Addictive Indulgence for Him

If this fragrance had been released 6-7 years earlier, the online fragrance community would be singing it’s praises as one of the great rack store cheapie gems. Alas, those days are long gone, with the middle eastern fragrance houses/clones getting in everybody's pockets. Plus, it doesn't help now that rack stores have really fallen off when it comes to stocking much of anything worth searching for. That leads me to the fun fact that I did find this great little 1.7oz bottle at Burlington for a mere $14.00! It was a nice return to that old nostalgic feeling when I would take a small gamble on something like this, bring it home, and feel immediately pleased with my first initial sprays! It reminded me of the fun we all used to have when we first got into collecting/trading/swapping fragrances before the online influencer culture shilled it to death and accelerated buying the next new thing mentality/addiction. But enough with the nostalgia talk, back to the actual review lol! For the price you can't go wrong. I would describe this as a lighter and slightly gourmand leaning hybrid of Carolina Herrera BB Extreme mixed with JPG Le Male Elixir. While this displays a powdery coco backbone through the life of the scent, I pick up some of the familiar sweetness from Le Male Elixir. However, despite the olfactory similarities to those two fragrances, this scent delivers the profile in a more subdued manner. This will not project super loud and fill rooms like BB Extreme or Le Male Elixir. I would describe this as a more "work friendly" combined version of the two. I would also consider this more of a fall and winter fragrance that you can wear for either work, or daytime casual uses. If you have a smaller collection and limited budget, this could also pass as an evening going out scent. The only thing to keep in mind is that this won't project if you are hoping to create a more noticeable effect as an evening out on the town fragrance. But that's not to say the performance is lacking. I have gotten no less than 8 hours worth of noticeable wear with this fragrance. I'd say the projection reaches out to about an arm's length for the first 3-4 hours, but you will still catch a whiff of it as you progress towards the last 4 hours, so you know it's still there and noticeable. So, for $14.00, it's honestly really hard to complain about that type of performance. You can really do much worse at this price point. If this stays in production for many years to come, it could easily become a cheapie mount Rushmore candidate with the likes of CK One Shock, Nautica Voyage, BB Touch, Azzaro Chrome, etc.

Yes, I love this. Every note is detectable as listed. Love the drydown, a bit heavy with the leather though.. Quite literally smells like the colour brown. It's really airy and it has a gourmand cupcake smell. If you don't want to risk with arab perfumes, you should get this asap. Personally would wear this for colder summer days, makes me feel amazing

Accidentally bought the men's version instead of femme but let me tell yah what a happy accident. Such a cozy, sweet vanillic hot cocoa with a nutty nuance. This will be an amazing fall winter staple with a moderate longevity to boot. Love.

Armani's Stronger with you and CH Bad Boy blend that is affordable, comes in a great, collectible presentation and performs the way it should. The Pepe Jeans men's shaker line has delivered nothing but consistent wins for me, paid 20-25€ the 100ml for these and I keep buying them blind and getting very interesting perfumes that are appealing and perform well beyond their class and with none of the arab-clone cheap funk fillers.

Enticing, fun, sophisticated, this smells like swy leather mixed with asad bourbon. It’s sweet, leathery, resinous, and has a lovely cacao note, it has a lot to like, including price, got the 1.7 for 12 bucks, there’s not a lot you can buy for that price thats this good.