MrMagic

Dear Knights of the Coconut,

today it's about a positive surprise for me from the house ATH, after the previously tested Arabica rather cold read me.
Ozone is, to take that in advance, exactly what I was looking for: A creamy coconut scent with stable performance and affordable. The similar companion Virgin Island Water by Creed was me there a little too sweet, much too expensive and too volatile.

Nevertheless: Ozone starts perceptibly out of round. Within the first five minutes, a me disturbing sharpness rises in the nose, of which I'm not sure whether it's Ambroxan or just this mysterious ozone, which is supposed to have a sharp chemical smell in larger quantities. The lime is clearly noticeable at the beginning, but it hides behind the coconut note that dominates from the start and could stay a bit longer. Virgin Island Water gets that a little better, in my opinion.
What follows, however, is great cinema! A very soft coconut note which reminds in unsweet manner rather of coconut oil than of the coconut itself, harmonizes wonderfully with a mint note woven behind it, which brings a certain freshness to the creaminess of the coconut. In the finish, the fragrance goes for my nose relatively unspectacular in a woody, musky direction, which does not bother, however, because the grandiose middle part lasts very very long.
With Ozone you have, depending on skin and environmental influence, a good 12 hours of fun. That can be seen very well for a summer fragrance!
The sillage is present, but not slaying. I therefore rank Ozone a little above Acqua du Gio Profumo, but still below the current version of Fahrenheit, so that an approximate classification appears accurate for you regarding the sillage.

The bottle I can unfortunately only evaluate by picture, but I find the shape and the design with the punched font very appealing. If now still fits the sprayer, you can hardly complain there, although I'm afraid that I can not see the fill level here again.

Ozone I would actually like to put every lover of summer fragrances to the heart, which are simply looking for something other than lemon or fruit.

As always, thanks for reading!

Friends of good humor,

today's about Club de Nuit Milestone, my second Armaf, which I could ersouken here blind. Honestly, I knew now several weeks not quite how to classify the fragrance, but does not matter, because: The more tests, the more reflected the result!
In advance, it should also be mentioned that I do not know the original of Creed.
Milestone starts strongly synthetic without biting chemical clubs or comparable. The wearer notices nevertheless quite quickly that the melon produced here in combination with the maritime notes really smells very artificial. Similar I know for example from Dua's Popped Cherry, which has come off as a better TF so far very well here. You can think of the fragrance what you want, but also Popped Cherry does not smell natural at all, which does not mean that the Parfumo acrid chemistry rises to the nose.
I think you understand what I want to tell you, because synthetic is not always bad. So it behaves just with Milestone. We have here a very summery melon accord, which was probably constructed with bergamot and red fruits. This is laid down on a maritime base, which later clearly ends in a slightly earthy vetiver in combination with musk. Ambroxan is also clearly recognizable, so that the fragrance pyramid seems coherent.
Not at all coherent seem to me here the ratings regarding the durability and sillage. While the fragrance is now according to Adam Giant always around the five hours blesses the temporal, the sillage is a scarce hour with proper spraying perceptible, but then adapts relatively close to the skin. For all its artificiality and use of ambroxan, that's a little too little for me. Better's at high temperatures significantly above 20 degrees, so that I also recommend the fragrance only on such days.
Basically, for the price of flabby 30 € but little to complain. It is not a handicraft great made fragrance of decent quality, but Milestone I like anyway, because the fruity melon and the maritime notes give me a good mood and I get right into a summery mood.
The flacon speaks for itself. Too chavvy for me, the sprayer is meager, but at least I can guess the fill level through the recessed window.
A sniff is Milestone worth in my opinion, but it is not a fragrance that I would recommend or mention in the environment great. I think therefore that I will keep the bottle and also empty, but he will not then appear again on my shopping list.
As always, thank you for reading, I look forward to your suggestions and thoughts on my review!

Dear flower friends,
today is about Reflection Man, the current number 4 on Parfumo, from the house of Amouage. Again and again this fragrance appears in numerous YouTube videos and aroused my interest. I have my sample now a little longer and have, to be able to really do justice to the fragrance, RM more often checked on heart (note) and kidneys. So let's get to the fragrance:

RM starts with a pleasant, spicy bitter orange leaf, which is dominated quite quickly by neroli. The neroli note, extremely present, but does not bring 4711 associations. Further on, the fragrance unfolds a floral miscellany with subtle sweetness, which probably comes from the iris. Following that, sandalwood and a subtle cedar quickly take center stage, joining the sweet floral bouquet. RM doesn't really have a fragrance pyramid in my opinion. Too quickly the fragrance develops through the notes, although this does not bother me much.
The repeatedly made comparison to Le Male is definitely justified, however, RM is not synthetic, less sweet and has instead of the Le Male in the center, annoying me tonka bean a nice wood to show. Fragrance twins are the two thus not at all, they merely have parallels, whereby RM comes off better with me.
Since I probably have a sample of the current batch and also only know this, I can not report much on performance drops. But the fact is: RM performs with me neatly. The shelf life is a good 8 hours, the sillage is not extreme, but can be seen. Two hours projects the fragrance even in small quantities neatly from the wrist, before he becomes more discreet, but still clearly perceptible.
The bottle is really very nice, there is nothing to complain.

