfactorically unacceptable already at its release, although in the heart and base note it is much more complex and in the ingredients it is of higher quality.
RM is olfactorically the same as JPG's creepy water on my skin, is similarly overpoweringly obtrusive, dominant, penetrating, sweet, almost vulgar and unfortunately lacks all the elegance and refinement on my skin that I have read about in the many comments. Therefore I can neither understand the high ratings nor the many praises that have been written down about this creation by many perfumers; I can hardly understand why this fragrance seems to me like an olfactory tsunami that covers everything, even though it is part of the fragrance pyramid. Maybe RM and my skin chemistry just don't match, although it looks similarly creepy on paper or my best friend's skin ...
No offense - it's nice that this creation enchants so many people, because that's exactly what a perfume is supposed to do, so RM certainly has its raison d'être and should be celebrated. But the charms of Reflection Man will probably remain closed to me forever, so we probably won't meet again in this life, despite the general enthusiasm of the forum :-(
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Celerito 5 years ago
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...but there's plenty of room for definite evaluation. Which is certainly desirable, since anything else will only lead to a distortion of the average value. If you really feel the fragrance to be THE worst (that's what the grade 1 stands for) you can imagine, then your rating would be really appropriate. So keep it up. By the way, your negative and generalizing assessment of my person is just as irrelevant to me, especially since it is without any foundation.
Celerito 5 years ago
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I'm sorry if my constructive criticism hurt your feelings. Has it really come to the point where a personal opinion, expressed on a factual level and without defamation, is already no longer bearable? It would be a pity if thin-skinned people, a lack of critical faculties and black-and-white thinking became the norm. There are so many gradations (19 to be precise) between "sky-high exultation" (grade 10) and "deathly sad" (grade 0, by the way). That leaves...
Duftfatzko 5 years ago
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I can't give a good rating to a m.E. unbearable scent, just because it has high-quality ingredients & the masses like it - & since only ratings from 1 - 10 are possible, but there are too many bad scents, a decided gradation is neither possible nor necessary. By the way, you didn't express your feelings but became a personal judge; you put yourself on the sidelines and lost my respect, so that your opinion is completely irrelevant - The End :-)
Celerito 5 years ago
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Don't worry, I'm relaxed and I've got nothing against you. I was just expressing my personal feelings. And I only meant that if you give a fragrance the second worst note, which you ascribe complexity and high-quality ingredients to, what other note could you give to the (mentioned) "underground fragrances"? This lack of sense of proportion "evaporates" any credibility for me.
Duftfatzko 5 years ago
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??? I don't remember giving a review for "James Bond 007" or "DJ Love", so I don't quite understand the relation to my review - & why credibility ? I have expressed my very personal feelings and not postulated a statement with the claim of compelling universal validity - so relax and leave the church where it belongs, namely in the village :-)
Celerito 5 years ago
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Well, not everyone has to like the scent, but it is certainly not for nothing on place 2 of the ranking. And whoever rated it worse than the whole biilicious little fragrances like James Bond 007, Playboy or even the Wendler fragrance "DJ Love" on average, has unfortunately lost any credibility in my eyes.
DUSTom 5 years ago
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As is well known, taste is a matter of debate, but I can only agree with this comment. Amouage has released some fantastic scents, so I was very excited about Reflection Man. The result was a nice scent, no question about it, but also a very popular one that absolutely lacks the unique selling point. So I don't understand the hype that is going on here. But, as I said, scents are something very subjective...
DUSTom 5 years ago
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As is well known, taste is a matter of debate, but I can only agree with this comment. Amouage has released some fantastic scents, so I was very excited about Reflection Man. The result was a nice scent, no question about it, but also a very popular one that absolutely lacks the unique selling point. So I don't understand the hype that is going on here. But, as I said, scents are something very subjective...
Duftfatzko 5 years ago
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Always this helpful and meaningful feedback ... :-)
Chinaski78 5 years ago
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Always this mainstream babble
Diesero 5 years ago
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Can sign everything 1 to 1 so, absolute incomprehension about this so good rating
Sengajaa 5 years ago
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The tastes are so different, but a 1 as a rating is very strange from you. There are quite different fellows like Herod, Layton and co. who are completely overrated in my eyes. Similarity with le male I find perhaps 5 percent in the head note afterwards independently and around classes better.
FvSpee 5 years ago
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I'm generally not a fan of Amouage, and I would never give this scent here just one point, that would be too extreme for me. But I agree with you that compared to the big, opulent, special creations like "Memoir Man" and "Jubilation XXV" it's a boring and disappointing one.
Behaviour 5 years ago
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oh well, it is already very finely composed and balanced, there is no question but projection and durability is unfortunately no longer what it was and price performance does not fit, I can also take Bogart Silver
3rdear 5 years ago
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Isn't it? Have mercy on all the pretty things you have to do to yourself, voluntarily, because everyone else does... and then can't bear them... is not too much to ask for in this spoiled time ;)