RobGordon

... or to serve a second cliché:

Bend over goods, for which it is worthwhile to bend over!

Marbert is like Bogner a brand of the BBI (Beauty Brands International). Thus, it was obviously possible to fall back on the original recipe of Bogner Man Classic. And thus the fragrance would already be sufficiently circumscribed, provided that one knows Bogner Man Classic or perhaps its template the Bogner Man 1990.

All fragrance roads lead to Rome, you will have thought. But no matter, as long as in the projection for the environment this floral-aromatic floating lightness of being arises, which otherwise only "Heaven (Eau de Toilette) | Chopard" and "Nightflight (Eau de Toilette) | Joop!" with their violet aldehydes had.

The one way tries to ring in the action with discreet touch of soap and contribute by means of tarragon association his mustard. For the slightly ethereal spice (Bogner Man 1990), which gives density far beyond the top note.

Or as an alternative way with the green of the currant as a fuse from all citrus cannons to shoot. And now we have arrived at the "Bogner Man Classic (Eau de Toilette) | Bogner" or in its new guise aka Marbert Man Classic Steel Blue. And the no-frills bottle also suits the fragrance excellently from my point of view.

Kudos to the marketing, today not only generic sugar water for the main target group (15-19 year olds) to launch but prove the courage to bring even discontinued fragrances back on the market, around which a persistent fan base has formed over time.

Let, it smell, brings variety in the BdC clouds imposed offices. ;)

If there are paths in the mainstream world that deviate from the zeitgeist, it's worth the time for a comment. Because the Intense Flanker has just been released, it is immediately treated with a treatment in the course of a comparison.

The reason why I like this fragrance is that I have a weakness for woody amber fragrances. As long as they don't choke on cake spices. Basically Kiton Napoli's heart was ripped out of a fragrance I unfortunately only got to know after it was stopped, the citrus tones were ripped out of it, the lily of the valley simulation was reduced and the vanilla was set to light food.

The remaining corpus is for me a linear wooden amber tone, which was ventilated in a wonderful way. If I had reduced myself to a statement here, it would have been: "The magic is in the air". And what makes this fragrance outstanding for my nose is not the list of ingredients but its ability to change despite the linear basic impression. Sometimes a Wishky texture comes over, sometimes a nuance of tobacco and very consistently a touch of cherry. Never sticky or gourmandig, also not suffocating creamy, but airy whipped.

Adjusted for the factor of self-adaptation, the performance is 7-8 hours and thus within my usable radius without any problems. The projection is average with normal handling and therefore easy to use in everyday life.

So the handover to his new big brother. I wouldn't have needed any intentions here, because the direct comparison unfailingly reveals to me that here, too, a formula of its own was sent into the race. And this at the expense of the character independence of the original.

If cinnamon is already threatened in the pyramid (simply not one of my favorite scents), then usually its use is noticeable. A note that stands out strongly for me. The pool of cinnamon-heavy wooden scents, which fade out similarly, is significantly higher.

That's why I'd make the recommendation here: Those who like the EdT should rather overspray this than reach for the Intense. The DNA of the original is clearly disfigured by cinnamon, gently disfigured by iris.

But what I want to give the Flanker credit for is that he's not suffocating in sweetness. This character (of the EdT) could be maintained. The Intense version begins like a subtle butter biscuit, then smells of fresh concrete for a while and nestles tangentially to the DNA original of the WOW EdT. Always the cinnamon in the luggage, which in the overall impression very easily allows associations with other fragrances.

I cannot judge how doubling the concentration of EdT would have affected the fragrance itself. And whether the airiness that makes this fragrance interesting for me would have been lost to him.
Wow Intense is far from bad, but for someone who is at war with cinnamon, it is not a real permanent alternative.

For marketing purposes, advertising a fragrance as a "WOW" is a direct challenge to the mocking creativity of potential customers. Since fragrances have a lot to do with suggestion, this fragrance deserves a name that hasn't been brainstormed between parking lot and office.

There is no superlaive to WOW, except maybe Wau Wau"!

From a recently read interview with F. Kurkdjian, I have good memories that he claimed to be a zero in marketing matters by himself. For this he would have a right hand, he writes, which in my view conjures in Martketing-Metier as he himself does with some of his recipes.

With a parallel release of two Flankers of themselves, who will cause mispurchases with their indirectly proportional upper and lower case letters, one confuses, so it seems, also those who sing the song "another Flanker" with every new release.

I read about layers in the run-up to both gentle waters. The Gold & Silver Fluid thing should be able to layer. As you know, you can layer anything, but nothing is written about how the result smells.
And first of all, I wouldn't do it. Too bad about the treasure in the silver lake.

To dupe Kurkdjian's Gentle-Goldmarie: "Spraying is silver, (ver)souken is gold!" Sometimes, behind Goldglanz simply hides a charred plastic vanilla that is poured out of tubs over a finished composition, like action artists do.

Under action art I would also locate the naming of the pyramid this time. Somehow someone in the house MFK lost a bet and had to dare to invent a pyramid, which has nothing to do with the smell. Ingredients snippets were taken stochastically from a hat.

