9PM Elixir

Scent: Le male Elixir Absolu is kind of a mix of Ultramale, Le Parfum and Elixir. I'd say Le Male Elixir Absolu is about 30% Elixir, 20% Le Parfum, 50% Ultramale. So is 9pm Elixir, a mix of JPGs greatest, with the proportion of these altered. 9pm Elixir leans 50% Elixir, 20% Ultramale, 30% Le Parfum. You find the same general scent as Le Male Elixir Absolu in 9pm Elixir, but made more aromatic, spicy and vanilla forward. I find 9pm Elixir to be a bit smoother than the real deal, believe it or not, and i absolutely love that you can find the JPG dna in here unlike in the original 9pm EDP. Very few dupes have managed to do this, i find only 9pm Elixir, CDN Lionheart and Ramz silver be able to capture the Le Males DNA. The quality is pretty darn good for the price, though it's smoother, you can definitely tell JPG uses finer materials. I definitely recommend as an alternative to Elixir Absolu. Performance: Performance is superb, it both projects and leaves a heavy trail for 12 hours +, so you won't be having to reapply or carry a decant with you. Versatility: As far as occasions go, i find this is pretty versatile. You could 100% rock this as a signature scent for colder seasons and it can be dressed up or down, date night and clubbing appropiate. I haven't given this a full wear yet, but considering regular Le Male Elixir has given me the most compliments out of any fragrance ever, i wouldn't be surprised if this is also a compliment puller. I'll definitely be wearing this to work and night outs for the rest of this winter season. 9/10!

Let’s clear this up, this is not an African Leather clone. I don’t know what people are sniffing, but those bottles need to be sent back. Yes, the leather in this (somewhere near the dry down) has a similar treatment to African Leather, but that's about it. This is about 70% Le Male Elixir Absolu, but spicier, along with that 9PM DNA (that sneaks in a little later on). I don't think it's a clone of Elixir Absolu either, but there's clearly inspiration there. Gone is the weird window-cleaner-like plum opening from Absolu. Instead, you get warm spice and a bit of booziness. Later, a nutty, addictive vanilla drydown. That pimento+labdanum+vanilla combo even gives off a Guerlain L’Homme Idéal L’Intense feel in the mid and drydown. Not identical, but definitely makes up the missing 30% from above. Don't quote me on the percentages, I was always bad at maths. This is just to help paint a picture. Extrait strength (website says 'Extrait de Parfum', my bottle says 'Parfum Intense', lasts around 8 hours, smooth sillage, and at AED 120/$50, Afnan’s nailed the pricing again. (Psst... Prices will drop, don't JomaShop. I rhymed!) Scent - 9 Compliments - 9 Quality - 9 Performance - 8.5 VFM - 9.5 Versatility - 7.5 Overall - 9/10 Full unbiased, unpaid review is up on my YouTube channel already. - Smelly Cat Note: Mine is the first batch (June 2025. Bought from the Afnan Kiosk in Dubai)

I’ve given this a couple of full wearings now and first off it opens much closer to Ultra Male than Le Male Elixir. You still get that bubble gum pear sweetness for the first 10 minutes that’s signature to the 9PM DNA but it quickly settles down. Once the sweetness fades the spices step up and I get lavender pimento cardamom and a nice touch of vanilla in the base. That familiar 9PM core is absolutely here but it feels like they’ve refined it a bit and made it more masculine and mature. The spice blend gives it more depth and presence and the projection during the first few hours is outstanding. Longevity was right around 8 hours on my skin before it settled into a light skin scent which is excellent for the price. At first spray I was surprised by how close it smelled to the OG 9PM and for a moment I even picked up something that reminded me of Teriq Intense which had me worried but as it developed the spices and warmth came through beautifully. It feels like they took that youthful sweetness and tuned it for guys 30 and up still fun but more confident and grounded. My bottle hasn’t had time to fully mature yet so it could very well turn into a true beast if the performance increases even just a little bit. This will definitely see heavy rotation this winter. Scent 8.5/10 Projection 9/10 Longevity 8.5/10

Right, let's forget what other frags 9PM Elixir smells like or doesn't smell like. Let's discuss what 9PM Elixir smells like in its own right, shall we: I find it to be intoxicatingly warm and high spiceiness straight out of the bottle; so don't sniff straight away... positively lethal with this powerful frag! The dry down is another story, quite an amazing bouquet, great warmth with toffee-like gourmand aromas exuding softly, sweetly and pleasantly to envelope you in a powerful cloud of rich, expensive-smelling fruity leather scents. Nutmeg, leather, cardamon and vanilla (with a slight hint of lavender) are the bossy overtones pushing their way through all throughout the 9PM Elixir experience. With some on the back of my hand, I keep on sniffing away, knowing this is bad practice as it's the surefire way to become nose-blind to a frag in a very short space of time!! Just leave it there (and on cuffs) just to catch wafts with hand movements now and again! Overall, a very endearing, sexy, alluring fragrance, extending great warmth, toffee gourmand hugginess, loads of low and middle notes, hardly any high notes. Suitable for day wear and even more so for evening wear. More male with this one. Great value as most UAE Frags are!

Great cold weather or night fragrance. There are very less perfumes where I love all the three stages till the dry down and this is one of them. The longevity is amazing, I took a shower and there it was just subtly making me aware of it's presence. Projection is just right where you want it and not annoying if you're following little goes a long way. My girlfriend told me the Sillage is as amazing as the longevity. I use cheaper great value perfumes as an everyday wear and there were times when I would just randomly think 'What am I wearing today!? maybe this is too good to be an everyday wear'. But then it's great value so why not have a great fragrance as an everyday wear. If you live in colder climates you can even pull this off in day. Glad I listened to my girl and blind bought this one. The only thing that could be better: Instead of synthetic spicy and lavender opening if they used natural spicy and lavender it would be 10/10 but it would be pricier because this is already great value. Suggestion for colder climate: Layer it with sauvage Edt in the morning and you'll have a versatile all weather fragrance.