Rum Bay Rum

This is an amazing and versatile fragrance that’s both unique and mass appealing. The fragrance reminds me of a mamajuana, a drink I had from the Dominican Republic that combines spices and wood in a glass bottle, with rum added as desired. Similarly this fragrance doesn’t have rum accord, but the scents leave a “rum shaped hole” that my mind fills in. The smell starts with a bay leaf, cloves and sandalwood, as the bay leaf goes it is replaced with a warm rose smell that fits in with the sandalwood. This scent is a spicy woody one that can be dressed up or down, lasts on my sweaty summer skin for several hours and projects a few feet out.

Tested this today and I’m a fan. I might disagree with some reviewers, as I do get the bay rum and spices with some sweetness.They’re just blended and balanced well with the other notes, which I expect from this type of perfume house and look for in a wearable unique scent. If I was mostly getting classic bay rum, I wouldn’t appreciate it as much. Give it a shot.

As soon as I tried it, I knew I had to buy it. Smells like coca Cola. Deeper review coming soon

Not the classic-style Bay Rum I was expecting. Instead, it’s coniferous, piney, balsamic, sweet, and cinnamon-spicy. As it dries down, the base somewhat reminds me of a brighter Amber Teutonic—a fitting connection, given it’s from the same perfumer and features the same sappy opopanax note. The name might set up the wrong expectation, but it’s the juice inside that counts—it’s a lovely fragrance on its own terms: spicy, resinous and gently sweet.

Where's the BAY RUM? Not only is it missing rum, as the reviewer before me says, but the scent profile of this simply doesn't manifest as a classic Bay Rum. I have plenty of Bay Rums: Pinaud Clubman, C.O. Bigelow, St. Johns, Geo F. Trumper. A classic Bay Rum scent is a simple composition, where the Rum and Cloves really sing. They are sweet, camphorated or mentholated to some degree, and rummy. This scent has "Sweet" as a listed accord, but I get little sweetness. The listed cloves note simply doesn't manifest beyond the feintest hint. I get a very subdued (EDC concentration?) Woods, juniper, and maybe the Linden Blossom yellow floral. Add rum and amp up the cloves and then we could reevaluate. As it is, very poorly executed.

Smells like the glue that comes out of a glue gun.

Smells like rum & coke that’s been out for too long