Cereus No.7

finally got a decent enough sample to wear it a couple of times generously, i find it to be a very nice scent , not what i would call earth shattering , but pleasant enough that i wish i had more of it, difficult to find..if i could only get a good buy on it i would purchase a bottle. from lucky scent at 125.00 cannot pull the trigger just yet, however i really do enjoy this fragrance and it seems more and more as it develops, unique enough. it seems to be a citrus but with a muskier afterglow..i get the tonka bean, definitely to me more like a a riverside drive type after development..although prefer riverside drive. i do really like this one though and it is growing on me.i could see myself purchasing if i could find a "deal" on it..i will keep looking..i have some green irish tweed and i don't quite get that comparison or cool water..it seems so different to me but maybe it is just my nose on it. i wish perfumed court had it so i could investigate it more....good fragrance though and worth a sniff..! I sort of get a little green irish tweed in the beginning ..one very nice fragrance to try out..i think it would grow on others as it did me..

This one is growing on me. I am really starting to love it. I can actually separately detect all the notes in this one. The others in this line are ok but I am actually starting to love this one especially.

At the current market price this is a no brainer. Tonka+Violet+Orgages+ slight hint of leather makes for a great fragrance. This sort feels like a sweeter GIT in the opening hour or so, it then becomes more dense and is joined by a slight hint of leather giving it something kin to GIT but much sweeter and a bit dirtier/animialistic of sorts. This is also a bit on the synthetic side but I like it a lot. I get decent longevity about 6 hours, good projection for the first 4 hours and the aroma is quite versatile. I paid like $25 shipped for this and there aren't many fragrances out there at this price that can compete. This would be a perfect signature scent in my opinion.

I bought this off someone on another forum as a blind buy. This was a leap of faith for me considering a lot of people compared the opening and a bit of the mid to Cool Water/Green Irish Tweed. I'm a huge fan of Green Irish Tweed and I was going to purchase it, however, I ignored my own advice of, "get what you actually want, not what's just like it". Well, with this one, it paid off. The opening is familiar, it's a fresh green scent that's reminiscent of Green Irish Tweed. However, we get to the base where things take a slightly different turn. While Green Irish Tweed relatively sweet, mossy, and green, Cereus #7 has a somewhat synthetic leather note with some transparent musky woods that adds into the mix. It's almost as if it's an "updated" Green Irish Tweed that's slightly less natural smelling and about a notch more transparent. It sort of gives it an interesting edge where synthetic notes are done right. So, this is my current "go to" signature fragrance from this point on. It just works anywhere and any time. However, for the price I got for this bottle in the classifieds, it was worth it. Is it worth it at the $125 plus tax from your local niche retailer? Not really. Especially if you're looking for a Green Irish Tweed replacement. You might as well dish out the extra money for the originator. However, it does a solid job of refreshing a 2 1/2 decade old composition. If I had to buy either one at the same price for the same amount of juice, I'd still choose Green Irish Tweed due to the fact that it provides a slightly thicker cloud of scent around you.

I so badly wanted to like this, but there's something about it that smells like body spray on my skin. Athletic body spray. The most luxurious athletic body spray ever, but body spray nonetheless. It's probably the synthetic cedar and musk combined with the fresh citrus that does this. My skin amplifies the parts of cedar that smells synthetic, I've found, and strong citrus notes never really excite me (although I love the photorealistic lemon note in Voyage d'Hermes).