Historic Doria

Finally, my HD has arrived! From the initial spray, I could get some white floral, fruity notes that add a feminine touch to it. But I find the dry down too heavy for ambroxan or musk, which makes it smell funky for me. Though its definitely giving some BR540 vibes to it! I don't know, this is my first impression, I'd macerate it for a month or 2, then check it again. But so far, I'm starting to regret buying it instead of going for a more feminine option instead (Modest Deux). 😞 Fast forward: 5 months later after maceration, it mellowed down to a musky, fruity, clean scent which I'm starting to like. And it has great longevity.

I’ll defend her to the hilt. She’s a powerful raspberry, Ambroxen amber bomb. She lingers, and enters the room LONG before you and stays way past her welcome.?Do not buy this expecting a BR540 clone. She is not that girl. She is her rich, outspoken Aunty who will always be the center of attention. The one you either love or hate. Very little in between. Not a safe blind buy. The dry down on clothing is price and last for days. I’m forever a fan. Only thing I can compare to is Be Enchanted by Bath & Body Works, but on a x10 strength.

Beast-mode Thomas Kosmala No. 4 Alternative. Longevity and Projection - 10/10. Amped-up white florals - Jasmine and Tuberose + Raspberry in the opening give it a little bit of a twist. Otherwise does almost exactly the same. Good buy for the price. - Smelly Cat on YouTube

For me this has the vibes of My way from Armani. This is not even close to BR Rouge. I can see some resemblances but this is a perfume that has a lot of orange blossom and Jasmine. There is something sweet and also sticky in a way. I like it.

my way/so scandal with bcr vibe. Sweet, flowery, burnt sugar. Bandages only slightly. Not suffocating, light, but not weak. Very nice. date of production - 08.2023. I will leave it 4few weeks to macerate.

It’s almost like this perfume is the child of So scandal/BR540/and Oriana. It’s very nice and not super floral.

This is a feminine leaning but still unisex fragrance with a cotton candy burst and a berries at the top. This carries on and you get more of that br540 dna come out as it dries down. Very pleasent and has more body than br540. Pretty clean, very sweet and can be worn throughout the year although probably dont wear it when its scorching hot it can get a little cloying. Longevity - 6-7 hours ill say by the seven hour mark i met a friend and asked him to smell it cause i thought i went noseblind due to the ambroxan but even he said the stuff was very faint by then. Was hyped cause i saw a youtuber saying it lasts 12+ hours but definitely nowhere near that strong. So ill say moderate to slightly above average. Projection - 1.5 - 2 hours heavy projection the stuff gets you noticed and leaves a heavy trail before it settles down. Versatility - 7/10 relatively versatile and a man can pull it off as long as you think a man can pull off br540 Uniqueness - 6/10 the berries give it something different and it has some nice florals too

Take the raspberry-tuberose/white floral combo of JPG 'So Scandal' and infuse it with Apres L'Amour / BR540 Extrait. I honestly would have never imagined these two scent profiles would blend into an olfactory symphony (lol) but here we are. I 100% agree with the 'My Way' comparisons, but 'Historic Doria' is akin to 'So Scandal' - which is in the same scent family just far sweeter / less fresh. 'Historic Doria' however, is brighter and lighter (not in performance) than Apres L'Amour & So Scandal. I agree with the reviewer below, this isn't a warm fragrance thanks to the ambroxan / musky notes. Truly is a crisp, crystal clear morning in a mandarin fruit orchard. This is by no means a super unique perfume but can still rival mainstream niche in the West. The reason I love it is because it's got enough sophistication, masculine oompf and brightness to it... I find myself reaching for this time & time again...recommended.

I got the Doria yesterday and I've tried it! It does have the BR540 DNA but not the same. I get why people would say its similar though! Parfumului35 is right, this has the My Way vibes. I can definitely smell the raspberry and the lemon. Its a bit tutty-frutty / jelly ace sort of smell. I think the sillage and projection of this would be a beast as I can smell it even if I sprayed it to my chest and i'm wearing two layers of clothes (shirt and an over shirt). I'm currently 20 minutes in and I've yet to smell the other notes, but then again the middle notes have mandarin orange so this will end up being a citrus / floral fragrance. The ambroxan and the woody/musky notes would give it body. If im being 'poetic' i would compare this smell to a cold morning in a fruit orchard. There's frost in the grass but its slowly melting. i'm barefoot and can smell the sweetness of the fruits in the orchard.

