Lalique Pour Homme Equus

I'm wearing LPH Equus right now and what I like the most is the quality. You start enjoying Equus from the moment you open the box, then the bottle and the smell... the mind anticipates and create the illusion that you are already getting the sequoia note (or actually get it, if you have already spray it). That woodsy note is present through all the experience, deserves a full review and provides Equus whit an earthy and balmy odor profile. Yes it's wood, but You know it's a very special one. Maybe it's me, but in the opening I get a lot of nutmeg and juniper, not the citruses. On the dry down there's no leather or musk note, but the effect is there, the composition get very sensual and some animal, then the citruses and cardamom appear. This is sensual in a very smooth and elegant way. Duration is very good, when you wake up, a little bit of the base is there, not in your wrist, but there it is. Sillage is moderate, but the two fragances I own from Lalique has this thing I really like: hours later a note escape from time to time, you get close to your wrist and nothing, but then again, another note escape. Not for a blind buy, but I strongly recommend the experience. *** Ahora mismo uso LPH Equus y lo que más me gusta es la calidad. Comienzas a disfrutar Equus desde el momento en que abres la caja, luego la botella y el olor... la mente se anticipa y crea la ilusión de que ya estás obteniendo la nota de secuoya (o así es, si ya has utilizado la botella). Esa nota amaderada está presente durante toda la experiencia y merece su propia revisión, al tiempo que le da a Equus un perfil olfativo térreo y balsámico. Sí, es madera, pero sabes que se trata de una muy especial. Quizá sea yo, pero en la apertura percibo mucha nuez moscada y junípero, pero no cítricos. En el secado no hay nota de piel o musk, pero su efecto está ahí. La composición se pone muy sensual y algo animal, entonces aparecen los cítricos y el cardamomo. Es una sensualidad discreta y elegante. La duración es muy buena, cuando despiertas, un poco de la base sigue ahí, no en tu muñeca, pero está ahí. La proyección es moderada, pero las dos fragancias que tengo de Lalique tienen eso que realmente me gusta: horas después una nota escapa de cuando en cuando, te acercas a la muñeca y nada, pero entonces de nuevo, otra nota escapa. No recomiendo una compra a ciegas pero sí y mucho, la experiencia.

I blind bought this based on the note breakdown after buying Encre Noire and Encre Noire Sport and being really impressed by the brand. After wearing Equus a couple of times, I bought 2 more backup bottles. I love this stuff. To provide some perspective, I'm not a fan of the typical summer citrus scents. They tend to have poor performance and they all smell pretty similar which makes them boring. Basically if you've smelled one you've smelled them all. I'm also not a fan of the modern trend toward sweet fragrances for men. Call me a middle aged old man but to me, men are supposed to smell like woods and leather and smoke and the great outdoors, not bubblegum and grape soda and flowers. Also, the sweet stuff is sort of sickening after a while. But I'm also a fan of Fahrenheit, Kouros, Quorum, One Man Show, Bentley Absolute, Gucci Guilty Absolute, and Bvlgari Man Black Orient. Take that for whatever it's worth. So I was thrilled with Encre Noire Sport. That's a wearable summer option that no one will confuse with a unisex fragrance. When I saw the note breakdown for Equus and an EDP concentration, I had high hopes that this would be another winner from Lalique. Wow! This is a home run for me. This has become my signature scent for spring, summer, and fall. There is nothing sweet here. Yeah, there's some citrus in the opening but that is NOT what this fragrance is about. And forget about picking out individual notes. It's an experience. It feels like you've just come in from the horse barn after spreading fresh hay in hot weather. It feels like you're walking up a mountain trail just after snow melt in the spring. It feels like fall right before the leaves drop and you're cutting spruce with a chainsaw. It does NOT smell like something your girlfriend or wife will want to borrow. As for performance, It's moderate. I get about 5-6 hours. But projection and sillage drop pretty fast after about an hour. That's fine for me. I don't need beast mode and it makes Equus more wearable. I can always replenish if I want. Quality is super high. There is nothing cheap or synthetic smelling here. At the price you can get this at discounters this is another steal from Lalique.

Lalique Equus is a gift to the lover of dark woody scents like the much-lamented Yves Saint Laurent M7. The bottle is heavy and beautiful with the horse head etched deeply into the back of the glass. From the perfume top I get very little citrus and a huge blast of nutmeg. After a short while, the nutmeg recedes a bit (or perhaps my nose adapts to it) and blends with the other spices and violet leaf and strong dark woody notes to give a beautiful and long-lasting heart. I think "sequoia" is a reasonable description of this heart, though don't think sequoia or redwood trees yield any commercial oils and I hope that these rare and magnificent trees are not cut down for our vanity. Based on Lalique's note list, I suspect the "sequoia" is a combination of nutmeg, mace, cedar, and amyris (similar to sandalwood), or perhaps the whole mirage is from combined synthetics. Whatever the composition, it is magnificent and unique to my experience. The spicy notes last a remarkably long time, but eventually they do give way to a milder but still rich cedar and benzoin base, with a bit of musk, leather, and vetiver. The base is very nice, but the unusually long-lasting heart is what shines in this work of art. It feels ferocious, contemplative, tenebrous, radiant, earthy, and pure by turns. If you have admired Yves Saint Laurent M7 or Dior Fahrenheit Absolute or any other dark woody scent, or even think you might admire them, you should sample Lalique Equus.

What an amazing classy, woody fragrance. A couple months ago, I saw this on FragranceNet for around 30 dollars. And I blind bought it. I was impressed by how high quality this fragrance was for the price. It starts very woody, citrusy and peppery ( Even though black pepper is not listed in the note breakdown ). It dries down to a more woody, slightly less peppery, fresh spicy fragrance. The performance is pretty good one this fragrance. I get around 7 hours with a medium projection on my skin. I recommend this for all seasons, best during the spring and fall, but you can also wear on summer nights as well. This makes this fragrance extremely versatile for all seasons and occasion. You can wear this casually dressed down, to a graduation, dressed up, running errands, and maybe a party in the day time. You don't have to go too heavy on the sprays too, in my experience I would spray 6-8 times to make it last longer. But you can do as many sprays as you want, this is just my personal preference. Lastly, this fragrance suits all age groups. If you're a young guy, I could see you rocking this. If you're an older individual, I could also see you rocking this too. If your asking if its a safe blind buy, then yes it is. This is a perfect gift for any age group. In conclusion: Smell: 10/10 Longevity: 8/10 Projection: 6.5/10 Wearability and Versatility: 10/10 Lalique Pour Homme Equus: 9/10

This was a real disappointment. I'm guessing this was recently reformulated because I got really terrible performance which my bottle which kind of ruined the fragrance for me. I'm not even a guy that cares too much about performance but when you only get 2-3 hours of longevity and pretty much no projection of scent you actually like it's disappointing, to say the least. The scent itself was also kind of let down but only because I had really high expectations based on reviews I saw said that it smelled like a butsudan. Sorry to say but the newest batches don't come close to that kind of rich woodsy smell. I actually really enjoy the scent as a whole but I guess my expectations were way too high to be impressed on the initial spray. The opening however I'm not a huge fan of as I got mostly hay and black pepper kind of smell. It quickly dried down to be more green and the dry down is fantastic on this scent. I find this to be a casual spring-fall scent. A scent you wear when you don't feel like wearing a scent as it is really intimate and earthy smelling. I haven't worn this in warm and hot weather yet so hopefully, the warmer weather helps the performance. The scent itself I would give a 7 or 8/10 but the performance is like a 2/10 making it a 5/10 overall. Pretty disappointed. I'll still wear it though.