Rebel at Heart Thomas Sabo 2012

Today I tested it with great expectations. As a fan of the jewelry pieces from the "Rebel at heart" line by Thomas Sabo, I was curious to see how the adaptation as a fragrance would smell. I already found the charm fragrances for women extremely intrusive, cheap in scent, and somehow... well, forgive me for the expression: tacky... in my opinion fitting to the corresponding jewelry line, which I also find somewhat childish.

Well, from Rebel at heart I would have expected something powerful, dynamic, masculine... but what I smelled was moldy moss.

So far, the sillage and longevity of the "fragrance" have been rated as very weak... I can only say: if only it were so! Even after showering and an hour of sports training, I still smelled like a corpse hidden in the woods. There's nothing worse than a terrible scent that you can't get rid of.

I found the fragrance development to be very linear, so there are no major surprises after spraying; if someone likes it from the start, they will probably still be enthusiastic about it hours later, but that was definitely not the case for me.

Bitter orange, cardamom, and cinnamon in the top notes... nothing there that would really brighten up this earthy, musty smell... in the heart, clove and caraway are very present, which was already hard to bear on a summer day like today... but the kicker is the base, where I smell nothing of the white musk that could soften it a bit, and instead the smoky bouquet of a forest fire almost disgusts me.

By far the worst fragrance I have smelled in a long time.

Very disappointing.