Exquisite Privé

So I was running a bit late this morning and grabbed this off the shelf and shot it on heavy not thinking on dosage etc. Running into the bedroom to get dressed I heard my Wife "Oh god that smells good!!" repeatedly. That's 17.77$ CAD proving you can't smell a pricetag and good is good at any price. So my first thoughts on this are justfied. I've worn this quite a few times and wanted the review to be honest and from experience. This is as close to Givenchy as you can get. I will be honest. The cloud I shot on this morning really made me think of how I choke when I put on My gentleman scents. It's just on the application it gets stuck in my throat. No other perfume does that. I got a rich thick Vanilla Iris shooting this on. I could feel it trail behind me and envelope me in a fog to the bedroom (like I said I shot it on absently so 7ish sprays?) To which my wife reacted positively and I have been surrounded by this all the way to work and loving it tremendously. Its a smoky sweet boozy vanilla iris. The orange is in there but it's in with the sweet. It's more orange rind than orange tart fruity. Like a rind in liqueure. Which totally ties in with boozy. It's well dressed clean and professional but seductive and masculine as well. I find it closer to Gentleman than boisee or intense. It's the second most well behaved gent. I don't regret not having the reserve Privee Flanker . This is very very convincing. Crazy Alhambra Value Honestly. Im a cheap audiophile as well as a cheap scent junky. I pay for the good stuff only when I have to.

This is a pre-emptive review after a wrist test after recieving the order last night. This will mature but here's my first impressions from one spray across the back of my hand. Initially shot in the box it was terrible . I wasn't super nervous because body testing and maturing help these scents alot. I can just say from the first sprays I almost regretted the buy.... and then the Iris note says HELLO!! I shot it on my hand and huffed it for a few hours on and off to see how it dried down while Watching the Beautiful and Incredible Erin Burnett Out Front. This gets you respectably close to a Givenchy Gentleman Flanker. I own and adore that line but did not get the Reserve Privee Flanker . It doesn't shoot on with that Iris Powdery Choking cloud like my new Givenchy Gents did before they matured and settled down. It does give you that Gentleman DNA that is unmistakeably Givenchy albeit in a less complex blend. It would definitely fool a connaisseur and I know the line well. I got some boozy orange at one point. the iris is as present as the real thing . It faded quickly on a dry skin winter hand with one spray only. This will get much much better. I recommend this dupe and once again as a Maison Alhambra Clone junky ...a JOB very respectable done for my 17.77$ CAD. Box and Bottle are also super nice although it matters little. Not Unisex in my opinon. Very nicely Masculine...but wear what you want if you love it.

Finally on fragrantica. Lovely one, very much recommend. It costs around 9 euro in poland so that's a no brainer, although inekas luna has gone down in price and you can get it here at ~15 euro so i would rather recommend to get that one in that case, because Inekas is projecting stronger (although still in average category, but upper level, not lower like Prive exq.). Both smell very similar though. If you see Exquisite Prive and Inekas Luna at similar price, don't think twice, just get Inekas Luna

A blind buy since I couldn't resist the price drop. Since I'm a fan of Dior l'Home I was sold. My first spray was a big surprise of the depth and complexity of the perfume. My old daughter was passing by when she got a whiff of the scent in the air, all I heard was "Wow Dad!" I was pleasantly surprised that it had that a good sillage and masculine attraction. Nice manly sweet dark scent, but not sure how long or how different will it smell later! So far I'm rating this 8 out of 10

Blind buy on this one and soooo glad I did. Only difference between this and Gentleman Eau de Parfum Reserve Privée is the strength. They nailed the scent and for the price its a fantastic deal for a clone of an original. The scent is superb.