Ultimate Aphrodisiac

Omg I LOVE this! I already love Navitus The Embrace (NTE), but I was having a hard time trying to decide if I wanted to get this or Reserve Exclusif (RE). I ended up going the safe route (getting this and a sample of RE), and I can definitely say I made the right choice. Like others have said, this is a louder, sweeter, and more amplified version of Navitus The Embrace. Ultimate Aphrodisiac (UA) is a more gourmand version, with more sweetness and chocolate / cocoa butter. It is a lot more linear than NTE too. Personally, I think that's a good thing. It's like if you cut out just the opening of The Embrace, and then took that piece and amplified it. The green notes & vetiver that's in NTE never comes in. Instead, the drydown for me leans more caramel-y and honeyed. So addicting. The performance right off the bat is also better than NTE. UA is both louder and longer lasting than NTE (altho, my NTE did get better performance after maceration). Overall, I'm super happy with this scent. Someone below said it's a less refined version of NTE, like a rough draft. I kinda agree. It is less refined, but that's not a bad thing for me. It scratches an itch I get from NTE -- when I just want to douse myself in it bc I just can't seem to get enough. And also, when I want the gourmand opening chords to stay, but the vetiver has already started singing. Now, I can have the best of both worlds. If I were to make a comparison, Navitus The Embrace is like Emily Gilmore to Vivamor Ultimate Aphrodisiac's Lorelei Gilmore (Grandmother and mother in the Gilmore Girls). Same family, same genes, but one is more subdued and refined, while the other is more loud and sweet.

OMG this is amazing! It’s the best gourmand fragrance I have ever smelt!❤️ I got this as a birthday gift from my sister and it has become my favourite gourmand fragrance ever! This smells creamy and boozy and sweet and nutty and syrupy all at the same time. It smells like cacao butter with almonds, vanilla and boozy chocolate. The chocolate isn’t the most pronounced note but it gives a lovely edible touch to the fragrance. I mainly smell the cacao butter, almonds and vanilla. I personally don’t really get the coffee, and I wouldn’t say it is a coffee fragrance at all, at least not to me personally. When you first spray this you get a delicious mouthwatering blast of almonds, boozy chocolate and cacao butter. It is soooo mouthwateringly yummy. Once it dries down, the chocolate settles and it becomes mainly a cacao butter and syrupy vanilla scent. 🍦🧈🍫🥃 Even though I tried to describe it as best as possible, I still cannot describe how amazing and delicious it is! It’s syrupy and creamy and sweet and nutty. Amazing! You will literally smell like a walking snack. I can’t stop smelling my wrist it’s just divine! Also, it is so delicious and gourmand but still wearable and it has a nice high quality perfumey touch to it which keeps it from becoming too cloying. Also longevity and sillage is great! I sprayed it at night and I woke up and I could still smell it! The sillage is also strong and it smells lovely in the air. Overall this is 100/100 it’s my new favourite perfume and I’m in love 😍 I will probably need a back up bottle soon I cant stop spraying this lol

This comes off smelling like an almond+deep vanilla fragrance... It has depth, and I do gey some cocoa too (more cocoa buttery than dark chocolate). It is fantastic and intoxicating. What a lovely grown-up gourmand. It projects a little above moderate and gives a nice scent bubble and noticeable silage. Coffee in the base makes sense, giving the depth of the perfume and that touch of gourmand-earthiness I am picking up (but it is not overly earthy at all). Well-blended. Reminds me of something similar to Initio's Absolute Aphrodisiac but more gourmand. Or Amouage's Material (another favorite!). This is something like the gourmand version of those types of perfumes. Great for colder weather, date nights or just wearing around the house for yourself to enjoy in your own delicious silage. 🥰

THE yummiest, mouthwatering gourmand yet perfumey enough that you can't drink it!!! IT IS INCREDIBLE! This is distraction central, I could not focus on the movie was busy salivating from smelling my wrist and it lasts so well on the skin. A winter baby for sure. Just go sample it and be hooked like the rest of us(gourmand lovers)!

This is fucking delicious. Like others said, smells like a sweeter the embrace. I bought the embrace due to its unique nuttiness and this one has that but with a more saccharin edge. I just sold my bottle of the embrace in place of this. They are too similar to justify having both.