Afternoon

Beautiful fragrance that is similar to the original

I think it sounds good not sure about performance

Clone of LV Afternoon Swim that excludes/minimises the bergamot. Tested only once using an in-store tester on paper strip over a few hours, so I still need to test more. Initial assessment: Excellent scent but very weak projection. It excludes/minimises the bergamot that you find in LV Afternoon Swim, just like French Avenue Pinnace Oryn and Bujairami Perfect Life. Excluding the bergamot is an excellent choice because mandarin smells better imo. Hence it's just mandarin and fresh-water watery notes (not marine) - like splaying open an orange slice in front of your face while in the pool and having the watery pool musk mix with the citric orange smell. Again, weak performance though so I recommend testing first, or if blind-buying, go for FA Pinnace Oryn or Bujairami Perfect Life. Maison Asrar DXB also excludes the bergamot, but instead of watery notes, it uses a very, very similar musk/ambroxan that isn't watery, although newbie noses won't realise that difference because it's almost identical to Bujairami Perfect Life and FA Pinnace Oryn. Maison Alhambra Jean Lowe Azure retains the bergamot alongside the mandarin and watery notes, hence is closer to the LV, but the bergamot makes both the LV and the Maison Alhambra inferior to the Bujairami, French Avenue, Assaf, and Maison Asrar. Despite that, we should be thankful to LV for creating or at least popularising the DNA. I'm not thankful to LV for screwing with the voted notes above though, but it seems I've mostly amended that because there weren't many spam votes.