Valour

Robert Graham - VALOUR 🔆, 🍃 Outdoor Holiday Mood 🖼️ Hello good smelling Friends, wishing you all a beautiful Sunday. Spring season is near ahead of us so I want to share with you a very special one for this particular months. VALOUR is a scent that sets you in holiday vacation mood and setting. A perfect one to wear on vacation or when you need to step back from the routines, feel ease and slow down. It transports the wearer to a very nice outdoor lawnyard in daylight with few big trees that shade you from the sun. Soft whispering wind occasionally blowing give a perfect touch to the cozy atmosphere. At this moment it will best just to have the time for yourself and unwind. Sitting or laying at the ground to find comfort one with the mother nature. This fragrance is very airy yet has enough presence to be noticeable. Although it is composed from heavy notes I don't find any particular one distinctive to the nose. Mild aromatic spicy sage infused with a whiff of coffee and a very bright amber creates this vivid scenery in my mind. It will most likely suit the people who enjoy non intrusive scent with light ambery touch and also love coffee smell without the intention of wearing gourmand. People who loves Ambre Précieux from Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier and Givenchy PLAY Homme will definitely love it since it almost comes across like the combination of both. Thank you very much for your time in reading my humble experience with this one and hopefully you enjoy it. Always take care and have a lovely holiday 🪁 #vscentorientreview

Robert Graham Valour is a classy release, alongside two others from the house, from 2016, an easygoing yet interesting mix of clary sage, coffee, and amber. A little sweet, a little dirty, a little woody. Not too heavy, not too light. It has the vibe of both an everyday scent (for, say, all but the hottest weather) as well as something dressed up and special, and in that respect, it’s highly versatile as a targeted men’s option, though frankly it’s not stereotypically masculine, but rather just more mature-leaning, so I think anyone could wear this. It’s not groundbreaking but has that balance between being comfortably familiar and being intriguing to the point of wanting to continue smelling it. And it performs well overall, not with much projection but good longevity. I was fortunate to find a 100ml bottle at Marshalls a little over a year ago that I bought blind for $30, but the retail on this is still $90 (for final sale) on the Robert Graham website, so from that, I take that it’s been discontinued. It’s priced even higher on some secondary markets, it seems. At $30 it’s a steal, but it’s useful enough that the retail cost is reasonable, as well. There is also a decanter size on the website, $198 for 250ml, also on final sale. 8 out of 10

Updating my previous review a year later as my partner just got this out again for fall and this is still so nice! Super comforting and cozy. Lifespan may not be THE longest, but it doesn’t really go on a journey throughout the wear either (just gets less strong) so reapplying is uncomplicated. This is straightforward but not in a boring way, it’s very good at what it is, it just isn’t doing different things as you wear it - no notes emerging or receding, no plot twists or surprises. Just reliable and well balanced/blended. For the same reason, layering is definitely an option too. My partner has taken to layering this with Commodity’s Vetiver, and it’s quite a nice combo. Both fragrances are well blended and have this creamy, lactonic, balmy quality so they compliment each other extremely well.

What an amazing fragrance.now this is gourmand coffee fragrance. Its elegant seductive and unique. I have smelled a lot of coffee fragrances but this one beats them all. Its not a potent strong coffee scent but just right balance of it. The combination of amber and sage are awesome. It is very safe to wear because its not too strong to the nose. Wow awesome fragrance. This could be a signature scent a date scent or night out scent. Not too sweet. Everything in this fragrance is well balanced. This probably the best fragrance I've smelled in 2018. This fragrance resemble to tom ford noir extreme, dior homme intense la nuit de lhomme valentino uomo intense.you know that seductive sexy night out scent. Great on winter and cool breezy weather.

This is a favorite of mine. The scent lasts about 8 hours for me, but doesn't project a lot after the first hour or so. I find that it becomes less sweet with time as the amber fades, pushing the coffee and sage to the front. I think I saw someone compare this combination to cigarette tobacco. I can see why someone might make that association, but to my nose it is a very masculine contrast to the sweet amber. Perfect for fall and winter or cool evenings in the spring. This is a great scent for intimate settings. @Rob321x I think that people might have assumed that the scent was discontinued because bottles began to pop up at Marshals style stores.

This is an outstanding fragrance. I really wish this lasted and projected even more than it does already so everyone in a mile radius could enjoy its beauty. That said, it does last fair 6-7 hours and it does project fairly well. People near you will smell you. Now, this is definitely masculine but easily could work on a woman too. It’s somewhat sweet with coffee and Amber beautifully combined making this a well blended gorgeousness. Glad I bought it, wish I just bought the 250ml bottle instead of 100ml.

