Red Tobacco Intense

I have a 4 ounce of the original Red Tobacco I got on clearance from local discount store. Honestly? It was ok. I never grew to love the fragrance as I thought I would. My collection is mostly scents of tobaccos, leathers and resins. Some sweet some dry. Some extremely challenging for the average wearer. My problem with Red Tobacco the original EDP is that what many refer to as a fruitiness For me was just an onslaught of sweetness of different shades of red. And super medicinal. Which i normally dont mind. Something about it though, I never could get to the drydwon. The opening and the what I disliked about it made me count the hours of my life wasting away. But oddly enough I would reach for it every once in awhile to smell the atomizer because a single whiff I am able to appreciate it but I dont want to smell like it. Enter Intense Red Tobacco. I will admit. This was the craziest full size bottle blind buy I ever rolled the dice on. I watched videos and read reviews just trying to get an idea of what to expect and unlike other fragrances opinions were wildly different. But this was a sealed bottle for a stupid low price so I said why not lets see who is right. Turns out for me this is what I was hoping the fragrance would have been from the get go. Its much smoother. It is still synthetic to my nose but those screeching fingers on a chalkboard insanity is not there. In fact for me, it seems to kinda skip the opening of the original all together and starts where the mids are in the OG. My key take away differences are it is more appealing and less loud for the sake of being loud. If you want your fragrances to announce you have entered the room like a flamethrower the original is what you want. But the intense version for me IS more intense just in differnent ways. You get a really good scent bubble. The scent is leather heavy, woodier but the aura and essence of the original is there but instead of that being in your nose making me cry you catch the dna in the air as the sillage is really where this shines. The atomizer is a HUGE step up from the flimsy old fire hose sprays and is pressurized with a very good mist distribution. The oud is present but not your typical montale, mancera oud. I cant say that its clean, but its not a barnyard or over medicinal oud. Its balanced. And the saffron seems very apparent giving that leather a fine fresh suede that has a tobacco accord that is much more present and creeps up more in the drydown. But even the vanilla is toned down. So in drydown it doesnt get overly sweet and still remains anchored by the leathery qualities. I find it to be quite beautiful. Final thoughts. They are both not safe blind buys. But if you were to get one and want the more mature yet wearable version i would say get the intense all day long. If you want the WMD linear mashup of the original that will depend on the individual. As a a long time collector if you were to put a sample of each of these in front of me and I sprayed them (both equally oily very very oily) side by side on skin I would think Intense Red Tobacco was a niche fragrance that was done well and i can appreciate the balance and evolution of the scent and its artistry. Smelling the EDP og blindly would give me vibes that one of the lesser quality clone houses tried to make a dupe of it but didnt have access to higher quality synthetics or they just got the blend wrong and made it sweeter on accident or intenional. Final rating 9/10 In my vast tobacco collection I dont have anything quite like this. And while other may smell like this some of them are quite expensive in comparison. If you can get your nose on it before you buy it I would highly recommend giving it a sniff. And if you liked the og but just couldnt get past the opening and want a more rugged scent that wont announce you but people will remember you walked by you may just want to grab a bottle.

Dear Mancera Red Tobacco and intense . I wish that I could to make love to you. ❤️❤️❤️ Read this. And buy both. Why not ? So when I hear people say, “This one’s not as loud,” or “That one’s better,” I just smile. They don’t get it yet. The opening? Sure — one of them can be a little rough, a little wild at first. But don’t cry🥲Give it a minute. It’s gonna be alright.😁 once it settles, that magic unfolds — smooth, deep, and confident. It doesn’t need to shout to be unforgettable..But it is going to shout anyways 🤣❤️ And will also Take your heart captive in time. Patience 🥰 Because, honestly—I’m in love. I don’t think I’ve ever loved a fragrance more than Mancera Red tobacco and Mancera Red tobacco Intense. Both of them own me. I can’t stop thinking about them. They ooze naturally from my sweat glands , and I swear I even dream about them. That perfect balance of patchouli, cinnamon, and oud hits like a Winston-Salem tobacco shed bursting open into the open air from the heart of the Carolinas to hills of California —sweet, warm leaves filling the air. And that scent trail? Unreal. I look behind me and see women floating through it in hindsight 20/20 like Fred Flintstone following the smell of a brontosaurus BBQ. “Oooh, you smell so good,” they say— and I’m standing there feeling like Fred Durst in the Nookie video. All these ladies floating behind me No need to go chasing anything—just turn around. They’re already there. Only problem? Ooops My wife’s swinging through the mist, clearing them out of the air. 😂 There she stands just Beating them out of the trail with her high heel shoes. Wait ! Is that a high heel? Or Is that a bottle Good girl blush Elixir? But Still !HA HA HA HAAAAAA! It’s no match for both Mancera red tobaccos . They smell me coming for miles. And nobody knows what it is. But they like it . Not even Good Girl Elixir can over shadow the power of Mancera Red❤️❤️❤️❤️ Man, I could sit alone for hours just smelling myself. I even sprayed my dog after a bath. “Damn, Chew—you smell good!” Now I know what those women mean. ❤️ Come here boy. I hold them both close to my heart-Mancera Red in my left hand, Intense in my right. I spray them down both at once, because why not? It hits different that way. It blows a hole straight through the night ❤️ Then I hold them to my chest like old friends and whisper, I hold you both close to my heart. I spray so much on , people smell patchouli every time I fart ! “Damn, y’all mother fuckers are smellin good.” ❤️❤️❤️ I love you, You Mancera Red Tobaccos Mean it. Muwah!💋

