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After testing the gruesome Maharaja D'Or, I first thought: never again a men's fragrance of Rituals. But since I like the brand, the different care lines and products are very good and fragrant and a part of the proceeds of the sold perfumes are used for actions against animal experiments, I dared to try Roi D'Orient again, especially because of the many positive comments here

Roi D'Orient is a fragrance for every occasion, suitable for everyday use. Fresh aromatic top note with ultra-light pepper notes (hardly noticeable), which, unfortunately not very slowly, merges into the heart note of musk and amber, always accompanied by a soft-spicy, fragrant, attractive, almost cuddly base note. I would almost rather call it a home fragrance or relaxation fragrance, although it can also be worn at work or on any other occasion. It makes you calmer and more relaxed - that's what makes it so different from most other amber-musk scents, which I would classify as very intense and striking. If you wait a few hours, a slight dark wood note comes to the fore, which perfectly complements the other notes.

Unfortunately there is one small negative point; the durability. The top note fades away within a few minutes and also the heart and base notes don't last very long, so you should spray very often or apply too little right at the beginning. It's a real pity that there is no more intensive version of this otherwise very good perfume; however, with 9 € for the 10 ml in a chic design (other 10 ml versions from other perfume houses often come in a simple round mini spray) you can hardly do anything wrong; practical to take away and to look at in a noble way on the shelf.

Voweg: After I like the classic Alien very much and have been thinking for some time to buy another, spring and summer version of it, I decided to test 2 newer Aliens (the other is Alien Eau Extraordinaire). I tested Alien Flora Futura mainly because of the interesting scent pyramid, the queen of the night and the alien base. The latter is also consistently noticeable from start to finish, but only for say a third of the entire scent. The other two thirds I could describe now on the basis of the individual notes (citrus lemon only slightly especially at the beginning, Queen of the Night barely, sandalwood and amber not perceptible at all), but I find it much better to describe them with two other fragrances; one is from Jean Paul Gaultier Classique, the other Douglas Seathalasso.

For me, this fragrance is a mix of these three perfumes, which I find all quite good individually, but together, let's say, unfavorably combined in a single fragrance since they all go in a completely different direction. The seaweed-sand-beach scent Seathalosso is a beautiful, relaxing scent on its own, reminiscent of sandcastle building, ocean walks or a visit to the pool. Classique is, in my opinion, a very austere-floral-intense smelling perfume for women with a slightly artificial-synthetic note and finally Alien is an extraordinary, heavy, slightly cool, radiant, typical Mugler fragrance. Taken all together, these completely different fragrance characters somehow don't fit, even after repeated testing and smelling, an unharmonious overall impression remains. And even the Queen of the Night, which I like so much in Naomi Campell's eponymous first fragrance, does not dare to come out at all.

Alien Eau Extraordinaire, on the other hand, is also an Alien-heavy fragrance, but much more harmonious, fresher, fruity, more radiant and a successful composition with new notes and proven Alien base, so I'll probably go for this version, after me Alien Flora Futura now but rather disappointed or is unwearable for me.