Open is awesome! Really enjoy it especially in the cold, open black is really good too super old school despite being a 2012 release. This one however I didn’t enjoy lol thank you for watching!
Do you know the Roger & Gallet POUR L´HOMME ??, I thought it was the same perfume (l´homme) but in a different format and it turns out that it is a totally different fragrance launched in 1993, the bottle is also different, there is hardly any information about it on the internet...
Hi Kelan, I’m curious to see your thoughts on the 1988 fragrance called Rapport Original currently distributed by Eden classics. Dirt cheap - gift set with deodorant spray for around £5.
I had the Shulton vintage version actually but I didn’t care much for it after just a little while. Strong scent, long lasting and very red floral scent, cousin to kouros but not on the same level. However I really enjoy Mandate which I just got
Isn’t that the same thing ? lol I have a certain look for my clothes when I’m going out I love button downs that have cool patterns like Masutto and several other brands, one I am trying to get an affiliate link with which reminds me I need to reach out to them again
I think you are reviewing a 2000s bottle, which is mid-vintage at best. I have a bottle of this version as well as a deep vintage that says "85°" on the box. Compared with this, I think deep vintage is more refined and less sweet. This is still good though, imo and not too far off from Open Black. YMMV, of course.
Oh boy, you've done it now! This has been my favorite cologne for years. It is the scent of pure, concentrated testosterone. I had a girlfriend about 20 years ago who was snooping around in my medicine cabinet and saw that my bottle was close to empty. She bought me a 6.6 oz. Bottle for Valentine's Day and I still have half of it. I'll be pretty sad when it's all gone.
Hey kelan, I have a newer version which is now discontinued, was my first fragrance I bought in the summer years ago and walked along thinking who smells so good, oh it's me! I never smelled the vintage but the new one I have smells much better, like azzaro pour home with ylang ylang and spearmint up in the opening, I really love it, got a box set with the shower gel, smells good too, maybe it's just me but if you see the same frag but in an oval kind of bottle, brown glass , modern r and g design it's a different animal, I'm sorry you didn't like it, I'm sad that it's not good for you, it holds a lot of memories for me and I'll keep my bottle forever! If you want to offload the vintage let me know, also as I'm here, love grey flannel, I know, I know, it's just skin chemistry I suppose, it's amazing! Soapy opening, massive florals with oak mossy almond drydown, I noticed that most people say it's only authentic if you get it with the flannel bag, not box, maybe there's a difference, anyway, glad to see you back in the classics, just got Pierre cardin pour homme, 1972, nice!
Hey Kelan the thumbnail had fit the description of that fragrance that smells like a funeral home/parlor reminds me of your review of grey flannel or a similar characteristic of grey flannel
I know you dont cover Armaf much, but they releases a real nice warm weather frag, Armaf Ventana Marine. It's very very nice. Im in PA, and I wore it to work in colder weather, it still worked good. I was in Vero Beach FL last week, and it was a really pushing for 7-8hrs.
I am seeing this three years after you recorded your review. I was introduced to this cologne by my uncle, who came to visit us from England in the early 1980s. Everywhere he went, women of all ages would swoon over him and tell him he smelt gorgeous (he was not exactly handsome or buff). He was generous and gave me a little decant of it. And I was chased all over high school after. I have always had bottles ever since. However, it is used very sparingly as it has gone out of production, and the price is daylight robbery. I had a doctor's appointment on the upper East Side last week and put two sprays on. A lady on the train asked me what the hell I was wearing and where she could buy it. Sitting in the waiting room. I noticed that there were three medical professionals (two female and one male), behind me pointing and whispering. As I was leaving the office, one of them ran out behind me and said sorry, but we couldn't help but wonder what you were wearing.We've never smelled anything like it. I have promised them decants and will be dropping it off next week. I wish you had tried it a little longer, say walking around a mall. I become completely nose blind to it after an hour or so. However, it's clearly working its magic long after.
Also I don't think your bottle could spoil because The original composition is loaded with oak moss which is a preservative. Unless someone stored it in a place that was very hot.
The fragrance and bottles are perfect condition and I only made this review a few months ago not 3 years ago but yeah unfortunately I just didn’t love the smell, my bottle is for sale on my Mercari page if you would like to buy it for yourself to use, I am open to offers, I put the link to my page below www.mercari.com/u/385123230
So tempting I literally bought 4 tester bottles without boxes or caps ( two for me and two for my cousin in a pharmacy in Grenoble France a few months ago). So, tempting your entire vintage collection. If you ever find a bottle of Clinique Tailoring , Orlane's Un Air de Java or Courreges Man (the bottle is flat and looks like the outline of France done by a child. You must try them. They are odd ball scents that smell so - so to the wearer. But passers-by go "what are you wearing!".
