Always the dynamic duo, The caped crusader and the boy wonder working together. I do love smelling of food. Being able to wear gourmand fragrances most of the year (because the weather's crap) is one of the few good things about living in the UK.
🦸🏽♂️🦸🏼 it’s fun working alongside Kevin. We definitely get each other’s rhythm which makes it a lot of fun to just riff and see what happens😂 And yes, I’m with you Lee, gourmands a perfect for cooler weather 🥰
Awesome to hear from you! Have a look at this other line up on all things Gourmand: ua-cam.com/video/lHJiE7x6zvQ/v-deo.html Maybe there's some further ideas here💫 Thanks for reaching out @user-li3rx3sm7b, brilliant to connect
Fruity - (fruits, coconut is a fruit too but often not considered fruity) Amber - (resins mainly benzoin/styrax, fir, elemi, frankincense/olibanum, coumarin) Green - (herbs. leaves, grasses, trees/woods) Aromatic - (florals & herbs/spices mixed, mainly lights ones though like lavender, cardamom, cypriol oil/papryus.incense) Leathery - (leathers can smell rubbery, animalic, etc) Powdery - (not necessarily any defining notes, however musks, cardamom and iris generally smell the most powdery) Musky - (slightly animalic and powdery, all different musks though some are real animal musks and some are just synthetic compounds) Alcoholic - (alcohols of all sorts, but a fragrance can smell boozey without alcohol for example some fruits that give off a wine smell grapes, blackcurrants, dark red apple, etc...not to be confused with aldehydes though) Gourmand - (practically same as gourmet, like food ingredients things that are edible) Vanilla - (is technically a type of gourmand, but in it's own category since there's vanillin, vanilla bean, vanilla extract/contains alcohol, vanilla orchid flower and plenty of plants that smell like vanilla such as tonka and certain flowers. Vanilla alcohols exist too) Woody - (woods of all sorts mainly cedar, juniper, guaiac wood, sandalwood, palisander, bamboo, oud, etc..) Mossy - (it's oakmoss fragrances which can take on certain different smells like sweet, aquatic, green or even fougere/barbershop) Fougere / barbershop - (typically known as old man fragrances, generally musky, green, aromatic and mossy..the moss creates the fern like smell. Fougere actually means fern like) Spicy - (differs from aromatic because it can often lack florals and spices can go different directions it can be gourmand such as cinnamon and it can even be powdery such as cardamom spices can be aromatic, but sometimes spicy can be used to describe pimento and peppers too like pink pepper/black pepper. Generally though spices are just called aromatics the word aromatic is interchangeable although aromatic can refer to more than just spices including herbs and florals too. Spicy can be used interchangeable to not actually mean any spices but rather a sensation like I find vetiver and some woods to be quite peppery or spicy) Aquatic / aqua marine - (smells either like the ocean or like some type of water, it may also be used to just replicate the smell of the beach air...weird thing here is melons and cucumbers are watery and give off an aquatic smell. Salt, oakmoss and seaweed can smell aquatic, typically though synthetic molecules are used to create the aquatic smell such as calone. Although i've noticed bamboo can smell watery too) Molecular - (these are not usually derived from natural ingredients but made in a lab to either replica the smell of something or create an entirely new smell molecules are like calone, ambroxan, iso e super, cashmeran, sclarene and so many more that exist. Most ambergris and musks are also synthetic molecules because real ambergris is too expensive and some musks are banned in fragrance now so they use synthetic musks) Floral - (all sorts of flowers, although some other plants/spices can smell floral) Chypre (citrus, labdanum & oakmoss as the base...so mossy, citrusy, animalic sometimes combined with fougere to also be aromatic & musky) Smokey - (incense, smoked woods, actual smoke or the smell can also come from being aged in an oak barrel such as how whiskeys get their smokey flavour being aged in oak barrels. Oak can give a smokey smell) Animalic - (musks, leathers, castoreum, civet, ambergris, oud, etc...animal like smells or compounds) Oud - (it is technically woody, but it's also animalic due to the wood being infected with a fungus giving it an animalic smell) Mineralic - smells minerals typically salt is used to give a mineralic smell, but other minerals can be used such as some stones like flint. Sometimes other weird ingredients are used like gunpowder Metallic - it may not necessarily contains metals, it it may have a metallic type of smell, typically this metallic smell does come from minerals and could be considered mineralic as well. Aldehydes - these are synthetic molecules, typically made from alcohols hence why they give off a sharp alcohol like smell in the opening of fragrances. They differ from alcohol though since they're made in lab environments they have to be lab made where as alcohols don't Ozonic - ozone has a smell, but typically the smell comes from thunderstorms. When there's lightning it creates negative ions and as rain hits dirt it also creates a petrichor smell. Negative ions are responsible for the ozonic smell, if you ever have an air purifier in your home they may also be called ionizers or ozone generators they create a strange ozonic smell that I have often referred to as electrical or even metallic smell. Ozonic may just refer to a fragrance being light and airy though smells a bit airy and light. Oxidation of ingredients and electrolysis of water may also have an ozonic smell, sometimes electrolyzed water can smell like chlorine. Chlorine can be used to give an ozonic smell too
@@faddyie I think a video is still a good idea to talk about each category more can discuss the types of fruits like even the fruits have categorie ranging from tropical all the way to something so unique and strange like maninka fruit which is used in boss the scent fragrances. There's also dried fruits that smell more like raisins, the dried fruits usually aren't considered fruity though but typically used in more gourmand style fragrances like tom ford tobacco vanille. That reminds me actually I completely forgot the tobacco category oops, but tobacco can have many different smells whether it's used in sweet fragrances such as naxos where they add honey or tobacco can often smell woody if it's used with ouds and woods it adds a dusty/dry grassy smell almost like hay. The tobacco category is also quite big there's a lot of different tobacco style fragrances whether it's tobacco+vanilla..tobacco+wood...tobacco+spices..tobacco+florals (such as burberry london & versace the dreamer)..and surprisingly fresh like D&G the one, joop homme ice, issey miyake l'eau d'issey...or tobacco+fruity such as kajal fiddah, aswan widian, mr harrod by penhaligon and armani prive bleu lazuli
@@GrowingDownUnder Brilliant idea. Totally worth it. Plus if you can add fragrances to each category during your video, that would be very helpful for viewers to understand and get accurate sense
Wooohooo!!! Boys are back with another episode! When we get to Fire At Will and speak english with french accents.... omg I'm shaking my head 😂 We'll need to brush up on our French by September hahaha
Hey Marcelo and Kev, dynamic duo. You guys will be in Milan next week, so you should be able try Colomba di Pascua. It's sort of easter "Panettone". I'm dig Panettone and traditionally I get mine directly from Verona for the season. I have a relative big batch of samples incoming from Jovoy next week. Including several Sora Dora and Jovoy samples. Enjoy Milan!! Sadly I'm stuck at work the whole next week, so no Fueguia. Ps. A&S Nabiti rules!!!!
Hey Kimmo, to say that maybe I have already indulged in a Colomba…Might be an understatement😬 (I actually bought one in Firenze that had won the award for the best in the country… Forget about it!) Unfortunately, my wingman couldn’t make it Esxence this year. However, we will be in France in September and October, you should join us😎
@@TheNicheFragranceCollector the Colomba ain't close. I wasn't sure if it was already available. Nothing is like panettone. Let's see how the autumn will be. I hope I can come to France. Might be just for one day. The day you guys are at Jovoy.
