Sendrik

Dylan Blue was my first real perfume and my introduction to this insane world. I tested several fragrances in the perfumery and the only one that halfway appealed to me was Dylan Blue. By "halfway appealed" I actually mean just that, it didn't really blow me away, but I finally wanted a decent perfume and bought Dylan Blue anyway because of that.
The more I wore Dylan Blue, the more I liked it, kind of fresh, kind of tart and kind of sweet. For me, the whole thing smelled at the time just like a normal perfume has to smell, from nothing too much, from nothing too little, from everything a little.
Today I know how extremely normal Dylan Blue actually is. In itself, it falls into the same category as a Dior Sauvage, a YSL Y or a PDM Percival. All of these scents smell to me, just like Dylan Blue, primarily fresh and tailored to the mass market. However, each of these has a little unique selling point. Sauvage has a heavy ambrox component, Y has a sage and apple blend, and Percival has a fir note. Dylan Blue has nothing like that for me. No edges, no corners, and nothing special either. The epitome of mass compatibility. For the life of me, I can't imagine the smell bothering anyone in the slightest.
If that's what you want, Dylan Blue is perfect. I do not want to make a statement with my fragrances, but just smell good for the masses, however, even me Dylan Blue is now just too pale. However, I still like the smell itself and I get excited every time I smell it somewhere as it reminds me of a damn good time. The price, especially for the larger bottles, is definitely appropriate for what you get, but the shelf life is unfortunately not really good with me.

Unlike most of the other reviews here, I actually rather like the scent itself. At the beginning, I smell a surprisingly genuine tangerine along with a very tart note, which I attribute to the guaiac wood. As time goes on, the mandarin gets a little weaker and the tart note gets stronger. The tart note isn't quite my cup of tea, but I think it's necessary to keep the tangerine at bay and keep the scent from becoming too sweet. Although the mix of fruit and something tart actually sounds pretty standard, I actually don't know of anything that I would call similar to Black Tie. However, I also have to honestly admit that I don't even know that many perfumes and especially have never tested "No Limit$".
Although all this sounds first quite good I will probably give the fragrance soon again and the reason for this are the durability and sillage. I've had to deal with a few Montale fragrances and also some from Rasasi and since it's very important to me that my fragrances have a strong H/S, I'm used to that kind of thing by now. The H/S of Black Tie is insane and even stronger than that of most Montale fragrances I know. The scent felt even stronger projecting from my clothes on the second day than most designer fragrances do right after spraying on my skin. The scent is so strong that it made me feel a little sick at times and it's not worth it to me after all. Speaking of value, for the fragrance you should spend in my opinion really maximum half of the money demanded on the side.

The world of perfumes was completely new to me. Actually, I also wanted to buy only a small perfume, because my Abiball was pending and this occasion seemed appropriate enough to me to spend for the first time "much" money on a fragrance. At the time, the choice was Dylan Blue and it came with a sample of Code Profumo. For quite some time, Dylan Blue was enough for me as my only real perfume. At some point, however, I got the idea to try the sample as well and was absolutely flashed. Leather, tangerine, vanilla and so much more. There were so many scents at once that came together to create an incredibly beautiful and mystical scent. I had never smelled anything quite like it, this was not a smell, this was an experience. I was instantly in love and just had to have more of this scent.
However, the love was unfortunately not lasting. I wore the perfume so often that at some point I could no longer perceive individual components of the fragrance permanently. What remained was only the smell of a sweet and chemical broth, which has lost all its magic.
Actually, it should have been clear to me at that time, but I learned it unfortunately only too many great fragrances later: Perfumes, with this effect do not belong worn in everyday life, they belong only worn on days that are as special as the fragrances themselves.