L'Aigle de la Victoire

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! L'Aigle De La Victoire is an uncompromising, straight-forward and extremely potent skanky / woody leather that immediately gained a spot up there together with the most popular testosterone-monsters in this genre. I'm gonna give you a bunch of parameters so that you can't say you haven't been warned of what kind of monster this is. Rien and Leather Oud are the first ones that come to mind. If not for objective similarities (which are there BTW), surely for their striking and uncompromising iterations of leather...but then also, Boadicea The Victorious Complex, Mazzolari Lui, Montecristo, Oud 27, Yatagan, Parfum D'Habit...ok I'll stop it here. So, it's an hardcore sweaty leather with a thick animalic presence and green-resinoid (incense) facets. A dirty patch note reinforces the overall dark-woody vibe by providing a kind of creepy vein. The most interesting aspect though, is that L'Aigle De La Vctoire is built around an extremely classic bone structure that brings to mind of several masculine chypres of the past while still feeling anything but derivative. Again, thick, ballsy, daring and, in the end, even reasonably priced. Kudos to Rancè 1795 for delivering such a anachronistic and unapologetic beauty. Tremendous sillage and beyond exceptional longevity. Skank-lovers, you've been warned. The others, should probably stay carefully away from this. Rating: 8.5-9/10

Rance 1795 L'Aigle de la Victoire. the blast of patchouli and leathery notes in the opening is harsh and it comes so suddenly like thunder striking on your head in midnight. very soon, i recover from the shock and now i can pick the mysterious birch note and it's getting stronger but tenderer at the same time. it's like i'm stepping into a forest somewhere in Europe. it's cold and quiet first. i sense danger coming out from somewhere at anytime. however, this scent has become so comfortable that calms me down... it's like a shelter to protect me from harm. i feel fantastic being covered by this scent. the very final touch that i get at the end is very similar to that i get from Carner Barcelona Cuirs, which i also adore very much. L'Aigle de la Victoire is by far my best blind buy in 2016! it lasts over 24 hours on paper and approximately 10 hours on my skin. great sillage.

Bonaparte, then and now = reformulation I am a huge fan of this classy-beastly sophisticated, mannered animal. I hate it that Rance reformulated it back in 2017-2018. The bottle I own is the original formulation and it smells divine. Takes me back to an era I dont know- European Middle Ages. So vintage, so SMOKY, so masculine, such a beastly performing scent. All went away with the reformulation due to IFF new restrictions, I reckon. Nr 1 don't blind buy. It is extremely unique, and unmatched with any tabacco scent you may have sampled, including AKRO Smoke. The old formulation is in my top 5 fragrances of all times (so far).

Beautiful. An animalic expression of birch and leather. At first I thought it smells like excrement, a lot of excrement in a bag. Wrong. This is not it. To me it's birch at its best, wrapped in leather and some musk plus some spices to make it even more interesting. Longevity and sillage - both are through the roof. I had to take three(!) showers to wash it off me for good. This is a winner, the best fragrance released in 2013, without any doubts.

it is a dirty very masculine scent it smells like sweat and foot odor it is so attractive that you love it every time you wear it i love it from the first moment i smelled it it is the smell right after sex it attracts you so much that i wonder when i see another person that i don't know about myself. i think every man should wear it at some point in his life when he wants to feel the ultimate sexual being. you will love it i am sure.