Savile Row

This is a very interesting masculine floral; compared to its kin (D'Orsay Le Dandy?) it should be very thick and heady, but somehow it manages to be light and transparent. It opens as a kind of thin musk, with that group's usual sweetness toned down a lot, and offset by what I take to be just a bit of spearmint. The florals are already there (carnation?) but everything's held in check by a good dose of sharp spices that are close to the blend in Santos, though less dusty in the base. The spices seem to back off after a while, leaving wood to accompany the florals from before. I'm amazed at how dark and serious the florals are, yet not cloying or heady; I don't think I've ever seen a fragrance pull this trick off so well, though now I know I'll have to revisit Santos (and the Concentree!) and Floris #89. It's also not powdery in the usual sense (iris?) but has a different sort of sweet chalkiness that you might still attribute to talcum powder. I think the only useability problem with this stuff would be encountered in the men's room at an upscale restaurant or hotel. Namely, I've debated sometimes whether it either smells like an expensive liquid soap, a pleasant commercial air freshener, or as the worst case, a urinal cake or pad (unused, mind you). I also remember having the same thoughts about Le Dandy, and I think that it suffers from these associations a bit more because it has more fruitiness, so RJ is off the hook for that. Generally, though, I'd more likely treat it as a very thick Bulgari-type linen/laundry scent. And if I think of everything I disliked in Van Cleef and Arpels, Hammam Bouquet, JHL, C+S #88, or Ungaro III, this stuff manages to skirt around all of their pitfalls.

This was a blind buy based on the positive reviews & interesting ingredients.I am really glad I did,such an elegant "Gentlemanly" fragrance.It wispers discreelty quality & suaveness. The presentation is excellent,beautiful outer packaging reminding me of an exotic beach sunset.The bottle too is sculpted & fits in the hand comfortably with a reassuring heaviness.Simlar to the classic Halston for men "pebble" shaped flasks. From the other reviews I can smell the similarity to Santos de Cartier,then as the fragrance warms the flowery,woodiness becomes apparent.Maybe the tuberose as found in Givency Insense? On my skin the longevity is excellent lasting 6-8 hours. Projection is subtle,never overpowering but enough to get compliments. I would recommend this to gentlemen of any age.

Tuberose gives that waxy-sweet sultry feminine aura that I actually enjoy in many women’s perfumes. How could a tuberose-dominated fragrance be unquestionably masculine and classically-so at that? This is the magic of Savile Row. This floral cocktail (more than tuberose, though it is prominent) gets blended into a wonderfully sophisticated, debonaire fougere with tobacco and spices. It just works brilliantly. It gives the impression of a 1940s gentleman in a flannel suit, smoking a luxury cigarette, sporting a pomaded pompadour haircut. You might think it would create a dated, grandfatherly effect, but I don’t find this to be the case at all. This is such a unique fragrance that defies categorization - it’s its own creation and smells amazing. Mature, yes. Old, no.

This reminds me of Jaipur pour homme by Boucheron, but without the 'oriental' spices and incense. It has a similar delicate powder-iness to Jaipur, a kind of floral fizziness. But it remains masculine. It also fits the same kind of wearing for me as Jaipur, but because it lacks the degree of spiciness, it's more suitable for work and more adaptable for formal occasions. For me this a very versatile fragrance. The smell itself is excellent - 9.5/10. It's softer than Jaipur but appears to be long lasting. Excellent. It also reminds me of Insense by Givenchy - bit less sultry and evening. It has a similar musky caramel heart to Insense but there's a crisp edge on top which makes it more passable as a work fragrance.

This is a pleasant and well-executed example of the rarely seen/smelt male floral fragrance. It starts with a strong tuberose which gives a predominantly feminine aspect to the top notes. Soon it becomes mixed with tobacco and then moves into a floral-leather phase. I guess a lot of the notes listed above are subsumed into the floral aspect of all the stages. The end is very tenacious and it is a gentle amber/musk combo. It has a retro vibe, going back to a 70s aesthetics. It can be a unisex fragrance, easily worn by a woman. Very long lasting, almost impossible to wash off. Reasonably strong projection, too. It is unusual in many ways and definitely not a generic contemporary male fragrance.

