Loewe 001 Man EDT

This is an unheralded beauty of a fragrance. Most Loewe offerings languish in relative obscurity in the USA (don’t know about Europe) and that works to the advantage of anyone who discovers the house. There are EDP and EDT versions of this fragrance with an identical bottle that are quite different, so make sure you know which one you’re looking at! If you know the house of Loewe, you’ll smell some DNA similarities in many of their modern fragrances. 001 Man EDT has similarities with the Solo Line- wood, lavender, orange (maybe lime? It still smells like orange to me), cinnamon and musk being prominent in both. But I prefer 001 by a wide margin due to the light, cheerful, transparent treatment of the composition. It works so much better as a summery fragrance rather than a dense one like Solo. 001 EDT is just complex enough to avoid any “typical” or “generic” criticism- in fact, it is a quite a unique scent profile for the warm weather. Orange musk with a slight hint of warm cinnamon. Sound good? It’s great!

Loewe 001 Man Eau de Toilette misses the iris note that is quite notorious in the Eau de Parfum, and this works in its favour, because the edt is woodier and fresher and less floral and powdery. In fact, this is one of the best woody fragrances that you can get nowadays. After the initial blast of semi-sweet citruses (probably bergamot and mandarin orange), the woody nature of the scent takes the lead. Sandalwood, musk and soft touch of lavender are perfectly balanced to produce an original aroma that lingers for several hours. In fact, this has an enormous sillage for an edt, and as it has only 74% of alcohol, many other brands could label it as an eau de parfum or even a parfum. One big plus is the atomizer. It is one of the most refined ones that I have ever used and it creates a wonderful mist of small droplets. It is good news that Loewe is moving all their lines to this bottle and atomizer (Loewe 7 atomizers were crap, Loewe Solo atomizers were good but not great).

I must say I really enjoy this perfume. It has got the notes that I have been searching for. Before having read @Made by Kouros comments below, I saw the notes thinking its a linear lavender musky note (was actually hoping if it will be a milder and lighter version of Lavender Extreme), went Sephora to test this out and was really captivated. I got myself a bottle of this nonetheless. And after seeing Made by Kouros comments, I got most of the notes listed, The opening has got this bright citrusy lime which I really hoped could last longer. The lavender musk cinnamon notes are very prominent. I sprayed this to sleep last night and this morning I can still catch a small scent whiff of it.

It’s almost identical to EDP, but I don’t think it has that citrusy scent.8/10

Definitely more notes than the ones here in Fagrantica. I get a sharp lemon, tonka, a little bit of ambrette and some aromatics... Reminds me a bit of a classic cologne or something like Sculpture or Chanel Allure HSE. For the price is quite nice, but kind of boring after a while. Something simple that works.