What goes around comes around

L'Anarchiste by Caron

Old Fashioned Men's Aftershave

Opens up as an old fashioned men's aftershave with loads of orange/lemon/begamot and cedar wood. I personally don't get mandarin and orange blossom as the top notes, the citrus is much more vague than that. A few minutes in sees the development of some minty, metallic, animal funky notes (it reminds me briefly of artificial ambergris funk). There is some cinnamon which I find quite dischordant with the mint.

It has a bright freshness about it, high-pitched, not much in the way of deep basenotes, and altogether rather harsh as the metallic note development is very powerful on my skin.

My dad had something like this in the 1960's/1970's; probably something marketed as a cedarwood aftershave and likely by Boots the Chemist or similar.

It's true what they say, 'What goes around comes around'.

Version from 2015