After laughing my head off at Kev’s suppressed laugh with your paper foaxpas, I had to go back twice. Then, “ you are very beautiful …. in English” I died 🤣😂🤣. You two are class mixed with great humour and definitely transporting me with the descriptive notes .Thank you both. Stani 🧡
I have an awesome editor (and we share a very similar sense of humour); when she saw this paper flick, she couldn't help herself😂 (normally this would end up on the 'cutting room floor' but when I watched it, I loved it, and as you mentioned I loved how we 'stayed in character' but with a slight smile from Kev...it's gold) Always good to hear from you Stani; thanks for jumping into the conversation💫
Panettone had just a bit too much cinnamon for me or I would have bought a bottle. I tried Fire at Will on a test strip, but not on skin......I will re visit that. That Paris Cherie has my attention, I've not heard of that and am going straight away to investigate more, even though here in the northern hemisphere we are heading into the warmer weather (eventually, only going to be 43 degrees today). Thanks for the great review!!
My brother Marcelo. I hope you and Kevin are well. Before you start your next couple videos as people who happen to watch your videos to subscribe to your channel. Your channel is so freaking amazing. You should have way more subscribers then you do. Let’s change that. 👍👍❤
Hello!! Great video, as usual 😊 Any thoughts about Theodoros Kalotinis?? There are some gourmand fragrances. As it would be a blind buy with delivery costs from Greece I’m still thinking about it.
Great to hear from you! And thank you for the support. This is a brand that we don’t have in Australia, so I haven’t had a chance to test them out; I wouldn’t be able to give you any real indication on these particular perfumes… Sorry, my friend.
I wouldn't call Sand Dance a gourmand? Maybe in the opening it has some vibes of it (of Black Phantom by Kilian), but it's more-so dry-woody and ambry like Xerjoff's Amber Star to me. I've smelled two Astrophil & Stella fragrances, and they're pretty meh. That fig-gourmand sounds SUPER INTERESTING - it's so hard to find a unique scent nowadays, especially a unique gourmand. Panettone to me fits a candle more than it does a perfume. My gourmand all-star lineup: Royal Crown "Sultan", Atelier des Ors "Lune Feline Extrait", Roja Parfums "Sweetie Aoud", Kilian "Black Phantom", and Kilian "Intoxicated". I don't really consider it that much of a gourmand, but Nishane's "Tero" has some unique facets along the salted caramel.
I tested this one very early on in my niche journey and I wasn't ready for it's "awesomeness"...so I need to revisit this and test again. Thanks for reaching out @ahmedelbahja6301
@TheNicheFragranceCollector I believe Roja Dove is the greatest perfumer. He is a true master in my opinion. Sweetie Aoud isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I think it's an outstanding fragrance. Perfectly blended unique bomb, just like many Roja Parfums fragrances. Keep up the great content, I'm a fan.
Thank you Sir!! So glad you enjoyed this episode. Not sure about the Manos Gerakinis fragrances delivering to the US? You could check out their website: www.manosgerakinis.com/parfums/ Hopefully there's some direction on retailers or even shipping to the US Thanks again for reaching out, appreciate the support👊🏽
Man I truly am delighted when I see you guys doing these videos. I'm glad you guys are back from paris thank you for sharing that.
Always the dynamic duo, The caped crusader and the boy wonder working together. I do love smelling of food. Being able to wear gourmand fragrances most of the year (because the weather's crap) is one of the few good things about living in the UK.
🦸🏽♂️🦸🏼 it’s fun working alongside Kevin. We definitely get each other’s rhythm which makes it a lot of fun to just riff and see what happens😂
And yes, I’m with you Lee, gourmands a perfect for cooler weather 🥰
Haven’t missed a video with the dynamic duo yet. Great video gents
Angel has been my number one for years. I need an additional pick. Watching you guys close lol
Awesome to hear from you! Have a look at this other line up on all things Gourmand: ua-cam.com/video/lHJiE7x6zvQ/v-deo.html
Maybe there's some further ideas here💫
Thanks for reaching out @user-li3rx3sm7b, brilliant to connect
I love a good gourmand and these four sound fantastic. The variety presented was also a welcome surprise. Thanks guys, you're fun as always 🎉
Love this iconic duo!
