02/05/2024
Landshark321
523 Reviews
Landshark321
1
Boozy, spicy, sweet tobacco, nicely done, albeit nothing new
Calle Ocho is my first sampling of Fulton & Roark, a company perhaps better known for its sold perfumes, who launched an extrait collection in 2023, with Calle Ocho being one of the more recent solid perfume releases from 2022, described as a “mélange of rum, tobacco, and sandalwood.” It’s boozy, spicy, sweet, and woody, and seems like a great option for cooler weather that could nonetheless be pulled off on a summer night, a sort of classy, modern men’s scent that fits in with a lot of the boozy and/or tobacco-centric scents that have been released in abundance in recent years, and it’s a good quality scent that suggests that care was put in beyond the basic successful formula that’s played out in both the designer and niche realm. That said, it does not offer something terribly new, nor complete, but is nonetheless a very good offering, not excessively sweet or spicy but something in between, with vague reference to Burberry London, Atelier Cologne Tobacco Nuit, and even the honeyed By Kilian Back to Black.
The extrait version is $205 for 50ml, so not terrible but not hugely enticing pricing, though the fragrance does perform well and I like the pared-down presentation also.
7 out of 10
The extrait version is $205 for 50ml, so not terrible but not hugely enticing pricing, though the fragrance does perform well and I like the pared-down presentation also.
7 out of 10
