Aqaysos Glass Bottle

Serendiptitious blind purchase. Above average cooling refreshing summer scent. The note table for me misleads. This is more of a slightly earthy dark scent - the woods almost like sweet charcoal or slightly damp soil with not so bright lime squeezed over the top and the mint is not so prominent in terms of brightness rather just sitting a little on top of damp pepper and pine and the musk helping blur the lines between notes. Great for summer, well made but not super in sillage. This turned me into a PG fan. This sits on irreplaceably on my shelf with some in a vaguely similar vein: A Lab on Fire Almost Transparent Blue Yes it’s a killer scent for the price.

Gorgeous! Votes for similar perfumes such as Aventus are a joke. This is a high quality sophisticated perfume. Not in your face but built with quality and love. The bergamot and cassis provided a very fleeting opening reminiscent of absinthe. After ward for most of its 3 - 10 hour life it is powering away linearly with notes aside a smooth musky sandalwood on top of patchouli. A touch of dark green freshness keeping it from being too simple being a touch of pine and super smooth cedar. Something akin to Almost Blue by A Lab on Fire except better.

In Aqaysos the perfumer tries to imagine crystal wood, smooth, capturing and reflecting light but still with wood grain texture. That chatoyant effect is created from cold spices and light cashmere woods. Aqaysos is quite intense despite being airy. Try if you like Aventus style perfumes, dry woody formulas with a fresh ozone touch.

Update: I forgot to add this smells like a less sugared sweet and more tart version of Polo Black, but 10x the quality! Ok it's been long enough, I've talked this thing up on so many posts and to so many private messages might as well say at least something here. First, this is NOT an Aventus clone, not even close. This is what you would wear the day you bought your first Lamborgini as you take it down by a curvy, icy sea side blacktop. It feels fast, modern, piercingly clean and exotic. This is not a sugared mango thud like wriglys jucy fruit, this is a Quench brand bubble gum. A real punch of tart but clean and transparent somehow. Perfumer says it best "Between fluidity, transparency and sensorial impact, Aqaysos is an explosion of rising and fruity notes, on the rhythmic pulsations of a woody vibration." Lucky Scent says "What is the scent of crystalline wood? This concept, of the strange geometry that might exist somewhere between nature's most versatile material and one of it's most fascinatingly exact, is what inspired Pierre Guillaume to create Aqaysos, a scent which casts a fascinatingly illusive prism that alternates between spicy, fruity and woody notes. The result is an elusive, versatile and sneakily powerful fragrance that wears like a suave, modern, and refreshing take on a certain wildly popular fruit-inflected masculine. Which isn't to say Aqaysos is another dull Aventus knockoff. In fact, quite the opposite- while the juicy, explosively fresh lime and bergamot opening is sure to delight, it's cut with an aromatic dose of coriander, lending a metallic quality to it, at once mathematically precise and yet intriguingly otherworldly. A unique heart of little-used sansho berry, with its lemon-peppery spiciness, adds fiery depth to the sweet, juicy blackcurrant. And growing ever stronger as it dries, a robustly woodsy and musky base is given subtly bitter power with a dose of cocoa bean, which asserts itself in unexpected rhythms. Lovers of fresh, fruit-and-wood driven masculine scents will surely find a new go-to with Aqaysos. But this fascinatingly complex crystal palace hides secrets all its own. " I was never able to fine anywhere that said cassis leaf so not sure where that came from, all I ever found was "Lime, coriander, blackcurrant, sansho berry, woods, musks, cocoa beans" and " fruity notes, woody notes, spicy notes" This has been a daily driver for a coulple months now,very high quality, smells straight niche and you wont smell like anyone else. He could easily sell this formula to Ferrari and call it adrenaline, add a couple million in marketing/youtube give aways and make a monster dent in the market. 10/10 This doens't get to woody, to sweet, to spicy, to vegetabley, it just perfect.

I love this scent profile, reminds me of Villa Nellcote by 19 69 very closely but with a stronger amber, ambrocenide base. Definitely has a european strength with the ambery base notes. I do think there are certain components that go anosmic while wearing it, or nose fatigue causes you to stop smelling certain notes. I think Villa Nellcote keeps a more consistent transparent clean fruity floral musk and doesn't go as anosmic. But I do like this a lot! Villa Nellcote pushes more unisex while this has more of the modern amber strength of a mens fragrance. I wish the mid note scent profile held together for a bit longer.

Smells like fruity glue and body odour

I really enjoy the opening. I can see the comparison to aventus. My issue is - where aventus goes juicy pineapple, this doubles down on a strange animalic note. I'm having lots of trouble putting words to the note I have in mind. Frankly, I have no idea what it is, but I don't enjoy it. It's slightly morbid. It's as you sprayed a corpse with an aventus-like scent. I know that sounds harsh - and it is - But the scent doesn't smell bad overall. Really just the one particular note. I'm sorry - this is a really confusing review. Just get a sample. 6/10

Coriander is apparent right off the bat. I don’t see lime listed on the note pyramid but that’s what I pick up following the coriander. Pepper and woods come through next. Honestly, I don’t know what to make of this one. The scent profile is neither pleasant nor unpleasant. It comes off like something you would smell in a specialty salsa store (if those existed beyond my imagination).

What's the point of creating two different pages for one and the same fragrance? "ONE scent, two bottles" - states the ad. This frag simply belongs to HAP collection, there's no need to include it into PG Collection, if they go here as two separate brands.

couldn't agree more with OneBlueSummer. I feel each one of your words! incredible sensation, it's like the transposition of the amount of colours you would see in each face of a crystal dependin on the light. Chapeau!

This starts nice, reading very fougerey to me, but quickly turns "sweet & sour", not in a good way. The woody extended drydown is fine, but unremarkable, and arrives pretty quickly.

I can't get over the BO note. It kinda smells like sweat covered in sweet perfume. I'm really not digging this perfume.