The first time I tried it I wasn't sure about it, it seemed too mature, but I gave it a second chance, and then the magic happened. It's very complex, so I actually don't get everything listed. To me, it's floral(Tuberose, but not feminine in any way), green/herbal, and slightly powdery(not at all in a make up-y way; maybe it's the suede accord). It maintains a certain floral freshness even in the dry down, which I like a lot. When I sprayed it the first time on paper I thought it's spicy, but not at all on my skin or clothes. This would be great on a mature(35+) masculine man, especially in a suit and tie.

This is a wonderful fragrance. suitable for all year round and all occasions. finally a male Tuberous !!! a fragrance that leaves a mark. conquering women. It is dandy. elegant. herbaceous. .ricca floral notes. It opens harsh with basil, green tea, petit grain, rosemary and mandarin in evidence. then the spiciness of coriander and tuberous sweeten the smell. then tobacco and suede conclude this masterpiece. 10/10 longevity and sillage very good. I love this perfume. the other notes are a nice rose, amber, patchouli, oakmoss and sandalwood which also makes this creamy fragrance.

Yes, yes, yes! Pure joy bottled. A masterpiece up there with Insensé, The Baron and Nino Cerruti! Yves Cassar (the nose behind Intuition for Men) had created and eternal classy composition. Flowers playing in an orchestra with ginger, basil, tobacco, tea, lavender, petitgrain and patchouli. Heavenly. A stunning blend. THIS is what I call a true, charming, intelligent perfume! World class! Bravo Richard James!

I managed to pick up a bottle of this cheaply ten years ago and realised quickly that one wouldn't be enough so I bought a couple more. A lovely combination of floral notes, lavender, suede and tobacco that lasts all day, managing to be both bright and smooth at the same time. Savile Row doesn't remind me of any other scent I've tried, lasts a good eight hours, and is one I go back to regularly.

This is my best acquisition of 2019 hands down. The transitions to put it simply are floral -> tobacco -> amber -> musk. It sticks around for a long while but with a slight projection to keep it tame. After a full day the blending with my body chemistry is simply irresistible. A bit old-school but not dated at all. Very masculine. Perhaps suitable for Fall, winter and spring. Grade: A+

The big three. American Tiffany for men. German Escada pour Homme. And English Savile Row. All three are very classy and elegant perfumes. All of them were made to represent the quality of their brand. Savile Row is a tuberose, leather and tobacco mixture. Complex and with good staying power. A very sexy smell for an evening with your business friends or romantic moments.

The more I wear Savile Row the more I get a fine milky chocolate out of this fragrance. I still have the first release and can ́t tell how the new release smell like. The first fragrance was made in Italy. It ́s a coloured fragrance. The concentration is remarkable. Good staying power, soft but bright projection, and the most important, gourmand like chocolate smell.

PS: .....after wearing it now for 24hours, it is evident that - as every well blended, high quality fragrance - it becomes one with your skin chemistry & body heat and develops into different vibes & moods during the dry down. Much to my surprise it has some similarities with AD by Alain Delon which I truly love.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the striking similarity to Calvin Klein's Obsession. The opening is almost identical, although the drydown is slightly muskier. The longevity of Obsession beats this hands down though. 12 hours easily compared to 4-6 hrs from this. The scent however, is fantastic.

I ́ve received this perfume today! I confess i was curious to smell it! It ́s a fantastic perfume. I would venture to say that this is one of my favourites so far! Simply genious! I have to smell other perfumes from RJ. Great, great job on this one!

I ́m in love with this fragrance! I am going to buy another bottle before it is too late! I have a 50ml bottle, but it seems that it is not enough to me! Such a beatiful fragrance...

Absolutely gorgeous fragrance, very traditional, yet very modern and very versatile. My only complaint is that they don't do an edp version of this hidden gem.

Please ignore the 'Reminds me of' section. This is nothing like Caron 3, I wear both regularly, not even close.

The definitive parfum For a dinner. Wow.what performance! 10/10.

