Ocean Royale James Bond 007 2013 Eau de Toilette

One takes a great name, in this case 007, buys a license, not to kill, calls it Ocean Eleven, no Ocean Royal, because otherwise one would recognize the intentions, kidnaps a few mediocre bunglers who claim they produced perfume in chemistry class, puts them under the threat of being extradited to North Korea, into a lab and waits for the product. This is then marketed with huge advertising efforts and one enjoys the profit.
That's roughly how it went down.

Ocean Royale was unfortunately a blind purchase for me. I had bought Armani's Nuit and needed some bonus points for my customer card, 007 was nearby and cheap, oops, bad luck, my own fault.

The stuff smells like fruit gum only to quickly flip into an aquatic note after a very short time. That's quite clumsy, they should have perhaps gotten someone from Davidoff or Aramis, who know how to do this. Only to simply dissipate after about ten minutes. Apparently, this is the program for all 007 scents, I can even still smell the Lynx Africa shower gel. The scent has simply "atomized" on my skin.

When I look at the fragrance pyramid, I am very surprised. The creators should get a Nobel Prize for the evolution of a scent in 10 seconds. Incredible.
Just "Jamaican coffee" (more like ganja), then I wonder a.) where it is and b.) what kind it is supposed to be. I know Blue Mountain coffee and I know what it costs. I can't imagine that the producers spent much money at all. It really smells like students experimented with a chemistry kit and this is the result. And again, a large online retailer has mostly positive comments, hard to believe.

I think, when I'm in England again (the flights from us aren't that expensive and a weekend is always worth it), I will go to 89 Jermyn St. and pay a visit to the company Floris. And I will make my own impression of James Bond's favorite scent, just as Ian Fleming described it. It is by no means a gentleman's scent, rather one for wannabes.