Gyan

Got a sample of this and wore it yesterday and quite enjoyed it. It's a very, very nice fragrance. Most people are saying that it's best for winter, fall and night time but on my skin, it felt warm but fresh and gave me a very versatile Bleu de Chanel kind of vibe. I think it could work any time of year and, if you can afford it, might even be a great signature scent. It lasted well over 8 hours on my skin. I always spray my shirt, too and I could still faintly detect it this morning. It's tied with Tygar as my favorite from "Bvlgari Le Collection Gemme" men's offerings. Overall, a very solid release but maybe not quite worth the price tag. Again, I find that Bleu de Chanel gives off a very similar vibe and it's more than half the price. If you can find this at discounters, then maybe it would be worth it but at retail price, I feel as though you can get a better fragrance for the price. If you love it, though and have the money, go for it but I would suggest getting a sample and testing it on yourself before dishing out the cash. Longevity : 8.5 (I got over 8 hours on my skin, longer on clothing) Projection : 8 (strong for the first 1.5 hours, then sits closer to the skin) Sillage : 8 (good but not great) Overall scent : 8 (smells expensive but not as expensive as it actually costs) I love it but not enough to spend almost $400 CAD for the full bottle. I wouldn't recommend blind buying it at that price.

At first smell, a very round, blue fragrance, patchouli with a very unisex and beautiful jasmine mixed in. But (particularly on my skin), as the Jasmine takes the back seat, your left with a very green - definitely masculine patchouli. This would not match a feminine person. But at the same time, it would not match a masculine person that goes for a weight-lifting persona. More on that later. The scent is interesting because it can become somewhat transparent. Directly, it seems to fade away or be less noticeable over time. Meanwhile, hours and hours after application, it can still fill a small room (like my office). My first instinct on patchouli is that it is very sensual. In the way musk is animalic, I always get a human quality from patchouli, as if I always imagine that it is mixed with a persons own scent and resonating from a warm body (trying to find a way to say sweat but in an attractive way). But, as I read the description from Bvlgari, my mind is totally shifted to understand their own vibe they attest to this scent - that this scent is fitted perfectly for a prince or aristocracy. Someone with a smart clever mind, and mindful of their style. However, as it's definitely masculine, it's not so masculine to fit a lumberjack. It's more for the aristocrat/politician/nobility. . .Something the prince would wear, but not the knight.

Pleasant, but very linear — in my opinion it smells the same from start to finish. Smelling the same for a long time will make it boring. Unfortunately, at this point the price feels quite expensive. Edit: I didn’t delete my initial impression; I wanted to comment on it so the difference could be seen. When I first tried it, the opening impressed me a lot — it smelled beautiful in the air — but on my skin it stayed very linear for a long time, always smelling the same, so I thought it didn’t deserve the price. When I saw it discounted, I gave it another chance and tried many fragrances from the Le Gemme series. Honestly, I realized what this series is trying to do: in a completely minimal way, to showcase the main accord using the highest-quality materials possible. That’s why it felt linear to me at first. But looking at it from this perspective, in terms of florals, this is about as naturally beautiful as it could be done for a man — a perfect execution in that sense. Similarly, the rose-themed fragrance called Garanat is also very linear, purely rose, but again, for a man, a rose fragrance could hardly be done more naturally and beautifully than this. I really liked both fragrances. Gyan is more practical and, because of its performance, it stands ahead for me, so I added it to my collection while it was on discount.

People really sleep on Gyan even though it smells divine and would be the perfect signature scent for a gentleman! This perfume walks the thin line between niche and designer; it does smell special yet you won't really offend anyone with it as expected from a private line release. Patchouli and Yasmine are the two main players here, but there is a little bit more to it than just that: Dry Citrus on top (smells like Orange to me, but it seems to be Bergamotte) that stays throughout the whole life span of the fragrance and some tame Smoke in the background that only joins in later. Personally, I would have enjoyed the Incense to be more pronounced even though that most likely would have made the scent less mass appealing overall. The performance sadly also isn't the best, I would call it mostly average. While it does linger as a skin scent for quite some time, it does not push out much after the first hour or so, which is a shame because as previously mentioned the fragrance really is special and deserves to be smelled by the people around you, especially with such a price tag! Then again, a gentleman scent is not supposed to do that, so I can see why it is not as strong as I would like it to be.

l love Bvlgari's private line the most out of all designer houses and most niche ones. Gyan was my first entry to the line, and boy, this stuff is an actual masterpiece. The scent is fantastically pachouli forward, but it's not the dark, chocolaty, or overly camphorus type...it's very sweet. That sweet earthiness of the pachouli intertwines with the light florals in a way that makes this scent almost perfect for year-round wear. The incense does add darkness (and balance), but it kind of hangs out in the background for the majority of Gyan's lifespan. Personally, I find it very masculine since it is a pachouli-forward fragrance. This stuff does project, so keep the sprays light (maybe 2-4ish?) if you wear it to the office or else you'll flood the conference room with your scent. For me, I like wearing it at night, specifically on date nights, because the incense note and light florals make it feel somewhat romantic, and women love it on me. I always get comments and complements by random people in my elevator, at a restaurant while waiting to be seated, or by my Uber drivers and I usually just tell them "it's a pachouli scent by Bull-Gary"...that's all they need to know. 9.6/10