Naughty Dates

Scent: I basically just get delicious dark full-bodied syrupy dates and a balanced but prominent smoky incense, with a touch of a coffee nuance to the dates (definitely not as much coffee as suggested above in the notes pyramid votes). No perceptible caramel or honey, although they may be contributing to the dense full-bodied nature of the syrupy dates. Winter and fall appropriate. Unisex, masculine leaning, although its gourmand nature makes this wearable for women (ballsy women who want to smell unapologetically seductive rather than smell pretty). Comparison: Lush Sticky Dates lovers (Paris Corner Date Caramel and Khadlaj Biscotti Date Toffee) will almost certainly love this. This takes the Lush Sticky Dates DNA from Paris Corner Date Caramel and Khadlaj Biscotti Date Toffee (I haven't smelt the OG Lush yet), and tweaks it by 10% to absolute perfection - particularly by removing the suboptimal weird caramel nuance. Definitely doesn't smell like Mancera Amore Caffe to my nose, unless you made the spring-appropriate Amore Caffe much, much darker and with dates and incense (rather than its brighter and very creamy vanilla and coffee). I imagine YSL Babycat lovers will also love Naughty Dates - both have a seductive incense accord to bring character to their primary seductive accord of bourbon vanilla (Babycat) or dates (Naughty Dates). Praise: Naughty Dates is somewhat polarising and not blind buy safe. If this appealed to the masses, it wouldn't have the character that it has. Do you want to smell like a square? Of course not. Also, this is an extrait, which permits you to project and last longer with less sprays, which means excellent value for its affordable price. Too strong? Spray less and be appreciative. This fragrance shits (violently) on the industry of niche and private line fragrances with its truly masterful composition (no exaggeration), extrait concentration, and affordable price, without even considering presentation. IMO this is Neeb's and French Avenue's best work to date, and they may not exceed this masterpiece for years, if ever. I think I understand why Neeb and his influencer friends haven't called out its similarity to the Lush Sticky Dates DNA - Naughty Dates is hall of fame worthy and association with that would hold it back and have people brush it off without trying it. Although we should also be grateful to Lush and associated perfumers for their initial release of this DNA. More Praise: Naughty Dates is currently (for the past few months) my #1 favourite frag out of ~1100 smelt, and has supplanted other masterpiece DNAs such as Emper Phantom My Hero/French Avenue Spectre Wraith (excellent By Kilian Black Phantom clones), Paris Corner Rifaaqat/Maison Alhambra Ebene/French Avenue Fierte (YSL Babycat clones), MMM By The Fireplace (and all of its inferior clones, of which I essentially have all), MFK Grand Soir (and the rest of the legendary house), Lattafa Ana Abiyad Poudree (likely a combo of Celine Black Tie [creamy springtime vanilla] + Chanel Comete [sparkling aldehydes and creamy springtime vanilla]), Mancera Amore Caffe, GDT Bianco Latte, Fragrance World Qahwa (hidden gem), Billie Eilish Eilish 1 and 2, Kayali Vanilla Royale Sugared Patchouli, Kayali Vanilla 28, Armani SWY Absolutely (and the rest of the SWY line), SHL777 God of Fire, Nishane Ani, Xerjoff Lira, D&G Devotion, French Avenue Cocoa Morado (MC Oud Cadenza clone), CC Blonde Amber, BDK Gris Charnel, PDM Althair, Tom Ford Black Orchid, etc., etc. Other widely-regarded masterpieces didn't even make the list above (according to my personal taste). I didn't include high-heat summer masterpieces either because summer fragrances are generally more invigorating rather than seductively alluring, so it's not a fair comparison, but Naughty Dates supplants them too (Tygar, Vibrato, Ingenious Ginger, Stellar Times, Afternoon Swim, Pacific Chill, Symphony, L'Imperatrice, Nolita, Addictive Vibration, Neroli Portofino, Soleil de Jeddah Mango Kiss, Aqua Celestia Forte, etc., etc.). To supplant these masterpieces of humanity (by my personal taste) was unthinkable to myself. I smelt hundreds and hundreds, enjoying the process but thinking I've just about reached the pinnacle. Then I willy-nilly smelt a tester of Naughty Dates and my eyes rolled back repeatedly, and here we are. I will have a lifetime supply of this. Of course, this is according to my specific personal preferences (I especially like an incense accord with vanillas or other gourmands [e.g. dates], but my preferences stretch far and wide).

