Moustache Eau de Toilette Concentree

This fragrance takes me back to the days when I had a moustache, wore short sleeve patterned cotton outdoor shirts and corduroy pants - it's borderline retro but still so hip it's feels more cutting edge than most contemporary fragrances. It has that clean everyman feeling. Masculine and fresh yet a little dirty - like when you first start sweating while still fresh froma shower - and quite natural. It has one of the best 'warm' lemon openings of any fragrance I have tried. It also has that typical Roudnitska powderiness to add a bit of dry freshness. The best way I can describe it is if you smell a cut lemon that was freshly cut that has been sitting in the sun for a few hours. It is still incredibly fresh but has just started to go dry. When I smell it directly on my skin I get that prominent citrus/warm lemon and a black tea note saturated with forest edge buckwheat honey, something very comfortable and nicely stale from an oakmoss, basil, rose and jasmine accord ... BUT, it has a clean, fresh honey, lime, basil and rose scent when I sniff the fragrance through the fabric of my shirt. I sprayed both arms and am sniffing one directly on my skin and the other arm through the fabric of my shirt and they are two similar yet different scents. I'm not sure how the fabric might filter certain molecules, but the scent through the fabric has noticeably fresher, more photo-realistic citrus and cleaner floral and honey tones. It smells familiar to the point of seeming natural. Like a scent I wouldn't be surprised to find outdoors but distinctly human as well. For those of you familiar with the scent of bee hives and natural bees wax, this fragrance has a little of that beautifully pungent quality that I have not experienced in any other fragrance to date. I own the current formulation of this fragrance and have been enjoying it immensely this past week. I'm looking forward to how this wears in warmer temps. Quite possibly the best invigoratingly manly cologne ever created ... EVER! It is a fragrance that paints a picture of of a warm sun filled day outdoors in the drying grass with moist soil underfoot. It is fresh and vibrant and alive. EDIT : (6-24-13) This wears beautifully in warm and even hot dry temps - that said, I think it is perfect for brightening up gray autumn days outdoors as well. EDIT II : (11-27-13) I really admire how unique this fragrance is. Cold weather - no problem - it takes on another character and remains fresh and sharp. Hands down one of my all time citrus heavy favorites and I just like it more and more as the years go by. Smells so natural. EDIT III : (02-08-14) Wow, what a great opening 'warm' lemon powderiness. Nothing like it. Beautiful.

Epic Journey Into the Bottled Yonder, 159 ------------------------------------------------------- Purchased September 2019 - NOS One of the greatest citruses, that happens to also be mildly sweet, I've ever had the pleasure of spraying onto my skin. It's very nostalgic and old-fashioned. With the typical comments aside what I had received was an obvious NOS unit. Not sure how long it had sat for in the warehouse it was obviously stored in, since they perhaps made millions of these back in the day eventually remaining unsold surplus. The code imprinted into its sticker underneath is 102, I believe as it's hard to read correctly, and CheckFresh doesn't come up with anything - just Error invalid data. What I had to do to take out the moth ball smell it came with inside the fluid was take the bottle outside and spray it at least 10 times, I probably did that twice. I remember going hard on the atomiser one or two different times. About half a week later it was good as new, hasn't smelt bad since. This was the first time I ever encountered a mAcErAtIoN situation, before anybody ever talked online about "letting it set". I came up with the spray 10-20 times before wear technique. Holy shit this stuff is amazing! To the guys who have messed up bottles or find piss overpowering all the notes you are ALL MISSING OUT! This beats the hell out of YSL Pour Homme to me, particularly at the time I purchased this EDT Concentrated bottle. My bottle looks the same as pictured above. The label is actually a sticker so I can't ever touch that part of the bottle because it's not that strong/sturdy. In the wrong climate it'll peel off and away but our climate here is beautiful, can wear almost anything year round hence a lot of my strange votes. In the old days even when overseas we also wore anything and never questioned what times of year should be left for fresh and for dark and textured stuff. The internet really has given everybody trigger warnings. Yes some things downright stink at the wrong time but for the most part that doesn't actually happen. Right now everybody wears safe crap permanently and I'm sick of it.

