3
Great for layering with other cold weather scents
If you know the base Encre Noire Eau de Toilette , you will recognize the similarity, but unlike the EDT, Extreme can be used like a normal perfume, not just in performance art. In other words, it's less extreme than the base version. It's warm, sweetish, and soft, but also has a hard aromatic/ambery side that smells like hard alcohol to me - vodka, brandy, something like that. I do not enjoy it, it's nauseating. Fortunately, it fades with time, after half an hours it's mostly OK. As a whole, Extreme smells medicinal, intriguing, but not necessarily pleasant at the beginning.
The interesting thing about Extreme is that it layers well with cold-weather perfumes, as people have noted. Whatever you mix it with, will probably work reasonably well. For example, one could say it makes "Dior Homme Parfum | Dior" better rounded and negates the excess sourness. When layering, the hard start is not a problem. As a stand-alone fragrance it’s not great for that first half an hour, unless you enjoy this particular niche.
The bottle fits the scent, that brown color is perfect.
Read more of my perfume reviews at The Scent Stories: thescentstories.substack.com
The interesting thing about Extreme is that it layers well with cold-weather perfumes, as people have noted. Whatever you mix it with, will probably work reasonably well. For example, one could say it makes "Dior Homme Parfum | Dior" better rounded and negates the excess sourness. When layering, the hard start is not a problem. As a stand-alone fragrance it’s not great for that first half an hour, unless you enjoy this particular niche.
The bottle fits the scent, that brown color is perfect.
Read more of my perfume reviews at The Scent Stories: thescentstories.substack.com