Not sure how vintage your bottle is since it has a long ingredients list. I have a vintage version that has only threee ingredients. Never tried the newer versions so can’t compare but the vintage is not too bad.
You're again acting ignorant, by the looks of the bottle you can't know if it's not turned, it doesn't need to go sour, there are more than one way of spoiled smell, some of them you can't know if it's turned if you don't know how exactly the good one smells, for example Lagerfeld Photo, it can turn sour, but not always, sometimes it just smells like green water, not spoiled at all, but it's turned so that it only reminds a bit of the original smell, also some scents turn even in good conditions. Givenchy Monsieur when turned smells like grandpa scent.
A. I know it’s not spoiled, it was purchased from a reputable fragrance store that sells all kinds of vintage that I have purchased from many time. B. It’s okay for me not to like something you happen to like, it will be okay Dynablast you’ll survive 🤣
@@ScentsOfSouthJersey It's okay not to like something, but to like Beau de Jour and to hate vintage Zino is nonsense, same thing with Envy that was turned for sure, etc. embarrassing to watch
@@ScentsOfSouthJersey Don't even try Aramis Tuscany or even worse the older Etruscan, when it loses just one nuance of freshness it's a crap smell (but you think it's not turned), when it's good is one of the best smells ever, in the same class as Signoricci and similar smelling, both of them need to be the lightest color possible, Signoricci almost like water, and Tuscany the lightest yellow. Paradoxically Tuscany miniatures are better preserved/of lighter color than the full bottles.
Love your reviews on old school perfumes.I've used Open by Roger & Gallet and i absolutely loved it.Have not come across L'Homme though.
Open is awesome! Really enjoy it especially in the cold, open black is really good too super old school despite being a 2012 release. This one however I didn’t enjoy lol thank you for watching!
Do you know the Roger & Gallet POUR L´HOMME ??, I thought it was the same perfume (l´homme) but in a different format and it turns out that it is a totally different fragrance launched in 1993, the bottle is also different, there is hardly any information about it on the internet...
Great review and I enjoyed it and I'm going to try it and have a blessed day
The funneral home and the play on words in the thumbnail take me back to the hilarious satires of Mad Magazine.
Awesome review
Thanks dude !
A great house with heritage .. open is one of my faves ( very similar to Al rehab superman) !!
I love open and open black but I don’t think open smelled anything like Superman lol that was a 1 million clone
Hi Kelan, I’m curious to see your thoughts on the 1988 fragrance called Rapport Original currently distributed by Eden classics. Dirt cheap - gift set with deodorant spray for around £5.
I had the Shulton vintage version actually but I didn’t care much for it after just a little while. Strong scent, long lasting and very red floral scent, cousin to kouros but not on the same level. However I really enjoy Mandate which I just got
Kelan, quick question...when shopping for clothes, which is most important: drip or swag?
Isn’t that the same thing ? lol I have a certain look for my clothes when I’m going out I love button downs that have cool patterns like Masutto and several other brands, one I am trying to get an affiliate link with which reminds me I need to reach out to them again
I think you are reviewing a 2000s bottle, which is mid-vintage at best. I have a bottle of this version as well as a deep vintage that says "85°" on the box. Compared with this, I think deep vintage is more refined and less sweet. This is still good though, imo and not too far off from Open Black. YMMV, of course.
Hmm open black huh ? I don’t get that from this at all, oh well though I guess. Open and open black are both awesome!
It's unfortunate what happened to Roger and Gallet. Like the new owner sprayed masculine be gone all over the company.
😂😂😂 at least open black was awesome
Oh boy, you've done it now! This has been my favorite cologne for years. It is the scent of pure, concentrated testosterone. I had a girlfriend about 20 years ago who was snooping around in my medicine cabinet and saw that my bottle was close to empty. She bought me a 6.6 oz. Bottle for Valentine's Day and I still have half of it. I'll be pretty sad when it's all gone.
David please buy my bottle lol it’s the older formula as well
www.mercari.com/u/385123230
Hey kelan, I have a newer version which is now discontinued, was my first fragrance I bought in the summer years ago and walked along thinking who smells so good, oh it's me! I never smelled the vintage but the new one I have smells much better, like azzaro pour home with ylang ylang and spearmint up in the opening, I really love it, got a box set with the shower gel, smells good too, maybe it's just me but if you see the same frag but in an oval kind of bottle, brown glass , modern r and g design it's a different animal, I'm sorry you didn't like it, I'm sad that it's not good for you, it holds a lot of memories for me and I'll keep my bottle forever! If you want to offload the vintage let me know, also as I'm here, love grey flannel, I know, I know, it's just skin chemistry I suppose, it's amazing! Soapy opening, massive florals with oak mossy almond drydown, I noticed that most people say it's only authentic if you get it with the flannel bag, not box, maybe there's a difference, anyway, glad to see you back in the classics, just got Pierre cardin pour homme, 1972, nice!
