Gentleman Society fragrance notes
- sage, vetiver, cedarwood
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The fragrance itself is vanilla sweet, powdery and "smooth", but also has nothing in it that makes a person with enough of self awareness to be intrigued or interested.
Originality 1/10
Scent 4/10
Longevity 8/10
Projection 6/10
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overall impression 3/10
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Giant commercial spray bottle and everything
And I mean that, this stuff hangs around. Real thick like
Varanis kept referring back to a vacation vibe and to get more granular I would say hanging around in the pool connected lobby
The clinical sterility of an expensive hotel in constant struggle against the ravenous Summer air and parade of beach accoutrement families keep dragging in and out of the double automatic doors
There are too many smells, you don't hate them but the fern next to you is a reminder of fresh air


While it's not particularly unique or groundbreaking, the performance is surprisingly decent with 7-8 hours of longevity. All in all, I'd say this fragrance is a solid choice for those who prefer a safe, non-offensive option over more popular fragrances like Invictus or Le Male flankers.

The perfumers Karine Dubreuil-Sereni and Maïa Lernout come from opposing oil houses, which is unusual in this industry as only one usually wins the brief for a perfume; but perhaps a merger of the ideas their submissions represented requited a rare cooperation of perfumers from competing firms. In either case, both firms are relatively small compared to the conglomerates like Firmenich, IFF, or Givaudan, with Karine belonging to Voc Profumi and Maïa to Takasago (former home of Pierre Bourdon), respectively. Together, they have concocted a man's fragrance that goes on like sun tan oil, with coconut and jojoba oil nuances in the opening, eventually leading to cardamom, sage, banana-like ylang-ylang, and narcissus. The base is amberwood to the max, dipped in an ethyl maltol sugar glaze of vanilla and atlas cedar, recalling Versace Eros (2013) somewhat.
All told, Gentleman Society felt like it should be called "Gentleman Vacation", as the beachy nature of the sun tan lotion elements, crossed with the vanillic sweetness of sugary cocktails enjoyed on an evening at a beach-side bar, do not conjure the images of elevated society that the classy etched bottle suggests. Something this heavy and rich could very well be worn as a clubber, just like the aforementioned Eros or something similar like Jean-Paul Gaultier Le Mâle Le Parfum (2020) and Paco Rabanne Phantom (2021). The beachy opening is pretty interesting, although after that, Gentleman Society falls into blah synthetic sweetness and rich, stuffy artificial ambery woodiness with vetiver used in a nutty way that further leads to suffocation. If you were looking for something young-leaning, playful, and capable of cutting a path through a party full of over-sprayers, this might do the trick. As for me, I'll pass. Neutral