Odyssee III

This stuff is awesome, you inhale Chanel BdC, you exhale TF Oud Wood, i blind bought it in a haul with other Anfar fragrances, and what i can say, for the prices you pay, those are pretty beast mode. Extrait de parfum concentration, longevity is way better than both fragrances mentioned above, this will easily last u 10-12h with a good scent trail and bubble for the first 2-3 hours. All in all, Anfar fragrances are bangers, just need fragrantica to add them to the database and ill try to leave reviews on them. Blind buy worthy? Hell yeah. Signature scent worthy, all year around.

Another Curly "victim" here. This one is a banger. I bought 3 anfar fragrances and I like them all. Great quality. Edit: after 2 months longevity is still somehow weak. Just today I sprayed this one on one hand and cdn iconic on the other hand. To me they're similar just in the opening. Dry down is completely different, but iconic is stronger.

This one is actually one of the best fragrances I owe. Duration is 8hr+ with good sillage and projection. It smells like heaven. Blind buy safe and good compliment magnet. It does smell somehow like BDC and Tom Ford OW but its a gem on its own rights.

"Smells like a fresher version of Lalique Encre noir a la extreme" Yeahhhh..... No.

I have heard a lot of hype about Odyssey III. I had not heard of the house until recently. This is purported to be a hybrid of Bleu de Chanel and Tom Ford Oud Wood. I will qualify by saying that I have owned Oud Wood and own several of it's clones, and I also own BDC EDP and Parfum, as well as few clones of the BDC DNA. I bought my bottle of Odyssey III earlier this week and received it yesterday after waiting with anxious anticipation. These are my initial thoughts from my freshly opened bottle. The opening is definitely BDC adjacent, not quite BDC in my opinion, but closer to Missoni Pour Homme EDP which is heavily BDC inspired. It's musky with strong citrus backed by some very woody notes and a lot of vetiver. The opening is a lot deeper than any of the real BDC frags' openings and lacking most of the lighter airy fresh notes. There are stronger parallels to BDC Parfum than EDP or EDT. I believe BDC Parfum already has some similarities to Oud Wood in the drydown ( and they layer well) and as Odyssey dries down, I can see why some people give some Oud Wood comparison, but it never fully gets there. It smells more like a stripped down version of BDC Parfum with some additional hints of OW. The longevity seems good, at around 8-9 hours with strong projection in the first 3, receding bit by bit in the next 3 hours before settling in to a skin scent in the last 2-3 hours. I think this is a safe wear year round, but seems to play nicer with cooler weather than warm where some of the freshness is really lost compared to BDC. I believe this leans masculine, but I could also see a woman pulling it off. Final thoughts: I can't lie, as someone who loves both OW and BDC and after all of the hype, I can't help but feel somewhat disappointed. I feel like they tried to find the perfect middle ground between the two DNA's but in the end, lost too much of the character from each that makes them special. It just kind of sits in this middle ground where it leaves me wishing it was either more like OW or BDC, while never getting close enough to either one to fully scratch the itch. It's a fine fragrance on its own, and a good idea, I just wish they would have balanced it better. The vetiver is also too heavy in my opinion. I will say to Afnar's credit, all of the notes seem to be high quality, no weird synthetic funk to be found in this event from a fresh bottle. It's possible my bottle will improve with time, and I will try and leave an updated review in the coming weeks/months. As of right now, it's a decent effort, the ingredients smell high quality, and the performance is good enough, but I feel like they played it a little too safe and it didn't really pay off as well as it could have. Update: I have definitely warmed up to this more, it hasn't really changed much, but that's a credit to great blending and high quality ingredients. I believe they macerated this prior to bottling, as any self-respecting fragrance house should. It does not come of like a cheap ME clone house effort. The quality is excellent, the issue is that I just wish they had tuned the scent profile more. 80/100