Please take it off my hands lol it’s listed on my Mercari page, I can have it shipped out to you asap 😂
Hey Kelan the thumbnail had fit the description of that fragrance that smells like a funeral home/parlor reminds me of your review of grey flannel or a similar characteristic of grey flannel
It just smells like something from a previous century lol bitter and old unfortunately
I know you dont cover Armaf much, but they releases a real nice warm weather frag, Armaf Ventana Marine. It's very very nice. Im in PA, and I wore it to work in colder weather, it still worked good. I was in Vero Beach FL last week, and it was a really pushing for 7-8hrs.
I am seeing this three years after you recorded your review. I was introduced to this cologne by my uncle, who came to visit us from England in the early 1980s. Everywhere he went, women of all ages would swoon over him and tell him he smelt gorgeous (he was not exactly handsome or buff). He was generous and gave me a little decant of it. And I was chased all over high school after. I have always had bottles ever since. However, it is used very sparingly as it has gone out of production, and the price is daylight robbery. I had a doctor's appointment on the upper East Side last week and put two sprays on. A lady on the train asked me what the hell I was wearing and where she could buy it. Sitting in the waiting room.
I noticed that there were three medical professionals (two female and one male), behind me pointing and whispering. As I was leaving the office, one of them ran out behind me and said sorry, but we couldn't help but wonder what you were wearing.We've never smelled anything like it. I have promised them decants and will be dropping it off next week. I wish you had tried it a little longer, say walking around a mall.
I become completely nose blind to it after an hour or so. However, it's clearly working its magic long after.
Also I don't think your bottle could spoil because The original composition is loaded with oak moss which is a preservative. Unless someone stored it in a place that was very hot.
The fragrance and bottles are perfect condition and I only made this review a few months ago not 3 years ago but yeah unfortunately I just didn’t love the smell, my bottle is for sale on my Mercari page if you would like to buy it for yourself to use, I am open to offers, I put the link to my page below
www.mercari.com/u/385123230
So tempting I literally bought 4 tester bottles without boxes or caps ( two for me and two for my cousin in a pharmacy in Grenoble France a few months ago). So, tempting your entire vintage collection. If you ever find a bottle of Clinique Tailoring , Orlane's Un Air de Java or Courreges Man (the bottle is flat and looks like the outline of France done by a child. You must try them. They are odd ball scents that smell so - so to the wearer. But passers-by go "what are you wearing!".
Not sure how vintage your bottle is since it has a long ingredients list. I have a vintage version that has only threee ingredients. Never tried the newer versions so can’t compare but the vintage is not too bad.
Barcode so after 1990
Do you know which perfume smells similar to Armani eau pour homme vintage and which perfume smells similar to ysl pour homme vintage?
I’d say Eau Sauvage for Armani and ysl pour Homme you might just have to track down it’s that good, they both are
Thanks @@ScentsOfSouthJersey
Bought it in 2004. Sprayed twice.
lol do you want to buy mine ?
A decade - one spray. 😅
Never heard of it. Mothballs and old funeral home. Sounds terrible😆
It was so harsh I couldn’t take it not a nice soapy smell more of a screechy bitter smell
Thought it would be a nicer scent 😅
I did too 😂
You're again acting ignorant, by the looks of the bottle you can't know if it's not turned, it doesn't need to go sour, there are more than one way of spoiled smell, some of them you can't know if it's turned if you don't know how exactly the good one smells, for example Lagerfeld Photo, it can turn sour, but not always, sometimes it just smells like green water, not spoiled at all, but it's turned so that it only reminds a bit of the original smell, also some scents turn even in good conditions. Givenchy Monsieur when turned smells like grandpa scent.
A. I know it’s not spoiled, it was purchased from a reputable fragrance store that sells all kinds of vintage that I have purchased from many time.
B. It’s okay for me not to like something you happen to like, it will be okay Dynablast you’ll survive 🤣
@@ScentsOfSouthJersey It's okay not to like something, but to like Beau de Jour and to hate vintage Zino is nonsense, same thing with Envy that was turned for sure, etc. embarrassing to watch
@@ScentsOfSouthJersey Don't even try Aramis Tuscany or even worse the older Etruscan, when it loses just one nuance of freshness it's a crap smell (but you think it's not turned), when it's good is one of the best smells ever, in the same class as Signoricci and similar smelling, both of them need to be the lightest color possible, Signoricci almost like water, and Tuscany the lightest yellow. Paradoxically Tuscany miniatures are better preserved/of lighter color than the full bottles.
@@DYNABLASTERTUNERS waaahhh I take other peoples opinions on scented water personally waahhh
@@ScentsOfSouthJersey Stay ignorant, no use of telling you anything