Therefore I have for you today primarily a smell picture, which shows itself with the smell inspection each time anew. I see a snow-covered mountain top (representative of the clean parts) in spring, where green snow-free spots (fine spicy parts) show up. And in the first 10 minutes I also see a stopover with high-proof alcohol (with my own note), which I'm not used to with MFK fragrances.

It would also be a pity about every strip of paper. MFK's Silver-Surfer "Gentle fluidity" doesn't like paper. Fragrance course is delayed by hours and remains behind its possibilities. And you should also give the scent a good 10 minutes on the skin until it has sorted itself out. In this time often already 5 statements are written!

If I had to frame the scent in ingredients, the recipe would look like this:

A mountain full of beta-Damascenone (provides for green-spicy, floral, fruity facets with a range from currant to rose) Significantly more than is contained in Aventus. A hint of jasmine to underline the soft floral sweetness (between head and heart note a few discreet but still treacherous indollic waves blink through) and towards the base the composition is dunked in radiant half cream musk and gives wings with ambroxan.

From the test on the paper I can still contribute a drop of lemony which goes down on the skin in the alcohol mist. Also a treacherous stubborn scent of ISO-E-Super remains when the good substance has long evaporated.

No mountains will be moved here. It begins green-alcoholic, changes into green-floral-lovely-spicy-aromatic and ends with the grandiose heart note being let out of the air again and the remaining green-spicy falls into a sheet of musk.

Purely from the pyramid, that has to be mentioned, I would have expected a completely different scent. Something finely spicy woody maybe. But the perfumer has already caused a surprise and caught me at the left nostril.

Juniper waters, with any belt of kitchen spices that suffocate in artificial wood, are plentiful even in the niche. Chemistry is not a unique selling proposition of the "mainstream", which is always going to
Characterization of a fragrance. I can't discover anything generic with the best will in the world, and if "freshness" alone makes this impression, that's the way it should be. The mean thing is, Oriental themes also exist in the mainstream. Be it as it may, I haven't yet found a fragrance that works with directly comparable proportions on ingredients like this one, not even at MFK itself.

For a fragrance with little movement, I think the result is very successful. It would have been even better if I had frozen the heart note and saved it in the base, or had really gone the way of accentuated wood (preferably dusty or chipy). To my advantage the mentioned vanilla was at least not used in my bottling (probably everything for the golden bottles went on!)

Conclusion: A wonderfully round, easy to wear green body, which appears through subtly used variety and is thus a pleasant companion for him and her in the warmer season. His performance also makes him a reliable companion and I gladly accept the chemistry used for this. But I do have one point of criticism. There was a moment when my nose communicates with me, all well and good, but now I need recovery. "Effortlessly clean," is my euphemism for this. And this aspect I do not want to remain guilty despite my praise for this fragrance.

An especially opulent filling "Gentle fluidity" was provided to me by @Flanker. Thank you!

Don't worry, flacons of this juice are not cursed to shatter and I also not so clumsy (not yet). The text line

"You were the sweetest thing that I ever knew
But I don't care for sugar, honey, if I can't have you..."

and the mention of glass inspired me this time for the prelude and as chance would have it, also the associated album "Diva", which forms the anchor for me to illuminate this material from all sides.

Why a diva? Btw. when I think about divas, I always have to think about a certain song title by Kettcar: "As long as the fat woman is still singing, the opera is not over! In times like these, politically incorrect,
but if you recall vocal calibers like Montserrat Caballé, it's not so far-fetched.

Under the zodiac sign, BR540 is a polarizing diva. Too chemical, too sweet, too... please use it yourself. For me, this fragrance is one of the few fragrances that convey to me, through the intention of its creator, that fragrances can be more than a commodity. In the sense that perfumes skilfully represent a theme. There is a difference whether someone chokes flowers, bottles them and wants to bring them to a woman/man as the still life of a flower vase or, as here, creates a scent for the anniversary of a crystal dynasty and after the exclusive period
revived.

And now we are on the subject of glass. Glass/crystal has no inherent odour. And transparency will not be conveyed with a wheelbarrow full of incense or a pyre of vanilla. It's helpful that the perfume itself is clear. But what natural ingredients could be used to simulate glass? After a longer pause for thought, I came across water, but you have to find somebody who will leaf through the nominal price for water.

So it was clear to me relatively quickly that nature would not be able to judge it here, but that synthetic materials would have to be used. And this in such a way that fragility and transparency seem plausible. And from my point of view, the perfumer was very successful in doing that, even in the event that the paths of my nose and this fragrance should separate. For the realization of a fragrance theme there is no evaluation here and I do not incorporate it into the fragrance.

But I need the diva for another aspect. Dealing with perfumes containing Isomaltol and Ambroxan has shown me several times how easily the result separates again. This may be due to flacons which have not been used for a longer period of time, where the sugar enhancer "settles" and is the first to be spat out as a particularly high-calorie flush, on the other hand, after spraying into pocket sprayers, the last drops from this second container come along as cleaning agents. (gave a statement about the EdP, if the memory doesn't deceive me)

If you want to do something good for yourself, don't inhale the first stroke and not the last. The "middle beam" must direct it, as occasionally with a doctor.