I have not smelled the original but description alone of it being more fruity and sweet puts me off. Then i read about Intense and peaked my interest. I love tobacco in perfume. I also love leather and also a collector of REAL Oud attar. I enjoy some florals. But sweet to me=gourmand and gourmand=cloying. This is subtle sweet. There is a cherry smell on the initial few wet minutes. Its not listed but it smells cherry. Others too have pointed this out. reminds me of dr. Pepper and tonka. I was immediately intrigued. I love Al Haramain Amber Oud Tobacco over TF tobacco Vanille due to its clove(i also surprisingly to others, find it less sweet then TF). i got a familiar spice love here and it was also so different. I was excited. Initial drydown, the Dr. Pepper fizz smell leaves and tobacco comes in. Tobacco and leather, the smoke. it was enthralling. Masculine, and most of all STRONG. This stuff has a massive kick and scent cloud. Definitely NOT blind buy safe. I couldnt stop but smelling myself every few minutes. Then a few hours later more love for it. I could smell a VERY subtle vanilla tonka which made me happy as i cant stand cloying smell of vanilla in perfume. The guaiac wood and ambergis, the musk, its all there, perfectly balanced in just absolute rugged manliness. Not cowboy rugged. But an old school 3 piece suit pocketwatch gentleman rugged. This perfume exudes absolute confidence. You definitely have to be comfortable with it because people WILL notice it, for good or bad because as many have said, it is BEAST. This is so solid. I absolutely love it. This is definitely cold weater and evenings for sure. Its a polarizing scent that a small decant for a blind buy would be a safe purchase. I took a gamble and bought a 5ml decant based on the insane (and funny) positive and negative comments here. I just had to try it because it just sounded absolutely one of the most divisive scents ive read on. And it sounded like a winner to me so i wanted a larger decant to enjoy. Now own a full bottle and its one of mt alltime favorites.

One of my favorite scents of all time❤️ so many reviews complaining that its not more intense that the original red tabacco but....is that really what we needed? The original is already nuclear and i love that about it, but taking it up a notch would have been overkill. Yea the name could have been different but at the end of the day does that really matter and does it really take away from what this scent is? Questions I ponder on the toilet. If you ask me red tabacco intense is a phenomenal fragrance, certainly a refined version of the original but it still holds that same sexy vibe I fell in love with in the first place. The notes dont seem as smashed together in the intense version, I can pick out the leather, musk, tabacco, vanilla and incense easily yet they still blend into a beautiful concoction. Leather is probably the most noticeable difference to me between the two versions. It isn't dominant but can definitely be picked up throughout the scent, almost that sweet leather like ombre leather. I also dont notice the cinnamon and incense as much as I do with the OG though they are still there just muted back a bit. The performance is not as good as the OG but thats not to say this fragrance doesn't thump! I still get better performance than 90% of my collection especially if I spray on clothes then this scent will last days easily. I would smell both and make a pick for yourself! Can't see a reason to own both, if you want performance go with the OG, if you want a imo better scent then get the new Intense version. Either way they both smell to similar to own both. I plan on wearing this a lot this fall. 9/10

Scent: 9.5/10 -- Intense. The scent carries itself kind of how Matt Damon's character does in Bourne series when in control of the situation. Whenever I apply this after a long time since the last use, the opening makes me take a deep breath. But heavenly dry down is where I am like "take my money Mancera". I get every bit of leather, tobacco and sweetness with little bit more animalic in opening versus pure smoothness in drydown. Longevity: 10/10 -- Lasts for 15+ hrs on skin (yup tested 6 pm to 10 am next day). Lasts for days on clothes. Performance: 9/10 -- Projection is above average (though not enormous) for first 2-3 hours with thick silage. I always get wafts until I shower. I typically do 4 sprays (2 sprays on arms and 2 on back of the neck). Too many sprays and you are going to choke yourself and possible people around you. Versatility: 5/10 -- Really only meant for dressed up events or cooler nights when going out. I would not wear this if I am going to be in small enclosed spaces. This is manly scent and I don't think this is appreciated by majority of the folks. Only men have complemented me on this fragrance. Wearing Experience: 10/10 -- I am couple of inches taller with broader shoulders while wearing this. Overall: 9.5/10 -- Only reason this is not 10 is because I don't know if I will like the original better than this one.