Such a beautiful autumn scent... Starts with gourmand coffee - slightly sweet, almost chocolatey, but not quite dark. As that backs away, it allows the note that's most prominent to me to shine - palo santo. I know it's not listed here on Fragrantica, but it is on the Robert Graham website. The spicy-woody palo santo/guaiac is smoothed out with some remaining coffee along with a bit of amber. It lasts a long time on me, even being able to detect it on my shirt and my skin 10-12 hours later.

This is good stuff !! Ambery, woody, slightly coffee oriental fragrance. I'd say it is unique but still very likable. Nothing harsh, notes are well rounded, nothing jumps out. It is on the sweet side but not sickly sweet vanilla or Tonka as other generic fragrances, that's been said: it is appropriate year round, but with caution in the summer, maby summer nights only. 9/10 I wish longevity and projection were better. I heared it is discontinued, catch it while still in good price.

This one is actually really nice! Smells more niche then designer despite having a very simple composition. I could picture layering this with Fortitude. Overall I get a wonderful coffee opening with the sage. Then the woods and amber round out the base to give off a warm spicy scent that is slightly sweet but still dry enough that it is not cloying. Very decent projection and longevity. Excellent quality and very nice looking bottles! Glad to see such good designer releases!

Manly and confident, great coffee note for about first three hours. Then the sage (sweet) note takes over midway through the scent's existence. That might turn some people off, a bit too sweet for me. Then the drydown mellows out towards the end but it isn't weak, still projects. I love the strong coffee in the beginning but kinda put off by the way it dies down and becomes sweet. If you wait it out it then presents itself as a respectable aroma.

Absolutely love this one, honestly i think it has niche quality. It was a blind buy gem, caught it a tj maxx for like 32 bucs. Definitely has more than the 3 notes listed, i totally get the amber and sage in the opening but to my nose I get leather and smoke in the dry down if it is coffe its a dark cacao type. Would love to try the other two from the line, but not willing to pay retail tho

I love it on me long lasting with about arms length projection for about 2 hrs..very pleasant relaxing smell..although I say arms length projection in truth it could go a lot further..I let my son wear a lot of my fragrances and it gives me more of a idea of 1 how far it may project and 2 sometimes a fragrance can take on a lil different smell in the air..love it .

This is a stunning masculine amber with a gorgeous sweet opening, an equally amazing effervescent wear, and a beautifully well-blended, warm amber and coffee dry down. This is a wonderfully unique fragrance that stands out from anything else in my wardrobe. Easily the stand out perfume from this first trio of releases. Well worth the money.

A girl came up to me on the subway and asked what I was wearing. I paused for a while and wondered what she was talking about (dumbfounded.) Then I realized that she was asking about my scent of the day. I told her, she wrote it down and told me she'll be looking for to buy this for her boyfriend. I guess I'll take it as a compliment..

This almost smells like a more "grown-up" version of Ferragamo Uomo. It's less of a gourmand but still sweet, thanks to the amber note, and you can pick up the coffee on the dry down. It's pleasant and quite unique, and the performance is adequate without being overpowering. You could probably wear this just about any time.

This smells 2-3x more expensive than Robert Graham's courage. There are definitely more notes than the 3 listed here - i get guaiac wood perhaps? Really reminds me of a less boozy Memoirs of a Tresspasser from Imaginary Authors (in fact I think these could be a nice layering pair). Definitely feels "niche"

this feels like a bright ambery coffee scent. it's not heavy - which you may expect from the notes of amber and coffee. it's lighter than many scents with a similar note breakdown. very easy to wear - for any situation. with a current price tag in the mid $40's, this is an easy blind buy. 6/10

All 3 from Robert Graham just DRIP pure masculine class. I don't even know what order I would rank them in, they're all in 1st place. Longevity is great in all of them and sillage is low-medium which is absolutely perfect for a sexy blend such as these!

Smells as if Halston Amber Man and Bvlgari Black had a love child. A very nice amber that mellows to a powder. Classy and expensive smelling. definitely for cooler weather, but not heavy. Good longevity average sillage. Nice.

People selling these fragrances on eBay and Amazon should be banned lol. All trying to sell this fragrance for 200$ For a 3.4oz saying it’s discontinued. It is not. It is always in stock on Robert Grahams website for 90$.