Grapefruit
Cedar
Mandarin petitgrain
Frankincense
Haitian vetiver
Pink pepper
Yuzu
Bergamot
Rosemary
Juniper berry
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The New Heir
Alone, full of tears in the rain,
I wander through the gray streets,
and their soulless "Erba Pura | XerJoff" fog.
But then a rainbow appears,
and a blue Clive stands up there.
I climb onto him, seize him, and see the tears pulling away.
Spray him on, we become one, the citrus soul shines like ice.
Bitter-sour yuzu juices,
awaken my life forces.
Juicy mandarin peel,
brings a smile on these days.
Only the herbal lemonade is missing,
and then I’m in the mood today.
Recently, one is allowed to smoke grasses, the Haitian one I could use.
Gasoline earth, its smoke flows out,
and brings me into a new high.
Balsamic incense joins in,
the woody cedar spreads as well.
The end of the rain is now not far away,
and the summer soul is finally free.
Clive Christian has long taken over Crown Perfumery & what remains of them is just the beautiful, royal bottle design with the crown.
As mainstream trends evolve, and growth is paramount for big brands like Clive C., they have increasingly distanced themselves from classic chypre & fougère DNAs and have catered to the modern zeitgeist (they have still released some classic fragrances), which is good for modern souls, and rather bad for classics (presumably also fans of Crown?).
For this can result in both great creativity & excellent blending in the interplay of nature & synthetics, as well as monotonous uniformity with a penetratingly high synthetic content. Here, I believe the former is the case, as from start to finish, there is a pleasant scent experience that is free from overly pronounced & disturbing synthetics, which unfortunately are becoming more common nowadays.
But now to the scent:
The combination of citrus fruits is one of the most unique & beautiful I know, and I really test A LOT in this area, as it is one of my favorites (I also own the pure oils of almost all notes here). Juiciest grapefruit, with sweet mandarin & bitter-sour petitgrain-yuzu accent, all refreshed by the herbaceous-citrusy bergamot… I have truly arrived in citrus heaven.
A dry woody note briefly joins in (I must think of a mix of cashmeran & iso-e-super here), but disappears faster than it came. Because now there’s herbal lemonade! That’s how the middle phase or heart note smells for a long time. As if you had put some herbs (here Mediterranean, fresh-cool rosemary) into a lemonade. For a friend of mine, it also has something of fruity herbal liqueur in the direction of Boonekamp, where the fruitiness from the citrus notes could come from the pink pepper, whose oil also smells fruity. The juniper berry also adds some spice, but it always remains cool & fresh through the present citrus notes, which harmonize excellently with the rest and merge into an overall scent. A very aromatic “Iconic” heart!
What makes the scent truly “masculine” is the base. The Haitian vetiver comes through beautifully smoky, gasoline-like, earthy & woody with the cedarwood, but is never too strong. The incense gives the whole thing a balsamic-bright undertone, and this citrus herbal lemonade is always retained. This is how a base should smell for me, beautifully woody, masculine & deep, free from powder or cream, but also not too overwhelming. All my wishes for a beautiful & special men’s fragrance that is always wearable have been met here. My favorite top, heart & base notes with great quality have been harmoniously combined, and the longevity is more than sufficient. Can you tell how happy I am?
This is how 99% of the scent lasts over 8 hours.
Now let’s get to the last percent:
The synthetic fixatives, among which I can identify musk, ambroxan & another woody (iso-e-super or cashmeran would be plausible with this dry-woody character. This is felt much earlier than musk & ambroxan, but only briefly and periodically, as described above), are only subtly recognizable after 8 hours in the last remnants of the scent, as vetiver, cedarwood & incense remain very long & pyramidally scent-dominant in the base. The mentioned synthetic fixatives are, contrary to their bad reputation, of the pleasant kind with a powdery-creamy & woody character, free from any hairspray sting or shower gel. For that, substances like ambrocenide or dihydromyrcenol would be responsible, which I can hardly identify here. So despite the blue color of the bottle (which I love), the scent is by no means a generic blue shower gel scent. They merely ensure that the scent lasts long enough without standing out or disturbing early on, and I find that very important, as this is only achieved by a few fragrances from the mainstream nowadays. And as I said, you only smell them very subtly as the last remnants of the scent when the day is already over, so they are technically absolutely secondary. We mainly owe them the longer life of the fresh & other natural notes. The scent feels surprisingly valuable for an aromatic freshie. That’s why I find the choice of fixatives & the skillful handling of the perfumer (whom I would love to know) with them excellent. Sure, natural fixatives like ambergris could do that too, maybe even better & completely synthetic-free, but the price would then be even more beyond good & evil than it already is.
So we come to the point of price-performance:
Well, it is simply overpriced for what it is. 450€ for 50ml! One doesn’t need to sugarcoat that. Nevertheless, it is one of the most beautiful fresh men’s fragrances I know with this, for me, quite unique DNA. Similarly priced fresh Rojas, for example, fall worlds below for me in terms of quality & uniqueness, so they seem significantly more synthetic & generic. There are few that hit my nerve as precisely as this one does, and I have never smelled this scent in a very similar form satisfactorily enough. All the other Clives I have tested so far have also been rather less or not at all to my taste. That’s why I am all the more surprised that one came along that I fell so much in love with that I had to have it.
Thank you Clive for this wonderful scent & for emptying my wallet! Here, my citrus heart triumphed over reason. But I am happy with it, in every season & especially in summer, and that is what ultimately counts.
