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Notes05/16/2020
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A modern and masculine designer fragrance
To be honest, I had no expectations of this fragrance. Tommy Hilfiger, well, you immediately think, what great things are to come, although Hilfiger once succeeded in creating a very pleasing, quite good and timeless scent with 'Tommy'. And, yes, also by testing the Impact, I discovered a surprisingly well made perfume, which, and this must be noted at this point because of the transparency
However, when I read the first statements written here, I'm not quite sure whether the reviewers smelled the scent or worked their way through the given scent pyramid. Or if I can't trust my nose anymore. Fresh, fruity, sweet, young, that's not how I would characterize the fragrance anyway.
It is only fruity in the first seconds of the opening. Here you can smell the apple and the orange for a moment. Here, and only here at the beginning, there is a bit of the vibe of Boss Bottled and also of D&G's The One in the air. But apart from these first few seconds, Impact is an extremely masculine scent, in which the smell of smoky leather clearly dominates for me, even if both of them are not so explicitly present in the scents mentioned here. This chord is obviously obtained by the resins and woods used. My first association was immediately Ambré by Baldessarini, whom I know well because I wore it for a long time. This not least because Hilfiger's Impact also has a slight boozyness like the Ambré, as if the apple of the beginning had been slightly fermented towards the middle. I have smelled both against each other again and the correspondence of the hearts is already striking. Only towards the end Impact becomes a bit sweeter, warmer, very benzoin-like, more like Bentley for Men Intense.
In the end, nothing, but nothing at all has been reinvented here, but many familiar things have been successfully combined. In addition to that, man is once again dealing with a very masculine scent, which was rather seldom the case in the last years with all the sweet, aquatic and floral-oriental scents.
And yes, I even toyed - especially for the last mentioned reason - with the idea of getting myself this fragrance, also as a somewhat more modern alternative to Baldessarini's Ambré, which, as already indicated, I always liked very much, but which is no longer quite up to date and also reveals clear weaknesses in the performance. But unfortunately I have to say that the performance of Impact is not much better either. I find the Sillage to be rather reserved and the durability is also not more than average. Therefore it will probably remain with the pure thought...
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