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The 600€ leather benchmark
We start today quite striking. 600€ for a fragrance. Some people would buy a used car or go on vacation for that. Can that be worth a fragrance that has clearly been inspired by a cheap alternative in the form of Knize Ten? I think we'll find out together today.
Xerjoff as a house should by now be a household name to everyone. No other brand has established itself in recent years in the high-priced niche area as the brand from Italy. One would like to score me exclusive and luxurious fragrances, high-quality processed flacons and prestige.
In different collections (Shooting Stars, Oud Stars, Stonelabel, etc.) one offers thereby for every taste and also every budget the right fragrance. And while the Alexandria II could inspire me with its soft and warm charisma, that looks so far at the remaining portfolio of Xerjoff differently. So far, no fragrance could really knock my socks off. Either too sweet, too playful or simply too inconsequential, many of the fragrances I tested seemed. A fragrance that I had but always on my watch list, was the Homme.
When I was therefore 2 weeks ago in Berlin and visited the perfume salon near the Kurfürstendamm, I took the opportunity and tried the Homme. On the day I left the store only with an Etruscan Water and Bowmakers, but the decision to buy the Homme stood firm.
Disclaimer. This fragrance was kindly provided to me by absolutely NO ONE. Why this note? Currently I have on Youtube the feeling that everyone either a Naxos or 10 bottles of Erba Pura raffles and the name Xerjoff and the German distributor falls in every second sentence. But I poor sausage had to buy the fragrance myself and spend my own earned money for it. In any case, there is no one behind me with 2 boxes of bottles of Xerjoff that can be raffled and thereby certainly one or the other perception of fragrances unconsciously influenced.
The Homme was created in 2007 and comes from the creative pen of Jacques Flori, who was responsible for many of the fragrances of the Shooting Stars series and has also created some fragrances for Etro.
The Homme starts on my skin tart, fresh with a fair amount of bitter-tart citrus tones. I would describe the lemon and ginger as setting the tone here in the opening. The cumin adds some bite to the fresher notes, but never drifts into "sweaty" or musty compared to cumin. This kick of freshness doesn't linger long and then the tone-setting component of Homme asserts itself. The leather. Here a very clean, not worn leather that is nevertheless very sharply outlined and absolutely authentic. Not in the form of, for example, an old horse saddle but rather a really expensive leather sofa or interior of a vintage car. In this phase of the fragrance then comes another note that absolutely fascinates me and for me makes the appeal of Homme. We have here an almost viscous note that reminds me of motor oil. As if you were standing in a car workshop where a sports car is on the lifting platform. From afar you can smell the smell of drained oil. Heavy, black and in places somewhat reminiscent of petroleum. Those who know the garage of Comme des Garcons will find a similar "workshop" DNA here. However, the one from Homme is even more authentic and seems rougher and rougher. In the later drydown, the leather then gets a soapy component to the side. The dirt of the workshop is also olfactorically "cleaned" here and the leather is somewhat tamed. So the fragrance then remains until the end. An absolutely high-quality and washed with soap leather that still has rough edges, but has left the force and dirt of the first phase behind.
The durability of Homme leaves nothing to be desired. The first 3 hours the fragrance radiates quite strongly and potently from the skin and only then becomes somewhat quieter and then begins to become skin-tight. I could perceive the fragrance even 10 hours still without problems.
The bottle is on typical Xerjoff level. Very high quality and beautiful in the hand. Here as all fragrances of the Stonelabel collection with a stone on the front. Sprayer usual and very good Xerjoff quality. Fine dosable and also "half" sprays are possible.
With the packaging, Xerjoff is also not lumpen. Here you feel at all times that you hold a luxury product in your hand.
The price of 600€ is an announcement. At 6 € / ml stops with me the friendship. One gets the fragrance currently in the 50ml variant for about 320€. I paid for my 100ml bottle just under 440€. The RRP of Xerjoff I think is exorbitant. But also a Rolex for 8000€ is overpriced. We are here in the high-price segment where the price / performance ratio actually no longer plays a role. If you want the fragrance, you have to dig deep into your pocket. Whether one is worth it, only everyone can decide for themselves.
An alternative would certainly be the fragrance that was the godfather for the Homme. The Knize Ten is relatively similar to the Homme at first glance. Here, too, we have an absolutely striking and masculine leather scent, which is broken up by soapy aspects. And now comes the same old story. The Xerjoff simply smells of higher quality from the composition (and this is not even related to the individual components). Here, everything just seems more coherent, better intertwined and especially this "workshop phase" of the fragrance with the smell of motor oil or petroleum is missing the Knize Ten. But who does not want to raise the budget for the Homme / or can, the "drives" (sic) with the Knize Ten also good. The same applies to the Russian Juchten by Harry Lehmann, which goes like the Knize Ten also in this direction of soapy leather.
As a conclusion, it remains for me to say that I have found in Homme the leather scent that I have always secretly been looking for. As a fan of tart, strongly masculine fragrances, the Homme meets all the requirements of a fragrance for me. The "dirty" engine oil or petroleum note in the middle of the fragrance is then for me as a Fahrenheit fan the cherry on the icing.