All in all, I like RM quite well, but does not knock me off my feet. Nevertheless, a solid, masculine floral fragrance that I can imagine wonderful in the spring.

Thanks for reading!

Dear friends of the classics,

today it's about Chanel Egoiste - Again, a fragrance that I was particularly interested by its presentation.
The commercial, the praise on Parfumo and the simple bottle, provided with "Egoiste - Chanel Paris" made me so curious that the fragrance on my now very large watch list slipped significantly up. I could then still get a good 30ml at a reasonable price blind and must anticipate: I was not disappointed!
Egoiste starts getting used to in good oldschool manner. Coriander, wood and a slight sweetness set the tone here for me, although I still could not quite determine whether the sweetness is the tangerine or the already incipient cinnamon.
Relatively quickly now put the clove and a so far for me still very dry cinnamon in the foreground. Here also lies my biggest problem with Egoiste - a problem with the garden carnation.
This I could not stand already with "New York Intense", too stale, too intense comes to me this note therefore, besides, I'm basically not the biggest fan of cloves in general, so I give this in the kitchen also rather little attention. But when I look at the entire presentation of Egoiste with its very wintry scent character, the clove is probably still just part of it. Since anyway the cinnamon gradually takes over the helm as the main actor of the fragrance and the clove moves into the background, I can also live well with this note after multiple tests.
Up to this point, however, I understand: Egoiste is not everyone's cup of tea.
After about 30 minutes, amber hints, after just under 45 minutes, a clear vanilla note follows. The cinnamon is meanwhile increasingly moist, intense and authentic. This is the part of the fragrance that I like best and that fascinates me. I have to think here of strong cinnamon rolls in the spice drawer and fortunately times not of cinnamon-sugar-pamper, as it is today gladly in fragrances gepanscht.
Egoiste develops over time clearly different than the prelude would suggest it, although this is not entirely lost. This is probably the aspect that many perfumos see as a bridge between oldschool and newer fragrance compositions and I would like to agree. Cinnamon, amber and vanilla remain dominant for me until the end, with a very subtle sandalwood coming more to the fore towards the end. Synthetics is a foreign word for this fragrance - good so!

The performance can really be seen. Although Egoiste is absolutely no "beast", but belongs to the stronger fragrances and is clearly perceptible. Sparingly dosed, this can therefore also be worn in the office, just the durability turns out on my skin between 11-12 hours. On clothes Egoiste lasts much longer, but for my sensation somehow musty with time, so that I leave it with this fragrance to spray the skin. That already fits so, he is strong enough.

Flacon and sprayer convince freely according to the motto "less is more". Although this does not fit the then yet quite complex fragrance, but to the cool and distant, perhaps even sublime presentation.
Chanel's Egoiste can really be seen, here you get a lot for your money and has the perfect winter men's fragrance, if it should not be stale, but also not generic-pleasing, as is the case with many new releases today. The bottom line is that this makes the scent timeless for me. He is indeed more suitable for older (from 30 years plus) gentlemen, but here is of course again simply to wear what you like. Visually I see the fragrance nevertheless something finer seeming, a hoodie fits here simply not.
From me there is a clear purchase recommendation.

Thanks for reading!

...such a miserable performance?
You ask yourself that more often with some fragrances, a prime example of this question is D&G The One edp.
The One - The One for Dates. It is supposed to serve as an absolute all-purpose weapon and is mentioned virtually everywhere in this context. Personally, I can also really like the DNA, but have opted for the flanker Royal Night.
In the opening, The One edp is fruity and creamy. From the beginning, the fragrance notes of the brilliant orange blossom with the amber stand out (in my opinion, this is the absolute highlight of the fragrance), which is still hiding behind a synthetic grapefruit at the beginning. However, I find the not as awful as in the Bleu de Chanel edT, but more volatile.
The cardamom is also there from the beginning. After a little time, the cardamom becomes more pronounced, tobacco I can not perceive, cedar at most guess. The One manages to be sweet but not too sweet, to be very pleasing and yet stand out (for the designer segment) and despite the incredible popularity in terms of performance to fail across the board. Why is that?

The durability is in everyday life at a good five hours. Something thicker on the arm, protected from fresh air, sunlight or what beautiful things the day brings you so, maybe six hours. After that, it's closing time on the skin. Who would like to participate here a little longer from the fragrance experience, should bathe his clothes in it, whereby: That should be expensive washings!
The sillage does not make it better. Radiates the fragrance at most in the average range for an hour, he is then at the latest absolutely close to the skin. Exactly that makes him unsuitable for me. I have decided, because I still like the DNA, for the more powerful flanker Royal Night. Unfortunately, it lacks the great orange blossom, yet it converts the DNA a bit darker, woodier and slightly smokier - oriental for beginners, so to speak. But now it should not be about.

The bottle is nothing special and no eye candy going out above the average, but can still be seen. Overall, quite valuable with reasonable sprayer.
I would like to recommend the fragrance for intimate or discreet moments such as dates or the office, since the fragrance is unlikely to get on anyone's nerves, for nightlife he is absolutely unsuitable. Most likely I see the fragrance because of its sweetness in autumn, in winter he will probably not survive.
Too bad, "The One" you will not, but you still smell good.

Thanks for reading!