Always sample before buying and save yourself $$$ on wasted blind buys :) If anyone's interested in a sample at the best price check it out at my website: Decantified.com we have them all! ---- thank you! Here is my honest review for Fragrantica: Ok... wow! This is a damn good fragrance. I was not expecting to enjoy wearing this fragrance as much as I did when I first smelled it. This is 100% how I can tell my taste for fragrances is starting to get more complex after wearing hundreds of different fragrances. I have this thing, where I may really like a smell and appreciate it, but I just don't see myself wearing it. Or I hesitate and lean into wearing something I feel I'll like more. But right now with so many new and different fragrances I feel it's my responsibility to wear the newest most hyped ones and do reviews about them to give you guys the inside scoop on them. So I kind of forced myself to wear Naughty Dates today. I went outside of my usual scent profile with Naughty Dates and I'm glad I did. Caramel Frape right away on the opening. It's so photo realistic with the coffee note that I'm shocked. I'm actually super into gourmand fragrances. Especially anything with vanilla in it. So this fragrance peaked my interest a lot. The Notes Instantly the sweetness from the dates comes rushing in with strong notes of coffee, vanilla and caramel. There's a nice blend of cardamon, bergamont, mandarin, dates, coffee, honey, ebony wood, cinnamon, hazelnut, vanilla, caramel, sandalwood, and amber listed on this fragrance. I think that if you focus on the scent long enough you can actually smell almost each one of these notes. I feel like this is pretty high quality in my opinion. It dry's down with a really nice vanilla & caramel that I like a lot. Nothing feels too synthetic. I noticed that's a trend with these Aromatix. Performance isn't always great, but quality is always right. I don't expect anything less from fragrance world. The Review Apart from everything I've described so far this fragrance is heavy and dark. Today was a cold day here in Florida. Thankfully this cold weather is allowing me to experiment with this kinds of fragrances and although I can't stand the cold I'm all for it! So this fragrance is great in cold weather, hot weather it's probably going to be too much, I'm sure by the time I do my updated review it will be hot enough for me to review the difference. Longevity wise it lasted a little less then I thought it would for how heavy it is. But this fragrance has not matured at all, and I did notice my other Aromatix fragrances benefited a lot from maturing them. from 10am to 8pm it was a nice skin scent you can smell a lot. So longevity is 10+ hours, but I feel this fragrance will go well paste 12+ hours once it's matured. Sillage is where I was a little more underwhelmed. I expected it to be projecting pretty loud for at least a few hours. Again this most likely has entirely to do with how it still needs to mature. But I only noticed decent projection for the first half hour.. after that it was really hard to detect. I do think that maybe I did suffer from some nose blindness for the reason being that I did catch whiffs of it I was not expecting around the 3rd hour mark. My co -worker also could not smell it on me after 30 minutes, but she also happend to smell it around 3rd hour mark as well? rating 8.5/10 (if it matures and improves I might bump up to a 8.7 or 9) Conclusion Not a safe blind buy. I provided tons of description about this fragrance so there's not much to add. Through maturation I would assume the projection and sillage will enhance, I feel like from my experience for this to be worth it I would need those 2 things to happen. Otherwise it's a pass for me. With good projection and sillage after maturation I would possibly consider this full bottle worthy if I lived in a cold climate where I could get more use out of this. Even the nights where I live are hot so can't say I would be able to get much out of it. Eventually I will do a updated review once it's hot again in a few weeks and hopefully I can give more insight on that along with sillage and projection changes. I appreciate you guys reading my reviews as always.

