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Fragrance’s Sixth Sense! Staring Sedley! A Parfums de Marly Production.
I am going through a Parfums De Marly kit at the moment and after starting off with Layton which smelled nice but just didn’t project for me at all I was surprised to see that Sedley has a lower sillage score than Layton but there will have been votes before and after the changes in concentration so maybe that’s why. Personally speaking I am getting crazy projection in Sedley compared to Layton.
When I first sprayed this I got that same association with Aaron Terence Hughes again that I had with Layton. I am positive they get their ingredients from the same source because it’s not that their fragrances smell like one is copying one or the other, but rather that you smell notes that come off very differently from when you smell them from other house’s products. Like most designer notes when you read them will all smell similar to each other, however with Parfums De Marly and Aaron Terence Hughes they both share those high quality ingredients that I am yet to smell anywhere else. This is why I think we see the two being compared in my opinion.
I am going to warn you now and it’s kind of crazy to have to put this in a fragrance review,but with the experience I am having I feel like if you are reading this without having worn Sedley for yourself that I am spoiling what could be a wonderful experience for yourself, so if that is the case you may wish to skip the next paragraph, you have been warned. This is like telling someone the ending of The Sixth Sense but instead it is about the sense of smell and in this case also taste.
SPOILER STARTS HERE
This is a fresh summer fragrance with something very strong in it that leaves a bit of a funny sensation that I find hard to describe. I feel like I can reference The Sixth Sense twice in this review because that’s kind of what I am getting with this experience which is hard to describe. Let me try. It’s like whatever it is, is sat on a very fine edge between your sense of smell and your sense of taste, and while it smells really good it has a weird taste accompanying it, which you hope to yourself that it’s going to be temporary, and luckily it does wind down as suddenly this spearmint starts to take over and leave a lovely sweet minty taste in your mouth and smell replacing whatever it was that was bothering me a minute ago. I love this spearmint note, it’s like you have had something you didn’t like to eat and went and ate something like a Polo spearmint sweet with the blue speckles through them. It’s crazy in a good way like the fragrance knew exactly what was needed and came along and delivered it on a velvet pillow but you had your eyes blindfolded as it was introduced to you both in your mouth and your nose. This is an amazing experience wearing this for the first time when none of this is expected. This is the kind of experience in fragrances that make you keep looking for your next big thrill and Sedley delivers 100%.
SPOILERS OVER.
I recognise other blue fragrances in the background of this, something close to a Sauvage/Luna Rosa Carbon kind of smell or actually speaking of Aaron Terence Hughes it reminds of his Legend 2023 with some spearmint on top. I am actually surprised there is no apple in the notes because i feel like I get a real sense of a juicy sweet green apple blended in with that spearmint. If I recall correctly I think I have seen people also compare this with EROS but I think this is a much fresher fragrance that can be worn easily in higher heats than what EROS EDT could be worn in at least. I can’t speak for the EDP or Parfum but I do have EROS FLAME and I would say they both have their uses. EROS FLAME can be worn in high heat but it is a different fragrance from Sedley and you don’t get that amazing experience I talk about in the spoiler section. I love that I can even say that about a fragrance.
Sedley to me is a more natural mint fragrance than EROS and with what I have experienced so far I have to say that I was recently talking about when I run out of EROS EDT I would buy the stronger concentration but they are said to be a fresher experience without the heavy thick vanilla which is what divides the EDT and FLAME for me but so far on my testing of Parfum De Marly Sedley is definitely one that I will be buying and is in top place over Layton due to the poor performance I had with it. So I would buy this first over any more EROS to be honest.
This is my first time experiencing a nice sweet mint anywhere other than EROS and it is definitely something that I enjoy. It gives a very fresh, clean sweet, vibe with wonderful projection. I used to be a big lover of winter fragrances because they were deep, rich and usually very strong but this summer I have been swayed by many good freshies and Sedley keeps me swinging over to the light side. It’s great when you find a fresh fragrance that thrives in the heat and today it is a beautiful day here in Scotland. I had to pop to the shop which was full of people and as I walked through them all as I was leaving after being served I could feel the fragrance giving out this wave of scent that I know everyone had to be smelling from me. As i opened the door to exit with my shorts, trainers with no socks on, pair of shorts and the sun just beaming down with the slightest of cool breeze that is so refreshing even though the sun is that of a perfect temperature with no humidity in the air leaving you soaking at all, and as I felt the smell of Sedley coming off of me it was like this perfect moment that brought all those elements in to the perfect moment as I felt so much joy to myself. You know when you walk past someone who is dressed well, they are wearing the perfect clothing for summer weather, their hair is done and they are smiling as they just stride and flow in the warm weather and you wonder what is it that is making that person look so happy and just glowing. That is how I felt today as I walked out of that shop door. Like I was that person instead of me looking on wondering, I for once was the one in that moment and for that alone, this is an absolute buy for me. I truly wish i got this at the start of summer, but I will gladly buy this for the last month or so that we have left. If I am going to feel like that when I wear this? Oh yes it is going to be worth every minute of it. There are days when I think to myself that I have more than enough fragrance in my collection and that I don’t need any more until you get a discovery kit and something like a Sedley comes along and has you going, nah I ain’t finished buying more, not when I experience what I have in just a few short hours of wearing the Sixth Sense of fragrances. If you haven’t experienced it yet then I suggest you do before you see a spoiler.
LONGEVITY
Well this is saddening, what started with such enthusiasm and an amazing experience had to fall short only 3 and a half hours later I am already back to talk about longevity. This could be a batch issue as looking at the longevity ratings it seems about 2-4 months ago others were rating it low, but before and after it has higher ratings,but I have to go with my experience. Probably the batch.
SCORES
Scent 10/10
Projection 8.5/10
Longevity sadly Sedley gets a lowly 3/10 for the terrible 3 and a half hours that this starts to vanish after. I don’t know what to say. Read my longevity paragraph.
Value for what I experienced at first was a 10/10 but after the longevity issue it’s a 5/10 = 7.5
Top Notes 
Spearmint
Aquatic notes
Bergamot
Hivernal®
Heart Notes 
Bourbon geranium
Lavender
Solar note
Base Notes 
Cedarwood
Sandalwood
White musk
Frankincense
Vitalie
BertolucciK
NicheOnly
JGL
Luchovzla
Patj1994
Lukbab
Topfpflanze3
Arman038
NicSeal
