Stardust23

Some of you having been around fragrances for any period of time will find this very familiar although obviously done well, not cheap, smells good. Personally, I feel like it smells like 5+ different things that I already have. For some, though, if this is your initial stage of getting into fragrances, and you happened upon this, you may be quite pleased over the mature, masculine, clean fragrance that you are smelling.

It certainly is rounded, and has depth, and I can't knock it. I think you need to sample it for yourself. It's understated, it's a man that says thank you when he doesn't have to, it smells put together. The lavender may be a little better than normally used lavender? It's not a lavender bomb, but that's the note you get introduced to as the main character.

There's less sweetness with this than Plum in Cognac it's a little drier, I feel like there is leather in the seams if that makes sense....the plum is still there but it doesn't sing as loud, and the cognac is colder which for me let's it be more versatile (when you consider the whole composition).

I think this one is slightly more mature, but they clearly are both from the same DNA as you would guess. If I had to choose, I would choose this one to wear over the other.

If it's you wearing it, I imagine you're just past 30, okay with wearing boots, whatever past you have, this might be your armor because its sweet but not soft, and bold but not loud. I would say you look for beauty in quiet things, in old wood, or paper books, or hardly remembered songs.

It's like if gold could bleed. Like incense in the bones of an old cathedral. Something sweet and gone. Like fruit you'd never find again. It smells like Kings.

This smells appointed like you were chosen to wear it.

You will want to sample, and if you're a beginner, don't give up on it like I did over a year ago. Keep the sample, and as your nose develops more complex abilities, come back to it over time.

I’ve come to love this scent over (a long) time.

Imagine sitting in a leather chair in some odd library with very high ceilings (is it a converted cathedral?) while clean smoke and incense are brought in through open windows.

You feel elevated like stepping outside of time, and you are very comfortably NOT trendy.

Deep purple, gold, burnt orange are colors you feel with this as the blackberry and frankincense tuck you in, kiss you on the head, and move your hair for no other reason than to keep caressing you.

Anyone can wear this…but it leans masculine in a regal way, old-world way.

Niche perfumes are often daring but this has a classic soul. My suggestion heavily leans to sampling (many times) first especially in the cooler Fall and Winter months as well as evenings.

Vanilla, praline, and cinnamon, a little fizzy, are you excited? No?

This isn’t some cheap sweetness, it’s an earned and honest sweetness if that makes sense.

But Im torn.

A man (really, any human but I am speaking from a man’s perspective) should smell like he’s got a purpose not like he’s angling for compliments at a tea party. Gourmands remind me of a man talking a lot but saying very little…sure, folks will smile at him but no one takes him seriously.

So, is this good smelling perfume “that guy?” Are we just smiling and nodding? Or, do we take him seriously.

I do find myself comforted by the smell, coming back to it here and there as I go all in with Aces and get stacked by pocket fives.