Top Notes 
Citrus notes
Eucalyptus
Heart Notes 
Chocolate
Floral notes
Spicy notes
Base Notes 
Vanilla
Woody notes
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What have I done!
In full astonishment, I bought this fragrance on the spot - the price of only €39.90 made the decision easy for me. Urban Nomads for Men is probably the most experimental men's fragrance ever released at this price level.
Urban Nomads has pretty much everything a respectable perfume needs: there is a citrus-etheric top note that leads the unusual with a scent substance labeled “eucalyptus.” Then comes an undefinable floral quality in the heart, paired with spiciness and something that faintly resembles chocolate. From the base, a very broad, somewhat synthetic vanilla pudding note mixes in. How strange!
But this is quite special, as the combination of everything creates a peculiar overall impression for me: hard to grasp, but it reminds me of the scent of mushrooms - more oyster mushrooms than champignons. The fact that a perfume can smell like mushrooms is not new to me - when lavender is combined with various other substances, it creates a hint of champignons for my olfactory perception (example: XPEC Trinity 2). In the case of Urban Nomads, however, I don’t believe in the presence of lavender.
In principle, it is interesting when opposites engage in a dialogue. But somehow, they should fit together. With Urban Nomads, I am not so sure how to evaluate it. Let’s be cautious and say that this fragrance has not fully revealed itself to me yet.
Urban Nomads does indeed have a development, but this has already run its course after half an hour. The citrus and floral notes are then gone, and only this completely bizarre mushroom note remains. It really raises the question of whether this is now hideous or genius.
Such a challenge does not exactly make Urban Nomads an easy-to-wear fragrance. I would start off cautiously here. Surely, this unusual accord could become quite overwhelming with overapplication. So maybe two hours, and then a shower - that should be manageable.
What the heck, we regularly complain that mainstream fragrances are becoming increasingly boring and interchangeable - here comes the stark opposite! I would really like to know what Michalski was thinking when selecting this fragrance and what they expect from it. Or is the character of Urban Nomads based on the belief that you can sell anything to the mainstream buyer as long as it is well advertised? Urban Nomads lacks any anchor that connects the fragrance to something familiar for the buyer: nothing here reminds one of deodorant or shower gel, nor do we have the usual inexpensive amber or wood notes.
Urban Nomads does not seem to be entirely without reminiscence of what has come before. The now unfortunately discontinued cheap fragrance J'S Exté Man at least offered a similarly audacious impression in the top with its wild herbal-cumin-citrus note in relation to vanilla, but then retreated into a beautifully balanced woody vanilla of a more conservative character. With Urban Nomads, such a retreat is denied to us - it remains spectacular.
Is at least a story being told? Well, the nonsensical PR text that we absolutely had to include in the Parfumo blog is of rare stupidity: Urban Nomads "can communicate, live, and work regardless of space and time." Great, that’s what I’ve always wanted to be able to do!
Urban Nomads has pretty much everything a respectable perfume needs: there is a citrus-etheric top note that leads the unusual with a scent substance labeled “eucalyptus.” Then comes an undefinable floral quality in the heart, paired with spiciness and something that faintly resembles chocolate. From the base, a very broad, somewhat synthetic vanilla pudding note mixes in. How strange!
But this is quite special, as the combination of everything creates a peculiar overall impression for me: hard to grasp, but it reminds me of the scent of mushrooms - more oyster mushrooms than champignons. The fact that a perfume can smell like mushrooms is not new to me - when lavender is combined with various other substances, it creates a hint of champignons for my olfactory perception (example: XPEC Trinity 2). In the case of Urban Nomads, however, I don’t believe in the presence of lavender.
In principle, it is interesting when opposites engage in a dialogue. But somehow, they should fit together. With Urban Nomads, I am not so sure how to evaluate it. Let’s be cautious and say that this fragrance has not fully revealed itself to me yet.
Urban Nomads does indeed have a development, but this has already run its course after half an hour. The citrus and floral notes are then gone, and only this completely bizarre mushroom note remains. It really raises the question of whether this is now hideous or genius.
Such a challenge does not exactly make Urban Nomads an easy-to-wear fragrance. I would start off cautiously here. Surely, this unusual accord could become quite overwhelming with overapplication. So maybe two hours, and then a shower - that should be manageable.
What the heck, we regularly complain that mainstream fragrances are becoming increasingly boring and interchangeable - here comes the stark opposite! I would really like to know what Michalski was thinking when selecting this fragrance and what they expect from it. Or is the character of Urban Nomads based on the belief that you can sell anything to the mainstream buyer as long as it is well advertised? Urban Nomads lacks any anchor that connects the fragrance to something familiar for the buyer: nothing here reminds one of deodorant or shower gel, nor do we have the usual inexpensive amber or wood notes.
Urban Nomads does not seem to be entirely without reminiscence of what has come before. The now unfortunately discontinued cheap fragrance J'S Exté Man at least offered a similarly audacious impression in the top with its wild herbal-cumin-citrus note in relation to vanilla, but then retreated into a beautifully balanced woody vanilla of a more conservative character. With Urban Nomads, such a retreat is denied to us - it remains spectacular.
Is at least a story being told? Well, the nonsensical PR text that we absolutely had to include in the Parfumo blog is of rare stupidity: Urban Nomads "can communicate, live, and work regardless of space and time." Great, that’s what I’ve always wanted to be able to do!
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