Naxos XerJoff 2015

I seem to be simply a person who goes with the (niche) mainstream. Or maybe it is also simply so that if something many people like, can also be quite something to it. Normally, I am reluctant to automatically like what "all" like, so I was first skeptical when I saw how far up the "XJ 1861 Naxos | XerJoff" in the Parfumo ranking of unisex fragrances.

I am not a person for a blind purchase, even if the fragrance pyramid appealed to me very much. Also my wallet gives at the price of a Xerjoff fragrance not simply so a blind purchase. :-) So I ordered a bottling and once again it was one of the fragrances where I knew directly after spraying on "it's him!" and I will sooner or later get a bottle.

The honey gives one a feeling of familiarity, because most of us connect something with the taste or scent of honey (vegan living people possibly excluded, however, even they probably have one or the other earlier memory of it, which they associate with it. And the scent of honey may also enjoy them), in addition, a warmth comes through the cinnamon, which I can not smell out directly, but there is definitely more in it than the honey sweetness. Maybe the warmth comes less from the cinnamon and more from the tobacco. What is certain is that the smokiness of the tobacco leads to a perfect interplay. A sweetness paired with a smokiness that gives the whole depth and something mysterious.

In my opinion, a perfect balance: at no point does the sweetness predominate, nor does the wicked. They merge perfectly into each other and wrap me in a comfortably warm, sweet cloud that accompanies me and the people who want to go into this cloud and also snuggle a little in it.

For the future I will trust the majority opinion of the Parfumos more, where it is less about "the mainstream" and much more about fragrance connoisseurs, on whose judgment I will give more and sniff me further through the top 100 fragrances. Thank you dear Parfumos!