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09/17/2019
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Finally a good Roja again...
Wow, my first comment :) Maybe a little history about me or my history with ROJA. I almost consider myself a fan of the first hour and knew the brand before it had any shops in Germany. What exactly made me forget. Anyway, you could buy small 2ml atomizers by email on request, which were then sent to you from England. It must have been at the end of 2013 when I tested the first of them: Scandal pour Homme, in the perfume and EdT versions. I chose the EdT version, which I liked much better, because it had more "air" between the notes and this concentration suited me better to a Fougere
A lot of time passed, and at some point the fragrances were no longer only available in England, but also relatively easily in Germany. Until 2015, for example, I almost liked the Rojas on a massive scale, but afterwards I had to accept bitter disappointments. From fragrances that seemed too simple to mass copies of his own fragrances, etc., to the complete strangeness of his portfolio. - somehow Roja seemed to have lost his magic to me. For me, the mass of new publications was at the expense of the quality and effort that could be seen in the earlier works - whether you liked them or not. The old 100ml bottle Scandal pour Homme stayed (beside a few others) but always and reminded me of the "good old" Roja time.
Until I smelled Harrod's pour homme.
Yeah, there it is again. An incredible finesse in small details that you can pay attention to if you want. "Easy to wear, distinguished and the sheer definition of class and understatement. Wow, he can still do it. Well, something already reminds him of another Roja who came onto the market in 2017 in a blue bottle, but he has more of everything. Simply fabulous, from the top note, which combines a perfectly balanced, extremely realistic fruitiness of oranges with the astringency of Hesperides, to the soft, typically Roja complex base. The fragrance never becomes muddy, it always retains its definition and you can see that a master was at work here. It thickens slightly in the course of time, and together with a light acid that balances the emerging sweetness slightly, it results in a fabulous stock.
My rating:
Joy: 30 / 30
Quality, depth, liveliness: 30 / 30
Shelf life: 15 / 20
Portability: 10 / 10
Flacon, packaging, presentation: 8 / 10
Sum: 93 /100
With this rating I don't have many in my database.
A lot of time passed, and at some point the fragrances were no longer only available in England, but also relatively easily in Germany. Until 2015, for example, I almost liked the Rojas on a massive scale, but afterwards I had to accept bitter disappointments. From fragrances that seemed too simple to mass copies of his own fragrances, etc., to the complete strangeness of his portfolio. - somehow Roja seemed to have lost his magic to me. For me, the mass of new publications was at the expense of the quality and effort that could be seen in the earlier works - whether you liked them or not. The old 100ml bottle Scandal pour Homme stayed (beside a few others) but always and reminded me of the "good old" Roja time.
Until I smelled Harrod's pour homme.
Yeah, there it is again. An incredible finesse in small details that you can pay attention to if you want. "Easy to wear, distinguished and the sheer definition of class and understatement. Wow, he can still do it. Well, something already reminds him of another Roja who came onto the market in 2017 in a blue bottle, but he has more of everything. Simply fabulous, from the top note, which combines a perfectly balanced, extremely realistic fruitiness of oranges with the astringency of Hesperides, to the soft, typically Roja complex base. The fragrance never becomes muddy, it always retains its definition and you can see that a master was at work here. It thickens slightly in the course of time, and together with a light acid that balances the emerging sweetness slightly, it results in a fabulous stock.
My rating:
Joy: 30 / 30
Quality, depth, liveliness: 30 / 30
Shelf life: 15 / 20
Portability: 10 / 10
Flacon, packaging, presentation: 8 / 10
Sum: 93 /100
With this rating I don't have many in my database.
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