VanAllan

A photo-realistic scent featuring a Cuba Libre cocktail-like aroma with lime, rum and cola apparent top notes. Slightly smoky birch with bitter davana and a dash of pepper in the middle keep the whole boozy accord out of a sweet path leaving space for the musky-ambery drydown which completes this summery-joyfull scent feeling. Athough a bit 'synthetic' overall, Severo does its job well enough to put me in a relaxing mood and bring a smile on my face everytime I'm wearing it. Cheers! and enjoy !

A very pleasant bitter-sweet-aromatic citrus top with basil, bergamot, yuzu & some traces of sweet rolled tobacco, very alive (& kickin':).
What follows this bright opening after few minutes is a heavenly smooth-spicy-earthy combination of pepper, coffee beans and tobacco, with those sweet aromatic qualities in background, that makes you feel stylish and elegant.
Sweet woods, cashmeran and musk are noticeable at dry down (after about 4-6 hrs. on my skin), completing the middle notes with a classy and masculine aroma.
With 4-5 sprays I've got a strong sillage in the first couple of hours and a good longevity of 6-8 hrs.
My rank 9/10, recommended for coffee note and italian style fans.

A strange name choice for a very uncommon scent that debutes with a peppery orange rind combined with the fresh-aromatic side of clove and nutmeg. Here it is more a metallic-aldehydic than a woody-spicy type. Rose stem is also present along top spices, but it soon gets envelopped in a sweet touch of cinnamon and geranium, everything packed over the scent's evolution in a distant woody-earthy-sweet background (ubiquitous Malle's patchouli, creamy sandalwood and cedarwood).
What I realised over the first wearings is that I never smelled this combination before and took for granted Mr. Malle's own declaration about this scent being 'one of the most enigmatic scent of our collection'. It is an original creation, I give him that.
More so, in this great formal Roudnitska creation, the dusty orange peel never really goes off, it gets intensified in the middle by the aromatic fresh spices and then slightly changed by the creamy woody notes.
Very strong presence in the first 3 hrs., it mellows just a bit at the 4th hour mark, but overall it performs very good in terms of projection and longevity. My humble rank 9/10, recommended to both genres for its unicity and performances.

This marvelous (and sadly discontinued) creation is one of my all-time favorite scents for my better half and (happily) still one of her signature scents.
The superb combination of peppery coriander, mellow jasmine, smooth-aromatic peony and the wonderful earthy sweetness of honey is pretty addictive and seductive, nothing harsh or too sweet here, but in addition, everything is packed harmoniusly and wrapped in a woody resinous alluring vale of myrrh, white musk and sweet sandalwood.
Longevity is very good (over 6 hrs,) and the trail left behind tells a beautiful story of an elegant and warm-hearted lady.

A strong aromatic-dusty fougere opening with bitter-spicy undertones, skillfully mixed in middle stage with leather and woody supporting notes (cedar, cypress and oakmoss).
Just dipping along dry-down into light sweet territory, but overall remains a masculine (and slightly bitter) spicy-woody-leathery scent. Good performances, a classy non-sweet composition in a beautiful bottle, recommended.