Micro Love

“Calone bomb” - Sarah McCartney This does smell like a typical 2016 designer cologne... BUT! This is the best interpretation of the ‘Invictus molecule’ (calone/ambroxan/something else?) that I’ve tried. I find most designer versions (Invictus Aqua, Legend Spirit, Azzaro Wanted, etc.) irritating/cloying, thus completely unwearable. I get good projection for 3 hours and it’s noticeable for 2 more. Although this is an excellent scent with good performance, £130 for 78ml of a scent like this is a joke. Guess I’ll just cross my fingers for a better unoriginal designer interpretation in the coming years. EDIT: Found it. I Am Dance by Roads

In my subjective opinion: This is hugely misunderstood and labeling this as any generic male slop is a simplification. This is an aquatic, airy, sweet and optimistic perfume of the highest quality and good balance, and manages to create exactly the kind of carefree joy one could experience in a concert or music festival: living in the moment, feeling the music inside and out, and falling in something that seems like a small, micro if you will, dose of love. This is to 90’s male designer aquatics what TF Neroli Portofino is to any of the countless Spanish or Italian drugstore citrus-neroli colonias. It is up to the wearer to smell and feel the difference of those in terms of quality, wearing experience and extraolfactory features (brand, feeling, storytelling etc.). If there is none to be found, consider yourself lucky; the 10€ colonia is then enough. And “enough” is something the luxury world wishes we will never have, as that would keep us from raising the bar to feel contentment with each new purchase.

I know pepper isn't listed but to me it smells like a spicy very peppery twist on a early 2000s freshie. It reminds me slightly of Envy for men by Gucci but much more warm and almost savory rather than sweet. I'll definitely enjoy using the smaller 7.8ml bottle but I can't justify spending that amount for the full bottle on this fragrance. It would have been groundbreaking maybe 25 years ago but I dare say it is a little generic today. Pleasant, just not worth £170 in my opinion. As much as I do really love this brand and seem to find myself collecting their every fragrance, they are ridiculously overpriced. I scoffed at the musical inspiration to begin with but do find myself being pulled in by it somewhat. To me this is the least reminiscent of it's inspiration compared to their other fragrances which you understand what they were inspired by and how the fragrances reflected the inspiration. For me this doesn't invoke or remind me of the early 90s, U2, or any type of concert.

If Micro from the name stands for how boring and wimpy Micro Love is, then I get... The scent doesn’t smell bad, but it’s a very basic, typical cologne, leaning masculine; a scent made to wear for spring and summer, with powdery, floral, sweet, soft spicy nuances built around a strong ozonic DNA. I don’t dislike Micro Love as a woman, because has a quite accentuated fruity sweetness which I always like in fragrances, but it’s one of the few from the entire discovery set that I wouldn’t personally consider buying. It’s just too boring, too light and too expensive for my liking. Out of the shower, subdued and ethereal, clean girl aesthetic vibes...Not my vibe! In all fairness, ozonic, airy, violet forward fragrances are not what I like in perfumery, so I might be biased against Micro Love with this review... As always, try before purchasing, especially an expensive fragrance, we all like different things when it comes to perfumes!

Very very ozonic fresh with a sweet bit of apple and sage that reminds me a bit of like a CC Rock Rose before the cedar note predominantly takes over, for some reason the cedar note smells very very fresh and not just like pencil shavings almost like sandalwood, the scent overall feels a bit basic af but it really isn’t bad or nothing I think it’s a bit overhated for that it is, I do think tho that apple overall is just kind of a cheap smelling note most of the time