Royal Bourbon

I don't understand why people on frgrantica tend to press the similar button. This fragrance is not at all similar to Kilian. In Kilian, there's a lot of sugar, whereas here you can really smell the alcohol, the spiced, woody rum in all its splendour !!!! At first, it's a little sweet, but the spiciness keeps it from being too sticky and sets it apart from other fragrances in this category. Then, it's a fragrance with a lovely woody amber base, and the vanilla is light and doesn't weigh the fragrance down. You really have to try this fragrance on your skin, as it tends to be a bit greedy on me at first, but on my husband it's so different. Too beautiful on him, I'm jealous 😔. It's really well balanced and subtle. A unisex without hesitation. Rum flavours are often too greedy sometimes bordering on elegant. Here everything is different. I can smell the tobacco in the background, but it's sublime and very subtle. Holds very well and fortunately for me doesn't project for miles😀, the trail exists but it's subtle. From time to time I smell my own wake. This perfume gives a relaxed atmosphere, for the evening it is simply magnificent!!!

This one is a total shape shifter! it opens cinammony and spicy with a combination that comes off like clove just for a few mins...then it becomes caramelly and has a similar rum note to pirates grand reserve. Spot on unisex and radiates really well. I imagine it could be the sort of scent you could have a different experience of each time and it would be fairly weather dependent. I'm looking forward to wearing this more. No nasty amrboxan and smells quality. I love pirates grand reserve but this smells more classy...and more complex...with enough star anise in the base to keep it interesting and a little sweet in the special way liquorice can be. update 7 months later...if you like tobacco vanille you will probably like this...but this has a bit more going on and is definitely less sickly...If tobacco vanille was the teenager this is the young more sophisticated adullt.

Hey hey hey This smells like the beginning of a good decision to just go out have one drink maybe watch a game but you have one drink too many bourbon is spilled and bad decisions are made. What a strong definitive scent. Full bodied whiskey with broody plum and sweet vanilla wrapped in thin wisps of licorice. Perfect for the season of cool and cold. 4.2/5 Lasts. Has sillage. But smells like a melange of frags in the same space.

This smells very close to Lataffa's Oud Thameen without the brighter opening. The ginger is what keeps it brighter in the opening so I actually prefer that one, plus it's like $30 🤷🏾 This one the black pepper stands out more in the opening. The dry down Royal Bourbon sticks to the caramel and tobacco notes primarily while Oud Thameen you smell ginger, coffee, vanilla

I got a lot of cinnamon sweetness and booze. For the winter it’s a beauty and so much finer than Angels Share which is in a similar group to this. There’s a lot there to dive into but the throw is a deep spiced vanilla. If any leather shows up I’d be delighted but as of yet, on me, it’s hasn’t. Dressy, evening but I wear it in the day just because it’s nice.