Followed

Followed by Kerosene — it really followed me, and my friends, for days. I was visiting my friend Oleg, a fellow fraghead. While getting ready to go out for the night, I grabbed a random bottle in the dark — it smelled like coffee, I liked it, so I went for 5 or 6 sprays... A few minutes later, my friends returned to the apartment. I was still in the next room, several meters away, but the questions started immediately: "What is that smell?" I told them I’d just put on some perfume. My friend asked, "Which one exactly??" I pointed to Followed. He just said, "That was a mistake..." We went out, and one of our female friends started choking, saying she felt like she was going to throw up. Then we got into a taxi. I was in the front seat, and at some point, the driver started sighing heavily before rolling down his window entirely. It was winter, -12°C outside!!! I truly hope he survived. Later at a restaurant, another friend joined us and asked what smelled so delicious (he’s a huge coffee lover, so he actually enjoyed it). We ended the night at a bar. I found out later that every time I walked past people in the bar, they’d ask, "What’s that burnt smell?" (it was me and Followed). The craziest part? One of the bartenders worked at both the restaurant and the bar. He told my friend that the exact same smell lingered in both establishments for days after I had been there. Overall, I highly recommend it. People will remember you forever and most likely hate you. Personally, I love it. In my opinion, this is the level of longevity and projection every perfume should strive for.

(edited and revised review after multiple wears) The reviews are heavily exaggerating about how strong this is. After two sprays, it has a very good sillage and lasts long on skin and clothes- however, it does NOT make the whole house smell like the fragrance. You only need 1–2 sprays. Any more than 2 and you will leave a much stronger trail and fill the room. The name is true though, you will be followed... People will be wondering where the pancakes are. When I wore this out for the first time, I heard 2 guys talking about how something smells like syrup. By that point, I had walked about 15ft away, so it definitely leaves a nice trail. Then I went to the poker club, all the guys at the table were talking about how it smells like pancakes and maple syrup, they were wondering if the place had a breakfast menu! I smell coffee first thing, then the coffee mostly disappears after a while and i basically only get pancakes with maple syrup. The drydown slightly smells like chocolate. It does have a slight synthetic/plastic scent (it isn’t unpleasant) in the first 1-2 hours after spraying, but only on the skin, and only if you touch your nose right up to the area it was sprayed. Also, I don't see an issue with this smelling like fenugreek. Fenugreek just smells like maple syrup... It doesn't smell like curry or celery at all either, even when over sprayed. I sprayed myself 3x (which is definitely over spraying for this fragrance) and I went around asking people if they smell curry or celery. Nobody did.

Okay, simply put, the hype is real. I picked this up yesterday at Scent Bar NYC. Big shout out to the gang there....They are amazing!!! If you are ever in New York make sure you stop in and see them...Now on to the fragrance: I personally love the scent profile.... It is definitely very coffee forward in the opening and then dries down to a really beautiful coffee/pancake & maple syrup scent that is SO realistic... The blending of this fragrance is pure magic for the realism... Truly incredible. Of course everyone wants to know about the reputation in terms of the legendary performance... This stuff is absolutely bonkers!!!! I sprayed ONE tiny spray on the inside of my wrist yesterday early afternoon. I decided to test the resilience of this so I washed my wrist ten times with scented soap and had a shower last night as well as one this morning and I can tell you, Followed hasn't budged... It is still there!!! And not some faint skin smell. It is still there the way "normal" fragrances would be within ten minutes of applying them... This stuff is truly insane... I am very curious to know what ingredient John Pegg uses to get this longevity out of a fragrance.... This is ABSOLUTELY not blind buy territory... I can't imagine how long this would last on clothing and I'm not going to find out.. at any rate, just my take on this beast.... In the meantime, be good to each other and keep smelling great!!!

