Detour Noir Intense

When I bought my Noir Intense in November 2024 I suspected that my bottle would be very fresh... because it was launched in 2024. I was wrong, BD: 03/24. Actually, it should have been ready then... but I am very attached to certain rituals. I sprayed it fifteen times and put it in the cabinet. I tried it yesterday and I'm still doing it today. I have Pegasus Exclusif... but I'm saving it, I love this scent. Al Haramain is close, but even if it is something else, it is definitely a wonderful fragrance. The beginning is something special... but what comes later is even better, when cardamom combines with almond, lavender, jasmine... and with vanilla that appears quite quickly. You have to experience it. There is a delicate oud in the Western style, there are sweet woody notes. That's not to sweet, that's not too harsh. The scent is complex but very delicate, a scent for dates, for formal occasions, a captivating scent that will testify to the class of the person who uses it. I always knew that my Pegasus was in my top five among fragrances from PdM. Perhaps Detour Intense doesn't have such good ingredients, it certainly doesn't have such good parameters as its predecessor (but it's not a weakling either)... but when we forget about all that and try to look at it for a moment as an independent, slightly inspired ;), new perfume, we'll understand that for $25 we get a wonderful gem. I rarely, almost never, talk like this about fragrances inspired by or clones from the U.A.E. ... but this time I am simply stunned. They managed it, they... clever bastards from Al Haramain managed it and even if it's not a complete equivalent of the noble Pegasus ... it's a special, memorable fragrance. It may be a very intimate frag, it is not a beast, a fragrance suitable for meetings indoors, in close contact ... but this is not its weak point, only its destiny to be used in such occasions. Spring and summer nights, autumn and winter.... That's a fragrance for the whole year, a fragrance for special tasks. The fact that it's not as strong, as decisive as its older brother may be its great advantage. I really do not believe what I am writing here, I do not believe that perfumes for $25 can smell so beautiful, because before I was fully convinced that similarly captivating Pegasus Exclusif is worth almost $300 ... and thought that price is OK. Damn ... they really managed it!!! Detour Noir Intense!!! Officially, i invite You to the stores. ;) BTW - No, I don't live in Dubai, I don't work for a big company, I'm not some cheeky salesman and nobody pays me for it. I'm just a young retiree selling my skills, acquired in a completely different field (that's what happens with soldiers, they wear out quickly), "young" man who found a new hobby and is having a great time. I'm not that sensitive. ;) In the army we used Quorum, Aramis, Jacomo, Kouros, Antaeus, Fahrenheit (old Fahrenheit...) and many other typically fragrances for crazy risk-takers... all those mega masculine, scary, tobacco, leather, sweaty scents. It was only later that I started playing with nuances. It all started some time ago, in the distant past... perfumes from grandparents, perfumes from parents, perfumes bought by my brother, by my wife, by my special friends... perfumes as gifts. And at some point I stopped counting but I have never been and will never become any specialist, exclusive reviewer, influencer, one of those people I met here on Fragra. However, there remains some baggage of experience, over 1000 different scents... both expensive and very cheap. Detour Noir Intense can easily be nominated for the award for the best budget perfume of 2024. Writing this... I keep smelling my wrist and I can't believe they managed to create something so wonderful... I can't believe it, it must be magic. Of course, everyone has the right to make their own choices... you can go higher, buy the great Pegasus Exclusif, and pay ten times more. It won't be a mistake, it will be just your personal choice... you will pay for an even better scent. However, here and now we are dealing with cheap, Arabian perfumes... which are simply outstanding, we are dealing with them, because they are actually the most important heroes of my comment.

* Complex but still warm and appealing fragrance * Good blend of sweet, vanilla, spicy, powdery, floral, amber, nutty, oud and woody aromas * Oud note is light, complementary and appealing * Great for social occasions and date nights * Great for gourmand lovers * Designer quality for discounter price * Average performer * Might lean too masculine for some female users * Not good for those who dislike sweet or gourmand fragrances Al Haramain's Detour Noir Intense is a flanker in their popular Detour Noir line and a clone of Parfum de Marley's Pegasus Exclusif. Whereas Detour Noir is a fresh vanilla forward fragrance, Detour Noir Intense is quite intense. It's a complex fragrance with lots of notes but overall it's very warm and appealing. This is a good blend of sweet, vanilla, spicy, powdery, floral, amber, nutty, oud and woody aromas. Cardamom and lavender are prominent in the opening. You'd think they'd clash with the spices, wood, and oud notes but they're actually all very complementary towards each other. The oud in particular is light and appealing, which is somewhat of a miracle given how polarizing that note can be. Performance is average and a notch below fellow flanker Detour Noir Exclusif. This is great for social occasions and date nights. Gourmand lovers will appreciate how complex this is. It might lean too masculine for some female users due to the wood and oud notes, softened as they are by the cardamom and lavender. Performance is average, a notch below fellow flanker Detour Noir Exclusif, so be prepared to overspray on first use and respraying occasionally throughout the day. Overall, though, this is niche quality at a discounter price. Highly recommended.

Grabbed this one up after getting Eco and enjoying it. I've not sniffed Pegasus Exclusif, but I've smelled Pegasus. Definitely can pick up the similarity, this is much different than normal Pegasus, but also retains that same "root beer float" vibe. This, like what i imagine Pegasus exclusif being, is a deeper take on the original, though like Detour Eco, this stuff you can tell is a little less deep and extreme with its ingredients. Really impressed with the quality though, this stuff really doesn't have much syntheticness to it. The opening is really the only time you get any weirdness if any even there. The smell is much like Pegasus off the rip, lots of vanilla woods popping through, very nutty, with a touch of some floral. Gets closer and closer to the DNA, the longer it's on you. Very masculine to me, others may not have that experience with it, but this seems more masculine than anything else. It's performance like most clones, will likely increase within about a month, but as it sits right now, my sample sprays are pretty strong, and I venture to guess this will go around 10-12 hours with reasonable projection. Will likely redo or edit this review after today's wearing. All in all, glad again I saved hundreds to smell basically the same. 😊

I was not a massive fan of the original detour, only because of the harsh chemical scent in the opening, however it gets better after 30 minutes and has gotten better on my shelf, although I had already purchased a different dupe. Anyway, this one has me dumbfounded because it's only $24 and should be along the same line as the og and it is NOT. Now full transparency I don't own a bottle so the sample I received could in fact be from an aged bottle, which could explain how frickin good this smells and how close to the og this is. My sample from og is truely amazing and should probably save up for the og but for $25 and some time to age it makes me feel like 80% similarity is good enough. Can't believe I just said that. Hmm. Not sure what I'm going to do. Weird world or weird me but I'm torn between an Al-H and a PDM??? LOL

I've never smelled Pegasus Exlusif so I don't know how close this is to the fragrance it's inspired by. However I can tell you this is a great fragrance on its own. It's green aspects kind of remind me of Polo, but it's very powdery too, and it also has a very nice sweetness. It is super well balanced. This is a true powerhouse. What I mean by that is it's undeniably in your face masculine. It is plenty strong enough for sure though. I wouldn't call it "beast mode" as far as projection and sillage go, but it is plenty strong enough and lasts all day. This is a very gentleman like fragrance it's not very playful, but it is cozy. It's very dark and brooding, but it's sweet enough that it can be kind of comforting. The best way I can describe it is if JPG made a very serious LeMale this might be what it would smell like.