3
Less than I'd hoped for (edit: initially?!)
Note: I've updated this review so please take not of the addendum at the bottom if you're using this review as guidance!
I was extremely excited to try this fragrance, the notes looked amazing and the idea of a more masculine Noir Extreme sounded great because I find Noir Extreme to be 95% sweet Kulfi smell. Well, I'm not sure if I got a bad bottle or something but this smells almost identical to Noir Extreme but somehow even sweeter and with *less* leather. I don't understand how people consider this to be a masculine fragrance at all, it's a few leaps away from vanilla body spray.
I'm genuinely hoping there's something wrong with my nose or that I had COVID or something because this left me feeling legitimately quite down.
EDIT: I've got to update this, after a year either my nose has changed or this has really opened up and matured.
The rich, lactonic Kulfi is not only making its presence more apparent but is far more elegant than the initial, somewhat simplistic ethyl maltol sweetness I had interpreted it as.
The cardamom is subtler but also somehow more pleasant and expansive at the same time, unfurling itself and allowing the other notes to play out above it.
The ginger and sandalwood have a gentle tug of war with the gaiac and cedar playfully oscillating back and forth, bobbing and weaving in a sinusoidal dance to the diapason of the Tonka, the final harmony that serves to animate the whole ensemble.
I'm so glad my partner suggested I give this one another try, my initial review truly doesn't do it justice.
I was extremely excited to try this fragrance, the notes looked amazing and the idea of a more masculine Noir Extreme sounded great because I find Noir Extreme to be 95% sweet Kulfi smell. Well, I'm not sure if I got a bad bottle or something but this smells almost identical to Noir Extreme but somehow even sweeter and with *less* leather. I don't understand how people consider this to be a masculine fragrance at all, it's a few leaps away from vanilla body spray.
I'm genuinely hoping there's something wrong with my nose or that I had COVID or something because this left me feeling legitimately quite down.
EDIT: I've got to update this, after a year either my nose has changed or this has really opened up and matured.
The rich, lactonic Kulfi is not only making its presence more apparent but is far more elegant than the initial, somewhat simplistic ethyl maltol sweetness I had interpreted it as.
The cardamom is subtler but also somehow more pleasant and expansive at the same time, unfurling itself and allowing the other notes to play out above it.
The ginger and sandalwood have a gentle tug of war with the gaiac and cedar playfully oscillating back and forth, bobbing and weaving in a sinusoidal dance to the diapason of the Tonka, the final harmony that serves to animate the whole ensemble.
I'm so glad my partner suggested I give this one another try, my initial review truly doesn't do it justice.