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I'd say so. It launched it's own line.

It's very good!!

The extrait is thankfully different than the EdP

I'm so glad you got one. It's epic.

Rugger came out a year after this, but I love Rugger too, very much!

That's how it was pronounced in the old French TV commercials, but honestly I don't really care how you say it, so long as you enjoy the scent. 🤣

Thanks! Hope it was helpful!

If you like this, try Caron Le 3ème Homme/Third Man/No. 3

@Varanis_Ridari For Caron third man, I've tried the vintage, in the green bottle, I didn't like it. It reminded me of like a weird cartiers roadster. I've also tried the newer version of it, that I did like more, but still not a lot, it reminded me of cappuci pour homme but not as good. For some reason this scent reminds me of chergui the newer formulation. I know you have a vast knowledge of vintage as well. Have you heard of anucci pour homme? A lot of people haven't, it's another hidden Gem. It smells like the inspiration for malles Carnal flower, but more natural, it's amazing.

I've heard of Anucci pour Homme, but never smelled

To be honest, it's closer to the discontinued Eau Trés Fresh if were comparing to Hermès.

I have the vintage too. The newer bottles are like cutting the base back and the top notes increased. Feels rebalanced instead of reformulated. I prefer the heavier, more ambery treatment.

Lmao

Smelling me as a man takes on a whole new meaning depending on what club you go to.

Got a few other random things super cheap today...aura by jacomo and an original bijan for men with the word "cologne" on the back of bottle lol

Aura is great, and don't stress the Givenchy Gentleman. I have that bottle and it's a good patch. Better than Giorgio.

That quote was taken out of context and fundamentally changed by omitting the first part of it, where I said many guys outside the "FragComm" do as follows., not the "FragComm" itself.

@Varanis_Ridari oops, sorry about that. I was trying to paraphrase

@@Varanis_Ridari So you're implying you took the check and left the restaurant without paying? Just kidding

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Oh yeah. Definitely recognizeable as Paco Rabanne, just maybe not as deep or musky. Definitely sharper and soapier. I have close to 1st bottle, and close to most recent. Both are good in slightly different ways. Can't go wrong with any Paco Rabanne pour Homme.

Thanks. I'm just gonna go with the current bottle.

That's what I did, then went backwards to sample older

Back-back-back burners for me

I can see the sweet lavender for sure

Is it bad I own everything you mentioned, including the Youth Dew? 😅

Crazy how that happens. Vetiver Extraordinaire is an expensive do-over.

@@Varanis_Ridari Actually "do-over" on VE might be misclassified...My first bottle ran out (didn't bail out on it really) But I went three years before replacing it. I know it's one your "favorites."

D'OH... forgot my best "second chance" frag- Rebought L'Instant de Guerlain last year A fantastic, underrated scent.

I should resample it, but Malle has mostly left US counters aside from Bergdorf in NYC and Neimans in Texas. What Nordstrom has is only the newest.

@@Varanis_Ridari I dunno. It is stupidly priced but I allow myself one or two dumb purchases per year. There is really and truly no shortage of good vetivers, but this one got in my head somehow. Maybe I just bought cuz there's a really cute SA in the very cool Malle boutique in LA.

So there are now two fans of Navy for Men in the world.

They very well could be mods that were reworked into different fragrances. Very famous cases of that include the bulk of Creed's output when Pierre Bourdon was a ghost perfumer, although little to no reworking done in that particular case. Also we've seen rejected ideas become fragrances for other brands. A rejected Bel Ami by Bourdon was the start of the GIT/CW pipeline; a rejected Poison by Dior became Alain Delon Iquitos; a rejected idea for Acqua di Giò pour Homme became Antonio Banderas Blue Seduction. I've also seen fragrances hop the gender fence from male to female, or female to male. Caron Tabac Blonde was initially meant to be the first marketed men's fragrance by Caron. Both Old Spice and Canoe were initially conceived for women, and Dunhill Cologne from 1934 was considered unisex until men liked it more and it became Dunhill for Men. Ho Hang by Balenciaga had a similar situation, just in a much shorter period of time. Balenciaga Portos was also an unused idea for Marbert Man, as Marbert owned Balenciaga at the time. Then you have the "Halston Twins" of Z-14 and 1-12. Only one was supposed to be chosen, and Roy Halston Frowick famously declared to release them both, meaning they had to scramble packaging original meant for one release to fit two. My point being none of this chicanery should surprise anyone, but also I wouldn't necessarily see any of this repurposing as an intent to steal sales from an established release. Ganymede for instance, hadn't even been out a year, so it's success wasn't yet known.

It's not the most exciting thing, YSL L'Homme, but I like it

Thanks a ton!

@ ​​⁠Yw! Never smelled anything from this House before - thinking about picking up their 10 piece sampler set.

Do it! Nothing fancy here, just simple, well-made niche style. Definitely very 2005 vibes for me. No big trendy sugar bombs, no synth ouds, no BRventuslayton clones, and good prices.

