Stone For Him

Some perfumes can be dissected within a couple of paragraphs. Some others are just hard to explain within several pages. Stone for Him should not be a complex fragrance. It has not been released by a high end designer with a tradition in "old school" scents. The notes are quite common and their arrangement seems to be a logic one bearing in mind that the target customers are under 25 of age. Having said that, I inform you that I have more than the double of the Replay target market age, and, judging by his comment in the statement below, so does Elysium. I love this fragrance (... and so does Elysium). It's a bit synthetic. It has some metalic harsh accords and it's not really the type of fragrance that I usualy like and wear. Nevertheless I love it, and most certainly I will buy another bottle when I finish the current one. Probably it's the sequence of a strong elemi resin top note, followed by a powerful sweet cinnamon, and "finished" by an ethereal musky accord of labdanum, amber and benzoin, that defeated my helpless logic nose. The fragrance has a magnific sweet and balsamic evolution, from head to bottom, and its resulting effect is just very very nice as far as I am concerned. Performance in my skin is above average. ________________________________________________________ Opinion on "Stone for Him": Love it or hate it polarising type of scent! Other people may have the same reaction! Blind buy worthy? No, it's better you try it before you buy it! ________________________________________________________

This is all about cloves with amber. It's sweet but not overly sweet. Very spicy cloves (almost incense-y), well balanced amber, mild musk, intensive black peper, strong elemi resin, strong nutmeg, mild labdanum and faint cinnamon/styrax/cedar. Sillage/projection are good moderate, I'm still evaluating the longevity. If you love cloves give it a try.

This actually started out quite good, wow i was thinking finally a good one from Replay, but no i was wrong 15 minutes later the only thing i could smell was some pepper and synthetic cinnamon not very special at all.

I think this is unisex. It has three very clear stages on me, more than any other perfume I've tried. Stage 1: Really nice lemony/creamy resins with a lot of black pepper and cloves. Love! Lasts maybe an hour. Stage 2: Just cinnamon. Sweet and pleasant, but rather flat and boring. Lasts maybe an hour or two (I wasn't paying attention and it didn't really register). Stage 3: Resins resurface, but this time they're more jammy/syrupy. A much more interesting smell, but gets more and more bothersome and cloying as time goes on, and by the end of the day, although I didn't *dislike* the smell or find it unpleasant, I found it a bit headachey and irritating and really, really wanted to stop smelling it. This stage is unfortunately the longest. I don't know what to make of it, might have to try it a few more times in different weather. Projection and longevity v. good.

Good lord this fragrance is terrible. I sprayed this in the car on the way home from buying it and the passengers and I almost died. It’s the kind of thing I’d imagine alien beings might smell like, assuming, of course, that they had no noses.