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What fantastic packaging: A flacon that feels so heavy and luxurious that you actually enjoy taking it out of the drawer. And an extraordinary fragrance that isn't so easy to put into words. Let's start with what it isn't: Aventus....

Announced with much pomp by Amouage, I spontaneously bought it a few weeks ago. The new bottle is interesting and almost looks as if it were constructed from stone. Very nice and definitely valuable and unusual. The scent never seems to have...

This fragrance shows what Birkholz still lacks, compared to Xerjoff and other top names. I believe this applies to the entire collection, which I have thoroughly sniffed through. The individual notes are clearly perceptible, but they do not create...

A beautiful scent that - for me - comes across quite minty. Definitely a fragrance for summer, I would even say for high summer. Lots of lemon, not much of the other fruits to be sniffed out. The floral notes, on the other hand, are quite...

The typical review goes something like this: Smells initially terribly synthetic and citrusy, then it gets better. And in the end, you can hardly distinguish it from Aventus. Therefore, it usually gets 5/5 points or something similar....

There are fragrances that somehow always smell the same. H24 by Hermes, for example, or Bleu by Chanel. Aventus definitely does not belong in this category for me. There are days when I hardly notice the scent and am quite disappointed by the weak...

The first seconds are exciting: Smells like the original. Then quickly disillusionment sets in: An unpleasant, smoky-citrusy note that can be placed somewhere between ham and garlic, which intrusively accompanies the scent...