Select Mercedes-Benz 2018

It was half a year ago. My roommate came into my room with 20 samples of a fragrance called Mercedes-Select, which he had received as a promotional gift, and gave me some of them, because he himself was very enthusiastic about the Eau de Toilette.
So I tested the scent and got a real "Woooooooowwww" flash right away. As a 20 year old, not so rich student, I hadn't discovered perfumes for myself at all until then, but was a few times at Müller's and co.'s to sniff at individual ones. There I was always quite disappointed, because I mostly only smelled synthetic, heavy and sweet scents À la One Million which I don't like at all...

But this Mercedes Select was different. So fresh and above all fruity! This makes the mood go straight up! I personally like the bergamot very much at the beginning, but I can also imagine that it can also annoy my environment, also because the similarity of detergents is already there. But maybe also because I just didn't spray myself with it when I was on a date xD

But what I liked most about this fragrance is the transition to this very masculine, woody and warm base note. At this point I heard for the first time that there is, or should be, something like a dry down in perfume. I know I was stupid. D

All in all I would describe the fragrance as a total all-rounder: Fits all seasons (even if the winter may not be optimal), can be worn by young and old and fits great in the office, as well as in leisure time and evenings!

But I didn't decide to buy a bottle. For the reason that I did little research here on Parfumo, am enthusiastic about all comments and reviews and found out that the fragrance probably has a very big resemblance to Aventus. So I became a big Aventus-DNA fan without all the hype to get the scent :)

Of course Aventus is much too expensive for me, but I became aware of all the clones and finally decided for Insurrection Pure2, which I can recommend to others. Unfortunately I still have no idea how Aventus smells, but I think that IP2 smells very good (better than Select due to a rounder transition), is very cheap and has a longer durability than the Select. The Sillage and above all the durability is unfortunately the big reason why I decided against Select, because on my skin it is only 2-3 hours well to perceive.

Interesting also that for me Select and IP2 already smell relatively different, but Clon of the same smell should be :D

Now IP2 has become my Signature Scent, I found more favorites here via Parfumo (La nuit de l'homme, Ultramale, Sauvage and Hawas for example) and became aware of the souk. So it was great that my roommate came into the room with Select! I'm gonna buy this one eventually.