Scent- Wonderful Scent that is definitely Gourmand, and has already been done by other brands, yet still great nonetheless. This will immediately remind you of the Sticky Dates DNA. I haven't smelled that one, but I have smelled some of the dupes like Shaghaf Vanilla Toffee by Swiss Arabian & Date Caramel by Paris Corner. I own both of those fragrances, and yes they smell similar. Naughty Dates hits you first and foremost with a huge blast of Caramel & Coffee. Those are the main hitters in my opinion. After that the Cardamom starts to appear and stays for about 30mins. The Cardamomcan be a deal breaker for many, because it does get very spicy. Personally, I didn't like the Cardamom note, because it smells like spicy coffee with Caramel lol. But it's still okay. Around the 90min mark-2hr mark that's when the Vanilla starts to emerge. And the vanilla here does not smell like natural vanilla, so don't expect that. It smells more like a vanilla candle, if that makes sense, which is not bad. Even though the vanilla doesn't smell natural, it's still pretty good and not cloying. So those are basically the notes you'll get throughout the fragrance, at least from my experience. You'll basically get the Caramel, Coffee, Cardamom, and Vanilla. Performance- The performance for this fragrance is great! No complaints here. The projection is definitely a room Filler for at least the first 30mins-1hr. By the 3rd hour it becomes more of an arms length, which is pretty decent. Now, while it's a room filler, it's not cloying nor annoying like other strong fragrances. The Sillage is also amazing and strong for the first 2hrs. The Longevity is definitely great as well. I got like 7hrs before it became somewhat of a skin scent, and in total it lasted like 11hrs. So not bad for this fragrance! Comparisons to Vanilla Toffee & Date Caramel- So Vanilla Toffee, Date Caramel, and Naughty Dates all smell similar, with the exception being that Naughty Dates & Vanilla Toffee put more emphasis on the Cardamom and Vanilla, while Date Caramel doesn't contain the Cardamom, therefore making it more sweet, than spicy. Also, Date Caramel doesn't have a prominent vanilla note the way Naughty Dates does. It's more of a straight up Coffee & Caramel bomb. All 3 fragrances are great with Strong performance, with Date Caramel & Naughty Dates having the stronger performance. All are great and if you don't like Cardamom, then go for Date Caramel. Seasons- Definitely a cold weather scent. Maybe you could pull it off in the cool nights of Spring as well. Audience- Since it's a very sweet fragrance, this is leans Unisex in my opinion. The Cardamom is what will make it more masculine for some women, because the note is very prominent. This is also a young person scent due to the sweetness. I don't think the older crowds will be a fan of it, but to each their own.

It just arrived an hour ago and at first impression it is like Baskin Robbins Date ice cream. Creamy and not too sweet but very full on dates. Then it is calming down to a smoky, nutty, dark, almost like rum and raisin kind of vibe with coffee and the dates are still very prominent throughout. It's not like anything I've put my nose on before and I've tried a lot. It's maybe too early to give a proper assessment but as this is quite unique I thought I'd give my first impressions. I've got Carnal Desire, Royal Taboo, X-Xandal and Platine Blanc and they all perform fantastically well for the price. If you like the scent of dates you will enjoy this. I would say it is not a hot weather scent due to it's darkness and it has just the right amount of sweetness in the rich dark fruit and is well balanced. While a woman can wear it, it leans more in a male direction, but who knows, we are all different and it will very much depend on who is wearing it. It's another Love from me for Aromatix French Avenue.

Please give dry down a chance before judging this beauty. I sprayed this one on my forearm at French Avenue store during my Dubai visit in January. I found the initial burst of date and cardamom off-putting so I didn’t purchase it. Whole scenario changed when I smelled it again after reaching my hotel. Naughty dates turned into gourmand heaven. Date note faded and was taken over by vanilla, caramel and coffee. I don’t like sweet fragrances but this one won me over with its balance. I had flight that night so I couldn’t buy it regretfully. Recently I bought the full bottle online and it has just gotten me lots of compliments. Although it’s best suited for cold weather, but it’s good wear for summer evenings as well. It’s quite unisex also. Stronge sillage and excellent longevity are more pros. Another quality fragrance by Aromatix (I just despise people leaving negative votes and reviews without trying the fragrance just because they hate the influencer). Value for money on this one is phenomenal.