I had been wanting to try this for so long because I heard it was absolutely nuclear, and I had to see for myself. I could smell it slightly through the packaging, but nothing too crazy (I sprayed it outside and only once on my wrist just to be safe). I immediately loved the smell- sharp, fresh coffee grounds with a hint of maple syrup. The smell does follow- my boyfriend said he could smell it while we were walking back to my apartment- but it's so pleasant. It's been a few hours and I've showered, but I can still smell it on my wrist. Now, the coffee is gone, and it's just delicious maple syrup. I completely understand how more than one or two sprays would be super strong, and I get that this one isn't for everybody, but I'm so glad it works well on my skin (knock on wood) because I love it. The smell lasts while not being intense, so I don't have a headache. I'll definitely be buying a full bottle in the future, and I hope it smells as good then as it does now. My sample of Bianco Latte was in the same order and I sprayed that on my other arm, so I just smelled like a delicious vanilla coffee/french toast with syrup combo for the rest of the day (definitely going to have to layer those two in the future). 5/5

After reading all the reviews and speculations, i felt the need to try it at least once in my life. Im just wearing it for 10 minutes but boy i must say, this is already so good!! Its not the really dark coffee scent i expected but more a sweeter mocha type of coffee and i really enjoy it. Hope the drydown will smell like pancakes as some wearers experience and if so, it might be full bottle worthy. As for projection i think its really good but don’t know if it is as strong as some people say it is, must wait before drawing a conclusion. Update: I really like it, but after 6 hours it somehow reminded me of the soy sauce some people were concluding but not to an extent and people around me weren't complaining. Strangely enough one day later I smell the lovely mocha/coffee again. Longevity is really good, I applied it yesterday at 9:00, today I visited a friend at around 16:00 and she said I smellt like coffee (I even took a shower in the morning too). For projection idk: it does project good in the sense people around u will definitely smell u, but I don't think it does linger in a room u just were. It only did in my room where I applied it. I think im tempted to go for a FB!

beautiful scent, even more beautiful performance. went to the luckyscent bar in nyc and one of the first questions i asked was if i was allowed to spray the bottle, they said no. later on in my visit i convinced them to give me a sample, the only catch? i had to go outside and spray the bottle myself into the decant. it dripped all over my fingers, all over the floor, within seconds, everyone on the street was coming up to me asking what “that smell” was. later on, about 6 hours later, and since it’s been on my fingers, i’ve received more compliments than i’ve ever received with any fragrance, 11 if im recalling correctly. the final nail in the coffin for me was when i dropped off my friend, who came with me to luckyscent, back at his house, within minutes he was texting me, everyone in his family was asking “why do you smell like coffee?” “why do you smell like pancakes?” i don’t know what they put in this bottle, but whatever it is it isn’t from this planet. brilliant, spectacular, raid boss of all compliment getters, do NOT overspray this, im an oversprayer (LOVE overspraying), do NOT overspray this.

This is the coffee scent I was looking for! What I was looking for is the scent of my morning coffee ritual at home: pulling a shot with a manual espresso machine, frothing a mix of milk and oat milk using a handheld wand, and gently caramelizing it over an IH stove. Kerosene Followed captures this process so perfectly — the dark roast espresso, the creamy steamed milk, the subtle sweetness of oat milk just starting to caramelize from the heat. It smells like my kitchen at 7 a.m. The longevity is impressively good — not as insane as some people on YouTube or Reddit suggest. After a shower, I could still catch faint traces on my skin: a warm blend of caramel, amber, and a touch of salty sweetness. Not really just maple syrup sweet. Updates: It also has a faint scent reminiscent of Chinese medicine in the far dry-down. People with a good nose may catch it — it hides behind the more noticeable caramel note (will be gone after 12h+), but it’s definitely there. This nuance becomes more apparent after the perfume has sat in the cabinet for a while. I actually like this hidden facet too.

Ok when I saw the reviews i was skeptical on its insaneness ngl so i bought a tester for my own curiosity. I WAS PROVEN SO WRONG OMG!! This damn perfume had my entire house filled with maple syrup goodness and when I was suprise called into work it was the same deal. People were coming in and saying it smelt like french toast and I have never in my days had a perfume hold its smell this long. Now onto the actual scent. The inital smell of freshly brewed coffee was delicious however faded fairly quickly into that maple syrup, breakfasty scent its known for. Now a lot of people mentioned a curry scent which honestly, I haven't smelt myself with this perfume so it may vary from person to person. I will say that this is a VERY potent perfume. If you are testing and ESPECIALLY using it, dont even use a full spray. I recommend spritzing just a drop of it onto your wrist and dab it onto wherever else you normally place your perfume. Overall a 10/10 for me, i will be using this and pairing it with the bath and body works blueberry sugar pancakes line for the ultimate breakfast scent lol

