Now this is a fantastic aromatic Fougere with a enigmatic allure to its fragrance. It opens with a very fresh aromatic spicy notes with hints of shaving foam, woods, florals, lavender, cypress and has dark spicy facets. It also has a herbal character, imagine James Bond coming out of a high class barbers. Smell this and you can believe it.!!
As time passes these notes go wide in the air giving good projection and sillage. The notes dance around each other and every time you smell yourself your picking up something different. Back in the day this was one of the fragrance women loved on men. This and Kouros was what men were rocking in days past.
Now the first two to three hours I get good projection and sillage. It then reigns it self in but I can still smell it for another five hours. In the far drydown I'm left with a shaving cream accord. I can't help thinking if you mixed Rive Gauche and Fougere Royale you would get something like jazz.
