Harlem Nights

YSL M7/Red Tobacco by Mancera crossover. Yes, really! Harlem Nights (HN) is my favorite release by Chris Collins. It starts with a warm, spicy sweetness. Similar to Red Tobacco (RT). Sweeter than RT, with a tonka beans-like sweet woodiness. HN is also less spicy and rounder (as opposed to sharp). This warm, round, sweet spiciness is quite charming! As it dries down, the lightly-woody sweetness turns ambery (rummy), and the spiciness starts to dial down. Here the scent becomes more like YSL's legendary M7 and less like RT: sweet, deep ambery scent with light spiciness and hints of patchouli. Warm, spicy, lightly-sweet, ambery, rummy, charming. It really is a beautiful scent that manages to melt 2 iconic scents into 1! However, and this is a big "but", I've tried many releases from Chris Collins, and as I said in my review of Citrus Grandis, the releases suffer from a few things: 1. The performance is weak. Skin scent after 1 hour. Lasts ~4-6 hours. 2. While HN is one of the most creative scents from the house, the majority of their scents are still not quite the unique/niche scents for their asking price. This brings us to... 3. The price is too high. $175 for 50ml is more expensive per ml than getting either Red Tobacco, its brother PdM Carlisle, or YSL M7. In fact, I bet you can get a bottle of M7 and another of RT for that price from discounters/eBay. I love this scent but do not see myself as a cautious spender shelling that amount for that volume with that performance. Hopefully, if it hits the discounters. A beautiful, warm, and inviting masculine scent. Suitable more for the cool seasons. "Love"

Discovery sets are $15 for all 7 scents including shipping. The bad thing is the vials are terrible. 3 out of 6 that I have tried are not worthy of a company that sells bottles at almost $5 per ml. This and Danse Sauvage are my faves so far as I have yet to try Oud Galore.My vial did not spray,more of a slow dribble like a newborn. The scent is nothing short of spectacular. Booze,spices,woods with an underlying sweetness that lasts about 6 hours. It screams November- March as the perfect seasons to wear this. Most likely it will lasts longer if your vial actually sprayed. His team should have figured this out before launching or maybe this is the reason the samples are so cheap?

This is so sexy. This is what I imagine the Savoy Ballroom smelled like during the Harlem Renaissance, with Count Basie performing, and all the literary and cultural giants of that time "letting their hair down." It's a boozy, alluring, sensual powdery musk. "Harlem is vicious modernism. Bang clash. Vicious the way it's made. Can you stand such Beauty? So violent and transforming" - Amiri Baraka "Return of the Native"

Sweet, spicy, slightly earthy and musky with a warm, creamy, and very boozy finish😊! When to wear: Nighttime/All Seasons Who Should Wear: Unisex Sillage: Moderate Longevity: 8+ hours for me Top Notes: Rum, Clove, Nutmeg Heart Notes: Jasmine, Orris, Patchouli Base Notes: Sandalwood, Amber, Musk

the top notes are saffron and nutmeg with a boozy quality that morphs into a tobacco vibe with lots of vanilla, sandalwood, patchouli, cedar and musk but it maintains the saffron, nutmeg, booze and tobacco throughout the fragrance