I absolutely could do that, and include some under-appreciated gems from that category.

You're welcome!

Haven't smelled Patchouli Mania myself, but Mon Vetiver is definitely a good one

I admit it can be overdone, but it's nice here.

It's middle of the road performance, but for the price of $60USD, that's not a big deal. If you layer with the lotion and other products, it'll last all day.

@@Varanis_Ridari ok great, thank you for your reply

You're welcome!

It's a nice house, just nothing mind blowing

I want to try the soaps myself

I appreciate it!

It's made creating content a bit more difficult however, but I manage.

I've smelled clones, and these aren't that. Tons of brands have fragrances that are similar. Every aldehyde chypre in the wake of No. 5 from 1921 until the style faded by 1980's wasn't a clone of it, for example. Maybe some were more interested in imitating success than innovating (especially by the 50's and 60's when the style was everywhere), but I wouldn't say Joy or Caleché were clones of Chanel.

@@Varanis_Ridari Well but when a good amount of the fragrances in their line up smell similar to others in the market humm I think that is very suspicious, maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm too paranoid but I can't see past that fact, as you said there are tons of brands doing something similar and I guess that's why I had a problem to describe this brand as different... thanks!

I've played this game with Drakkar Noir and Paco Rabanne pour Homme recently as well. Each of those spawned dozens of imitators, some brought a new spin, and some not. For every Drakkar Noir there was a dozen Taxis, Xeryuses, Caesars Man's, AD Pluses, Nobiles, and so on. Difference here is people tend to venerate and worship them for being old and discontinued.

I'd be more sad for the person trying to break in, because we're armed.

@ let's assume you're not home 😭

Someone always is. We all work as security professionals in my house. Risk reward prospects are low, my dude.

@ just follow along with the question 😭. Ok let's make it simpler, let's say you take 10 of your favorite bottles on a trip, which 3 would you be the most sad if they broke on the trip?

Well, if there were 3 fragrances I'd be most sad if broken, it's probably my late father's Old Spice (passed away in 08), my mom's Avon Bird of Paradise (her favorite perfume), and the bottle of Joop! My old best friend back in Baltimore gave me 30 years ago, even though I actually hate wearing the stuff. Everything else is replaceable or I can get over.

The New York Times wouldn't pay a schmuck like me with no degree, credentials, or vouch from anyone in that industry. It's all cronies and nepos if you don't have the skin on the wall, who you know etc. I crawled out of a dumpster far as they're concerned.

Dabbling? Probably. Simple used to be the name of the game for niche in the 00's.

The patchouli is next on my list

That's fair!

I appreciate it!

Same. Only way you can get them. Resellers charge more.

The original version of Ho Hang was released by Marbert. They bought the house after Christobal died. Bogart then bought Balenciaga from Marbert a decade later and relaunched the fashion side too. They had it about 15 years then flipped it to PPR (now Kering) who farmed the perfume license out to Coty, killing off all the previous Balenciaga fragrances. Marbert Ho Hang vs Bogart Ho Hang are not a ton different because perfumers Jacques Jantzen and Raymond Chaillan were with Firmenich, who owned the formula. Any reformulation done would have been by request therefore, and the only materials that Bogart might have cost-cut in the early 80's was orris butter. Everything else (sandalwood, oakmoss, etc) was not restricted or cost-prohibitive. What *DOES* happen is wilting of the mostly-natural citruses used in the top notes, so it is much harder to find a well-preserved Marbert bottle than to find a Bogart one. Even my 3 bottles show different stages of wilt on the bergamot and orange oils. All of them are going to be extremely expensive anyway. This is a unicorn. You won't do better than $200 (probably more like $300-$400 these days), so just get what you can.

It wasn't very unique, but it also wasn't specifically following anything else. It has a real "Goldilocks" quality that made it the signature for many. Like YSL Jazz some 18 years earlier was very by-the-numbers too, but held its own.

It's a L'hommerun

@@Varanis_Ridari :D

That's a lie, but I appreciate the attempt! Being American is like a -5 to languages, including our own Americanese English!

No problem 👍

I have no idea what you're trying to say.

@ , some fragrance note you mentioned skelarmie ?

Sclarene? It's derived from sage

Do you use that much of it?

@@Varanis_Ridari Not sure which you mean. Don't wear the Versace or the Prada often. If I was still in office job, I'd probably wear the Prada a lot more. I should wear the Versace more...women in my age range tend to like it.

I meant the Prada. You mentioned backing it up

@@Varanis_Ridari Got it. I like it but don't wear it often these days. I have twenty bottles or so of stuff I really like and "think about" backing up. But as you once admonished, gotta be careful not to end with a back up inventory that makes me look like I'm running a fragrance store.

Let's go into business together

Agreed

Had an experience where someone used it at a funeral?

It smells funeral appropriate to me.

Fair!