Premium II L'Eau de Parfum

Wow loving this fragrance. This is just an initial response. My bottle arrived today. Very refined yet manly. Girlfriend loves it too. She even detects a faint shiso (Japanese herb) note on sniffing the sprayer, though not on my skin. Good price - normal designer price, not stratospheric niche price. Also love that this has 82% natural content. I didn't get any weird physical reactions like a tight chest or a headache, as happens with certain fragrances. This product proves that you don't have to smell like a dirty hippie or accept poor sillage/longevity if you want a non-toxic perfume. Would like to see more companies following this trend. Sustainability in perfumes means more than just not killing musk deer, civet cats and beavers. It also means not killing your own perfume-buying customers. Very pleased with this fragrance. Will update if anything else observed. EDIT: Longevity not great on my skin after 3 hours. Will be interested to see how this performs in the warmer weather, however. Very difficult to see the spray hole on the sprayer button, because it is darker than the usual sprayer. Would be great if this sprayer (and virtually all other sprayers for every perfume company) had some tactile indication of the spray direction, because it's a waste to spray half of the spray into the air and only half onto your skin.

I am constantly baffled why this is called so much "tobacco". I think I have smelt the tobacco leaf powder in a cigarette in the past and I see no resemblance to that whatsoever. Anyway, I bought this as second hand and because the price was very good. After my first spraying on hand and clothes I thought it wasn't a good buy. But a week or two later when I tried it again, I liked it more, even to the extent I enjoyed it. There is an interesting chocolate-kind-of-sweetness in it which is very similar to Patchouli Indonesia by The Merchant of Venice. Both of these have tobacco listed as a note so who knows... For me this is still "tobacco" in quotation marks just like many other such descriptions as notes. This sweetness rather reminds me cardamom from the list of notes, if anything at all. All in all, very interesting AND evolving experience! Edit: the more I try this the more I like it. Having just compared Tom Ford's Black Orchid and this hand by hand, I can say that even though they are different and BO lasts longer, they are equally interesting and quality scents to explore. I kind of feel like the difference between these two is similar as in computer graphics where it is possible to swap colours of a picture, eg RGB -> BRG. Most interesting comparison to me so far.

I LOVE this fragrance SO MUCH! The smell is AMAZING.. It starts with a distinctive Cardamom & Slightly Sweet Tobacco, then as it dries down to a LOVELY sweet powdery tobacco and vanilla sweetness, it reminds me of the start of la nuit de l'homme, a light version of Herod by Parfums de Marly & Midnight In Paris EDP in the drydown. ***BUT**** I don't know if I got a bad bottle or something but the fragrance DOES NOT project AT ALL! The entire duration of this scent (around an hour) performs as a skin scent.. I mean this is worse than D&G the One EDT.. like seriously.. It's like they spilled out 90% of the bottle and replaced it with water...I am SO disappointed because the smell is truly something I could have had as a signature scent! :/ What's more confusing is the reviews that say it's strong and long lasting.. Do I have to leave my bottle mature? Did I get a bad batch? Who knows... I wish I did.

I'm a female, and I absolutely LOVE wearing this fragrance. I also like smelling it on a man. In my opinion, this is a very deep, sexy, intriguing scent. I purchased this a few years ago in Greece, and I'm so glad that I did. I've not smelled anything similar to this. I have a hard time differentiating the notes, however there is a predominant sweet tobacco note throughout the whole wear time. I also smell the cardamom (every so SLIGHTLY spicy) at the initial spray. Also, it's not noted, but I get a vanilla or chocolate vibe in the dry down. This fragrance would be great for Fall/Winter, but also for a Summer night. I also receive compliments when wearing this. However, I do wish the projection was a bit better. If you are a fan of tobacco scents, definitely pick this one up!

Female fan over here! I found this in the women’s fragrance section of TJ Maxx for $6.99. The box was already open so it wasn’t a blind buy. Love at first sniff! I didn’t realize it was labeled for men, and while the notes are traditionally masculine, I don’t find it masculine. I happen to love the smell of tobacco. It’s a sweet, clean unisex tobacco scent. I do detect a bit of vanilla, but it’s very subtle. Dry down is stunning. Sexy stuff! It has a ”Guerlian” feel to me. I’m pretty sure my husband and I will be fighting over it. Edit: I found this online. “ Eau de Parfum. Cardamom / Tobacco / Vetiver / Sandalwood Strongly masculine, woody and yet fresh, it combines the edgy, warm aura of sandalwood with the subconscious almost sweetness of vanilla extracts.”