Thank you Loshaka💫👊🏽
Hi, can you do a video to understand scent families like animalic, gourmand etc. especially in the context of niche perfumery
Fruity - (fruits, coconut is a fruit too but often not considered fruity)
Amber - (resins mainly benzoin/styrax, fir, elemi, frankincense/olibanum, coumarin)
Green - (herbs. leaves, grasses, trees/woods)
Aromatic - (florals & herbs/spices mixed, mainly lights ones though like lavender, cardamom, cypriol oil/papryus.incense)
Leathery - (leathers can smell rubbery, animalic, etc)
Powdery - (not necessarily any defining notes, however musks, cardamom and iris generally smell the most powdery)
Musky - (slightly animalic and powdery, all different musks though some are real animal musks and some are just synthetic compounds)
Alcoholic - (alcohols of all sorts, but a fragrance can smell boozey without alcohol for example some fruits that give off a wine smell grapes, blackcurrants, dark red apple, etc...not to be confused with aldehydes though)
Gourmand - (practically same as gourmet, like food ingredients things that are edible)
Vanilla - (is technically a type of gourmand, but in it's own category since there's vanillin, vanilla bean, vanilla extract/contains alcohol, vanilla orchid flower and plenty of plants that smell like vanilla such as tonka and certain flowers. Vanilla alcohols exist too)
Woody - (woods of all sorts mainly cedar, juniper, guaiac wood, sandalwood, palisander, bamboo, oud, etc..)
Mossy - (it's oakmoss fragrances which can take on certain different smells like sweet, aquatic, green or even fougere/barbershop)
Fougere / barbershop - (typically known as old man fragrances, generally musky, green, aromatic and mossy..the moss creates the fern like smell. Fougere actually means fern like)
Spicy - (differs from aromatic because it can often lack florals and spices can go different directions it can be gourmand such as cinnamon and it can even be powdery such as cardamom spices can be aromatic, but sometimes spicy can be used to describe pimento and peppers too like pink pepper/black pepper. Generally though spices are just called aromatics the word aromatic is interchangeable although aromatic can refer to more than just spices including herbs and florals too. Spicy can be used interchangeable to not actually mean any spices but rather a sensation like I find vetiver and some woods to be quite peppery or spicy)
Aquatic / aqua marine - (smells either like the ocean or like some type of water, it may also be used to just replicate the smell of the beach air...weird thing here is melons and cucumbers are watery and give off an aquatic smell. Salt, oakmoss and seaweed can smell aquatic, typically though synthetic molecules are used to create the aquatic smell such as calone. Although i've noticed bamboo can smell watery too)
Molecular - (these are not usually derived from natural ingredients but made in a lab to either replica the smell of something or create an entirely new smell molecules are like calone, ambroxan, iso e super, cashmeran, sclarene and so many more that exist. Most ambergris and musks are also synthetic molecules because real ambergris is too expensive and some musks are banned in fragrance now so they use synthetic musks)
Floral - (all sorts of flowers, although some other plants/spices can smell floral)
Chypre (citrus, labdanum & oakmoss as the base...so mossy, citrusy, animalic sometimes combined with fougere to also be aromatic & musky)
Smokey - (incense, smoked woods, actual smoke or the smell can also come from being aged in an oak barrel such as how whiskeys get their smokey flavour being aged in oak barrels. Oak can give a smokey smell)
Animalic - (musks, leathers, castoreum, civet, ambergris, oud, etc...animal like smells or compounds)
Oud - (it is technically woody, but it's also animalic due to the wood being infected with a fungus giving it an animalic smell)
Mineralic - smells minerals typically salt is used to give a mineralic smell, but other minerals can be used such as some stones like flint. Sometimes other weird ingredients are used like gunpowder
Metallic - it may not necessarily contains metals, it it may have a metallic type of smell, typically this metallic smell does come from minerals and could be considered mineralic as well.
