Emir Frenetic Homme Intense

I love this fragrance; it has an airy-sweet, powdery, expensive lipstick-like smell in the opening, then in its middle note, you get a very earthy, powdery, overall a very dry and light feeling which is very smooth and soothing to my nose, and when it dries down at the bottom note, it becomes a very creamy, woody, vanilla-heavy smell which is very seductive. Overall, this is a 9 out of 10 perfume for me. You can wear it at night, or maybe during the day, also if it's very cold out there. I also wear at office sometimes, but then I layer it with some fresh fragrance

Finally they added this here. I have never tried Dior Homme Intense, as in the pre-2025 version of it. However I really liked Dior Homme 2020 and had a great experience with Givenchy Gentleman EDP, so this made sense to get next. Firstly how does it perform? with 5 sprays - I get 5-6 hours, it projects really well the first hour or so. If that's not "enough" you can always overspray it or make a small travel decant to reapply it throughout the day. I know and water is wet! However, for under $30, put it in your car, your locker or anywhere else. if you've ever tried products from the clone brand "fragrance world" they perform similarly to this no matter what is in their fragrances. They hit that roughly 5 hour mark, alright sell it! I did get quite a few complements from friends and family members with this. As usual there is more to this fragrance than that almighty note pyramid. The cedar comes off like that usual pencil type, there's this sharp freshness to it, some ginger that they added to this (it's in the ingredients on the box), it's very smooth, there's depth to this and of course "powderiness" by the dry down from that certain over rated ingredient that starts with an "I". I almost get this chocolate and vanilla like accord with this so it's sweet, somewhat spicy and there's enough complexity and "Warmth" to keep this from being boring. Thankfully the sweetness is nothing like Paco Rabanne or Jean Paul Gautier would put out. Such as Le Male Elixir, 1 Million (Edt), invictus (EDT) or similar. to me It doesn't smell cheap, there's nothing I dislike about it. it's an easy to wear fragrance. I went through 3/4 of the bottle fast but I doubt I'd buy it again as just about any situation I would put something else on. Regardless of the brand as I love my clones. At most I put a few sprays of this on before bed and it was extremely rare for me to wear this out, even grocery shopping. If it had to have that "I" note in it, I'd rather reach for Caron Pour Un Homme Le Soir, Givenchy Gentleman EDP or similar. It certainly won't make my top 10 night out, cold weather or evening fragrances if I was an honest social media "influencer"

It’s actually quite a nice scent. It does have a certain furniture polish scent as I previously mentioned but the dry down is nice. It’s excellent for layering with Dior homme original. In short it’s well worth the price.

Just blind bought, why am I getting lemon in the opening? Sensing a furniture polish vibe I don’t care for, I’m not getting any resemblance to DHI at all, I’ll see how it wears and report back.