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"Knize Ten. It's a great age. 90 years old. I'm sure it's been reformulated. Anyway, I like it just as it is. I've known and worn it for 10 years, since my twenties. It took some time for us to warm up to each other. Of course he has rough edges. He's not a crowdpleaser, nor does he want to be. And that's what makes him so interesting!

"Knize Ten" offers animalic leather, finely dabbed floral-spicy. It's tart, unsweet, yet inviting to cuddle. He is loud, present, but at the same time fine-spiritual in its composition. Masculine, of course, but not ostentatiously macho. He seems out of time, comprehensible, but more contour, severity and courage to be different never hurt anyone. He fits the three-piece suit just like jeans and Harrington.

Maybe the environment says, the fragrance does not fit you. Too large age differences are often eyed critically. So what? If you like "Knize Ten", then wear it. You will grow with it.
Yes, you have to get to know it. He's not easily accessible. Sometimes he locks up, the day and the mood have to fit. But then, once you become friends with him, he stays. A reliable companion.

So dare, you who cling to fragrances that rival any baking recipe in terms of ingredients, who chase profiless laboratory constructs without heart or soul, you who have fallen for the olfactory promises of salvation in the turquoise temples of consumption, chasing after every ambroxan-freshened or oud-swollen trend. Take heart. It's worth it! :-)

"Bijan Men" was a blind buy, to Oscar de la Renta's "Pour Lui". I love classic masculine powerhouses, at the same time I usually avoid blind purchases, but at the price and hooked on the fragrance pyramid, I could not say no... And I regret nothing!

How does "Bijan Men" smell now? Typically for the time, the fragrance notes are so densely and compactly interwoven that it is difficult to identify individual components. From the beginning, the soapy oak moss is very present, joined by the spiciness of rosemary and nutmeg, sandalwood also plays not exactly restrained. A touch of lavender. Musk and patchouli? Yep, but rather in the base and restrained.
The individual ingredients also do not have to be errochen individually. Their interaction is what gives the full fragrance experience. Dense, somewhat loud and riotous, but at the same time absolutely harmonious. As the fragrance type diagram aptly suggests, there's something here for everyone. "Bijan Men" is for me spicy, fresh, oriental, slightly leathery-smoky, green, minmal earthy, quite animalic, and it fits every season (apart from high summer) to every occasion - the titular egg-laying Wollmilchsau!

...well, the bottle is really on the border of ridiculousness. The glass container with hole is still ok, but this oversized white plastic cap on it does not go at all. Anyway, it's the inner values that count. "Bijan Men" has plenty of those! I am more than happy with this blind purchase.

Actually, I wanted to subject "Psychédelique" by Jovoy to a long-term test. However, the handle in the sample bowl went wrong and I did not look again on the sprayer. There are exactly two 10 ml glass atomizers in the sample bowl. Both about equally full. And I reach for Intoxicated. Nice three strong sprays on the chest and neck. Gnaaa!

Well... Since I'm already there...
From the house of Kilian I already had some under the nose. Almost always too sweet, too sultry, aromatically too dense. So also "Intoxicated".
I actually like cardamom very much, especially in winter. Here, however, the spice is completely flattened by the caramel and coffee (or according to the table of contents mocha). The result is an incredibly sweet, lightly spiced caramel coffee, Starbucks style. With the extra spoon or the extra sugar, otherwise the "coffee house" gets his Plörre yes not sold.
The similarity to Mugler's "A*Men" is definitely there, as other comments mention. "Intoxicated" smells a little more upscale, though. For my nose but not better, this gourmand sweetness is too much for me, it just annoys me immensely.

For guys and gals in the best disco age for the night stalking definitely suitable. But I'm going to take a shower first...

Thanks to the user Chizza I came to a sample of this fragrance. Thanks for that!
The perfume house Nose I did not know until then. When I look at the fragrances offered and their ingredients, it all looks very solid. Not necessarily spectacular or reinventing the wheel, but that does not always have to be....

But now to the fragrance. The advertised fragrance notes appeal to me already very much. I love forest scents, especially when they lead me into ethereal resinous coniferous forests. That's exactly what "Awake" offers, it starts resinous-fresh, I can clearly smell the conifers. Very nice, with this invigorating coniferous forest freshness the fragrance fulfills its naming. Unfortunately, the fir and spruce lose their power after an hour. The freshness remains, but now stems from the musk, with minimal woody sprinkles. Musk lasts on my skin insanely long, the base I smell even the next day clearly.

"Awake" is a solid fragrance in terms of craftsmanship. Unfortunately, after the fantastic top note, it becomes too monothematic for me and remains too linear. I would have liked a longer coniferous forest phase, and not necessarily musk in the base, that could make "Awake" more exciting. So it goes from resinous freshness quickly to musky freshness without surprises or variety.

Iso-E-Super. Iso-E-Super... Iso-E-Super?

I recently ordered the complete sample set of all Escentric Molecules fragrances. Beautifully packaged, with quite a lot of attention to detail, including a small "manual" with information about the molecules used and Geza Schön's inspirations for the fragrances.

In the meantime, I have tested all the fragrances of the sample set several times. But "Molecule 01"... This fragrance is a single question mark. Many fragrances inspire me from the first scent, some I have to learn to love first, others squander all points with their heart or base. This one I can't place. Some days it's extremely present, other days it's barely noticeable, very often it plays around my nose fleetingly and subtly, like the fading memory of a dream. Everyone perceives it differently on me. Some say powdery-woody, others pungently synthetic, still others like my body odor after a shower or fresh laundry. "Molecule 01" definitely smells synthetic to me - usually a scent I avoid, but here with many additional subtle facets. Very subtle facets, but still perceptible.

I simply can't give it a grade. Probably I will order a bottle of this unusual fragrance, have namely still found some change in the Sofaritze. Then I see further, maybe / hopefully opens up to me "Molecule 01" more.