Savile Row is easy to like. Having been released in 2003, it was ahead of its time in its heavy use of ginger, a note that would come to dominate the 2000s in similar releases like Dolce & Gabanna The One and Dior Homme Sport 2012. The One toned down the florals and amped up the cardamom, while Dior Homme Sport 2012 removed the tobacco and amped up the ginger to breaking point. This trend peaked with the release of Tom Ford For Men, which is essentially a grown-up Savile Row with high-grade materials and the butch-factor turned up to 11. There are a lot of suggestions that Savile Row has a classical bent, but I wouldn’t go so far as to compare it to fragrances of the 1970s or 1980s. Savile Row is a suit and tie fragrance from 15 years ago, and that is retro and classic enough to understand what you will smell when you spray it. It is a product of its time, at the cusp of a new trend and borrowing the softest touches from the past. Savile Row opens impressively with a rush of supercharged molecules (possibly a form of aldehydes) that give tremendous lift to the bergamot, rosemary and cardamom (70s fougeres often employed aldehydes this way, it’s a lost art nowadays). When this opening accord exits after 45 seconds, the tobacco appears briefly for a few minutes, smelling faintly like cigarette smoke in a room. Then follows a mandarin-ginger accord that also smells great, supported by a floral mix that is pleasant but indistinct, and a tad plasticky or rubbery. Ofcourse tuberose has this rubbery facet, but a tuberose lover will be disappointed by the effort made here to represent tuberose even though the fragrance itself continues to smell good. In the later stages, 5 hours in, a smooth patchouli interacts with amber and suede and a mossy note. Thankfully Savile Row does not falter at these late stages, becoming cozy and seductive. It’s a shame that discontinued prices are now hovering around the $90-$100 USD because at that price I’d rather buy a discounted bottle of The One or upgrade to a discounted bottle of Tom Ford For Men. But since perfume collectors are rarely hostage to choices, this is a nice, sufficiently unique addition to a large collection.

Think back to the metrosexual trend of the first years of this century. Savile Row tailors were just a bit unable to accommodate the desires of the new metro men for more form fitting, flamboyant suits. Indeed, some would argue that bespoke tailoring is about unassailable quality that is utterly devoid of flamboyance. However, at two upstart shops on the fabled Row, Oswald Boateng and Richard James, shapes were more contemporary, linings were bright, fabrics were somewhat unconventional. This fragrance is the aforementioned Mr. James' attempt to accommodate the metro guys who were frequenting his establishment in 2003 with a vaguely gender indeterminate, or at least not overtly masculine, scent. As such, this scent has ample elements that are usually associated with women's perfume. The Tuberose is very strong. There are also noticeable lilly and sweet rose notes. These smells are mostly found in the heart of the fragrance. The opening is all citrus and tea with a bit of basil and ginger bridging the opening to the heart with a little spice. The base is "all man". Leather, tobacco and patchouli are augmented with a trace of vetiver and some oakmoss. It is all masterfully blended and it just screams quality. The overall effect is very nice. Dressy, unisex and elegant. I agree with those who say the performance is significant. Over application of this fragrance is to be avoided. It takes confidence to pull off this fragrance. Probably not a good choice for the young or the insecure. As of the date of this review, there are significant discounts available that are bringing the price of Savile Row to right around $50. That is a great buy for a fragrance this good, but I would advise trying before you buy if at all possible. Recommended.

Even after reading people's reviews, nothing can fully prepare you for what this actually smells like. You need to sample this for yourself. Also, it's misleading to categorize this as an aromatic fougere as Fragrantica does here - this smells nothing like a Beau De Jour or Trumper's Wild Fern or any other typical barbershop scent. This is unique - PERIOD. On here and on the back of the box, there are A LOT of notes. But the ones I pick up on the most are: - "clean starched shirt accord" (think what a shirt smells like after it's been washed/dried & then ironed) - green tea - slight herbal-peppery clean note - tuberose (i don't know what this smells like in isolation but if it's meant to smell like a banana then this is what I pick up on) - suede - leather - tobacco A complex fragrance. SIGNATURE SCENT worthy as I have no reference point or comparison. It's not completely my taste (so I won't keep it) ONLY because of what the combo of suede+leather+tobacco does to this scent for MY nose. Even then, I recognize that any other frag-head will UNDOUBTEDLY appreciate the effort & artistry put into this fragrance. Experience this scent for yourself - nothing you read here will fully & accurately describe this. For men who like it unique, classy and sophisticated. YT channel - The Scentrovert

