Gold Prestigium

Mancera Gold Prestigium EDP opens with a moderate projection of sweet, leather, oud, floral, and some citrus notes. The opening is fresh, elegant, refined, evocative of spring, delectable, and very pleasant. The bergamot is a passing note, a citrusy fresh touch that shows up for a brief moment. The vanilla, orange blossom, rose, leather, and oud are the opening most noticeable notes. The orange blossom and roses present themselves as mostly white florals but sweet with a citrusy touch, inoffensive, and pleasant. The oud and leather are also part of the opening, both create a very refined accord, far from animalic or pungent, but bold, elegant, and delicate. The opening oud in this fragrance is closer to the scent of a very refined dark wood as opposed to the musky oud found in oud-predominant fragrances. Similarly, the leather is very polished and noticeable. The vanilla is a delicious, sweet, cozy, comforting, aromatic, dessert-like note. The pepper, white musk, and oakmoss are support notes, they add a spicy, powdery musky, and soft mossy accord. The fragrance is linear, all featured notes come up as soon as the fragrance is applied and continue into the dry down. Once Mancera Gold Prestigium EDP has reached its full dry down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, sweet, vanilla, orange blossom, leather, and oud fragrance with rose, white musk, and mossy accords. The fragrance feels casual, clean, comforting, cozy, creamy, delectable, dense, diurnal, elegant, exotic, expensive, white citrusy floral, fresh, high-quality, intense, inviting, leathery, mature, modern, oudy, playful, polished, slightly powdery, refined, refreshing, rich, romantic, seductive, sweet, unisex, versatile, white, zesty, and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020 (#18010D) WOW RATING: 10/10. An impressive, elegant, inviting, sweet, white floral, leather, and oud. DISLIKE RATING: 2/10. The leather and oud are noticeable but both are tone-down and polished. UNIQUENESS: 10/10. The combination of notes creates a unique scent. MASS APPEAL: 8/10. This is a fragrance that most people will enjoy. PROJECTION: 6/10. Excellent, about 6 feet around the wearer. SILLAGE: 10/10. Excellent, about 10 feet after the wearer. APPLICATION: 4 atomizations. SEASONS: Winter, spring, fall, colder days, daytime, nighttime, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, business, casual, holidays, vacations, romantic, dating, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 9/10. A highly versatile fragrance, ideal for almost any weather and occasion. GENDER: Unisex. The orange blossoms create a white floral slightly citrusy accord, with a slight feminine touch, on the other hand, the oud and leather have a slightly masculine character. The vanilla blends both notes. The result is a unisex fragrance. AGES: 30 and above. RECOMMENDATION: Mancera Gold Prestigium EDP can be found for about $75. It is a unique, impressive, versatile, and very elegant fragrance, ideal for mature wearers. This is a great buy. BLIND-BUY: No, sample it first. SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. Dior Purple Oud is a good, but challenging, intense, slightly sweet, oud, and spicy fragrance; Juicy Couture Dirty English EDT Men is a faint, slightly sweet, woody, and leather fragrance; Mancera Black Gold EDP is a great, mild, woody, leather, floral, lavender, violet, jasmine, spicy, cinnamon, and nutmeg fragrance; Montale Dark Purple Women EDP is a strong projection, sweet, rose, delicious fruity plum, and white musk fragrance; Scentstory 24 For Men is a good, soft, pepper, anise, oud, and mossy fragrance; Xerjoff More Than Words is a very good, oud, sweet, fruity, floral, and ambergris fragrance; Mancera Gold Prestigium EDP is a superb, sweet, vanilla, orange blossom, leather, and oud fragrance. SUMMARY: a moderate projection, sweet, vanilla, orange blossom, leather, and oud fragrance with rose, white musk, and mossy accords. The fragrance feels casual, clean, comforting, cozy, creamy, delectable, dense, diurnal, elegant, exotic, expensive, white citrusy floral, fresh, high-quality, intense, inviting, leathery, mature, modern, oudy, playful, polished, slightly powdery, refined, refreshing, rich, romantic, seductive, sweet, unisex, versatile, white, zesty, and very pleasant.