Aldehydes - these are synthetic molecules, typically made from alcohols hence why they give off a sharp alcohol like smell in the opening of fragrances. They differ from alcohol though since they're made in lab environments they have to be lab made where as alcohols don't
Ozonic - ozone has a smell, but typically the smell comes from thunderstorms. When there's lightning it creates negative ions and as rain hits dirt it also creates a petrichor smell. Negative ions are responsible for the ozonic smell, if you ever have an air purifier in your home they may also be called ionizers or ozone generators they create a strange ozonic smell that I have often referred to as electrical or even metallic smell. Ozonic may just refer to a fragrance being light and airy though smells a bit airy and light. Oxidation of ingredients and electrolysis of water may also have an ozonic smell, sometimes electrolyzed water can smell like chlorine. Chlorine can be used to give an ozonic smell too
@@GrowingDownUnder wow! Thats a super impressive brief. Thanks alot
@@faddyie I think a video is still a good idea to talk about each category more can discuss the types of fruits like even the fruits have categorie ranging from tropical all the way to something so unique and strange like maninka fruit which is used in boss the scent fragrances. There's also dried fruits that smell more like raisins, the dried fruits usually aren't considered fruity though but typically used in more gourmand style fragrances like tom ford tobacco vanille. That reminds me actually I completely forgot the tobacco category oops, but tobacco can have many different smells whether it's used in sweet fragrances such as naxos where they add honey or tobacco can often smell woody if it's used with ouds and woods it adds a dusty/dry grassy smell almost like hay. The tobacco category is also quite big there's a lot of different tobacco style fragrances whether it's tobacco+vanilla..tobacco+wood...tobacco+spices..tobacco+florals (such as burberry london & versace the dreamer)..and surprisingly fresh like D&G the one, joop homme ice, issey miyake l'eau d'issey...or tobacco+fruity such as kajal fiddah, aswan widian, mr harrod by penhaligon and armani prive bleu lazuli
@@GrowingDownUnder Brilliant idea. Totally worth it. Plus if you can add fragrances to each category during your video, that would be very helpful for viewers to understand and get accurate sense
@@GrowingDownUnder Zaharoff, that you?
Wooohooo!!! Boys are back with another episode!
When we get to Fire At Will and speak english with french accents.... omg I'm shaking my head 😂
We'll need to brush up on our French by September hahaha
Hey Marcelo and Kev, dynamic duo. You guys will be in Milan next week, so you should be able try Colomba di Pascua. It's sort of easter "Panettone". I'm dig Panettone and traditionally I get mine directly from Verona for the season.
I have a relative big batch of samples incoming from Jovoy next week. Including several Sora Dora and Jovoy samples.
Enjoy Milan!! Sadly I'm stuck at work the whole next week, so no Fueguia.
Ps. A&S Nabiti rules!!!!
Hey Kimmo, to say that maybe I have already indulged in a Colomba…Might be an understatement😬 (I actually bought one in Firenze that had won the award for the best in the country… Forget about it!)
Unfortunately, my wingman couldn’t make it Esxence this year. However, we will be in France in September and October, you should join us😎
@@TheNicheFragranceCollector the Colomba ain't close. I wasn't sure if it was already available. Nothing is like panettone.
Let's see how the autumn will be. I hope I can come to France. Might be just for one day. The day you guys are at Jovoy.