I agree that this one is hard to describe, as it's pretty unique. Mostly tuberose, leather and tobacco, with a "chalky" feeling. The only one I have been vaguely reminded of is ELdO Vierges et Toreros, with a leather/tobacco accord in place of the metallic/leather accord. Its boldness (not the smell) reminds me of a lighter HdP 1740 (immortelle/leather). No similarities at all with D&G The One or TF for Men. Overapplying may have it become nauseating (not a projection beast, but still decent and strong whiffs can be perceived from time to time). That said, the tobaco accord in the drydown is really stunning, once the tuberose has calmed down a bit. Bottom line: tuberose lovers will love, tuberose haters will hate. For sure not a safe blind buy, but easier to pull-out than ELdO's imo. I like it, but probably not one I will reach out for very often. Fall days, 30+

At a basic level, this is a classic gentleman’s fougere with the twist of enhanced white florals not too dissimilar to the jasmin in Le 3e Homme but with the use of tuberose. It’s a bit sweet and reminiscent of bubble gum at the top but it settles down nicely and is far more masculine than say Fougere Emerald. It does remind me of, and may in fact be close competition to, the current formulation of the aforementioned Caron. As it dries down I find it more chalk like than powdery, and the prominence of rosemary hints at Reflection Man. Value for money here is exceptional. This fragrance livens up the classic structure of what might be seen as a tired genre and feels quite posh.

Traditional and slightly old fashioned yet beautiful! It actually very floral and reminds me a lot of classic chypre fragrances like Mitsouko and Chanel No 19. Bitter, floral and mossy, but quite balanced. It’s not too heavy, so I guess it’s really a nice “white shirt” type of scent.

A couple of years ago I wanted to buy it but in the end I didn’t until you could not find it anymore and then it popped up again and finally I blind-bought a 50ml bottle – for some people on Fragrantica this is like the holy grail. First of all the presentation is really basic – the only interesting about it is the dent in the bottle, the plastic cap is really cheap and crap, my first opening I almost destroyed it. My first impressions is that this is more a unisex fragrance than a men’s fragrance, I thought with the Tuberose it might be a little feminine but my partner disagreed immediately she said this is definetely masculine, she did not really like the scent, she thought to smell clove in the beginning but when I said there wasn't any clove in it, she said it's something spicy or tabac. I am not really sure if I like it or not, I have to wait for the dry down ... Though I only sprayed once on my arm – the scent is really noticeable for the first hour, I think because I smell a lot my arm I get easily nose blind with this fragrance. Maybe it’s because of the Tuberose but it reminds me a little bit of Franck Boclet Cocaine though Cocaine is very patchouli and Savile is more fresh, the sandalwood gets more noticeable in the dry down as well as the Lavender but this is not a barbershop fragrance, it’s more a white shirt fragrance, going to church on Sunday fragrance. The dry down becomes also more green and gets whiffs of similarities with Diptyque 34 Boulevard Saint Germain, just slightly they are not at all the same though the style of both fragrances and greenness are similar. When I first sprayed it, I thought this would be more appropriate for the summer though now I really think this a more a scent for the end of the winter and spring, don’t know if I will be wearing this a lot, my expectations were a bit too high for this one ... maybe I keep it a couple of years and I might grow into it, maybe I look for another fragrance to blend it with or in a couple of years it will be completely rare and could sell it for a premium on Ebay

I blind bought this because some basenotes forums suggest this is quite similar to Amouage Dia man. To my nose they are not similar at all. However Savile row is not a bad perfume, it’s a decent floral-leather frag. It has a dusty leather (more like suede) accord mix with tuberose, the way they implement the tuberose here is very different, it doesn’t have that unpleasant indolic smell, rather sweet and smooth. I get a faint tobacco smell in the background. It’s a decent and well blended perfume, but nothing groundbreaking. When you look at the those dreamy note pyramid I expected something beautiful than this..

