Whiskey Woods Clubman / Edouard Pinaud 2017

Well this was a big disappointment. I love tobacco, whiskey, etc scents and I thought this was a safe blind buy. On opening the bottle it was hard to judge the scent due to the strong alcohol smell but at that point I mainly got a sharp terpenes sort of smell like in L’Orpheline (which is not my thing, but it could turn out nice so I wasn’t put off yet).
Unfortunately, the moment it hit my skin, all I could smell was something almost like burning rubber at first, and then a rotting, earthy smell that resembled one of the more stinky kinds of cannabis (and I can appreciate a cannabis smell, but this ain’t it). It wasn’t sweet on me at all, and I didn’t get tobacco, and only a hint of something whiskey-like. It just smelled bad.

Luckily it’s not very strong so even after using it on my face I didn’t have to put up with the smell for long. I did also put some on my wrist and after a couple of hours, I discovered that it had dried down to something more pleasant - a rather old fashioned (to my nose) masculine woody/earthy scent, maybe a bit tobacco-ish, but I couldn’t really tell you what it smelled like tbh. It was mediocrely pleasant.

This stuff made my face feel great, but it smells so bad on me that I don’t think I can even bring myself to use it as a skin toner/aftershave. At least it was cheap!