soo YUMMY. Chocolate, Coffee, Caramel, with Amber sweet notes. I smell this almost maple stroopwafle like note but more caramel, and then its a chocolatey coffee. Delicious. This is an amazing scent! AMAZING!!! ❤️ *edit: Huge successful blind buy, so much that I bought a second bottle. It does have a coffee note that lasts through the wear, and I am here for it. It is very well done. I get hours and hours and hours wearing. Even at 14 hrs I can still smell it on my skin and it is yummy. Must try if you like the notes. I can't stop smelling myself when wearing. *2nd edit: I believe the bottle (which isn't leaking that I can see) is giving off this gourmand, ambery caramelized almost maple syrup scent that sort of permeates the air filling the room. But its not the full scent, it is like an amalgam of notes and base notes dried down but resinating through the space wherever the bottle sits. I moved it to a cupboard, in a room. The room still smells of the scent faintly and the cupboard is flooded with the scent. STRONG POTENT!

On my skin, with my body chemistry, this beast smells like real Italian tiramisu from Veneto region and only tiramisu i can smell... from the time I spray until 15 hours later. My family told me that and at work everyone was saying that I smell like tiramisu. I did not smell any maple syrup, pancakes and caramel.... In my humble opinion: proceed with caution and spray one spray only from far away....It has a performance of Russian ballistic missile "Satan II"..... not safe for blind buy, not for office and not safe in hot weather. It will be amazing for the winter and fall date night and after...LOL but only if your partner loves chocolate and coffee.. Update: I got very tired of the smell, it lingers for so long on the skin and forever on clothes. I did receive complement for it but I just cannot bare the scent anymore..... I sold it to my coworker who is from Lebanon and she absolutely in love with it

This "Perfume followed by Kerosene" is seriously amazing! It has so many strengths and only a few weaknesses. One downside is that the wearer gets nose blind to it pretty easily, but people around you can still clearly smell the fragrance coming from your body. Here are some of my crazy, mind-blowing experiences with it: The first time I bought it, I unboxed it downstairs in my apartment building. I sprayed just once on my neck and immediately went to the gym for 1.5 hours and worked up a sweat. When I got back to my room, my wife suddenly said she could smell a really strong coffee scent coming from my body — it even filled up the whole room. Second experience: A friend came over to my house. I sprayed twice on my neck and hands. He rode his motorcycle home, took a shower... after that his mom asked him, “Why does the house suddenly smell like coffee?” Amazingggg — Kerosene followed 🔥

At one spray, I get an above-average strength coffee cake scent. My friend gets tiramisu. I love it, but it's much classier than I've been led to believe. I wanted to unlock the ultimate maple power. ): I wanted DEFCON 1 pancake. (I'm still going to buy a full bottle lol, it's at least DEFCON 3 coffee shop pastry.) edit: I bought a full bottle. I have never gotten perfume compliments/comments from strangers before, but now... Women stop me in the streets. Men complain about maple syrup. Some people wonder where that cinnamon smell is coming from. I am a god. Of pancakes. edit 2: People recognize me from my breakfast aura. I can't smell it as much myself anymore at 2 sprays. I know I have to reign in my power least I need more, but inflicting pancakes on others is absolutely intoxicating... Spring is coming... The nuclear gourmand winter will come to a close...

When it arrived in the mail, I couldn't smell it through the box, like so many other reviews had said. So I thought, “oh, they must be exaggerating,” and put it to the side and continued with my day. When I woke up the next morning, my entire house smelled of maple syrup. Entire house. Through closed doors. Thought the vial must have broken or spilled inside the package. It hadn't. I took it outside and put a small spritz on one wrist, and then smelt of black coffee and maple syrup pancakes for the next four days straight. It's deranged. I think the best way to wear this is to apply it about three days before you plan to go out, and then spend those three days on a mountaintop, ice floe, or nuclear reactor vault, somewhere where you won’t bother your entire postcode with it. This substance is chemical warfare, but, like, a really tasty one. Fucking love it.

