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This Armani Privé is one of several fragrances with leather-rose-ud combinations. But he immediately steps out of this row. It rightly bears the attribute Majesté. It is a majestic fragrance.
A gentleman, dressed in a noble soft leather jacket, stands with freshly blossomed roses in his arms, taking a few more touches of a noble cigarillo, before a romantic date.
Seldom are smoke, rose, leather and oud so finely tuned to each other. Nothing dominates, so that one is wrapped in this noble scent the whole evening, as if one had not taken off the leather jacket, as if the roses still exhaled their scent and as if a light smoky breath remains in the breath.
I see him more at romantics, more at men over 30, but he is also interesting for the ladies because of his soft harmonic style

I had little expectation of this fragrance. Get to know each other yes, but never for 350 EUR. Then sharing made it possible.
The clothes of Philipp Plein are unbearable for me, all the time, which is partly due to my age, because I have long outgrown all the skull flashing. On the other hand, the fabrics and leather are of high quality, but the rivets and metal plates make it look chunky and I think that understatement in the wardrobe is more important
The bottle is so tasteless that I would probably have walked past it in any perfumery with a grin
But now the fragrance itself:
I'm surprised. There are associations, but everything related is not so intense. I like the slightly pungent note of cardamom and pepper. The addition of a warm soft leather is convincing. However, the scent does not develop. It is quite linear for me. Vanilla and amber try to tame the spiciness. And this interplay is what makes it so appealing. I like it, warm-sweetish versus spicy-pungent. I can't smell the aquatic life clearly.
I am often in the Canary Islands in the boutiques of The Mint Company, where I consciously noticed Philipp Plein clothes for the first time. The scent immediately transports me to these boutiques, which could possibly be due to the similar room scent in the boutiques. As I said, the least is wearable for me, nevertheless well sorted and no junk.
The $kull is also not junk. I am not yet sure if it was created like the clothes for would-be BadBoys who can and want to buy such things thanks to daddy's bourgeois board job, or if it is even wearable for me.
Even if I bought it, I would fill the €350 fragrance in a different bottle and leave the tasteless original bottle in the shop

Thanks to Parfumo I was able to get a bottle from Niagara and a little later even a bottle. I didn't have to hesitate for long because I already liked the filling very much.
It has already been commented that one lies fast beside it regarding the year of publication. At the beginning of the 1980s at the earliest, earlier, I would have expected.
The scent starts citric-spicy and interesting for me: intensely berry. The black currant sets the tone for me and remains present for 2-3 hours. The fresh and spicy start is very harmonious. Thyme quickly suggests that this is rather Mediterranean water and none from the North American river or even waterfall.
The softwood notes are based on warm wood in sunlight. There are no juice green pines or cypresses in the shade.
Minigolf has already sketched in her commentary a true beautiful landscape in Provence.
While the scent changes into a berry wood note, cistus rose and vetiver prepare a bitter exit for my sensation. I still smell berries, I smell wood notes and a warm tart note.
This over 5 hours, afterwards only directly on the skin.
I smell (see would be the wrong term) the fragrance rather to gentlemen over 40 or younger gentlemen.
It is unfortunate that it is no longer produced, I do not know anything comparable, but I am not yet a professional perfumo.

The bottle is timelessly beautiful. But here, too, one quickly thinks of the 1960s or 1970s. In the mid-1990s there were usually significantly more sculptures and more modern forms

PS: At the last test of the Niagara I wore this one on the left and on the right arm the Ho slope, a completely different adjusted classic. That was a revelation. I won't be crazy enough to lay these rarities out now, but the interaction was impressive!

In the Noble series, Clive Christian always creates a variant for the gentleman and one for the lady. Number XXI is dedicated to the era of Art Deco. An epoch of decadence, passion, stylistic perfection.
I could already test the men's version Cypress. Today the ladies version Vanilla Orchid.
The fragrance starts springlike with freshly cut green and fragrant hyacinth. Very flowery, but by no means exhausting. Anyone who has ever had Hyazinthe in a closed room knows what a flowery strain it is. Here, however, the hyacinth is kept in check by the galbanum.
But what does all this have to do with Art Deco?
A fragrance that expresses decadence, beauty of form, precious materials and abundance? One showed in the Art Deco what one had if one could belong to those who had something.

Does the orchid fit as a symbol for longing and passion into an epoch in which passion and decadence were almost uninhibitedly lived?
After 30 minutes, the spring-like note of the hyacinth changes into the blossoming lily of the valley, just like in the natural process of botany.

It's apparently a white orchid that inspired Clive Christian, because he uses only white flowers to trace the orchid.
In addition there is an aromatic vanilla, which is noble and not too sweet, I also smell a light rum note here.
Now one might think that the noble orchid as the queen of flowers meets the second most expensive spice in the world, the queen of spices, vanilla.
They do, and they do it the way nature created them.
Because vanilla is a species of orchid. Vanilla blossoms are white beautiful orchid blossoms, but the vanilla aroma comes from the ripened pods.
At the end, the floral notes give way to a mixture of sandalwood and musk, finely balanced and extremely soft.

In the end, it's not the intense Black Orchid of a Tom Ford.
It is the white, the pure and graceful orchid, in a rampant environment of the decadent 1920s and early 1930s.

The Vanilla Orchid shows a nice course and is very well perceptible over 7-8 hours, afterwards only close to the skin.
There are about 20 other fragrances that bear the theme Vanilla Orchid I'm name, e.g. the more fruity version of The Merchant of Venice or a newer one by Elizabeth Arden with White Tea Vanilla Orchid that I haven't yet tested

Both fragrances, the Cypress for men and the Vanilla Orchid for women, harmonize well. Well wearable at festive occasions, it doesn't have to be a 1920s party, but both fragrances definitely demand class and style, in wardrobe as well as in flair.
The bottle, as always elegantly and stylishly designed. For me, this test has shown that especially in the Noble series, both variants should be tested at every epoch, because for me, at least in the Art Deco, they gave coherent pictures.

This Aramis is going a very unusual way.
I can still remember that my grandfather, probably more secretly, grew tobacco himself somewhere in a corner of the huge garden behind the house. The leaves were carefully threaded and dried after harvesting. Later the tobacco was cut and what did not go into the pipe was also rolled into cigars in cover sheets. That wasn't really the aroma of the noble cigars he used to get from a noble wooden box with leather cover. By the way, I know him almost only with a cigar in the corner of his mouth, and it didn't even have to be lit.
The tobacco aroma here reminds me of the somewhat hung tobacco leaves, no longer fresh but also not thoroughly dried.
This is not a smoky scent. Tobacco doesn't burn here. No, Tobacco Reserve gives the aroma of the wrapper of a freshly made cigar. I really like him that far, too.
But what if the grown tobacco grows next to the bushes of the black currant? Even on the property of my grandparents, since black, white and red currants were also harvested and processed into juices, jams and compote.
And anyone who has ever harvested black currants knows how intense the aroma is.
Was this the inspiration? Or has anyone harvested both together and placed the tobacco leaves between the black currants? I think my grandfather would've been upset about that fake flavor.
And I'm a bit at a loss whether I like the combination tobacco leaf and black currant or not.
It is inspiring and yet so striking that you have to like this combination if you want to wear the Aramis Tobacco Reserve.
Another player, the tonka bean, adds a bit of the aroma from the cupboard with the baking ingredients. This reconciles the poles of tobacco leaves and black currants, which are difficult for me to bring together. I'm torn. I'm torn.
In any case, I am grateful for the inspiration to have been taken back to the late summer garden of my grandparents.