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Not a Bentley, but solid mid-range
Niche times not about price but outlets - actually this fragrance seems to be almost only available online, at least I have never seen it in a perfumery.
Bentley may be a luxury car brand, but in the case of perfume that can be a bad omen. But this one is far too good for a car fragrance. An ambitious composition with an unfortunately too small budget - but chapeau what Mme. Lorson has achieved here - compared, for example, with the ten times more expensive but much more simply constructed Sir George by (at least nominally) Alberto Morrillas (which is probably even less expensive to produce than the Bentley).
As a perfume conservative, it's all a bit much for me here, of course, it goes a bit in the direction of a gold chain and chest hair under an open shirt: boozy, spicy, laurel-pepper, sweet-resinoid-leathery. It has distant similarities to Idole de Lubin, but is more transparent and has a clearer, more sophisticated construction. Unfortunately, the synthetic veil hangs over everything - I would like to smell the formula with twice the budget. Nevertheless, Bentley for Men is no worse than many mass-market products from Tom Ford, Amouage, Creed etc. and still a third cheaper than countless mass-market fragrances that smell no better and often much worse. Just for proving that you can still sell a fragrance of this type for €25 with a profit margin, Bentley deserves a prize and anyone who likes the style will definitely be happy. I like to wear it very sparingly from time to time, but in principle I clearly prefer the Gucci revenant Bentley Absolute.
Bentley may be a luxury car brand, but in the case of perfume that can be a bad omen. But this one is far too good for a car fragrance. An ambitious composition with an unfortunately too small budget - but chapeau what Mme. Lorson has achieved here - compared, for example, with the ten times more expensive but much more simply constructed Sir George by (at least nominally) Alberto Morrillas (which is probably even less expensive to produce than the Bentley).
As a perfume conservative, it's all a bit much for me here, of course, it goes a bit in the direction of a gold chain and chest hair under an open shirt: boozy, spicy, laurel-pepper, sweet-resinoid-leathery. It has distant similarities to Idole de Lubin, but is more transparent and has a clearer, more sophisticated construction. Unfortunately, the synthetic veil hangs over everything - I would like to smell the formula with twice the budget. Nevertheless, Bentley for Men is no worse than many mass-market products from Tom Ford, Amouage, Creed etc. and still a third cheaper than countless mass-market fragrances that smell no better and often much worse. Just for proving that you can still sell a fragrance of this type for €25 with a profit margin, Bentley deserves a prize and anyone who likes the style will definitely be happy. I like to wear it very sparingly from time to time, but in principle I clearly prefer the Gucci revenant Bentley Absolute.
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