NoahPaloa

I'm not usually a fan of fresh fragrances because they often smell too synthetic and superficial to me. (of course there are a few exceptions)


Fortunately, Renaissance is such an exception (:
When I first smelled it, I was almost shocked at how a fragrance can smell so citrusy and still be natural.

The very intense top note is immediately noticeable. to be honest, "lime water" sums it up pretty well, but it goes so much deeper. The mandarin and hints of mint and rose make the top note the best I've smelled so far.
(fresh, tangy, sour, sweet and yet clean; rounded but highly recognizable)

I still find the drydown outstanding for a fresh fragrance (especially the transition from fresh to warm and somewhat woody), but unfortunately the space-consuming sillage that the top note had to offer fades and can now only be smelled directly on the skin. Here, everyone has to decide for themselves whether they like it or not.

I have to admit that I'm not really a fan of the almost "poetic" reviews on Parfumo. The Renaissance, however, has awakened real summer dreams, longings, associations and all the rest in me for a long time, but unfortunately I can't put them into suitable words (:
(the name really suits the fragrance here)

I'm already looking forward to wearing the fragrance on my next beach vacation ((:

I won't make a secret of it, I was just looking for a cheaper Naxos.

Honey Tobacco already has clear similarities to Naxos and I would probably always identify the scent as Naxos if someone else was wearing it.

The comparison:

At the start, they differ mainly in that Honey Tobacco lacks this fresh citrus opening from Naxos and the heart note sets in faster.

In the heart note of Honey Tobacco is mainly jasmine and tobacco present. The whole thing goes already in the direction of Naxos only lacks here honey and the remains of the fresh top note. Thus, the fragrance smells somewhat dry.

Once he is then so about 2 to 2 ½ hours on the skin I recognize the differences without direct comparison only very difficult.

The fragrance tail smells already 95% the same. Here are the differences I could really only perceive by direct comparison on the skin:

The honey in Honey Tobacco smells a lot heavier and also "colder".
The Naxos has a spiciness that Honey Tobacco actually does not have at all. I think this is due to the tobacco. With Naxos this is namely not so sharp and just spicier. Thus, the Naxos has its special honey-tobacco combination the Nishe4All Dupe unfortunately missing.

The Naxos is too expensive for me for its price. Nevertheless, I will also not get the Honey Tobacco as a flacon. The unique thing that distinguishes the Naxos and what I am also about Honey Tobacco can unfortunately not bring. Nevertheless, you get here for the price a good fragrance. What the perfume promises, honey and tobacco, you get here namely with reasonable H / S offered.

In advance, the Layton I have not yet smelled therefore I can not make any reference to the subject of Dupe.

The bottle I find actually even quite pretty :) . Only the quality is really extremely bad. The plastic from the top and lid is very thin and creaks when touching. The spray head is also not really distributed but rather shoots small jets.

But all this can be forgiven at the price.
To the fragrance:

The beginning smells rather bitter and slightly sweet. I've read how the top note is often described as unpleasant. I myself find it also not really pleasant but is times what else, which has its certain touch.

After 15 minutes, however, flies away and it comes to the warm spicy notes with apple and vanilla. Here I had then high hopes but was unfortunately disappointed. The fragrance smells a bit pungent and the vanilla comes through very little.
What disappoints me but much more is the entire fragrance itself?
One often hears that Detour Noir has a little bit of everything and I also subscribe to that. In this case, however, unfortunately, comes out not a perfume that nowhere ticks off and smells restrained but an almost chaotic fragrance that acts as if he could not decide what he is.
In addition, he smells generally also "only normal", or he does not bother me, you do not stand out with it just. Is of course a matter of taste but I think that this disordered chaotic with an intrinsically beautiful smell would come good.

What I have also often heard is that merely the fragrance cloud you leave behind you so like the Layton smells. I can imagine that well since the projection of Detour Noir smells better than directly on the skin but otherwise I can not say anything about the similarities.

H/S are okay. Stays about 3 hours on the skin with a good projection afterwards still 3 hours close to the body smellable.

For me, unfortunately, he is nothing if someone but a fan of apple and spice is, I think he will be satisfied here.

I was looking for a signature fragrance that is almost not perceived as a perfume but rather as a "body odor". That's why I wanted something that smelled natural and creamy.

Somehow I came across Prada Luna Rossa Black during this search and was initially reluctant to try it because of the bottle.

About the fragrance itself:

For the first half hour to hour, I don't like the smell at all. It actually smells like "Play Doh" plasticine. Very artificial and also intrusive.

Over time, however, the scent becomes more and more restrained. It becomes creamy and you can smell a very pleasant woody/floral note.
Reminds me somehow of a slightly sweet almond cream. However, the bergamot provides a certain freshness, which means the fragrance doesn't smell dull.
Overall, it no longer smells so synthetic, but rather more natural.


For me, the fragrance lasts for over 10 hours. (The first time I wore it, I could still smell the fragrance in the evening, despite being in the pool)
The sillage is also very nice. You don't fill the whole room, but the person sitting next to you notices the scent.

I am very satisfied and also surprised that there is such a scent behind this bottle.
It is precisely because of this longevity, which I have never had with any other perfume, that it is a wonderful signature fragrance for me.

You don't get a "profound" complicated fragrance here, but a simple and yet unmistakable fragrance at a good price.