Iris Homme

Stunning .... every time I wear this I appreciate it more. Very fine mist spray, requires a few presses to get staying power up to 8h. You owe yourself the pleasure of sampling this IMO. This perfumer's creations are on another level whilst being so elegant and delicate.

Wonderful, quietly strong quality iris. Unforgettable, graceful and elegant come to mind. Fans of Prada iris and Tom Ford Noir would be wise to acquire this. It's like those but like ten times the quality. Unisex in my opinion.

It's fresh & fruity (lemon & violet) with a nice touch of spicy powdery incense; reminds me of SMN Citta di Kyoto, but slightly more masculine, which still feels unisex. Very elegant and "humble" like a Japanese gentleman!

Lemon, violet, and sandalwood aromas are smoothly fragrant. It is solid with almost no sweetness and even coolness. If you try it on considering that it expresses a Japanese worldview, you can imagine a man in a navy blue dyed kimono, but without such preconceptions, there is nothing noteworthy about it. It reminded me of a detergent that cleans office equipment. The performance is weak and the sillage is weak. It is like a thin cologne. I had high hopes for it because some of the aforementioned reviewers mentioned tomford noir, but I personally think it is like a different product. I guess the comparison is based on the top note, but still, it is like a lion and a sparrow. It just smelled like room deodorant that may or may not be there. Maybe if you want wabi-sabi in a perfume, it means to suppress it this much, but I think the presence of the fragrance is too backward and too specific. I feel it is too expensive for its performance and content.

Woody? Aromatic? Hardly! I get a huge hit of Parma Violets (highly flavoured perfumed candies, for non-for UK readers), which in my youth were popular among underaged smokers to conceal the stench of tobacco. Not the most attractive olfactory memory, but unfortunately this fragrance has the same impact. The violet note is so potent that it provokes the question "What would you smell like if you didn't smell of this overwhelming artificial scent?" Iris Homme is a kind of anti-perfume, not in the transgressive sense of presenting scents normally classed as "bad', but in the sense of obscuring the very fragrance it seeks to promote. I don't get the wild beauty of violet, iris or jasmine but instead sweet and sickly approximations of them. I could't wear this without feeling that I was peddling a lie.