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… and I mean that in favor of the scent! Because let's be honest, a 7.3… folks, sorry, but that's absolute nonsense!

The scent is absolutely fantastic and is the perfect evolution of a designer icon!
Darker, deeper, and more interesting than the others… and yet it retains the original DNA and has the best performance of all in the line!

The MSRP is definitely a bit too high… whether Chanel has done itself a favor with this, I would strongly doubt, but I posit the thesis that if it had the same or a similar price structure as the perfume version, most people would completely celebrate the scent here because it is just so well made!
When I look at some niche fragrances that often cost 200-300€ and are no better in quality or innovation, I don't quite understand the hate here…

Just keep your eyes open here in the souk and I think spending 100€-150€ on the scent can be done without a guilty conscience :-)

I love it and it is a perfect all-rounder for the upcoming dark months!

ADP was one of the first houses, away from the designer mainstream, that caught my attention years ago... I was with friends in Las Vegas and my room neighbor wore the same fragrance every day, which I noticed very positively throughout the trip - I inevitably asked him: "What perfume are you wearing?"... his answer was short and to the point..."I only have one scent and that is Acqua di Parma - I wear it daily".... which one exactly, he didn't tell me and I didn't question it back then, but I kept going to perfume shops and tested many from the line and also received samples.

I must say - I absolutely love this ADP DNA - this citrus freshness that is simply incomparable in almost all of the good ADPs... what I don't love or loved is the unbelievably poor performance! For the prices, it's kind of a cheekiness... I find good longevity and sillage in fragrances almost as important as the scent itself... I've already given away countless incredibly good fragrances due to poor performance (The One, D&G pour Homme, LNDL, and many more.)
I really wanted to own an ADP and bought the Sandalo about 2 months ago - great scent. This citrus freshness paired with woods - wonderfully beautiful fragrance but again, the longevity was unfortunately not good and I gave the scent away...

I was about to give up on ADP and happened to smell the ADP Oud on a test strip at Breuninger. On the same day at Breuninger, I also tested the Xerjoff Naxos and the Accento - some serious competition for the ADP :-)
In the end, I had to admit that the ADP Oud impressed me the most of all three. It could keep up with the performance (only the Naxos was even more intense), but it captivated me the most with the scent DNA of all three!!

It is masculine, strong, and still has that incomparable ADP DNA within it... fresh and heavy at the same time somehow - perfect balance - whether it's warm or cold outside, it always fits! The oud note is super pleasant and not at all stinky... I had to get a bottle and I don't regret it to this day!
It performs well on me and with me! Not very very well - it's not a beast - but it is extremely solid and I can perceive the scent on me all day. At some point, it even smells like fresh laundry on me :-)

Finally, Acqua di Parma has managed to bring a fragrance to the market that performs... almost all of theirs smell good!

Now I must and want to write my first comment, and this is not about a top 10 designer or a niche fragrance... yet this scent has completely captivated me, and as mentioned in the title, I wasn't really convinced at first.

It all started in the office in autumn/winter 2019 when a colleague, who often has great and new fragrances, wore this scent for the first time.
I walk into the office and immediately smell something new in the air... I go to him and ask directly: "What fragrance is that?"... Zadig & Voltaire... he says... mmmmh ok. It is quite sweet, and I usually don't like overly sweet fragrances, but this one is really interesting.
So, after work, I head straight to the city, to the perfumery... There it is, I spray it on the paper strip and smell - mmmmh somehow not so cool. Too bad - I leave it there and go again :-(

Next day in the office - I smell the same fragrance in the elevator and again I really like it in the air... It was that particular colleague again. Damn, I think to myself... back to the perfumery and this time directly on the skin and off home. I let my wife sniff it, then I sniff it again... She doesn't really like it that much, and I still don't like it enough to want to buy it.

Then I pushed the scent out of my mind for a while. A few weeks later, back in the office. I'm standing in the kitchen and notice a scent that is again extremely flattering to my nose - Who is in the kitchen with me → exactly, that particular colleague and yes, he was wearing "This is him" again... my goodness, I think to myself - I'm just going to order it now!

What can I say, it has become one of my favorites! It smells unique, cozy, masculine, and is a great all-rounder, except when it's high summer.
What excites me the most is the absolutely great performance. It is one of the very few designer fragrances that really lasts long on me and also has a wonderful sillage. I can smell the vanilla and the incense all day, especially on my clothes.
For the price, it's a "MUST HAVE" in my eyes! I think that in the current designer fragrance world, there are hardly any scents that have decent performance unless they are overly sweet and too youthful, which I don't really celebrate.

One is always on the lookout for little fragrance treasures that impress sustainably, and with "This is him," that is the case for me - even if it took a little while ;)