Btd069

This is a Middle Eastern brand that has tried to clone Initio's Musk Therapy. Initio Musk Therapy is clean, smooth, rich and has a vanillic quality which isn't listed and a good amount of fruitiness to it & you can smell the quality ingredients. Granted, Musk Is Great is 1/10 the price, so hoping that it's a good copy should be skewed to account for the price. Musk Is Great is way more floral, airy and has an animalic quality about it.

Presentation here is nice and you get a lot of Juice......but they don't smell alike, especially side by side but even on their own, I don't find them even in a similar category. So for all those hoping for a quality clone, look elsewhere. While this is a very nice fragrance in it's own right, especially for the price, they are not remotely close, as much as I wish it was.

IMO, this smells like Bvlgari Tygar with some extra spices thrown in. Extreme compliment beast for me so far. Lasts really long and projects well for a few hours, then I get wafts for about 7-8 hours, especially for the price point. You definitely have to like Ambroxan. Its Citrus, Ambroxan, Very Light Spices & Woods. Not bad for under $40. Already bought a backup. Prob my most used fragrance in the hot climate in which I live.

This opens sweeter than Spicebomb, but dries down less sweet. There's a noticeable cashmeran note that gives it a strong Balsamic vibe. It dries down like sweet spices in a green forest.

Sillage and projection are not that strong....but last an average amount of time. On the upside, I got this for $35....so pretty inexpensive. I would rate this lower than Ginger Lover & Wild Mint, about the same as Amber Fever and better than Naughty Leather.

Fantastic fragrance and doesn't smell like anything else I have. This is my first Memo. This is a Cardamom bomb. Both Cardamom and Saffron is very noticeable in the opening with the Leather which is not the animalistic kind to my nose. The Cumin, to me, smells like more of a supporting note. I'm not a typically a huge fan of Cumin, but it works here. It's got a spice market vibe in the opening as others have described. Vetiver comes out a little more after the initial spraying as it starts to settle down. The Patchouli here is very chocolatey more so than the hippie variety and musk is helping it push off sking pretty strongly. I didn't notice any Bergamot or Oud until i knew they were there and was specifically looking for each of them.

Performance on this is outrageously good. I'm typically an over-sprayer, but I won't be doing that with this one cause I might just choke someone out. I wouldn't wear this in the peak of summer unless you are in a climate controlled environment. The longevity l get is 10-12 hours on my skin. I imagine this on clothes will last 24 hours or more. Sillage and projection is strong for the first hour or two and you'll get wafts for the life of the fragrance after you get into the full dry down.

I got this for $155 so about half off full retail. For that price, I'm very satisfied. I don't think its worth the full $300 retail price. This is not for everyone. I can't see newbies or younger folks who like blue and mass appealing fragrances liking this all that much since leather and some of the other notes may be a little polarizing. Frag-heads will likely find this a safe blind buy, but for everyone else, probably not until testing or buying a decant. I personally love it.

Scent - 9/10
Longevity - 10/10
Projection - 8/10
Sillage - 7/10
Price (from discounters) - 7/10

I paid under $60 for this (don't pay the inflated prices of some sites). This smells very close to a cross between TF Oud Wood ($300ish) and Thameen Carved Oud ($250ish). Longevity is better than Oud Wood IMO. Great Bargain, the bottle is 85ml, so kind of a strange in between size. They also make a PDM Carlisle clone called Perlador but i have not tried it.

Longevity is good (6-7 hours), Sillage is average and Projection is good for the first couple hours gets slightly closer to the skin without becoming a skin scent. One of my new favorites.