Lynked Freedom

The reviews here are spot on. This is an excellent easy to wear mass appealing fragrance but it's not cookie cutter generic at all . The opening is undeniable TMW Parfum. Sprayed in the air you get a tad more grapefruit but on the skin and projecting off the skin it's Wanted. The ginger note that makes that fragrance is there. I'd say 95% close just because of the quality of ingredients. After 5 minutes it start to lean Myslf . That clean aromatic smell that makes Myslf Myslf starts creeping up . The opening is 100% Wanted . Then Myslf at this point is about 50% just because the red ginger and slight warmness is blanketing the YSL. . Once it dries down it's about 70 Wanted 30 YSL There is enough of the YSL to make this different enough that picking up Lynked won't be redundant to the Azzaro owners. What I really like about this is that on the dry down it keeps the best parts of both fragrances going. The Azzaro eventually gets more warm and spiced with a noticeable but lighter ginger. In this that opening ginger lasts just about the entire span of this fragrance . All while having that YSL Myslf clean aromatic smell as an undertone. This smells fantastic. I would love for them to make a version that swaps them and makes the YSL the dominant fragrance. I'm very curious to how or even if this will change much in the next few months . But this does smell fantastic. A huge thing that made this even better is that it doesn't have that middle eastern smell that most fragrances have. If you know you know . Super versatile. Maybe not a gym scent but everything else is fine. Performance is solid. 5 sprays is good. Projects for a solid hour and a half . It won't become a skin scent until maybe the 4th or 5th hour . But it will still be noticeable when close. I'd say a total of 6 to 7 hours . The bottle is nice. Clean and not tacky. Solid atomizer . 8/10

Afnan is not releasing as often as other brands, but when they do it, they never miss. I own La Di Da, Dubai Nights Midnight and this one. I didn't buy the one from Zimaya since everyone said it lasts only 30 mins. I bought this one 3 months ago, it did smell nice but it had a little weird synthetic harshness (usually this happens with any dupe fragrance I get out of the box from the first sprays). After 3 months: The harshness disappeared, it became a very well blended version of YSL Myslf but based on Caramel and Lavender, not Orange Blossom like the OG. 10/10 If you want to know about the other two to know which one is for you, I would recommend all of them since they have their own personality, they are worthy to wear. Dubai Nights Midnight by Armaf: Of course I had to wait for this one 3 months as well. From the first sprays (3 months ago) it was a more spicy version of Myslf, where the patchouli was quite in your face. After 3 months, out of all my 60+ fragrances I own, this one changed the most. It evolved into a more soapy and a little more fresh spicy version of Myslf. La Di Da by Arabiyat Prestige: Out of the box I felt some type of chemical harshness and made me feel sick, you just need to invest 4 months of maceration to evolve in what is supposed to be. No more harshness, doesn't make me feel sick if I keep my nose on my wrist, it is 98% YSL Myslf, I would say it's the most accurate clone out of all the clones, it might actually change even more in the next months, but you have to wait for it (just like every other dupe fragrance I own) the most accurate clone (so far) of YSL Myslf.

This is a genuinely impressive fresh fragrance. Bright, clean, energetic — the kind of scent that makes you feel more confident and at ease, while creating a pleasant scent bubble people around you will enjoy. The real shock is the performance. Most “freshies” disappear faster than good intentions on New Year’s Day, but this one hangs around for an easy 8-10 hours without becoming loud or obnoxious. It stays crisp, refreshing, and pleasantly masculine throughout the day. You keep catching little waves of it and thinking, “Well, that’s still working.” While it does project fairly well, I'd say it stays within the arms length range, so you can wear this to work and more intimate settings without filling rooms. And the value? Ridiculous. This smells far more expensive than it is. If somebody poured it into a fancy designer bottle and charged three times as much, half the internet would declare it revolutionary. For a mere $35 on Jomashop, you can get a full 100ml bottle. Granted, the only issue is that the cap may fall off in the box during shipping like mine did, but the product did not get damaged, leak, or get primed before I received it. Afnan Lynked Freedom is proof that occasionally the universe accidentally lets ordinary people have nice things without financial ruin attached. And that is something worth celebrating. Overall, I can honestly say the middle eastern fragrance houses have come a very long way over the past five years. After buying 9pm Night Out, and Lynked Freedom this year, Imran Fazlani is quickly becoming one of my new favorite perfumers!

I bought this recently as people whove reviewed it has said its like TMW Parfum and YSL Myslf had a baby, those being two of my current favourites I had to give it a shot, for how affordable it is, why not? So I bought it blind and I consider this a win, i see why people say its a mix of the two but in my opinion it stands on its own. You do get that spicy sweetness you get from TMW Parfum but its caramel instead of vanilla and you dont get that incandescent wood smell. You get the citrus from YSL but none of that bounce dryer sheet note. The opening for me is very citrusy, you get that bergamot and grapefruit hit immediately with a bit of that spice in the background. After a minute the cardamom and lavender start to come through, i dont get as much of the juniper berries as I would hope though. As it dries down, thats when I notice the vetiver and caramel come through. It kinda reminds me of Versace Eros Najim in a way. The bergamot and grapefruit are still there but kinda just chilling out The bottle is also nice, cap has some weight to it so brownie points there as well, these middle eastern houses dont cut corners. UPDATE: As ive been wearing if for the past week or so, I can say that for me I get decent sillage and projection for the first 2-3 hours and remains a skin scent for around 7-8 hours. Its also gathered a few compliments from my friends and coworkers who know I wear a lot of fragrances and had one random person compliment it as well, if thats something that is important to you

Freedom Lynked is a phenomenal combination of fresh and sweet spicy. I love combination of strong citrus mixed with sweet spices adding the perfect amount of warmth. There are notes of floral accompineded by a tiny bit of earthiness in the background combined with an almost aromatic overall note that nicely completes Freedom Lynked. Performance is quite good but not stellar, with the weaker side of Freedom Lynked being its projection. The longevity is quite nice, I got around 8 hours on my skin and around 12 on my clothes. A solid 7/10 here. Regarding projection. Freedom Lynked is surprisingly conservative considering it is an Afnan. After about 2 hours of within arm length projection it quickly fades in strength to being just a little bit off from a skin scent. Projection is nice but I would've liked it to be just a little strong for a bit longer to fit this fragrance more, a 5/10. I really enjoy Freedom Lynked, it feels like a great all-year any occasion signature scent that is an easy grab fragrance. The combination of fresh and sweet spicy is in perfect balance and while I would've liked a little more projection, its projection level makes it wearable in basically ever scenario. An 8/10 overall!