B-612

What a beautiful fragrance. I think it’s perfect. Smells modern, classy, well blended, expensive, clean, alluring, well balanced, high quality, and luxurious. This is a fougere/barbershop fragrance, versatile, and as I had stated it smells modern. Any age can wear it. As a comparison, it is similar to Tom Ford’s Beau de Jour private blend or Creed Viking. I’m still testing it so I can’t quite comment on the performance but I can talk about it’s scent. I pick up a beautiful blend of the cypress, lavender, and geranium adding a beautiful fresh floral touch. It’s slightly green, slightly spicy, mentholated, smoothened by a creamy mid and base of cashmeran, cedar and sandalwood, fresh patchouli and oak moss offering further masculinity and earthiness, along with white musk and tonka bean creating a nice fluffy, foamy, clean white wear with a tinge of greenness. It’s delightful and masculine. Of what I’ve smelled this is probably my favorite from the house, I also own Sultan Vetiver, Ani, Hacivat, and Fan Your Flames. All great, too, in their own right. It’s just a matter of preference and what style fragrance you gravitate towards and what works for you. I have fair skin so I’ve noticed that generally fougere’s work best with my skin type and I’m ok with that. Hope this was helpful. Edit: Just wanted to update this post on performance. I get about 10 hours of noticeable longevity with about 2 hours of moderate projection before becoming a skin scent, so it’s not a screamer but does what it does very well, no complaints. Very versatile, inoffensive, classy, and appealing. This screams elegance and style. Excellent for work, church, dates, and can be worn casually. Really anytime you want to convey cleanliness, class, elegance and style. Still a love for me! It’s no wonder Chris Maurice did this as well as Xerjoff’s Alexandria II, I can smell some similarities in scent character and certainly in it’s quality!

This fragrance is amazing, but you have to let it macerate. I got this a couple weeks ago, and at first, it kind of let me down to be honest. For the price per ml, I was expecting something well blended and smooth, but instead, when I pulled it out of the box and sprayed it for the first time, I was met with a very loud and screechy cashmeran note, with very faint whiffs of woods. This left me disappointed, but luckily, I didn’t completely give up on this fragrance. After two weeks or so, I sprayed it on skin to find the cashmere still present, but much more pleasant and smooth this time. As I am writing this (about three weeks after getting the fragrance), it has evolved into a smooth and gentle clean scent, almost smelling like your favorite sweater in 65 degree weather. It’s such a perfect signature scent for a man, at least for me. So, what does it smell like? At first, you get a lot of cashmere, but it calms down within the first ten minutes. After that, it evolves into a clean, musky, and woodsy scent. That sounds very basic, but this fragrance is not basic at all. In fact, it’s very unique, but still mostly mass-appealing. It’s is actually quite hard to accurately describe this fragrance, but the best way I can is clean skin with a heavy cashmere sweater. Not an animalic cashmere, a very gentle and clean one that is still somehow masculine. This fragrance smells very natural, not like you’re trying too hard. Moderate, about arm’s length projection and I get about 6-7 working hours, with a skin scent to about 9. 10/10 would recommend to any man who does not need to announce himself with a fragrance, but instead wants to be known for a serene and calm scent. Edit: two weeks after writing this review, this is a compliment magnet. 10/10 so complex and beautiful.

B-612 is a thousand-layer perfume - it's earthy, aromatic, even musty and mineral. It has the smell of the cypress twig crushed between fingers, the smell of wet earthy patchouli and the smell of lavender that at times presents itself even minty. The aromatic woody qualities are rounded and sweetened by tonka bean and cashmeran ( a quality of synthetic musk) that guarantees a musky woody background. The fragrance is particular, but very pleasant. B-612 is the smell of serenity! B-612 was the asteroide the Little Prince (by Antoine de Saint-Exupèrie) came from. It was his home planet... It's not enough to say I consider it to be a wonderful idea. Drawing with the smell the idea about contrast between the unlimited way of children to see the World and the way of thinking of adults considered to be narrow minded and mean; telling us about the importance of a place that can be considered proper, the home, that for the Little Prince was the asteroid B-612, is infinitely fascinating. But beyond that, the asteroid B-612 is also a reference to a widespread phenomenon - the fear of the unknown and the contempt of the stranger that derives from ignorance. The narrator of the book explains that the discovery of the asteroid B-612 was not immediately believed as the scientist presented himself at the scientific commission wearing traditional Turkish clothing. The second time he presented his discovery he did it in Western clothes, he was accepted and the discovery was recorded.

Believe it or not, the opening reminds me a little of Tom Ford Oud Wood. That same smell of Comet powdered cleanser with minerals (maybe that's the association between the B-612 asteroid and a Comet?) is present. Possibly Isobornyl Acetate is in both B612 and Oud Wood? This doesn't feel like an extrait right away, but has sneaky longevity as just when I forget I'm wearing it, I get wafts out of nowhere. Lasts over a day on clothing, and people can smell it across a room on me. Gets compliments. It's soft, crystallized, clean, and gentle. Once it goes past the open, the cleanser smell dissipates and it moves into the top notes of cypress and geranium. In the mid crystal clean lavender that lasts into the base, and a pretty heavy oakmoss presence comes in. The final stage is sandalwood, lavender, tonka and oakmoss. Late drydown of tonka is similar to Penhaligons Lord George. This is a very gentlemanly, calming, barbershop experience with multiple layers. Smell 9/10 Performance 8/10 Update: I purchased a full bottle and wear this a lot even in high heat. This smells even better from a proper atomizer. The decant atomizer does not do this fragrance justice. This opens like Oud Wood, Mid is high quality crystallized lavender and oakmoss, and full drydown is like Penhaligon's The Tragedy of Lord George. Wonderful juice!

“ Here's my secret. It's very simple: you can only see clearly with your heart. The essential is invisible to the eye." A phrase as famous as it is true taken from the Little Prince (from whom this fragrance is inspired, specifically it is the name of the asteroid in which he lives), who speaks through notes. A green and pungent lavender opens the composition, in an olfactory game that, for most of us, evokes memories. Who doesn't remember that aroma of lavender, at home , in the nature, so strong, so powerful, guardian and preserver of memories, with metallic shades transporting us directly to the most famous asteroid in literature. The woody notes soften it, with an accent of geranium that gives it even more personality. It might be masculine at times but it's so realistic and soften on my skin, that I couldn't help but be extremely attracted to it deciding to make it mine. Elegant, it brings extreme inner well-being, with very high performances. In my opinion a masterpiece that could not be missing from my collection. And let's dedicate to it the wonderful, beautiful and essential drawings of the Little Prince, made by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry himself.