Trajan

For a parfum at 25% on the box this is airy and light on my skin. It Lasts for a long time but sits closer to me. This might be a lot stronger then I can perceive because of the ambergris so I won't make a final judgement as I just recently got a bottle but have had time with 10ml of decants. I can smell it the entire time (8-10hrs) as opposed to BR540 and it has no downsides. BR can smell like burnt plastic, super salty, latex and so on, and this doesn't at all. For a guy I can pull this off 100% and BR sometimes makes me fell like it leans a bit fem. Definitely has that creamy vanilla lemon pie thing in the dry down people talk about. I will use this for layering as well as it blends so well with other scents do to its light airiness. Overall if you want the BR540 DNA with high quality ingredients at a cheaper price and none of weird downsides get this. Just bought a bottle at discounters for $118 usd and its a steal. Between a like and love at the moment. Edit: This may not be beast mode but its lasts forever as a true parfum should and sends out wafts every now and then and just elevates the scent profile of BR540. I definetly recommend getting your nose on this. Banger. Edit 2: This lasts ages. I can confirm that even thought it seems to be a light wear the ambergris makes you go semi nose blind. People can pick this up in hours 7-10 and love how its smells and Ive thought its just a skin scent. More than a few times Ive over sprayed this and wake up the next day smelling it again as my nose has reset thinking it was totally gone before I went to bed. So, I guess I can confirm after about 8 hours or so I get fatigued, but it's an amazing 8 hours. The more I wear this the more I like it. BR 540 who?

scored a brand new sealed bottle for $127. Yay! regular BR540 plays a disappearing act, so I didn't want it, although I love the smell. BR540 Extrait was just not a love for me. too heavy! It wasn't sweet and airy like the original. Managed to sell it and bought this instead with $200 to spare! This is BEAUTIFUL. It's airy, like original BR540, but smoother, lighter and just far more wearable. It also does not disappear, yet it is longer lasting with great sillage. It has blood orange which makes it different, so yes, I'll be smelling similar to half of Boston, but I'll be smelling just that much better! I also plan to layer it with many of my fragrances, as I did with the BR54 Extrait that I owned. I find that it would work well all seasons, so very versatile. Update: first day wearing this fragrance outside, and at the very end of my work day, literally a half hour left of my 8 hour day, and I got a lengthy compliment from a co worker. This fragrance was still projecting cause I wasn't very close to her. She demanded to know the name of my perfume. I showed her this but also showed her BR540 which she took a screen shot of since it's readily available in stores.

This one really suprised me. I don’t think I will say anything that hasn’t already been said, but this is the only version inspired by BR that could stand toe to toe with it. Many of the other fragrances suggest BR540 but are either too musky, too cloying, too cheap smelling etc. Trajan smells high end, complex, and it lasts. It is a touch brighter making it year round - unlike BR540, which can be too much in the summer. It is also sweeter but in an elevated and not at all an immature way. There is a lemony facet that starts fresh and turns caramelized in the drydown. Someone compared it to Lira and I agree. A nice close wearing hint of the caramelized citrus in Lira combined with the over all feeling and weight of BR540 - minus the latex note. I own 540 and 540 Extrait. That said, nothing compares to BR540 Extrait, it is glorious perfection but it is expensive for daily wear. I have found my replacement for 540 though and will not buy a new bottle when it runs out. Trajan is better and you get many more MLs for the money. 🍋 What’s not to love.

Thank you, Fragranticians! When I first sprayed my sample, Trajan was so instantly familiar, but confoundingly elusive to name! Absolutely BR540 is that elusive and familiar scent! That is, after BR540 puts its sledgehammer away (not a big fan of the omnipresent BR540.) Trajan, at outset, is softer and more rounded with subtlely sweet citruses. As it settles, it blooms and seems to float above the skin. Lavender, saffron and sage blend to form a scent cloud around you. Dry down is warm. Cedar lends slight woodsiness. Oakmoss grounds the entire composition. During far dry down, I could barely detect warm traces of Trajan up close on my skin. But, light breezes on this warm and sunny Indian Summer day, carried whiffs of it in the air surrounding me (others noticed with quite a few compliments.)

This does have similarities to BR540 yet to me it has a more prominent citrus vibe which I love. It also has a less harsh opening than BR540 edp (extrait opening is phenomenal). This is well worth the 210usd retail price tag for a 100ml of pure perfume extrait juice. I’m somewhat of a collector but if I just wanted to smell good I would buy this over BR540 as you get more for your money and it has this somewhat vanilla-ish undertone which I adore. Edit: I originally said this was better than BR540 extrait on price alone...my update is I prefer the composition better as well. The dry down is a creamy gourmand leaning beauty. Anyways, had to add these thoughts as well.