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A fresh start to the first test.
Very spicy, palatable, sweet and powdery in the depths. However, this initial freshness is merely reminiscent of its predecessor "We Are Tribe | Benetton" and quickly subsides.
The impression of a deep, dark perfume is created with dry fruit notes, which can appear somewhat exuberant for a short time. However, this settles again quite quickly.

I imagine myself lying on wet asphalt, clad in fruity leather. It is woody-cool, with a ripe plum nearby. It shimmers dark red under the eyelids. Well accentuated by the color of the bottle.

Lurking on the olfactory pyramid, the tart, herbaceous lavender that embraces the iris in a friendly manner reveals itself to me.
An elegant impression.

If you are worried about the licorice: it is relatively discreet here and much less prominent than in "Île Mythique | Chabaud", for example, where it plays a dominant role.
However, its tasty spiciness is present.

Cinnamon remains sweetly dry and very subtle. Harmonizes with the sweetness of the liquorice.

Resins, mint and vetiver create fresh, cool and ethereal top notes that shine through from time to time.

Artemisia, guaiac wood and carrot seeds are unfortunately difficult to pinpoint, as I am not familiar with their individual scents.

We Are Tribe Intense feels familiar, especially after the drydown. We are at a designer level here. You shouldn't expect a niche, but you do get a fragrance impression that, due to its unusualness in the designer sector, is definitely moving towards niche. At least as an idea as such.

You should not expect a hyper-qualitative and totally balanced perfume, but at the same time you will not be disappointed if you like resins, incense and spice. The smoke here is by no means clerical.
I can imagine that the We Are Tribe may seem a little mediocre to some. However, with the current pricing, this doesn't hurt anyone. You pay considerably more for a "Boss Bottled Elixir | Hugo Boss", which despite the fact that I consider it to be mediocrely well made, or that I personally still find something lacking, I still like it very much and will eventually move in with me at a discount price. And this is where I see a certain parallel between We Are Tribe Intense and Boss Bottled Elexir. Only in an Eau de Cologne or an Eau Fresh concentration of the same.
I have the impression that WE Are Tribe Intense is by no means imposing. A fairly discreet candidate, which makes it versatile for smaller spaces or close human contact. Which should also be indicative of the effect of the sillage.

We Are Tribe Intense can be thought of as a perfume that is particularly suitable for evenings, whose vibes also allow for greater versatility, but with a focus on winter.

You should not have an aversion to synthetics. It doesn't look particularly strong or cheap here. Rather really well done, even if it can get a little bumpier in this respect towards the end.

As with its predecessor, the bottle is of good quality and detailed. Only the injection scar on the flacon lid and the fact that it is a little too light is a little annoying. And as previously mentioned in the review of the predecessor, such a playful bottle shape is not attractive to everyone.
However, I personally like such curiosities. So far, I haven't had any negative feedback about the bottle, on the contrary. I like the bottle.

WE Are Tribe Intense is a deep, dark, pleasantly resinous-spicy, discreetly sweet and powdery fragrance for everyday wear in winter, with notes of leather and dry fruits.
Its field of application is not necessarily restricted to a specific type of clothing or a limited occasion.
The longevity and sillage is relatively low, but this may be different for a different skin type.

I like it and it's certainly great as a gift. Unfortunately, the Intense version is very rare at the moment. I was lucky that Benetton suddenly had it in stock, thanks to a newsletter subscription that can now be canceled.

It's a cozy hoodie and I'm delighted to be able to call the We Are Tribe Intense my own.

The predecessor: "We Are Tribe | Benetton"

An exotic-looking bottle as if sprung from an abstract work of art. Black cuboids on a white background. A red line runs diagonally through the composition in the manner of Soviet Constructivism of the 1920s. Everything relatively strictly Japanese reinterpreted.

Black matte (haptic) with curved shapes of modern vehicles, weapons and wristwatches made of black ceramic with a transition to the smooth and transparent.
The classic escapes a good Yakuza movie from the '90s, where stylish clothes and elegant vehicles play an important supporting role. All this with an extravagance in which an echo from the past resonates. An older Yakuza who has discreetly kept his style of the '80s, turned to the modern, without sacrificing tradition.
No idea if these images come to mind when I look at and palm the bottle (while the fragrance already announces itself from the packaging) because here was a Japanese fashion designer at work, who puts his main focus on cuts, silhouettes, movement and shapes.

Not differently, the perfume affects me.
Spicy seasoning, a classic gentlemen's elegance and this omnipresent myrrh with it. An almost floral sweetness. Freshness, cleanliness. Minimalist complex and strangely different.
Here vanilla, tobacco and leather ensnare the leading lady myrrh.
I feel extremely comfortable with this eau der toilette.

Thanks to 'Minigolf' for the inspiration!

As with its predecessor, the 50ml bottle is a hand and eye candy at the same time.
The olfactory impression of metal and technology is reflected in the lid. Whereby by expanding the theme in blue color. A most matte, brushed metal. In the predecessor "L'Eau Majeure d'Issey | Issey Miyake", the silver lid also gives the impression of metal, while here it got its bluish shimmer from heating. This flanker is also a bit sweeter, just as heated metal can also smell a brief moment.

