All the Queen's Men Fort & Manlé 2022

Dried fruits Honey, only slightly boozy Rum and takes on part the cake gourmand path and part the non-sweet honey with the smoothest masculine, running right down the middle these. Rare galore, not experimental, different manly mature, none of the vintage or of the even classic, truly an amazing approach and twist around the Honey.

I would have really liked this one - every single note of that is delicious to me, if it wasn't for honey. Sometimes, some scents have honey in it but it's not too prominent and I can bear it. Here, it gets to intense at the beginning. It slowly becomes more pleasant, as honey leaves my nostrils. I get the booziness, the resinous scent that makes it very good. I just wish honey didn't punch in me in the face at first!

All the Queen’s Men is one of newest three releases from the brilliant Melbourne-based house of Fort & Manle, capping off the brand’s new presentation, still in 50ml size, as well as the new collection, which keeps some earlier releases with others being discontinued.

All the Queen’s Men’s a sweet, sappy, fruity, woody blend, a nectar of honey, dried fruits, resins, vanilla, and a light sprinkling of cinnamon. It involves the dried fruit in a very skillful way, maybe more so than, say, Tobacco Vanille, but less so that in a fragrance where the fruits might better be described as “stewed”—wetter, more pervasive. Here, the balance among the honey, resins, dried fruits, and cinnamon (against a vaguely woody backdrop) is pivotal.

As with other Fort & Manle fragrances, it’s difficult to anticipate how well the sum of the parts plays off, but as usual, they execute superbly with a very enjoyable final product that, while not being the most unusual/innovative/daring concept, pays off in a big way due to the smoothness and ease of wearing.

All the Queen’s Men is EDP concentration and performs well, also, not outstandingly like some of the darker scents in the line, but its performance is good. It is priced at $250 for 50ml, now the price for every fragrance n the line, a notable increase from before for all except Bojnokopff, and the only two stockists in the US are Luckyscent (whose physical locations are known as the Scent Bar) and Tigerlily, whose main operations are in Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively.

8 out of 10