Thanks to Cfr, who showed me this scent back then.
And thank you all for reading. :)
I wander through the gray streets,
and their soulless "Erba Pura | XerJoff" fog.
But then a rainbow appears,
and a blue Clive stands up there.
I climb onto him, seize him, and see the tears pulling away.
Spray him on, we become one, the citrus soul shines like ice.
Bitter-sour yuzu juices,
awaken my life forces.
Juicy mandarin peel,
brings a smile on these days.
Only the herbal lemonade is missing,
and then I’m in the mood today.
Recently, one is allowed to smoke grasses, the Haitian one I could use.
Gasoline earth, its smoke flows out,
and brings me into a new high.
Balsamic incense joins in,
the woody cedar spreads as well.
The end of the rain is now not far away,
and the summer soul is finally free.
Clive Christian has long taken over Crown Perfumery & what remains of them is just the beautiful, royal bottle design with the crown.
As mainstream trends evolve, and growth is paramount for big brands like Clive C., they have increasingly distanced themselves from classic chypre & fougère DNAs and have catered to the modern zeitgeist (they have still released some classic fragrances), which is good for modern souls, and rather bad for classics (presumably also fans of Crown?).
For this can result in both great creativity & excellent blending in the interplay of nature & synthetics, as well as monotonous uniformity with a penetratingly high synthetic content. Here, I believe the former is the case, as from start to finish, there is a pleasant scent experience that is free from overly pronounced & disturbing synthetics, which unfortunately are becoming more common nowadays.
But now to the scent:
The combination of citrus fruits is one of the most unique & beautiful I know, and I really test A LOT in this area, as it is one of my favorites (I also own the pure oils of almost all notes here). Juiciest grapefruit, with sweet mandarin & bitter-sour petitgrain-yuzu accent, all refreshed by the herbaceous-citrusy bergamot… I have truly arrived in citrus heaven.
A dry woody note briefly joins in (I must think of a mix of cashmeran & iso-e-super here), but disappears faster than it came. Because now there’s herbal lemonade! That’s how the middle phase or heart note smells for a long time. As if you had put some herbs (here Mediterranean, fresh-cool rosemary) into a lemonade. For a friend of mine, it also has something of fruity herbal liqueur in the direction of Boonekamp, where the fruitiness from the citrus notes could come from the pink pepper, whose oil also smells fruity. The juniper berry also adds some spice, but it always remains cool & fresh through the present citrus notes, which harmonize excellently with the rest and merge into an overall scent. A very aromatic “Iconic” heart!
What makes the scent truly “masculine” is the base. The Haitian vetiver comes through beautifully smoky, gasoline-like, earthy & woody with the cedarwood, but is never too strong. The incense gives the whole thing a balsamic-bright undertone, and this citrus herbal lemonade is always retained. This is how a base should smell for me, beautifully woody, masculine & deep, free from powder or cream, but also not too overwhelming. All my wishes for a beautiful & special men’s fragrance that is always wearable have been met here. My favorite top, heart & base notes with great quality have been harmoniously combined, and the longevity is more than sufficient. Can you tell how happy I am?
This is how 99% of the scent lasts over 8 hours.
Now let’s get to the last percent:
The synthetic fixatives, among which I can identify musk, ambroxan & another woody (iso-e-super or cashmeran would be plausible with this dry-woody character. This is felt much earlier than musk & ambroxan, but only briefly and periodically, as described above), are only subtly recognizable after 8 hours in the last remnants of the scent, as vetiver, cedarwood & incense remain very long & pyramidally scent-dominant in the base. The mentioned synthetic fixatives are, contrary to their bad reputation, of the pleasant kind with a powdery-creamy & woody character, free from any hairspray sting or shower gel. For that, substances like ambrocenide or dihydromyrcenol would be responsible, which I can hardly identify here. So despite the blue color of the bottle (which I love), the scent is by no means a generic blue shower gel scent. They merely ensure that the scent lasts long enough without standing out or disturbing early on, and I find that very important, as this is only achieved by a few fragrances from the mainstream nowadays. And as I said, you only smell them very subtly as the last remnants of the scent when the day is already over, so they are technically absolutely secondary. We mainly owe them the longer life of the fresh & other natural notes. The scent feels surprisingly valuable for an aromatic freshie. That’s why I find the choice of fixatives & the skillful handling of the perfumer (whom I would love to know) with them excellent. Sure, natural fixatives like ambergris could do that too, maybe even better & completely synthetic-free, but the price would then be even more beyond good & evil than it already is.
So we come to the point of price-performance:
Well, it is simply overpriced for what it is. 450€ for 50ml! One doesn’t need to sugarcoat that. Nevertheless, it is one of the most beautiful fresh men’s fragrances I know with this, for me, quite unique DNA. Similarly priced fresh Rojas, for example, fall worlds below for me in terms of quality & uniqueness, so they seem significantly more synthetic & generic. There are few that hit my nerve as precisely as this one does, and I have never smelled this scent in a very similar form satisfactorily enough. All the other Clives I have tested so far have also been rather less or not at all to my taste. That’s why I am all the more surprised that one came along that I fell so much in love with that I had to have it.
Thank you Clive for this wonderful scent & for emptying my wallet! Here, my citrus heart triumphed over reason. But I am happy with it, in every season & especially in summer, and that is what ultimately counts.
Thanks to Cfr, who showed me this scent back then.
And thank you all for reading. :)
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