JakeyJake15

Gorgeous green, floral, smokey fragrance - a nod to vintage styling, which I usually don't care for, but modernized. Crafted with some of best materials available by a perfumer who is really hitting his stride. After thousands of samples, you start to recognize fragrances that are instant purchases. This was one of those occasions - one wearing was enough to understand that this was truly worth its price.

I will say, from a personal perspective, the bottle design does leave a bit to be desired in the looks department.

This won't be so much a review per se but rather a subjective quantification of the power of scent memory and scent association.

Adidas Sport Fever was my first fragrance. A fragrance I wore exclusively in the 7th and 8th grade 15 some odd years ago. That time frame is so pivotal in the development into young adolescence. For many, as was for me, a period in life laden with those first few intimate feelings for others. My memories of those interactions with early flings and silly relationships are imprinted with this scent and the attention it garnered especially from my first "love" that lasted nearly 6 years. I can't help but think of that individual when I smell this fragrance and also can't help but to reminisce on those easier times growing up.

By all objectivity, this fragrance is nothing special. A simplified, generic, familiar sport, literally, fragrance consistent with the early 2000s. However, that objective unremarkability hasn't stopped me from buying now numerous bottles that have poped up for sale - despite rarely actually wearing the fragrance these days.

Burlington 1819 is a pretty simple, elegant, easy wearing citrus that doesn't bring much to the table. If money isn't much of a problem and you have fallen for the, potentially, false pretense of Roja "luxury" then sure, it is a fine spring summer frag, but I think the brand offers better elsewhere. An unknown note to me remains somewhat astringent throughout the life of the fragrance making it hard to enjoy.

Edit: 21 Conduit Street takes all the good and none of the bad. I'd advise to go that direction as they are very similar.

This review will be mostly a more concise statement but derivative of Ramsey's review from YouTube who really delivers an accurate description of this scent. Go to him for the long video format.

King Blue opens with what most would view as a "challenging" opening that well.. downright just stinks.. however, this lasts no more than 5 minutes (a similar statement to other reviews) that then progresses quickly into a rather wearable fruity woody amber in the same vain as something like Layton (this similarity really holds up in the sillage rather than up close).

I would like to think this transition of brooding opening to easy wearing was very intentional to express Amouages transition from what the Opus line used to stand for - Amouage's most artistic and at times daring scents to now a more mainstream, wearable, niche brand.

I find King Blue a very pleasant easy reach in just about any occasion outside of hot summer days.