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Everything but Terre d'Hermès / Vibrato Hybrid
Discovered on YouTube, bought at a good price, and sold again immediately.
Not because "Vetiver Pepper | Azha / أزهى" was bad, it certainly is not.
It just didn't suit my taste.
Qualitatively, it's still a good fragrance.
I only got it because it was compared to Terre d'Hermès Eau de Toilette and Vibrato.
A hybrid of both fragrances? That must smell amazing, I thought.
Additionally, I needed something fresh for the summer.
But in the end, it smelled neither like Terre d'Hermès nor like Vibrato.
I have never smelled Vibrato, but if it is supposed to smell like Le Gemme - Tygar, then Azha is definitely not an alternative to Vibrato.
What you get here is, as the name suggests, vetiver and pepper, along with apple, nothing more.
You get the apple and the pepper right from the first moment.
At that point, you still hope that the fragrance will develop fresh and fruity.
But this hope is crushed at the earliest in the dry down.
That's when a synthetic vetiver comes into play that, together with the extremely prominent pepper note, pushes the apple further and further into the background.
While the apple still radiates some fruity freshness, it is nowhere near as strong as in the opening.
Later on, the fragrance takes on an inexplicably smoky character, where that comes from, who knows.
And what's worse, over time you perceive a note that strongly reminds you of rubber.
Rubber, something smoky, endless pepper, and in the background vetiver and apple.
That's all I can perceive.
In the end, the rubber note relaxes slightly, but still, that was something that bothered me a lot.
Where one can detect Terre d'Hermès or Vibrato remains a mystery to me forever.
For me, the fragrance is not unisex; I find it quite masculine.
Despite all the criticism, the fragrance still has good quality.
And it is wearable almost all year round.
I wouldn't wear it in the height of summer, but otherwise, it's always fine.
The performance is such that the longevity is better than the sillage.
On clothing, it lasts until the next wash, but the sillage is rather moderate.
I couldn't test it long enough; maybe it performs very well on warmer days. I wore it at 13-15 degrees.
My conclusion: If you're looking for a hybrid of TdH or Vibrato, you should steer clear of this one.
The similarities to these two fragrances are maybe at most 5%.
If you like vetiver and especially pepper, you should take a closer look at this one.
It's not an easy fragrance, but it still has something that makes it interesting.
It definitely smells more expensive than it costs, I can definitely say that.
Not because "Vetiver Pepper | Azha / أزهى" was bad, it certainly is not.
It just didn't suit my taste.
Qualitatively, it's still a good fragrance.
I only got it because it was compared to Terre d'Hermès Eau de Toilette and Vibrato.
A hybrid of both fragrances? That must smell amazing, I thought.
Additionally, I needed something fresh for the summer.
But in the end, it smelled neither like Terre d'Hermès nor like Vibrato.
I have never smelled Vibrato, but if it is supposed to smell like Le Gemme - Tygar, then Azha is definitely not an alternative to Vibrato.
What you get here is, as the name suggests, vetiver and pepper, along with apple, nothing more.
You get the apple and the pepper right from the first moment.
At that point, you still hope that the fragrance will develop fresh and fruity.
But this hope is crushed at the earliest in the dry down.
That's when a synthetic vetiver comes into play that, together with the extremely prominent pepper note, pushes the apple further and further into the background.
While the apple still radiates some fruity freshness, it is nowhere near as strong as in the opening.
Later on, the fragrance takes on an inexplicably smoky character, where that comes from, who knows.
And what's worse, over time you perceive a note that strongly reminds you of rubber.
Rubber, something smoky, endless pepper, and in the background vetiver and apple.
That's all I can perceive.
In the end, the rubber note relaxes slightly, but still, that was something that bothered me a lot.
Where one can detect Terre d'Hermès or Vibrato remains a mystery to me forever.
For me, the fragrance is not unisex; I find it quite masculine.
Despite all the criticism, the fragrance still has good quality.
And it is wearable almost all year round.
I wouldn't wear it in the height of summer, but otherwise, it's always fine.
The performance is such that the longevity is better than the sillage.
On clothing, it lasts until the next wash, but the sillage is rather moderate.
I couldn't test it long enough; maybe it performs very well on warmer days. I wore it at 13-15 degrees.
My conclusion: If you're looking for a hybrid of TdH or Vibrato, you should steer clear of this one.
The similarities to these two fragrances are maybe at most 5%.
If you like vetiver and especially pepper, you should take a closer look at this one.
It's not an easy fragrance, but it still has something that makes it interesting.
It definitely smells more expensive than it costs, I can definitely say that.
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5 Comments
I think they're trying too hard to present every scent as a dupe.
This one, for example, doesn't resemble anything I know.
With Hunter Killer, they thought a red bottle definitely means it's a Red Tobacco dupe.
In the end, you trust that and end up just losing money, which is really frustrating.