Duc de Vervins L'Extreme Houbigant

So Moos Alta, this doesn’t smell at all like fruity vanilla berry. You can only wear this if you’re at least 80+. And this one, it’s not only not sweet at all, but also so cloyingly citrusy in the top note. When Grandpa thinks he needs to hit the disco one last time. As old-fashioned as the garden of the cathedral’s monastery in Cologne.

For all the leftover perfumes from 80+: my last vanilla pudding was 30 years ago. Milk mustache is called “Bumfluff” in English. Those who have seen a thing or two can wear something beautiful, green to enjoy, something classically herbal - but please, smooooth. Not for green boys on the prowl, but something elegant, with a bit of retro-modern charm - without sugar, please. The Duc Extreme is just the right one. A fougere without coumarin - at least I don’t notice any of it. If in the many world-famous fougeres the coumarin - a defensive substance contained in, for example, the tonka bean - ruins the classic at the end with this plant-sugary, vanillic sweetness - like in the Fougere Royale from the same house - then one should take this YouTube-hated (LT) one to heart. What’s served is a truly perfected moss after a citrusy green opening with the usual fougere-like heart combo. Simply wonderful! Moss often seems soapy to me, which I would accept alone. But sweet-soapy - yuck. Not this one. This one: a rather non-soapy, pleasantly unsweet, but completely sovereign fougere with style. Wearable for all from 15+ with heart and a spark in their eyes. Truly, buena vista!