Lippizan

Sour citrus and very green to start. Lots of cardamom, thyme and bergamot for 30 to 40 minutes on my skin. It goes to a patchouli floral in the mid and ends with leather dominant dry down. Overall for the price it's not for me. The quality is there as always with this house this just doesn't work for me. Glad I got a sample. Neutral rating for me. Try before you buy people! Update. Trying again on 8.17.20 and this is an awesome fragrance. A cross of Lauder for men and the original Aramis just way smoother. It is in the old school classic powerhouse style so try before you buy. After a hour on skin it really doesn't smell dated. More along the lines of a modern gentlemens fragrance. I really like it but the price is very high on this juice. Maybe I can add it one day or get a decant. Enjoy!

pffff..this is a hammer in your face..to be taken in very tiny amounts:) The clary sage note is very sharp in combination with the tarragon and thyme: this is very strong stuff! Spiced and masculine, yeah..finally a real masculine perfume for REAL men:)Jokes aside: It is indeed different from all the mainstream so called masculine perfume of today! After the cutting sharp opening, the scent settles down into a wonderful leathery Iris-Rose scent, but nothing calm or sweet here,nothing darling like, no still macho!! As a woman I dare not to wear this but it should be very gorgeous on a modern day cowboy!! I will order a small decant to sniff it sometimes..dreamily ..maybe I can pursue my hubby to take it on??

Something between Kouros and Antaeus. Not bad — it doesn’t have the heaviness of Antaeus, so it’s more like a resinous Kouros. Nice — it makes sense as a masculine scent. It seems to vanish quickly on my skin and turns into something else entirely, something that doesn’t match the opening. I’ll test it again, but I think the first 10–15 minutes are really appealing — maybe even surpassing Kouros — and then it just fades away and becomes weak. Still, it does have something of Antaeus in it, which I kind of miss.

Sophistication in a bottle. Excellent work day scent which I keep reaching for over my other personal favorites. Like prior reviewers have noted this is a real masculine perfume that lasts and lasts. The top notes are in your face but pleasant and the dry down is just divine with the iris then rose element. I have to give this scent a 10/10 and longevity is outstanding. This is a multi faceted fragrance that is formal yet approachable.

Parfums de Marly Lippizan is one of the pre-Herod releases (2009-10 or so) that flies a bit under the radar, a fresh spicy aromatic entailing a fairly sharp citrus/floral/spicy ensemble of notes, including a medley of citruses, and some standout spices like clary sage and cardamom and florals of rose and iris, with some bassier supporting notes of vetiver, leather, and oakmoss. Vanilla is listed as well but it’s really not a sweet mix, which is perhaps why it is not as often discussed in the current market. The overall effect is that of a slightly fresh and invigorating (due the zest of the citruses/spices and brightness of the florals) but is mostly woodier and spicier, and slightly dark. To its credit, though, it’s not overwhelmingly spicy, floral, or citric—it maintains some semblance of balance. I don’t regard it as particularly masculine (Shagya, by contrast, feels more like a men’s signature scent), as there’s something floral, leathery, and resinous that sort of fits the unisex cold weather mold of a lot of niche scents, or is it something I’d recommend reaching for in warm weather. Lippizan is interesting but is a notch below some of its kin—Nisean, Shagya, and Carlisle are more interesting, for example—but I’d still recommend that fans of the brand, especially, give it a try. It performs fairly well and is priced at $153 on FragranceX and $149 on FragranceNet for the standard 125ml size, which is reasonable, given the quality, in my opinion. 7 out of 10