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This Is Really Him! 2024

7.2 / 10 121 Ratings
A new perfume by Zadig & Voltaire for men, released in 2024. The scent is woody-spicy. It is being marketed by Shiseido Group / Beauté Prestige International.
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Main accords

Woody
Spicy
Fresh
Sweet
Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
GrapefruitGrapefruit LemonLemon
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Metallic notesMetallic notes Orange blossomOrange blossom
Base Notes Base Notes
AmberwoodAmberwood Palo SantoPalo Santo

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.2121 Ratings
Longevity
7.291 Ratings
Sillage
6.690 Ratings
Bottle
7.199 Ratings
Value for money
7.288 Ratings
Submitted by TheBladi11, last update on 10/09/2025.

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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions
Stockier

52 Reviews
Stockier
Stockier
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Clean and with the shirt ironed
After trying it, retrying it, and finally buying it, I finally understand the love/hate feeling for This Is Really Him.

It has a soft citrus and ambery woody opening.
It lasts for a maximum of 1 hour, and on clothes a little longer. To be honest, let's say it lasts 1 hour and 45 minutes.

After that hour, the sillage collapses like a punctured balloon and stays within a completely individual radius, completely losing its citrus aroma and leaving a sweet rosewood scent and clean, brushed metal. While it's true that the movement of clothes can help spread the sillage a little, I don't think you'll be able to smell it from more than half a meter away.

To summarize the scent in something we can all understand if we use some imagination, it's: at first, something woody and fragrant, but soon after, you smell clean, like freshly ironed clothes, all in a fairly short period of time.

It's happened to me, and from what I've read to other people too, that after a while you might not be able to smell it, but if someone comes up to you they might say, "You smell so good, please, what are you wearing?" Maybe it's made to make your head say "I don't want to hear any more of this" and let everyone else smell you? Who knows?

All of this will give us at most 6 hours on skin and clothes, reaching 7 hours, but then tracking, having to search for it.

I think it's "the office cologne" par excellence. It doesn't overpower, it gives off a certain scent, and when you get home you'll have nothing on.

Why the love? For that clean, neat, and tidy man-with-a-shirt smell it gives off.
Why the hate? It's not cheap, but it's not expensive either. The thing is, for this price, we can get more. If it projected normally throughout its life, even if it's still 6 hours, well, that would be something worth taking into account.

As an extra note, I'd like to add that it's when the temperature is moderately high that it really shines. The moment the thermometer rises to 20/24 degrees, it seems to wake up and the gusts hit you, so I highly recommend tucking it into your jacket.

In short: Let's start Monday off right. Even if we have to keep working, at least we'll smell good.
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ComputerMaus

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ComputerMaus
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I hope it's not really him...
The name sounds as if Zadig & Voltaire are trying to correct themselves. Fittingly, the fragrance also goes in a completely different direction. This Is Really Him! is above all sweet, quite spicy and unfortunately also slightly synthetic. It has a strange, marzipan or licorice note; the synthetics make it hard to pinpoint.
Although the fragrance is not really bad objectively, I find it somewhat unpleasant. It has something exaggerated, something artificial. It's as if someone wanted to use a lot of the fragrance notes, giving them an artificial, over-intensified character. For example, coumarin only smells like woodruff in low concentrations. At higher concentrations, it suddenly smells vanilla-like; if you overdo it, it takes on a bitter character.

Sometimes I think of sugar-sweet incense sticks when I smell this fragrance. It is a very modern perfume that obviously appeals to young men under 30. Its bubblegum flair is particularly suitable for the club, where the synthetics also fit in. But beware of the intensity, which can become nauseating if you sweat profusely...
Another use would be for dates, but it doesn't smell quite "serious" enough for me.
Overall, I find the fragrance average, but I can't deny that it is well composed to be able to play along with the really young ones.

In addition, the sillage is solid with a clear but not strongly intrusive projection (but could be a little more for a visit to the pub), which also lasts for about 10 h until close to the skin. Very strong, even for an EdT Intense.
The brand's This Is bottle is quite unusual in its strangely broken-off shape on the side, but also quite cool. I like it a little better in this color scheme than the normal This Is Him!. But even a beautiful bottle is no reason to buy it if I don't like the fragrance. So it can safely be left on the shelf.
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1 year ago
1
I get a prominent star anise that feels unbalanced. And not much palo santo, which was really what I was interested in for this sample.
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4
Its like the woodsy dna of the original version minus vanilla and added Orange blossom. Nothing to write home about
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Cool, woody, fresh citrus scent. More universal than the original. Metallic-cool.
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metallic, clean, tidy and smooth. Unfortunately also noticeably weaker than the original. Maybe a bit more versatile.
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