PeerGynt78

This is called Miami Blue and I get every bit of it. It's a great fresh and cool fragrance that feels both a classic 80s/90s blue fragrance and like something more modern. It's floral without being sweet, vaguely aquatic, and a tiny bit weird.

As for the notes. The lemon and ginger blend really well and come off as a robust citrus element. The rose and the aldehydes also mix very well to create a floral smell that's lacking that sweet lingering finish a rose fragrance generally has. And finally, there is a hint of chemical that I take as the calone and/or the cocaine element, it smells vaguely like aquatic floral-chlorine, really digging down I picture smelling flowers by a pool, but more immediately it smells a lot like when you pull open the glued down page to smell perfume samples in magazines. You can also smell the amber, but it simply feels like an element to support everything else.

While this feels like more of a spring and summer scent I wouldn't be shy breaking it out any time of year that you just want to smell good. Also this can be super strong at the beginning, so be warned. On me it fades into a skin scent around 6 hours

The bottle is also nice, I love how the painted bottom gives it a two tone look, and the bottle has a very nice even sprayer

I wore this one today for the second time because I needed another go to really get a feel for what this scent is giving off. From the first whiff you can tell this one is going to be a strong one, and it's lasted close to 10 hours at a strength where I am still getting whiffs as I walked around. And if you like this fragrance that's probably going to be a bonus. For me, it's not my jam, I picture this smelling like what a medieval peasant would dream of smelling like. Sour funky barnyard, wood, ashes, and incense, all on top of leather. At the start the sour animalistic barnyard obnoxiously overpowers the rest, with everything else being discernable, but not really coming together into a cohesive fragrance. As it dries down it the hay smell dissipates a bit allowing the other notes stand out a bit more to me, although it keeps those sour funky notes the whole way through.

Lately I’ve been trying cannabis themed fragrances from popular niche perfumers. This is my third one, and the first one that doesn’t project a distinct cannabis note. Instead, this smells like someone just came out of the chaparral after a hike while holding dried citrus potpourri. More precisely Chronic opens projecting heavily of a complex grapefruit dominated citrus and sage scent. As the scent develops the cashmere wood combined with the other base notes and citrus give a similar feel to Escentric 05 but with minimally smokey vetiver and a heavy sage note. The cannabis note incorporated into this fragrance is in the background, hard to detect by itself, but plays very well into the overall herbal/woody nature of the scent.

The biggest downside, and something I find with many citrus fragrances is the poor longevity; I got between 2-3 hours before this faded into being nearly undetectable on my skin. While the way cannabis was incorporated into this scent is interesting it probably shouldn't have been named something that makes you believe that it will be a take on a strong cannabis scent. That said, despite the lack of a standout cannabis note this scent is amazing, and if not for the lack of longevity I would be tempted to buy a full bottle.

I own a bottle of Jazz Club as the result of a blind buy due to a super sale.

Let me start this off saying, that I usually love experience perfumes. If put something on and am transported to some time and place memory or false nostalgia, I'm up for the trip, and on paper this is everything I wanted. The name, Jazz Club, with the description of rum and tobacco backed by the scent of vanilla and styrax that promise the smell like the wood in the bar itself instantly made me think of being in the 1950s slipping into a club to catch a set by some unknown artist who later ends up playing with Bags, Monk, or Trane. But this isn't that smell.

This isn't the smell of the possibilities a night out can bring; this is the smell of walking into the bar the next day to pick up the credit card you left open. The rum is dark and soaked in, the smell of rum spilled on a bar or drying in the bottom of some unwashed glass. The tobacco is stale and sweet, the smell of overbearing rank stale air of a bar that's had no air circulation for 8 hours. The citrus is the dull and smells like the industrial stuff they're using to clean the bathroom floors, and you're catching a whiff every time the fan shifts. So maybe this is an experience fragrance, but that experience is more closely related harsh sobriety, dopamine exhaustion, and a hangover.

All this said, even though I feel this fragrance is unbalanced in a way that makes it far too dark and overbearing, it still smells good. The problem with it is that when I look at my collection almost all of the time I feel like I could smell better.

This is exactly the smell of a flowering marijuana plant. At the base of this fragrance is the photorealistic smell of the green fan leaves of a cannabis plant. The fruitiness of grapefruit and passionfruit playing the part of the flowering buds. The pine and resin accords completing the illusion that you are smelling a heavily budded THC laden plant, days before harvest.

Be warned, my fiancé said it was "candy sweet" when smelling it from a few feet away, and if you think of this as more of a flower fragrance rather than a passionfruit and grapefruit fragrance that makes sense. To be clear, this is not some dank heavy smell, but green and fruity. I'm sampling from a vial, but it is impressively strong when I put it on. It also projects well for a couple of hours and has a nice dry down that's a little bit more grapefruit/passion fruit forward and last for many hours after that.