IDK if it smells like some other parfums, but in it's particular way, I love this small pink Doric column, even if it has that sintetic smell. Sweet, fruity, Definitely synthetic a nothing pleasant smell, it reminds me quite a lot of the smell of some plastic products. ***************************************************************** EDIT: Repelent!! smell like fuel or any petroleum-derived product x.x my poor nose got anihillated in the process of give it one last chance and still failed :x a big and clear NO for me, sold it to someone who liked it for mere collection.

Mine has been macerating for about 4 months now. She smells heavy on the musk and ambroxan. I do get a BCR's little sister vibe. I don't smell the fruit, I wish I did because raspberry and lemon zest??? Yes, please - I love the thought. I get some burnt sugar, as others have mentioned. She is light enough that I think HD will be great in any season. I resprayed a couple hours later and do get some fruits. I didn't clear the atomizer before spraying. Maybe after some more months of maceration, she will bloom a little more.

To me it's an clone of Erba Pura for the fruity musky ambroxan, then the fruitniess of So Scandal by JPG Good but too sickly sweet for me

def baccarat vibes but more dense and sweet to me go easy on this cause i made someone have a coughing fit 💀

everyone in the industry has to copy 2 fragrances, aventus & br540 otherwise their catalogue wont be complete. this is afnans version of br540 with an added dose of musk and ambroxan, which gives this a surf detergent kindda feel in the openin but hell does it last. it been more than 24 hours and i can still detect if heavily on my sweater. seems like i will have to wash it to get it off the article

This perfume is a beast. Don’t need more than 3 sprays or you’ll suffocate everyone around you. I was looking for something similar to Thomas Kosmala No.4, but for me this wasn’t it. The jasmine was too much and headache inducing so i had to get rid of it. I gave it a chance and let it macerate for a year, but it still just didn’t work for me.

If TK4 is BR540 on steroids, this is TK4 gone nuclear. One spray is all it takes and that is coming from an oversprayer! It’s sweet and ambery to the nth power. I’ve had a bottle of this for over 2 years I have only used it about 4 times it’s just too much. I can’t let it go, though, coz the bottle is just so gorgeous.

This is a sweet floral with warmth and nutty notes. I will not keep this one in my collection. Question for perfume connoisseurs: Does this one smells similar to Amouage Guidance? I think I smelled that one once before and for some reason this one makes me think of it.

This lasts so long, it's almost frightening since it practically won't come off (technically impressive). I just wish it was a bit more palatable as the raspberry & ambroxan combo is pretty in your face the whole time.

This is so overwhelming at first spray. Heavy musk, ambroxan its a little cloying to be honest. It's giving a similar smell to Electric Soul by Who is Elijah its very salt and vinegary? They both have musky, wood, jasmin and raspberry notes. All notes seem to be fighting for the spotlight except the raspberry. It does ease up after dry down and i can actually pick up the rasberry. Still its a no for me unfortunately. My daughter likes it though she says it's like Persil washing liquid but fruity...?

Smells like armpits. I want to love the perfume due to the bottle being absolutely gorgeous. Lasts forever, unfortunately.

Wow, I just cannot stop spraying this stuff! It was a blind buy and I was afraid looking at reviews. But I love Scandal so I took a chance. At first I thought I wasn’t going to use much or even keep it bc I got a kind of chemically screechy opening. Then I came home from work the next day and put on the pjs I’d worn when testing, and something very sweet and Scandal like had developed. I noticed it had also transferred to my pillow and I kept smelling it thru the night. Next morning I layered with Scandal body lotion and EDP and I loved it! Don’t get me wrong, it’s quite good on its own, but the real magic of this one for me is the layering potential with my beloved Scandal (and flankers) and the ability to crank them up to project and last forever! I definitely get the fruits, florals and musk, none of which are overwhelming. But there’s something here that is nuclear on fabric and very long lasting on skin, a quality that plays peek-a-boo, stepping in and out, shimmering, wafting if you will, especially on skin. That seems to be the way my nose perceives ambroxan, which I absolutely love, and I agree with the BR 540 similarity noted, which I also get. The sweetness must be the ambroxan in combination with the jasmine sambac comprising the base. With jasmine in its heart and base, that note remains overall very prominent, but this is the sweet, almost sugary type of jasmine, not the weird chemical, urinal cake variety. Not idolic but fresh, and leaning slightly green. Jasmine lovers take note :) Overall, I think this is an excellent value; I love it and would recommend to anyone that loves Scandal and is not averse to heavy ambroxan.

