Eragon

What Naxos is to A*Men Pure Havanne, Eragon is to La Nuit de l'Homme. It's an upscale, stronger, longer lasting, deeper version of LNDH using better quality ingredients. I got the rare opportunity to visit a Bloomingdale's today. I tried quite a few other frags in there and more missed the mark than hit. I knew this was a winner right from the first sniff of the atomizer. I sprayed this on paper and really enjoyed it. The opening is very sweet, spicy, and woody. It has a beautiful deep vanilla in the opening, similar to the one in Althaïr, I can smell cinnamon and a strong cardamom note. Later in the dry down, as I'm sniffing away, it started to get more and more familiar. It took me a few minute to realize what I was smelling, but I knew it was something I knew well and wore a lot, but also hadn't used in a while. A few steps outside of the store about 15 minutes and 30+ sniffs later, it hit me like lightning: La Nuit de l'Homme!! I love it! This is honestly the La Nuit flanker that fans have been begging YSL to make for years and years. I'm not happy about the price, but I am happy that someone made it. It's definitely better, stronger, more nuanced version of La Nuit, but I don't know if that's enough to warrant a purchase at the MSRP. $550 is an absolutely insane price for what is essentially a designer fragrance remix. I may pick this up once it hits discounters, if it ever drops below $275. It is by far the best take on the La Nuit DNA I have ever had the pleasure of laying my nose on. To me, it is MUCH better than 2011 vintage La Nuit, Frozen Cologne, Bleu Electriqué, but $550? Sorry, but that's still way too much. Update: I just wanted to leave a brief update that I thought was worth mentioning. I could still smell this on the paper test strip I got from Bloomingdale's over a week later. That's pretty insane performance. I doubt you would get more than 8-10 hours on skin, due to the nature of this style of fragrance, but it's guaranteed to last DAYS on clothing.

This is my favorite winter fragrance I've ever smelled and maybe tied with Imagination as my favorite scent of all time. It's a rich luxurious vanilla bean with amber, a little cinnamon, and caramelized toasted sugar. It reminds me of the smell of a beautifully aged colheita port. The mandarin and patchoulli elevate the scent, giving it some sharpness and lift. As a result, it manages to smell fresh, light and airy, which really helps it shine in cold air. There is also a pleasant leather undertone that is present and supporting but not overpowering. Overall it's just an incredibly beautiful fragrance that I think is mass appealing and very easy to wear. I would take the reviews on Eragon so far with a grain of salt. Yes it's expensive but a rating of 3.3 is in my opinion far from a fair reflection of the scent itself. Scent wise I think Eragon smells as good as, if not better than, any of the 4.3 and above rated fragrances I've tried. That all to say, as always, try it yourself and decide whether you like it. For the right person Eragon could be a great fit albeit overpriced.

PDM is one of my least favorite houses, I believe it is way overhyped and overrated. You only pay for the scent profile..Everything I tried smelled really nice at first, but they were so watered down..Didn't last at all on me. BUT I came across this in a Bloomie's and decided to try it out and I was shocked at how good it smelled and it lasted on my clothes a long time! All the notes are blended to perfection, It is sweet but not overbearing or cloying..It's a really cozy, warm sweet but masculine scent that i couldn't stop smelling on myself. The only problem was the outrageous price for it. I did not think I would ever be able to add it to my collection but come Christmas, I get a gift card and then went to test out a bunch of fragrances and the only one that really caught my eye was Eragon and I was still a couple hundred bucks short..and thought why not! I only have to pay $200..Best deal I'll ever get on it. It is easily the BEST PDM and it also beat out a ton of other Men's fragrances I've tried out.

Just because @smelly_sox says so, it doesn't mean we’re simpletons or naive! ...Or do you have some sort of credential that gives you more authority than us mere mortals? "The latest new thing"... what is that even supposed to mean? You wear a fragrance; you don't walk around with the bottle announcing, "Oh, I'm wearing ERAGON." Here’s a newsflash: nobody cares what we’re wearing. At most, if someone likes the scent, they might pay you a compliment, but that happens regardless of what you've got on. I honestly struggle to understand how someone can judge others based on their own personal tastes. You’re free to think you don't like this fragrance or that it costs too much... but that’s just “your” opinion. To me, this is a masterpiece. I don't steal my money, I earn it, and I decided to buy it because I think it’s a fantastic fragrance that is absolutely worth the sacrifice. Out of all the recent releases, *Purpose 50* aside, this is the only fragrance lately that has made me say "WOW."

So I was very hyped to hear this is like LNDLH but improved, but the reality is this is not similar to it, maybe there is some details they have in common but nah. To me this is pretty similar to Desert Suave by LLI. Now with the scent itself, this smells very good and performance is also really good. The blend is very high quality. Now the elephant in the room, the price. No perfume is worth +500€ unless its some very rare collectors item. That said, I have seen these go for around 200€ the full bottle. At that price, this is a very very solid option and you get really good value for the money. In other reviews here you can see people saying outrageous stuff, most of them are just mad that the perfume is that expensive, others are dupe warriors and some are riding the PDM hate trend. Reality is the perfume is really good in every single aspect and if you can find it for a good price then its a great alternative.