Here, too, the water and especially the sea is a major theme. However, the L'Eau Super Majeure d'Issey conveys in contrast to its predecessor, for my sensation, the approaching early morning. The sun's rays are warming. It is no longer so cold. The plants of the sand dunes smell stronger here than the mudflats or the washed up smorgasbord of algae, driftwood and secretions from the digestive tract of marine mammals.

A playful citrusy sweetness, but without the Italoesque cestiness. A bit more natural in the sense of herbaceous. Which is probably due to sage and rosemary. Spring flowers merely as a reminiscence by the vanilla rounded.
All this is with this one more on the aromatic surface.
Nevertheless, the proven and cherished mustiness from the beach also reveals itself here.

Here, too, the futuristic technical theme is maintained in the proven synthetic aesthetics of a laboratory fragrance. Chemistry is in the air and this can have a pleasant atmosphere of an antique pharmacy. Thus, the Flanker is also true to its sci-fi cyberpunk genre with naturalistic and ancient elements in the spirit of Issey Miyake and the Japanese philosophy of duality.

Whereas the L'Eau Super Majeure d'Issey is more accessible and would find more approval than its predecessor or alternatively thereby ifiger interesting and unique seems than its predecessor.

Nevertheless, this gem also seems to fall prey to great displeasure. Where I have my thoughts on this in my review of L'Eau Majeure d'Issey already written and use this review only to name the differences and similarities.

Enclosed, turning to the negative reviews: I like mainly the Scotch whiskies from the island of Islay, whose raw materials are smoked by peat fire. Which is why especially the Islay whiskies are very smoky. One of my favorites (the 10-year-old Talisker, theme of the sea par excellence), or rather its aroma has already been called "toilet stone" by those who disdained him with me, while I float in whiskey heaven.
So it may well or unfortunately also Issey Miyake's predecessor, as well as the flanker L'Eau Super Majeure d'Issey fare. Certain flavors require complementary experience, as well as a penchant for peculiar aromas (no, not those of urinal stones).
No Front, since I am well aware that I am reviewing a designer fragrance here which, according to the fragrance pyramid, obviously has synthetic ingridenzien. For the L'Eau Majeure d'Issey and the L'Eau Super Majeure d'Issey, however, I see the synthetic as not decisive, but rather its general aroma, as a stylistic device, which may well appear to one or the other nose bulky and unwearable. Just as the good old Talisker may share the same fate, whereby the purely natural Ingridenzien in itself. Its creator had no technological futurism as an intention, unlike the L'Eau Majeure d'Issey series. But for all three applies: 'Made by the sea"

The durability, as well as the sillage is also very solid here. The fragrance projects all its elements stably further without losing any of it.

Here I see what is revealed to my eye, the wind is tepid, the sun warm bleaches shells white I collect here. I taste sea salt and seaweed scent. The beach is fuller this time, here a dog in his happiness, there children cheerful. More not in the sound of the sea and waves that calmly beat against rocks.

My first encounter with this gem was similar to the many negative reviews.
Inspired by the stomlinienförmige Handschmeichler flacon, I fed myself this Issey Miyake. I had a positive impression so far by "L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Intense | Issey Miyake" and expected a similarly positive impression.
However, I was struck by a certain mustiness that I had never perceived before under perfumes. As if I enter a long abandoned, old house full of furniture and books, which have gotten their character imposed by the humidity and wondered who should wear such as a fragrance then?
With a similar comment to the helpful saleswoman, I moved away. Saw merely like the lady concentrated at this Flakon smelled, so that I got the impression that she was taken by it.
This impression did not let me go. Why should someone wear such then voluntarily? Who brings such a thing at all on the market?
It remained long in my olfactory memory. So followed several times of the always again testens.

And there I was blown away. This muff seemed more complex to me and was extended by the other Ingridenzien accompanying. I was fascinated.

So, looking at it with some temporal distance:
On the one hand, with L'Eau Majeure d'Issey, I experienced the salty air of the North Sea. The sand soaked by salt water and the accessories of sea plants and isolated driftwood. On the other hand, I smell the mudflats.

In addition, I heard new aspects of this creation, which were not there for me before the muff. A modern sweetness in the interplay with bitter notes from fruits, as well as reminiscences of forest and garden flowers. Whereas I also have the image of sand dunes overgrown with plants.
Dar Muff: I wonder how long the ambergris may have floated in the seas of the world? Probably not at all and we have here before us a synthetic form. However, this is composed as probably an ambergris after a long journey on the beach may be washed up. Accordingly, this muff ranks itself just as consistently and logically in the idea and the theme of this creation as the sea, the substance from the digestive tract of marine mammals and citrus fruits as provisions companion at the North Sea would do it.

Later, I found for me that more nuances were added. The beginning accompanies long, as mentioned, something bitter, after which the salt gradually asserts itself, followed by the sea muff and immerwieder this sweetness shines through and frames the overall work as something that corresponds to a modern fragrance.

