Top Notes 
Mandarin orange
Bergamot
Clary sage
Pink pepper
Heart Notes 
Black pepper
Cardamom
Nutmeg
Base Notes 
Tonka bean
Akigalawood®
Benzoin
Rum
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Uncommented Scents No. 175
I am seriously considering writing a blog about drugstore fragrances, if only to provide an ironic counterpoint to the many hypes surrounding niche scents. No one would want to claim they were waiting for the new Bruno Banani like they were for the latest Guerlain (me), Xerjoff (many others), Prin (Lomros community), N.O.A.M (avant-gardists), etc. Eventually, it just comes out, gets listed here on Parfumo, has been in your trusted drugstore since the day before yesterday, and you pick it up because you just needed shower gel, toothpaste, and toilet paper - or because you are a student and don’t have much money to spare and notice that the latest Ensar Oud would completely overdraw your account, but the Bruno Banani wouldn’t.
What is always quite nice, though, is the fact that among these everyday scents, you can occasionally find some very interesting specimens, for example, the old "Bruno Banani Man (Eau de Toilette) | Bruno Banani," which has become a veritable classic since 2000 and is actually a relative of the brand new "Sex | Rammstein," because both contain quite a bit of heliotrope, which I find very lovely.
Back to "Magnetic Man | Bruno Banani": Of course, it is synthetic, but did you seriously expect anything else at a price of just under 12 euros? And yet, you can quite well identify what is supposed to be in it: bergamot and mandarin at the beginning is plausible, something spicy is also right, and benzoin/resinous notes along with a tiny bit of rum (thankfully not much, I don’t like that boozy nonsense) fits in as well. All in all, it smells to me, if I stay fair, like a seven, which is still two points more than I could grant "Erba Pura | XerJoff," which, as far as I remember, is slightly more expensive: how much, I don’t even know exactly, because I haven’t bought the latter, but I have the former. That goes without saying.
P.S.: The bottle is simply great!
I am seriously considering writing a blog about drugstore fragrances, if only to provide an ironic counterpoint to the many hypes surrounding niche scents. No one would want to claim they were waiting for the new Bruno Banani like they were for the latest Guerlain (me), Xerjoff (many others), Prin (Lomros community), N.O.A.M (avant-gardists), etc. Eventually, it just comes out, gets listed here on Parfumo, has been in your trusted drugstore since the day before yesterday, and you pick it up because you just needed shower gel, toothpaste, and toilet paper - or because you are a student and don’t have much money to spare and notice that the latest Ensar Oud would completely overdraw your account, but the Bruno Banani wouldn’t.
What is always quite nice, though, is the fact that among these everyday scents, you can occasionally find some very interesting specimens, for example, the old "Bruno Banani Man (Eau de Toilette) | Bruno Banani," which has become a veritable classic since 2000 and is actually a relative of the brand new "Sex | Rammstein," because both contain quite a bit of heliotrope, which I find very lovely.
Back to "Magnetic Man | Bruno Banani": Of course, it is synthetic, but did you seriously expect anything else at a price of just under 12 euros? And yet, you can quite well identify what is supposed to be in it: bergamot and mandarin at the beginning is plausible, something spicy is also right, and benzoin/resinous notes along with a tiny bit of rum (thankfully not much, I don’t like that boozy nonsense) fits in as well. All in all, it smells to me, if I stay fair, like a seven, which is still two points more than I could grant "Erba Pura | XerJoff," which, as far as I remember, is slightly more expensive: how much, I don’t even know exactly, because I haven’t bought the latter, but I have the former. That goes without saying.
P.S.: The bottle is simply great!
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