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Phantasm
Disclaimer: this is my opinion, based on my personal experience, and on my maybe broken sense of smell, and you may not agree with it. So:
If you want coffee - try Coffee Addict or Little Song.
If you want chocolate - try Wicked Good.
If you want rum - try Side Effect or Bvlgari Man In Black.
You cannot find much of these notes in a recently produced Black Phantoms. (even though chocolate is not even a note in the composition)
Maybe your older batches / pre-reformulation bottles are juggernaughts, but nowadays, you can only get a bottle that gives you a faint soft smell in the dry-down, reminiscent of sweet sandalwood, maybe. I've tried several bottles, in 3 diff. shops + my own bottle.
It's not masculine, not even a fragrance, just a soft, pleasant smell of something.
I also think that Mr. Kilian Hennessy never smelled the sweet, full-bodied dark rums of Cuba and surrounding islands, only maybe French or other sour, unpleasant, tangy rums. At least, his cognacs are much sweeter than his rums. Which is a shame. This could have been a top top scent.
And the price is like 5x more than it is worth in my book.
If you want coffee - try Coffee Addict or Little Song.
If you want chocolate - try Wicked Good.
If you want rum - try Side Effect or Bvlgari Man In Black.
You cannot find much of these notes in a recently produced Black Phantoms. (even though chocolate is not even a note in the composition)
Maybe your older batches / pre-reformulation bottles are juggernaughts, but nowadays, you can only get a bottle that gives you a faint soft smell in the dry-down, reminiscent of sweet sandalwood, maybe. I've tried several bottles, in 3 diff. shops + my own bottle.
It's not masculine, not even a fragrance, just a soft, pleasant smell of something.
I also think that Mr. Kilian Hennessy never smelled the sweet, full-bodied dark rums of Cuba and surrounding islands, only maybe French or other sour, unpleasant, tangy rums. At least, his cognacs are much sweeter than his rums. Which is a shame. This could have been a top top scent.
And the price is like 5x more than it is worth in my book.