In fact, with this fragrance, the focus seems to me to vary greatly depending on the weather and mood. Accordingly, I recommend this EdT at different times of the year, on different days and at different times to test again and again. Because sometimes prevails exclusively the musty, sometimes almost exclusively something which acts like such a typical mainstream young bung fragrance and thus can actually act short-tempered generic and sometimes it is as it was probably conceived, totally harmonious between all its elements.

I don't hear the much-maligned synthericism the way some reviewers convey it. As far as I have read to it, Issey Miyake should have put his attention to futuristic and technical modernity with this creation. So, as a result, the artificial cashmeran seems only consistent and logical to me. Since I am personally inclined towards technoid futurism in art, literature and fashion, this synthetic material acts as an aesthetic medium in this creation. An aesthetic chemistry, so to speak.

I can understand to some extent what displeases those who tear this gem. Where I have not yet looked at the collections to be able to conclude whether those critics just prefer the species-typical, more accessible aromas of fresh and sweet, which are more flattering to the general public (Mind you, regardless of whether it is designer or niche), no front or whether I am simply and simply damaged in my perception of L'Eau Majeure d'Issey. I can live with either.
One always says so beautiful, that this and that is a matter of taste. Whereas for me personally, what constitutes taste, is an accumulation of experience and I believe that there is ultimately no taste, but only these personal experience. At least I can not do much with "matter of taste".
We make experiences from encounters, events and these are also reflected in our scent perception. I feel besides all the beautiful smells that there are also the smell of gasoline, engine oil, so technical and chemical smells, as well as smells like rotten wood, coal, plants, earth, road dust from Central Asia and many other what is perceived as unpleasant as interesting. Maybe that's why I love L'Eau Majeure d'Issey. However, also because it represents for me in the area of the provincial drugstore and perfumery of the L'Eau Majeure d'Issey a unique specimen and stands out with the most from the existing designer fragrances despite certain weaknesses far. Here the designer has dared something without slipping too much into a concept fragrance!

The main theme is the water and the sea. This is adequately implemented here. The intention is technology and solid lab work has been done here in terms of chemistry and the artifice of science fiction and cyberpunk aesthetics. In this, at least, I see a connection. Furthermore, L'Eau Majeure d'Issey manages to capture the Japanese philosophy of life, or a Japanoid style of multi-faceted minimalism and order, of harmony between nature and artifice.

The durability is very solid. For a designer fragrance stable. Projection varies depending on barometric pressure, weather and body chemistry.

I would like to miss this gem by no means more and am glad that the sales figures seem to be stable, so that I will hopefully have something from this series for a long time. Thanks to all those who like this fragrance and continue to buy! I myself have a 150ml tub of it at home.

To L'Eau Majeure d'Issey I recommend a Scottish whiskey from the island of Islay, such as the Talisker, where the theme of the sea also harmonizes successfully. According to the motto: "Made by the sea".

A silver lining on the horizon conveys the early evening at the rough, dark sea. Grey sky, dark clouds.
Face whipped around by grains of sand and by the wind blowing up all that washed up at the feet of the sea. Alone on the beach. But right here I feel right and comfortable, although it is seemingly uncomfortable ...like this fragrance.

Discreet, sweet, gentle and warm barbershop flair fragrance.

If you don't like sweet scents, this one's not for you. This one has no sharp edge of a classic from the past. Yet this soft approach to the barbershop theme makes it modern and accessible to the masses, I suspect.

Definitely has a certain vintage touch to it nonetheless. I can imagine this fragrance for situations from neatly dressed (jacket to casual style etc) to pithy edgy with motor oil (biker style).
A beard vorllendet the visual to the olfactory. And the full beard düfte thereby also represented the age limit from when you can wear this fragrance confidently.

I have often read that the JV Vintage is too liniar and boring.
He acts at the beginning quite uncomplicated Geradelinig, but this must not necessarily be a negative criterion. I personally like in particular its sillage which conveys to me neatness, stability and order.

At the beginning meets me a fragrance monolith and splits only with time to different nuances. Where the beginning, as well as the top note here can actually make skeptical.
There is on the one hand the citrus-fruity freshness, then the soapy and in the background something tart and dry. Possibly it is the leatheriness, the woody and smoky. This is not dominant at all and rather supports the overall impression. I clearly enjoy the sillage more than sniffing it directly. The earlier. Mentioned fragrance monolith can be exhausting at the beginning.

Yes the durability distinguish JV Vintage not exactly to a club fragrance, even if you necessarily want to project strongly with a perfume. JV Vintage is good for close-to-the-body interaction or for situations in which it would be inappropriate to confront his counterpart with a strength fragrance sillage. The scent composition doesn't seem particularly natural or high quality. JV Vintage moves on a good Disignerduft level.

The bottle is very gulungen. Elegant, in the sturdy brown glass, wrapped with a faux leather and a gold print lettering. Lies comfortably in the hand, even if the spraying and thereby the 125ml bottle securely in the hand to hold quite a certain reaccustoming brings with it.

Whatever your opinion of this fragrance, to me it brings back vague memories of vaguely pleasant events from the past. I have a good time while wearing the John Varvatos Vintage. I like him as he is, even if some criticism would be justified.