From the listed notes and the reviews, it should have been a keeper in my collection; tuberose and suede sounds really nice. It was a disappointment from the first spray, where I could feel the alcohol together with a combination of white flowers with a vague and poorly made suede node. I have no issues with white flowers, but couldn't distinguish any particular flower, so my tuberose wasn't there. And the suede...a very cheaply made accord. It doesn't change much; the flowers become more prominent and the suede, thankfully fades to not even be noticed after a couple of hours which makes the fragrance to lean on the feminine side. Pretty powerful at the first spray and within the first hour. After that, it's starting to become closer to the skin and by the sixth hour it's almost gone. A real disappointment. Scent: 4/10 Longevity: 6/10 Projection: 6/10

Sometimes describing a scent is easier by defining the things it isn't : It is not a scent for dressing casually. It is not a strong projector. It is not overly masculine due to the tuberose. What you get instead is a great male floral cologne for suiting up, especially if you are working in a professional environment. It could be useful as a romantic dating scent and under any circumstances it is elegant and not your run-of-the-mill product. Spicy, heady tuberose with tobacco and leathery suede. A smell for colder weather indeed, sophisticated and long lasting. To be fair, the labels above are all interchangeable, but SR is very complex and yet well blended. Whatever memory you may have of a high street gentlemen’s store or area, this will fit nicely.

This stuff was a gift from my mum, ngl it was definitely not for me. Me and my friends both thought this stuff smelt like olbas oil, not to mention the insanely weak projection and longevity. This is the kinda fragrance that you put on for going out, except by the time you get there, it’s completely gone. Not for me personally

WOW. I am under 30 again and I'm in Savile Row London during Fashion Week with my boyfriend at the time. He is in a men's suit shop for a fitting. This is the best place for tailor made quality British men's fashions, particularly suits. Cary Grant used to go there to buy his suits. This smells just like I would imagine Cary Grant smelled. This is a very sophisticated, mature, elegant, gentlemanly fragrance that is asking you to wear it with a suit and only in a suit. In fact it's the type of cologne that is worn by men you always see in a suit and you suspect his closet is just full of suits. He has no Hawaiian print T shirts, no shorts, no T shirts with logos on them, just dress shirts. This is from another era of men's fashions; Mad Men, the 50's, the 40's, men who smelled like they meant business while conducting business. This frag opens up with what else citrus. A bergamot orange and mandarin juice is there from the start. But this is not a fruit. It's a cologne. Immediately you also get hit with spicy and aromatic scents in abundance: coriander, ginger, cardamom, basil, petitgrain, rosemary. It's herbal and no surprise there's a green tea scent. I like that it smells like tea because after all we're in London and it's 4 o clock tea time. The heart of the fragrance is floral, and the kind of floral heart found in women's fragrances. This is a unisex fragrance to me. I'm wearing it right now and loving it. The men at my Wall Street Rotary Club have never heard of this one and I haven't told them it's a man's cologne. I refuse to tell them what I'm wearing to give it an air of mystery but they are convinced it's a great woman's evening perfume. The floral scents include rose, lavender, lily of the valley and tuberose. The tuberoses are prominent and it surprised me. Tuberose in men's fragrance! It's like something Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard) would wear after all she "smelled of tuberoses". It's a strong almost gardenia like scent that does not apologize for being so fragrant. An equally bold strong rose is there too. I wish more floral scents could be in men's fragrances. These are strong flowers and they become smokier and darker when the fragrance begins to wear off and dry down. The base notes are deep amber, lots of smoky patchouli, sandalwood, vetiver and suede. All of the base notes are masculine and have a potency that lasts a long time. It's definitely a fragrance of power, confidence, ambition and guts. It's something for a Wall Street financier, a CEO of a company, your boss. It's also for women in the same role. I found it so beautiful. So sexy. So empowering. Maybe not all guys can pull this off but it's an invisible suit so put this suit on regardless of age. I want to smell this on more guys and some women. I love this stuff. It takes me to Savile Row every time, and I see so many great men's suits and they smell like this fragrance.

