Odyssey Tyrant Special Edition

Decided to get this after smelling this on someone who walked past by me a few years ago. I also had a decant of this before. I suddenly feel the need to get this because of how I realised the mass appeal of a DNA like this. I wanted something that isn't too crazy in terms of being screechy. I have smelled OG Sauvage, but not Tygar. Perhaps only smelling Tygar-like DNA through its dupes. This is bold enough to be Sauvage, and light enough to be Tygar. First 2 hours? Tygar. The rest? Sauvage, but less soliciting. Grapefruit really nice on the first 2 hours. And this fragrance for being released in 2023 is strong as heck. Dries down to woody vetiver that I enjoy. 1 spray filled my room, making me noseblind easily. It can handle heat too, because of its light nature. As I said, bold but light at the same time. People will think this is Sauvage, or Tygar. A good blend I might say. Office worthy, casual worthy because of the grapefruit, and still retains that badboy energy, although a bit toned down. This thing still rocks nowadays, seriously. Especially in Southeast Asia where people use local-made fragrances and not imported goods like Armaf or anything else.

As noted in my CDN Man EDT review, Odyssey Tyrant Special Edition, CDN Man EDT, and CDN Iconic all share a very similar overall DNA — making owning two, let alone all three, feel somewhat redundant. That said, Odyssey Tyrant is arguably the most distinct of the trio. Unlike the other two, it has no mint note; instead it leans fruitier and spicier, with grapefruit leading the opening and pepper adding character in the heart. Performance-wise, it is also the strongest of the three, though not by a dramatic margin. If pressed, Odyssey Tyrant is my personal favourite of the trio — likely because I am drawn to its stronger, longer-lasting fruity character. That said, this type of scent DNA has probably been done to death across many fragrance brands, so it may simply read as safe and uninspired to more seasoned fragrance enthusiasts. Overall, all three are highly wearable and would suit most men well. The main issue is simply that their functional overlap is substantial enough that owning all of them may not feel particularly worthwhile — unless you're a dedicated Armaf collector or running a social media channel on clone fragrances.

Odyssey Tyrant Special Edition Armaf Opened this up and wore it. It opens with a very nice grapefruit and citrus, but the opening is very short lived, at this point it reminds me of Tygar and Bdc Edt. However the grapefruit and cirtus goes off fast and the heart notes starts to dominate quickly, at this point my nose tells me this smells more like a hybrid of Tygar and savage edt, perhaps due to the notes and the ambroxian I'm not quite getting the Vetiver yet but the ambroxian is there, there's woodiness and cedar but seems the lavender, pepper n elemi is rather dominating.. My nose gets Tygar/BDC in the opening and then becomes Sauvage Edt/Dylan blue kinda dna. Still remains much woody cedar ambroxy lavender scent as it goes to drydown. After 4-5hrs it's a skin scent but still with that Sauvage drydown dna. This was never anywhere close to CAHS like some video said. No way it's anywhere similar to CAHS. I do not know why I'm getting something smelling like a Sauvage dna for this since they already have a Similar franker that is a Sauvage alternative apparently

I’m really starting to appreciate the Odyssey line. Not all are hits, but performance is generally excellent—Limoni being the exception. This one easily lasts from morning until evening on skin, and even longer on clothes. The opening is bright and appealing with grapefruit and citrus. The transition, however, introduces pepper and spices that can feel a little sharp on first wear. With a bit of time to mature, the composition settles and becomes much more coherent. It develops into a strong, masculine scent with a smooth woody dry down that feels quite refined. There is a slight synthetic edge in places, though it is not long-lasting or overly distracting. I’m not familiar with Tygar, which this is apparently inspired by, but there is a faint Sauvage-like character in the background. That said, I actually prefer this. For around £30, it performs and smells well above its price point. It draws compliments, but it is best not to overspray—4–6 sprays is sufficient. 8/10

Wearing this a few times I have a few things to say: 1) It is its own thing - you can pick up elements from fragrances like Tygar, Sauvage and maybe others, but it is its own thing... It is a good , versatile blue fragrance 2) This is insanely strong! My bottle has a weak atomizer which works in its favor - I barely do 3 thirds of a spray and I can smell it around me easily the next day even after taking a shower. It is easily one of the strongest fragrances in my collection. If you can't smell it - your nose is dead from how much you sprayed (and I have fragrance of which I do up to 30 sprays, so I am not light hearted in that regard) 3) I tried going with 4-5 full sprays and it smells bad when sprayed too much.. If you do less, it smells like a modern , classy fragrance (just my tip) Hope this helps! Cheers!