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Not Quite Yohji
As a fan of Yohji's tailoring and his work in general, I was interested to try this and see how that might or might not translate into this fragrance. To me it opens with a blast of fresh spice where liquorice is dominant. It quickly dries down into something quite like fresh powder, I get a baby wipe accord from it which I deeply dislike. I think the exact accord is the scent of Wet Ones or an equivalent mass market wipe. I get none of the coffee, rum, woods, tonka, leather, etc. They seem to show up at the beginning, along with everything else and then quickly disappear. None of them show up as base notes in this for me at all. Wouldn't buy, and wouldn't wear, and doesn't reflect Yohji's aesthetic to me at all. He has released more contemporary scents which probably do a better job but I haven't yet been able to get ahold of them to try. I would also like to compare this 1999 formula that I tried to the more recent reformulation to see if I like the changes.