You've Got Style! That's What All the Girls Say! All Your Suits Are Custom Made in London! Savile Row (2003) By Yves Cassar Richard James' Savile Row is like walking into London's most exclusive high-end men's suit stores in the 1990's. Richard James is located at 29 Savile Row and he's been there since the 90's, one of the most upscale and elegant tailored men's wear shops in the UK rivaling even Italian fashion stores. As other reviewers have testified, this is a polite, conservative, elegant fashionable dandy gentleman's cologne. A refreshing citrus-floral aromatic fougere with dry notes of sandalwood, tobacco leaves, patchouli, oak moss, green notes, a chypre for men with nods to well known green colognes like Eternity for Men, Monsieur de Givenchy, Gentleman, Green Irish Tweed and Gray Flannel. Totally Brit. Formal but casual, flexible for day wear and evening wear, matching up with a suit and tie, dress shirts and slacks. Clean, no nonsense but hardly dull. If one had to picture one person that would wear it: Henry Higgins from My Fair Lady. For non fictional people: Daniel Craig, Prince William, Jude Law, Hugh Grant, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, David Beckham, all of whom are customers of Richard James' in Savile Row. Starts off with green notes and a green tea scent, herbal tea, with orange and citrusy scents like bergamot orange next to green leaves; a kind of tea scent for sure with spicy but not too spicy touches of basil, ginger and cinnamon, cardamom and coriander. These notes usually take me to a clean fresh place like a morning breakfast room in a hotel in London, like the Ritz, where one is dressed up for breakfast. The tea note is thoroughly Anglo-British and my cup of tea sort to speak. Possibly unisex I suppose (for women that can pull of CK Eternity or Gray Flannel) but I think the suede-leather and that tobacco aroma keeps it masculine. The scent is light and not an in your face fragrance at all. It's an aftershave and after-the-shower revitalizing tea and tonic for your day. The dry notes are based on green things: moss, the green leaves that surround lily of the valley, petit grain or orange blossom green leaves, Indonesian patchouli plant, and vetiver. Spicy-green and medicinal, botanical, herbal. Soothing and aromatic. The florals in this scent remind me of CK Eternity with a feminine touch or rather man in touch with his feminine side. The floral accords consist of rosemary, a major note of fleshy and creamy tuberose but for me the lavender at the top is the key player. This is a very clean very gentlemanly lavender, simple and very charming. Inoffensive. One can even wear this to the office for work, without risk. One of the better and vintage-like indies in the fragrance industry. The price is very affordable but you get a high quality cologne. Soundtrack Dress You Up In My Love Madonna

Richard James 'Savile Row' was one of a series of good, but sadly discontinued or otherwise significantly altered fragrances produced in the decade 2001-2010 from a number of houses that could have benefited from better marketing and could still be very popular today. I was very disappointed when I found out that it, and my other mid-2000s love, Arpege Pour Homme were discontinued and flogged off at dime store prices, making remaining supplies prohibitively expensive for this university student. Something about this perfume spoke to me in a way very few do. It reminded me of some of the better men's scents of the 70s and 80s, namely Lagerfeld and Santos, but minus the funk, and with a beautifully subtle yet distinctive tuberose-iris-suede-incense accord that was terrifically distinctive. No one has matched or mimicked it, for what ever reason. Whenever I wore this, I felt luxurious, well put together, but never ostentatious, which is what perfume should do. This evening, in trying to track another bottle down, I took a chance on looking at the Richard James website, the blog on which offered some very happy news: Savile Row will be "...coming back... Very soon," accompanied by a photo of empty 100ml bottles on a production line.

Now this is stupendous. Mind you, I have in my possession the grey box with the plastic violet ombré sleeve, so I can speak to newer formulas in more colorful boxes, but this is a gem for the ages that gets so little attention. For those gents who may be a bit reluctant to dip their toes into the waters of Lake Tuberose, wanting to avoid what may seem to be gilded lily florals, this is more than worthy of a sniff. It's an elegant, creamy tuberose with hints of concord grape, but these flowers have been imbued with the essence of cigars in a smoking room, getting intimate with some brushed suede. It opens with a ginger tea and herb melange, a bit punchy, but immediately smoothed over by the creaminess and suppleness of its heart. The ginger sustains as the tobacco leans into the tuberose and the overlap is reminiscent of Creed Tabarome Millesime's ginger/tobacco pairing, only better, more pronounced. The dry down is classically masculine and suave, with a sophisticated translucency, clean vetiver and clean patchouli, smelling like a freshly starched white shirt and Clark's suede Desert Treks. I'd recommend Savile Row for fans of Le 3e Homme de Caron, Hermes Equipage, or Lancome Sagamore.

