Urkez

I have two bottles of JPG Fleur du Male and I can't get enough of it, but it's so difficult to find on grey market. Found one in 2020 and another one in 2022. I just remembered the scent when I came across it here on fragrantica, it led me straight back to 2011 when I got myself first bottle. If u want to have something like really similar, go for Xerjoff Oesel, it's not discointinued as someone mentioned before. It's like 90% same, but without camomile note that hit in the drydown with FdM. Less soapy and less potent, maybe little more fresh beacuse of lemon, but I don't really get it. Can't really feel Rose and Patchouli in the drydown too. I've tested it once and got 10+ hours of longevity with good projection around 6 hours. Sillage is like 1 meter for the first two hours then start to fade. I'm letting it rest now and we'll see how performs next summer. The only problem is price, it's 240€ for 50ml, just like for FdM, it can go over 150€ for 40ml bottle.

EDIT: Bottle still laying, waiting for that summer to come :)

This review is copied from fragrantica, written from my account rivastarr8.

Heavy cloying headache inducing cypress on opening, didn't get any citruses. Tried it three times, but I just can't get myself to like it. Around 3 hours into it still cypress, but it slowly evolves into DG Light Blue Eau Intense Pour Homme. Very linear fragrance. In my opinion lazy copy of Megamare. For me no go, and I LOVE Megamare, which I own.

I have two bottles of this masterpiece and I can't get enough of it, but it's so difficult to find on grey market. Found one in 2020 and another one in 2022. I just remembered the scent when I came across it here on fragrantica, it led me straight back to 2011 when I got myself first bottle. If u want to have something like really similar, go for Xerjoff Oesel, it's not discointinued as someone mentioned before. It's like 90% same, but without camomile note that hit in the drydown with FdM. Less soapy and less potent, maybe little more fresh beacuse of lemon, but I don't really get it. Can't really feel Rose and Patchouli in the drydown too. I've tested it once and got 10+ hours of longevity with good projection around 6 hours. Sillage is like 1 meter for the first two hours then start to fade. I'm letting it rest now and we'll see how performs next summer. The only problem is price, it's 240€ for 50ml, just like for FdM, it can go over 150€ for 40ml bottle.

This review is copied from fragrantica, written from my account rivastarr8.