Oh... Oh word?! Well, after what felt like a thousand-year hiatus of not reviewing anything for two years and itching to shares some thoughts, I finally came back to do some more reviews on fragrances. But to put it lightly... With this one... I am absolutely HEAD. OVEr. HeELs. This thing... This Mancera juice... Really, reeeally scares me. I feel like come next payday I won’t be able to stop me from buying backups. It’s just. That. Good. Period. I had a hard time placing what this one smells like because to me on my skin this smelled like two distinct things. One being a fragrance I love, and the other being an allergy medicine. Straight up smells like YSL L’homme Parfum Intense lost its innocence (the cherry bubblegum) and got some balls (Oud? Probably an accord) - How? Because I detect that same bergamot, orange blossom, pepper trio amongst other beautiful things that exists in the dry-down of Parfum Intense... There I said it... Go try it you’ll see what I mean - that scent doesn’t get the love it should. Sorry but YSL L’homme Parfum Intense it’s still one of my favorites for sentimental reasons (Guilty pleasure) ... That note trio has this sophisticated syrupy smoothness that kind of resembles... Wait for it... Cherry flavored NyQuil.... Yeah. Why do I want to smell like cough syrup/sleep aid? I don’t know, maybe because as a kid I use to love getting sick just so mom could feed me the stuff. What? It tasted good people. What else... Lasts forever Projects a foot or two Every waft’s a blessing Smells like a jet Done. I’m out... 9.5/10

A remarkably affable floral/leather/vanilla fragrance that projects super well and lasts forever. Would you expect anything else from Mancera? Refined, but not overly sophisticated. Very approachable. You could rock it with dark jeans, chelsea boots, and a blazer, or faded jeans and a crisp white shirt and white leather sneakers with equal aplomb. All season, except I'd avoid in the high heat. Summer evenings, fall, spring or winter, any occasion, though it's so beautiful you might wanna save it for special occasions. Then again, for niche, it's inexpensive enough to wear anytime. The top notes of pepper, oud, and bergamot are subtle, but provide some lift and depth for the florals (rose and orange blossom) and the sweet, vanilla-balsamic base. Even though it's vanilla, oak moss, leather, and musk, the overall impression, to my nose is sweet and balsamic, maybe even a bit resinous, not unlike benzoin or labdanum. The bottom line: this is a gorgeous vanilla-centric perfume that can be worn by either men or women, all season, all occasion, and so, so good! 9/10

Feed a bottle of Le Male some steroids and this is it. I'm not sure why, but on me it becomes a beast-mode version of Le Male by Gautier. There is a fresh, peppery-lime scent at the initial blast, turning into a sweet "bubble gum"scent made out of the rose/vanilla/leather/orange/oud. That's the best I can describe it--it's like high-end, designer bubble gum, not the stuff you find at the checkout in gas stations. Pleasant. Sweet. Fruity. Flowery. Adjectives that describe an aspect, but not the whole. It isn't cloying or obnoxious, rather rounded and enticing. Gold Prestigium is something to test before buying. Not an "old"scent, but not "young", it isn't passed, nor hip, nor displeasing. It is best described as "nice". I'd consider it sexy, others might not. NICE n' SEXY. On others this might become something else, but on me it is industrial-strength Le Male. Fragrance 9/10 Longevity 10/10 Sillage 9/10 Bottle Design 9/10 FINAL SCORE.... 9/10

Amazing fragrance but would not recommend blind buy I don't get the leathery note other s have mentioned. But definitely fruity, slightly sweet (but not overpowering) maybe even a bit floral too (maybe that rose and orange blossom come through stronger for me). If you prefer a very manly, or strong leather scent, then maybe try (don't blind buy) Bentley for Men Intense. For a lighter leather frag John Varvatos Dark Rebel. Getting back to Mancera's Gold Prestigium though... Just WOW!!!! Nice looking bottle too, comes in it's own carry pouch in the box too. Also, as mentioned by JoyAmin in his youtube review, just watch that you don't try to screw the cap on too tight or it may wear out the thread. Yeah this an amazing frag but maybe not for everyone Fragrance 10/10 Longevity 10/10 Bottle Design 9/10