In the UK, this regularly crops up in TK Maxx for about £15. If you're into perfumes beyond designer scents, just buy it. You will learn to love it. It's a veritable essay on the possibilities of masculine scents, from just before the "Oud-Food Deluge". A masculine tuberose shouldn't work, but it does - and triumphantly. It projects and lasts, too. It just makes you feel like summer on a bright day, yet it's firmly enough rooted in the base to be wearable year round. I don't really get tobacco or suede, but if others do, great. In truth, they threw everything and the kitchen sink at this, but it doesn't seem confused. You don't get note separation, with the exception of the creamy tuberose thread running right through it. It's like a traditional perfume in that sense, where you were supposed to get "one overall scent," not a sequence of strong individual notes. It's completely linear (not an insult). Although traditional, in the sense that it's meant to be "one scent," it reads as modern, because it plays with the masculine white floral. Genius.

A remarkable fragrance. Truly an outstanding, understated floral fragrance for men from a less known, British house. Richard James is a fashion designer (based in Savile Row, London, the home of quintessential British traditional male fashion). He is a men's fashion designer but very British and understated. Much like this fragrance. What I like about it is that it is traditional but at the same time modern and cool. The bottle is unusual and quite intriguing, and the scent itself is a fougere but not a boring, traditional one but a modern, vibrant, daring one. With tuberose, suede leather and tobacco, this gives an unusual mix to an otherwise conservative, masculine genre. I would put this amongst the great masculine florals of the last few decades, the one which comes to my mind is The Third Man by the French house of Caron . I would recommend this one to any well dressed gentleman out there. It's incredibly easy to wear and extremely pleasing. I would recommend trying it out if you have the chance.

Typically, masculine! Wonderful and superb fragrance that is made such as it suits all the occasions and may be used in all seasons, occasions round the year. This is a male tuberous that is addictive, dandy, elegant and amazingly floral. Opening is made up of harsh green tea, basil, rosemary, petit grain and mandarin. Heart is made up of tuberous and coriander, tobacco and suede. Truly a masterpiece. Long lasting longevity and silage is superb. Amazing notes of rose, patchouli, amber, oakmoss as well as sandalwood that makes the creamy fragrance. Strong tuberose gives somewhat feminine aspect but soon tobacco takes the lead and there is moving in to the floral leather phase. Tenacious end and gentle muskamber combo. Vibe from this is retro and the longevity is long lasting. Strong projection and this are actually a charming, intelligent and world class perfume. Amazing beauty!

On first application you can smell a combination of tuberose, rosemary and lavender and it smells very classy. After the lovely opening the scent gets very complex with facets of suede, green tea and a lot of other notes. It smells like Dia Man from Amouage though not as lush but certainly more interesting down to it's complexity. The projection is below average though the longevity is very good as I get several hours. This fragrance smells very chic and way more expensive than it actually is. Also the scent is quite unequal and enchanting. A real gem!

Opens with some classic vintage funk, probably white floral indoles. Created in 2003, but scent profile harkens back 15 or 20 years, so its retro, a throwback. Le 3e Homme de Caron from 1985, which I have in my collection, is a good comparison. Frankly, its a near-clone of the Caron. The floral, spicy, and powdery facets really ascend as the opening subsides. It's nice, but I have the scent profile in my collection already.

In a parallel universe, Gillette and Proraso used to put tuberose in their shaving foam, just because it's more fun than mint, juniper, lavender, all that "barbershop" stuff. Tuberose of the bubble gum variety, mind you. And it seemed so logical, no one would ever imagine it could be otherwise. Why in this universe did we lock tuberose forever in the white floral department?

Hidden Gem !!!! Fantastic aromatic fougere. Touchs of all the notes listed....blended so well. Each time I wear this, I get just a little differences. The floral aspects on some days are in the forefront,and other times....underneath...???....So neat !!! Unisex for sure. A love !!!

This is a beautiful fragrance and last ages on my skins,pretty sofisticated and an elegant scent, I get a good projection for an hour or 2 then it’s stays close to the skin but In a scent bubble for 6-8 hours . I love this

For me it smells like a burned-out flat after the firemen took out the fire and you can still feel the heat and the smoke and the mixed smell of melted-burn plastic and wood.

This has apparently been rereleased and according to Richard James it has not been reformulated(via online interview at fenwick website)

A stunning fougere ... standout green tea accord encapsulated with soft spices , fresh citrus & patchy woods .

The vintage in the grey box is insanely good. Masculine tuberose like nothing else on the market.

Exactly like cartier de santos