Rausch

I can smell a FRUIT (citrus? pineapple?). Rausch smells like a smoky candied fruit. This fruit is not listed, but it reminds me of Black XS (not kidding) and Oud Immortel Byredo. The sandalwood is there, but it's hidden by the other notes. After a shower, you will be left with some ambroxan on your skin. The worst part happens if you go to bed without showering. In the morning, the remaining skin scent is identical to dried saliva of a smoker. But on clothes, the dry down is divine. The opening is gorgeous. This is not a sillage monster. My colleagues didn't smell my 4 sprays, they had to come close. They said the Jubilation I wore the day before (also 4 sprays) was much more potent. EDIT: This stuff has incredible longevity. I did not shower. 16 hours after application, I sprayed some Déclaration d'un Soir before going to bed. This actually made Rausch reappear and projecting, and it is the only thing I could smell. So, as I said above, Rausch is not a projection monster but YOU will smell it all day long. Perhaps too special to be a signature, but too good so I will always have a bottle of it.

I am wearing my sample of Rausch this evening....very nice, elegant, full-flavored, oudy but not overly oudy, oud fragrance that, in my opinion, works for both the guys and gals. In some respects it's a typical oud-vanilla-amber fragrance, but Rausch has a couple ingredients that make this scent very interesting such as cypriol oil and some kind of fruity notes. Sometimes I detect a strawberry which makes it lean slightly more feminine; sometimes pineapple which makes it lean slightly more masculine; and sometimes a strawapple just to make things ever more interesting. Although Rausch has only been on my skin for about an hour, I can tell that it's going to have solid above-average performance. But the folks at Schwarzlose crafted a Western oud fragrance that doesn't get out-of-control or wreak havoc. Moreover, I'm picking-up an ISO-E-Super accord that just seems to work with this creation, which I am enjoying very much at this point in my experience.

I feel like this perfume does what everyone says Musc Ravageur does. It smells like skin + sex. It drives me nuts that people just repeat the ad copy when they go on about Musc Ravageur. So it's accepted as the perfume that smells like sex just because everyone reads the ad copy. The best thing I ever read about it, someone said something along the lines of "it smells like a Cinnabon got dragged across sweaty balls." Which I thought was funnyy as hell but I never got that skin sweat sex smell from it myself. Anyway, I never "got" that perfume, it just smells to me like a basic &itch of an amber. When I smelled Rausch, my reaction was: Ah, THAT'S what they were trying to do with Musc Ravageur. It helped me appreciate that perfume, but this is one I actually crave to smell, though I feel like it's a little scandalous to douse yourself in and then go out in public.

To my nose, this is sex in a bottle. And not the kind of sex you'd have after a night out, just for the sake of sex, but the kind of sex you have with someone you have incredible chemistry with. Someone you've been longing for, for a while. It's dirty, it's sweet, it's musky. It's manly. Or is it feminine? That's the thing: Not everyone can pull this one off. It's the kind of scent that will choose you, and not the other way round. I never buy a perfume at first sniff, but that's how long it took me before I had to make this scent my signature perfume. I felt as though I just had no other choice. This is also not the kind of perfume you want to smell on a strip of paper - it needs to be on your skin. If you're right for it, it'll let you know.

Veronique Nyberg whiffed on the naming of this bottle. Instead, this fragrance should be called, "You can't go a day without me."....I find this oriental to be spirit lifting, sensual, and relaxing. It didn't take long for me to realize that this was in the territory of Big Boy sillage. The combination of patchouli, amber and vanilla never smelled better. The aroma of vanilla bean paste glazed over cooked wood is more than enough reason to crack the head of the piggy bank. The Scentstory comparisons are true but it isn't the same back up when the real fragrance is in front of you. BLIND BUY WORTHY