It’s hilarious because the entire time I had this I was wondering who in GOD’S NAME would want a fragrance so powerful you have to throw *everything* you’ve worn during the application in the washer before you may even try to switch up the scent without that ever-penetrating eternal coffee-curry note slipping through and stealing the limelight— AGAIN. Now I know. It’s for times you are fully embalmed in fifty almost-combusting layers of stress and need an olfactory hug, like a huge imaginary plushie sticking onto you and keeping your depressed ass going by the sheer amount of warmth, comfort and sense of familiarity it provides wherever you go. I had a sample for quite a while now and only ever caught myself gravitating towards it when uni was absolutely wrecking my ass. Instant gratification that won’t ever let you go. 10/10

I bought this thinking that maybe you all were exaggerating? You were not. The scent itself is beautiful to me. The coffee note at the beginning was lovely but very fleeting, and it dries down to a maple that reminds me more of maple sugar candy than pancakes. The one downside is that one small spray does genuinely give you a syrup aura that extends maybe like 15 or 20 feet in every direction for like, two days. Someone at Kerosene did some kind of wicked, arcane sillage spell on this perfume that gives you the power, "Makes rooms smell like breakfast." It's honestly kind of spooky. I know of no other perfume that does this. I do kind of adore it, unfortunately, but I do recognize that this is "being alone" perfume unless everyone I'm going to be around is a syrup freak like me <3

I recently received followed from the House of Kerosene, and I must express my admiration for the exquisite nature of this fragrance. The scent was perceptible even through the packaging, evoking a sense of nostalgia akin to the aroma of freshly made waffles on a school morning, accompanied by butter and a captivating maple syrup. Upon my initial application, the fragrance presented a somewhat synthetic quality, reminiscent of Tom Ford's Vanilla Tobacco. However, once it settled on my skin, it transformed into one of the most refined perfumes I have ever encountered. Therefore, if you are in search of a delightful fragrance suitable for the fall and winter seasons, featuring notes of waffles, syrup, caramel, and espresso, this would undoubtedly be the ideal choice for you.

By far my favourite coffee fragrance! Smells just like a packet of sweetened Nescafe instant coffee with some added creaminess. Has very distinct caramel as well as a hint of chocolate. I’ve also smelled Kerosene’s Follow which is a nice coffee fragrance but is much less sweet and has worse projection and longevity. If you prefer something that smells more like plain coffee grounds rather than a sweetened coffee mix, then Follow would be better for you! Followed has strong sillage and all day. In terms of perfumes listed as similar— ❌ Al Rehab French Coffee: less sweet and creamy ❌ Kerosene Unknown Pleasures: a citrus tea scent ❌ Mancera Amore Caffè: has less coffee and more brown sugar and ice cream

Believe the hype! This stuff is insane.. I had one spray on the back of my hand which was 12 hrs old and then I also had just put on 8 sprays of Layton Exclusif before going to the gym. I got comments that I smelt like maple syrup. That one old spray dominated all the fresh Layton easily. Opening is strong coffee but after two or three hours it's transitions to a sweet maple syrup, very reminiscent of Maccas pancakes. Nothing I've ever seen comes close to the power of this baby.. It's very likeable too, not something I could wear every day but if you don't mind some gourmand every now and then this won't disappoint.. A 10ml decant is plenty, I couldn't imagine using a 100ml bottle in a lifetime..

“Oh no, I smell like a nuclear bomb of delicious breakfast exploded on me!” Cowards. Weaklings. Only the bold—nay, the *brave*—can appreciate Followed. Sure, it smells like maple syrup... If you’re a lightweight who runs at the first whiff of deliciousness coming from whatever this is wrapped in, because in actuality the coffee note is much stronger. Will I wear it out? Maybe. Probably not. But who cares! I smell like coffee, caramel and chocolate, and I’m supposed to be upset about it? Should I also avoid animals that are too cute, or blankets that are too soft? Never. I am one of the strong ones. I am Followed.

I love this. I got a tester vial and it arrived in the mail while I was sick and couldn't smell anything, which bummed me out. Until I opened it and I realized I could smell it. First thing I had smelt in days. Very syrupy to me. I don't smell the coffee or spicy or anything else yet. I work with animals and animal feed indoors so its hard to find a scent that can rise above that. This is it! I've only had one person comment on it so far, but I can smell it all day and it brings me joy. Animals don't seem bothered, including my cat who is more discerning than me.