So got this before trying Apres L'Amour...after getting a sample of Apres L'Amour, this is NOT anywhere close to Apres L'Amour. Doria is a muddle goopy scent. Opening is this lemon raspberry and a heavy dose of jasmine. This trio accord comes off like a LifeSaver Creme Saver with a slight indolic fleshy vibe. This last for a few hours until the tuberose and ambroxan show up as this powdery sweet candy like accord and mellows the blend. Unisex but leaning quite on the feminine side. The dry down is the best part. In contrast, Apres L'Amour is very simple, straight to the point and LOUD. Zesty lemon, a bitting citrus and ambroxan dominate the opening. As the citrus fades the ambroxan is the star as it screams off the skin accompanied by what smells like ISO E Super. Musk and Oakmoss close the show, also quite obnoxiously. You can pick up every single note in Apres L'Amour and smelling side by side with Dorian, there is never a point were you can say ,"these smell similar" let alone identical! If Apres L'Amour is a masculine leaning scent, Doria is feminine. Not so much a scent a woman would wear but of what I felt a woman would naturally smell like freah out of the shower. As far as performance, Apres L'Amour wins HAND DOWN. It's not even close. Apres is all could smell between the 2 scent each sprayed on my skin. You can own both as they aren't redundant in my opinion but for me Apres is the clear cut choice.

Love the bottle. Probably am in the minority there, but anyway, onto the smell: Historic Doria, put your hands up and step AWAY from the ambroxan and musk. BACK I SAY!!!! A composition that otherwise smells like the love child of a mancera/montale and baccarat rouge. It has the BR540 airy spun sugar, dental office thing going on - and so beautifully done, it's really yummy. The fruits in this are delicious, the orange blossom and jasmine in this, delicious! But they've been pulverized in the hands of an overly ambitious ambroxan and a musk that just won't quit. It's too screechy and powerful and overwhelms the entire scent. Mind you, I am an ambroxan lover. A cetalox lover. Anything that has to do with the both of them, I love. But in combination with the musk it really is entirely too much. Shame really.

This is a musky, yet dirtier take on the BR540 / Apres L'amour / Instant Crush DNA. It's not a bad scent.... it's quite nice. But don't go in thinking it's a bang on clone of Thomas Kosmala Apres L'amour. I find Apres L'amour closer to BR540 than I find Afnan Historic Doria. Quite feminine, but any man that can pull off BR540 can wear this too. Performance is so-so, I don't find it as beastly as others have portrayed it to be. Maybe my bottle has to sit for a couple to test out its true performance /longevity. In general, I'm not overly impressed with this. It's nice, yes it is...but nothing crazy.

In perfumery, maceration and maturation are distinct processes that contribute to the final fragrance. Maceration is the initial blending of fragrance oils with a solvent (usually alcohol), while maturation is the subsequent aging process where the fragrance develops and harmonizes over time. Please stop using maceration, except you are a perfumer and you are actually making a new fragrance. Maturation is the aging process.

I received a sample. Sprayed it on my skin. I don't feel any zesty citrus in the beginning just musk mixed with ambroxan and a little bit of white flowers. In the drydown the ambroxan mellows out and the jasmine and tuberose start to shine wrapped in a very clean powdery scent. This is not a perfume for sweet-gourmand lovers. There's no sweetness. It's a sophisticated, clean, powdery scent. Projection is 6-7 hours.

2 months of maceration and the ambroxan in this is upshifted to the extreme to a point of getting a super synthethic side to whats it is trying to be. But powerful,

if so scandal by jpg and br540 had a baby. insane lasting powers, i swear it lasted over a week on my clothes.

I just want this for the bottle♡ and ok, it has Raspberry, I love Raspberries

If anyone has an empty bottle to sell/swap, please PM me 😍