After laughing my head off at Kev’s suppressed laugh with your paper foaxpas, I had to go back twice. Then, “ you are very beautiful …. in English” I died 🤣😂🤣. You two are class mixed with great humour and definitely transporting me with the descriptive notes .Thank you both. Stani 🧡
I have an awesome editor (and we share a very similar sense of humour); when she saw this paper flick, she couldn't help herself😂 (normally this would end up on the 'cutting room floor' but when I watched it, I loved it, and as you mentioned I loved how we 'stayed in character' but with a slight smile from Kev...it's gold)
Always good to hear from you Stani; thanks for jumping into the conversation💫
@@TheNicheFragranceCollector Really was gold ! 🧡🤣
i like the sound of that panettone one, will have a look online, some nice fragrances here, thankyou
I just bought Methexis. It is honey cocoa powdery heaven. The fig gives it a gorgeous mouth watering edge. I love it so much.
Congrats on this new fragrance! This fragrance is intoxicating♥️ This is pure magic for me!!
Panettone had just a bit too much cinnamon for me or I would have bought a bottle. I tried Fire at Will on a test strip, but not on skin......I will re visit that. That Paris Cherie has my attention, I've not heard of that and am going straight away to investigate more, even though here in the northern hemisphere we are heading into the warmer weather (eventually, only going to be 43 degrees today). Thanks for the great review!!
My brother Marcelo. I hope you and Kevin are well. Before you start your next couple videos as people who happen to watch your videos to subscribe to your channel. Your channel is so freaking amazing. You should have way more subscribers then you do. Let’s change that. 👍👍❤
Hello!! Great video, as usual 😊 Any thoughts about Theodoros Kalotinis?? There are some gourmand fragrances. As it would be a blind buy with delivery costs from Greece I’m still thinking about it.
Theodoros Kalotinis Coffee fragrance smells great I believe it's Coffee Addict
Great to hear from you! And thank you for the support.
This is a brand that we don’t have in Australia, so I haven’t had a chance to test them out; I wouldn’t be able to give you any real indication on these particular perfumes… Sorry, my friend.
Good morning family!
SUM HEAVYHITTERZ Y'ALL GOTT THERE ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I wouldn't call Sand Dance a gourmand? Maybe in the opening it has some vibes of it (of Black Phantom by Kilian), but it's more-so dry-woody and ambry like Xerjoff's Amber Star to me. I've smelled two Astrophil & Stella fragrances, and they're pretty meh. That fig-gourmand sounds SUPER INTERESTING - it's so hard to find a unique scent nowadays, especially a unique gourmand. Panettone to me fits a candle more than it does a perfume.
My gourmand all-star lineup: Royal Crown "Sultan", Atelier des Ors "Lune Feline Extrait", Roja Parfums "Sweetie Aoud", Kilian "Black Phantom", and Kilian "Intoxicated". I don't really consider it that much of a gourmand, but Nishane's "Tero" has some unique facets along the salted caramel.
What closest perfumes there are for Fire at Will? Maybe just a little less sweet
One of the greatest gourmand fragrances is Sweetie Aoud by Roja Parfums.
I tested this one very early on in my niche journey and I wasn't ready for it's "awesomeness"...so I need to revisit this and test again.
Thanks for reaching out @ahmedelbahja6301
@TheNicheFragranceCollector I believe Roja Dove is the greatest perfumer. He is a true master in my opinion. Sweetie Aoud isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I think it's an outstanding fragrance. Perfectly blended unique bomb, just like many Roja Parfums fragrances. Keep up the great content, I'm a fan.
Fresh and clean guys, don’t try too hard.
Got it🫡
This is very elegant
Thank you 💫♥️
Great work guys‼️💪🏾
Do the Meoexis ships to the U.S?
Thank you Sir!! So glad you enjoyed this episode. Not sure about the Manos Gerakinis fragrances delivering to the US? You could check out their website: www.manosgerakinis.com/parfums/
Hopefully there's some direction on retailers or even shipping to the US
Thanks again for reaching out, appreciate the support👊🏽
You need to try one umbrella for two by floraku
1st😎✌️
All pretty feminine
Yep, those sweet notes can lean feminine. Any suggestions of Gourmand fragrances that you love?
Great to hear from you @JH-Baksh
Damn im first here ✨