Faconnable Pour Homme

Banger! This is a modernized take on an old-school ,classic fougere-style type of profile. The lavender here is a lot similar to the lavender in Le Male minus the vanilla. Has similarities to the OG Faconnable, but in a more approachable way considering today's "standards". This has a luxurious and very classy vibe to it. It's what i call "fresh-warm", meaning you get the light aroma when you sniff but you can feel there's some "weight" backing it. Thus, in my mind i see this being worn in a elegant event during the spring and summer days or nights, where you gotta dress up a little bit to match this scent...wouldn't wear this with a t-shirt and sneakers. Performance is very decent, i get 9 hours with this one during the summer but take it easy on the sprays, it can get cloying. For the price, you can do a lot worse and honestly, it surprised me when i first smelled this one.

A fragrance that retains that pre-aquatic early 90s freshness. Mint, citrus, yes, but derives some richness from the woody, mossy base. It is certainly floral too, in fact, it reminds me very much of an upscale Vicky Teil Ulysse. Faconnable is very smooth, no rough edges at all. Mature and a from another era of perfumery, it is nonetheless extremely classy and wearable. I enjoy it because it is a great masculine fresh scent that doesn’t rely on ambrox, amberwood, or calone to get the message across. In this way it comes across to me as higher quality and more interesting than so many modern fragrances trying to freshen us dudes up. Great value, great presentation too.

I believe this is the same as L'Original Façonnable. I own a flacon of this one and had a bottle of the L'Original a couple of months ago. From memory I judge that if there are differences between the two they are minute. The old school looking bottle of this edt tends to cost three times more than the repackaged version, so if one is not a hardcore fan/ collector I'd recommend buying L'Original. I menaged to buy this 'traditional' version for couple of bucks and I think this bottle goes great with what's inside.

An absolutely lovely fresh masculine fragrance, reminiscent of (and very close to) a fougére. The mint and the rosemary make everything seem even softer and soapier than most classic barbershop fragrances, and the impression this gives is of a kind of masculine gentleness. This is as easy on the wallet as it is on the nose, and it calls back to the great era of masculine fragrances in the 1990s. And I love the old-fashioned bottle and nameplate. This is hard to beat for the price.

Opens like a classic fougere barbershop scent. Strong lavender, citrus, and juniper. Later the sandalwood and nutmeg becomes more noticeable. Thankfully the oak moss is very subdued. A high quality scent for grown men with an unbeatable price.