Spicebomb Extreme Viktor & Rolf 2015
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My First Repurchase
First and foremost, the performance:
I've seen and heard many rumblings that this has been reformulated and that the recent batches do not perform well. I just got a newer bottle with batch code 22Y22DN, which according to CheckFresh is about 1 year and 4 months old as of this review. I'm not sure when everyone believes the reformulation took place but let me tell you this thing PUMPS. With a single spray this was jumping off my skin for hours, very easily an 8 hour fragrance, but I think its really more around 10-12 hours not including sprays on clothing, this thing survived an afternoon of power washing and handwashing. Maybe people are dumping this fragrance on with 10 sprays and going nose blind? Or maybe it really has been reformulated incredibly recently, in such case try and get an older batch if possible, but I think the first scenario is much more likely. This really is still such a monster.
The scent:
It's fantastic, just so cozy and spicy, it just makes me think of sitting inside by the fire on a cool fall day, while wearing a flannel shirt. I had already owned a bottle of this before but I tried Rehab and loved that as well. I wanted to get Rehab but due to my ever expanding collection, a problem many of you know well, I decided that I would sell Spicebomb Extreme so that I wouldn't have any redundant scents. While both myself and my significant other love Rehab, (she says that it sort of reminds her of Shea Butter? but in a very good way) it really just did not scratch the itch of Spicebomb Extreme after I sold it. I just could not get it out of my head and decided to buy another bottle just to see if I was going crazy, I was not. Rehab may be in the same family of the Spicebombs, and it is much more similar to the original Spicebomb from my testing, but it is not redundant to any of them, it does go its own direction with it's focus on clean and relaxing lavender.
Overall:
I think this stuff is just fantastic, and as relevant as ever. Try it out for yourself, but I think that the concerns over the batches has been greatly exaggerated, maybe just give it a few sprays at first.
I've seen and heard many rumblings that this has been reformulated and that the recent batches do not perform well. I just got a newer bottle with batch code 22Y22DN, which according to CheckFresh is about 1 year and 4 months old as of this review. I'm not sure when everyone believes the reformulation took place but let me tell you this thing PUMPS. With a single spray this was jumping off my skin for hours, very easily an 8 hour fragrance, but I think its really more around 10-12 hours not including sprays on clothing, this thing survived an afternoon of power washing and handwashing. Maybe people are dumping this fragrance on with 10 sprays and going nose blind? Or maybe it really has been reformulated incredibly recently, in such case try and get an older batch if possible, but I think the first scenario is much more likely. This really is still such a monster.
The scent:
It's fantastic, just so cozy and spicy, it just makes me think of sitting inside by the fire on a cool fall day, while wearing a flannel shirt. I had already owned a bottle of this before but I tried Rehab and loved that as well. I wanted to get Rehab but due to my ever expanding collection, a problem many of you know well, I decided that I would sell Spicebomb Extreme so that I wouldn't have any redundant scents. While both myself and my significant other love Rehab, (she says that it sort of reminds her of Shea Butter? but in a very good way) it really just did not scratch the itch of Spicebomb Extreme after I sold it. I just could not get it out of my head and decided to buy another bottle just to see if I was going crazy, I was not. Rehab may be in the same family of the Spicebombs, and it is much more similar to the original Spicebomb from my testing, but it is not redundant to any of them, it does go its own direction with it's focus on clean and relaxing lavender.
Overall:
I think this stuff is just fantastic, and as relevant as ever. Try it out for yourself, but I think that the concerns over the batches has been greatly exaggerated, maybe just give it a few sprays at first.