Xerjoff as a house should by now be a household name to everyone. No other brand has established itself in recent years in the high-priced niche area as the brand from Italy. One would like to score me exclusive and luxurious fragrances, high-quality processed flacons and prestige.
In different collections (Shooting Stars, Oud Stars, Stonelabel, etc.) one offers thereby for every taste and also every budget the right fragrance. And while the Alexandria II could inspire me with its soft and warm charisma, that looks so far at the remaining portfolio of Xerjoff differently. So far, no fragrance could really knock my socks off. Either too sweet, too playful or simply too inconsequential, many of the fragrances I tested seemed. A fragrance that I had but always on my watch list, was the Homme.
When I was therefore 2 weeks ago in Berlin and visited the perfume salon near the Kurfürstendamm, I took the opportunity and tried the Homme. On the day I left the store only with an Etruscan Water and Bowmakers, but the decision to buy the Homme stood firm.
Disclaimer. This fragrance was kindly provided to me by absolutely NO ONE. Why this note? Currently I have on Youtube the feeling that everyone either a Naxos or 10 bottles of Erba Pura raffles and the name Xerjoff and the German distributor falls in every second sentence. But I poor sausage had to buy the fragrance myself and spend my own earned money for it. In any case, there is no one behind me with 2 boxes of bottles of Xerjoff that can be raffled and thereby certainly one or the other perception of fragrances unconsciously influenced.
The Homme was created in 2007 and comes from the creative pen of Jacques Flori, who was responsible for many of the fragrances of the Shooting Stars series and has also created some fragrances for Etro.
The Homme starts on my skin tart, fresh with a fair amount of bitter-tart citrus tones. I would describe the lemon and ginger as setting the tone here in the opening. The cumin adds some bite to the fresher notes, but never drifts into "sweaty" or musty compared to cumin. This kick of freshness doesn't linger long and then the tone-setting component of Homme asserts itself. The leather. Here a very clean, not worn leather that is nevertheless very sharply outlined and absolutely authentic. Not in the form of, for example, an old horse saddle but rather a really expensive leather sofa or interior of a vintage car. In this phase of the fragrance then comes another note that absolutely fascinates me and for me makes the appeal of Homme. We have here an almost viscous note that reminds me of motor oil. As if you were standing in a car workshop where a sports car is on the lifting platform. From afar you can smell the smell of drained oil. Heavy, black and in places somewhat reminiscent of petroleum. Those who know the garage of Comme des Garcons will find a similar "workshop" DNA here. However, the one from Homme is even more authentic and seems rougher and rougher. In the later drydown, the leather then gets a soapy component to the side. The dirt of the workshop is also olfactorically "cleaned" here and the leather is somewhat tamed. So the fragrance then remains until the end. An absolutely high-quality and washed with soap leather that still has rough edges, but has left the force and dirt of the first phase behind.
The durability of Homme leaves nothing to be desired. The first 3 hours the fragrance radiates quite strongly and potently from the skin and only then becomes somewhat quieter and then begins to become skin-tight. I could perceive the fragrance even 10 hours still without problems.
The bottle is on typical Xerjoff level. Very high quality and beautiful in the hand. Here as all fragrances of the Stonelabel collection with a stone on the front. Sprayer usual and very good Xerjoff quality. Fine dosable and also "half" sprays are possible.
With the packaging, Xerjoff is also not lumpen. Here you feel at all times that you hold a luxury product in your hand.
The price of 600€ is an announcement. At 6 € / ml stops with me the friendship. One gets the fragrance currently in the 50ml variant for about 320€. I paid for my 100ml bottle just under 440€. The RRP of Xerjoff I think is exorbitant. But also a Rolex for 8000€ is overpriced. We are here in the high-price segment where the price / performance ratio actually no longer plays a role. If you want the fragrance, you have to dig deep into your pocket. Whether one is worth it, only everyone can decide for themselves.
An alternative would certainly be the fragrance that was the godfather for the Homme. The Knize Ten is relatively similar to the Homme at first glance. Here, too, we have an absolutely striking and masculine leather scent, which is broken up by soapy aspects. And now comes the same old story. The Xerjoff simply smells of higher quality from the composition (and this is not even related to the individual components). Here, everything just seems more coherent, better intertwined and especially this "workshop phase" of the fragrance with the smell of motor oil or petroleum is missing the Knize Ten. But who does not want to raise the budget for the Homme / or can, the "drives" (sic) with the Knize Ten also good. The same applies to the Russian Juchten by Harry Lehmann, which goes like the Knize Ten also in this direction of soapy leather.
As a conclusion, it remains for me to say that I have found in Homme the leather scent that I have always secretly been looking for. As a fan of tart, strongly masculine fragrances, the Homme meets all the requirements of a fragrance for me. The "dirty" engine oil or petroleum note in the middle of the fragrance is then for me as a Fahrenheit fan the cherry on the icing.
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