The Diva BR540 has other fun character traits. If you apply the scent in excess and apply it near your nose, you won't be able to smell it very quickly yourself. The ingredients are predestined for nasal adaptation.

Over the past months I have also tested the EdP and compared both fragrances directly with each other. The shelf life should not become the core argument for choosing one or the other fragrance. The projection of the two scents, on the other hand, very much so. The Extrait is much easier to wear than the EdP without deliberately spraying its environment into a coma. Who would like more power for less money is well advised with the EdP and should not disturb my circles if possible. On textile both hold like bad luck.

I don't give much on pyramids. The only difference in the fragrance image itself is actually an almond tone in the prelude, which also softly leathery in Erscheidung occurs, if one does not fix oneself too much on the read. For me, saffron and jasmine are string results, they do not appear clearly enough to be discovered plausibly in the fragrance salad. Thus also very to my joy nothing indolisches is active.

The masterfully aromatic body of the Extrait, like that of the EdP, is formed by a fir drowned almost beyond recognition in fruity and woody tones (friends of the forest are wrong here). And this scent is kept constant. Extremely linear after almond extraction. Also this bow seems to have been successfully stretched by MFK, because glass/crystal smells very keenly and constantly after nothing.

No more stories about your own family tree, as the title might promise. Fragrance names like to wring judgments from us that have little in common with the content.

We search in fragrances that have the predicate "Oud" in the name like to carry the wooden needle in the pile of fragrances and yet
this noble wood log proves to be a shy deer. Therefore should not be surprising if unhappy
Translations of "Cologne" always like to lead to the idea of too thin water.

The Muglers know how to fool. Even the small green poison dwarf "Mugler Cologne" is not a cologne but is present in EdT concentration and it is therefore not surprising if the "Hot Cologne" is an EdP, far away from short-lived.

Thus the "Cologne" in the name becomes the greatest common divisor of the two fragrances, which moved me to this title. The price "Les Exceptions" series is of course off the beaten track, but that doesn't automatically make the green poison dwarf an alternative.

"Hot Cologne" is an ideal compromise for fragrance lovers who don't like colognes. He is not soapy for a second and does not have his little brother's Strahlemann musk stern either. You can search for Neroli with a magnifying glass and fail. Depending on the season of use, the lemon is more dominant in the beginning or more short-lived.

One does not have to be afraid of Petitgrain, it is nevertheless gladly signal giver for an old man smell. The task here is to make the coffee note appear fresh green and this succeeds extremely well. I would like to mention that the note "green coffee" is a creative idea of Mugler marketing. Because even the result of cold-filtered roasted beans does not smell of coffee but of nuts.

If one would try to make an absolute out of green coffee beans, the typical coffee aroma, which is created by roasting + hot water, would not be given. Neroli is a strike result for me, as is ginger. One can imagine the short tickle after the application as ginger, I have here simply the alcohol in the suspicion. Anyway, nothing that stands out longer to deal with it in detail.

Basically, this fragrance also lives from its exemplary course. For me, this is what makes fragrances stand out from the crowd, the dosage of all fragrances is right, I never get the impression that I have poured myself with an artificial caramel macciato and bow to the flowing together
of Petigrain and the right dose of coffee Absolue [?], which later gains even more density through subtle emphasis on wort, without even straining typically sticky gourmand themes.

I wouldn't have guessed cardamom myself, but I can't think of any alternative. Most fragrances with a more pronounced cardamom emphasis that I know have a characteristic woodchip aura that I completely miss here. Could of course also serve as a squadron taker to save a hint of fresh sprinkling from the front into the base to keep up the idea of green coffee.

I would certify the flacon design a 12/10 regarding practical suitability. The spray head can be unscrewed and the thread countersunk. This makes the bottle look like it has been cast in one piece and yet its contents are very easy to decant, if desired. With its metal frame unfortunately also
a fingerprint magnet.

Hot cologne has little airplay here. I've given away several small bottlings of it lately and the fragrance always went down well without even asking for feedback. For me it's also a plus that you can wear it all year round and the fragrance can survive a working day even in summer, even if it's off
has long since disappeared from the radar of its own perception.

It has a bit more projection than the more appreciated "Over the Musk", yet no Sillage monster.
Both, despite their simplicity, represent the pinnacle of this series for me. Hot Cologne is listed as unisex and that's where I see it in good hands. Who judges purely on the basis of the opening could be tempted to push this Mugler intuitively into the men's department.

Conclusion: A very creative fragrance which, due to its excellent wearability, does not lack opportunities for use. With obviously not quite the prestige one would expect in this price range.

Whether Hot Cologne in our latitudes, the best marketing strategy, is for this fragrance and does not wring a too quick prejudice, I do not want to have to judge. Mugler has already renamed a fragrance due to the circumstances of the advertising medium (Pistorius). To take a part of the given name for this fragrance and to call it "Hot Shot" would be an irony that would at least seem very likeable.