I don't understand the hate here for this fragrance. Come on, you knew this is a 1940's scent, what did you expect, seriously. It's certainly not for everybody. It's uber-masculine and anything but modern. Sure, it has a dated vibe, as expected, and there's nothing wrong with that. Hell, the Mona Lisa is "dated" too and she's just as impressive today as when she was painted. In short, Moustache is a dirty citrus with musky woods, and dried almost skunky florals with some soil (dirt) thrown in for some earthiness. I could see the rugged steel workers of the 40's wearing this with their Irish Ivy Caps after work, as well as the crooked bankers on Wall Street in their pinstripe suits and feathered fedora hats. Men of that era had some serious class! "Snowflakes" back then only existed in the winter. If you get my drift. Would I wear Moustache on a date or to the office? Hell no. I'm well aware most people will not find this pleasant at all... particularly those not into perfumes. As for me, I love to wear it at home when I'm alone watching a classic movie (e.g. Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, etc.) or when I'm puffing a hand-made cigar while reading a Hemingway novel when the wife is away (she does not like this fragrance at all). Nevertheless, Moustache is a true work of art created during the glory years of perfumery. In summary, Moustache is a masterpiece that only a few will appreciate... in particular those that understood the genius of its creator! I'm not saying I love it. But I enjoy it at times because it catapults me back to the golden era of America. if you are a fragrance collector and you don't have this in your collection... then don't kid yourself - you are not a true collector. RIP Edmond Roudnitska.You put a dent in the universe with your brilliant creations... Eau Sauvage and Moustache. In the world of men's fragrances you shall live eternally as a Saint.

This one smells real good. Certainly a twist from what vetiver lovers might like for example. I mean it definitely has a mature appeal. I get mostly herbs in this. rosemary, thyme, marjoram, whatever. a lot of sage. yeah maybe even basil. smells like kitchen herbs, a bunch of them, and also a touch of dried lemon, like lemon peel. It smells real great and I have not smellt something like this, and there is probably not anything smelling of herbs on the market these days and it could not be in the current fashion. I read someone say it has candlewax. I can see that, it has a scent in it kinda waxy, but like the smell after I put a candle out. I think this is very interesting and nice. I can only hope it is or becomes more available, and is not discontinued, since I might really like this. I just recently got it. I have the same bottle as pictured, but the box is obviously old - and the ingredients list is a sticker with about 5 ingredients. Not sure if this is discontinued or still being made. I think - though I really like the somewhat rugged but charming herbal kitchen herbs and candlewax smell - I think the perfume must have gone off. I know when they have, they may be weaker or have a sort of stale smell up top, which mine seems to b e. /but it is nice, and I guess they should just keep making it and hopefully it is not simply a relic at this point.

another great scent for the springtime. this scent is a lemony scent but is very dry and full of kitchen herbs like a dry rub for grilling or something. There is a good amount of lemon, but it is also a dry lemon or citrus like dried citrus peals. after a bit, a pleasing light floral boquet comes into the picture, a melange of florals including lavender among others. there is a certain "waxy-ness" in the fragrance, particularly up top, but also later on, and I am not sure if that is a true part of the scent or if the bottle has turned over the decades. in any case, it still smells fine. On getting the brand new produced bottle "original1949" I can tell this vitange has gone a bit stale, most noticably on the top with that waxyness. The scent is the same though basically. In this vintage the lavender and the citruses have basically gone stale and became a muddy waxyness in the opening and mid parts of this scent. The newly made version is fabulous, and I can actually smell how lovely this fragrance really is. Thats the problem with "vintages" which I would just call "old" they go stale and flatten out after a period of years. Maybe after about 5 years or so they start going stale, and certainly after 10 most have gone quite stale