Synchronized Fridays 2023

[chypre]

Until a year ago I would have said Guerlain, but I'm not so sure now. I don't think I have a favourite house at all, but I might pick Vero Profumo, as I have adored everything I experienced in their admittedly small range, from the devastatingly sexy Onda extrait to the cuddly Kiki. Plus I really admired Vero Kern, who started her indie perfumery business at an age when many prefer to retire; who cherished the intimacy of the skin; whose first trilogy of perfumes was an ode to the different aspects of sensuality; and who even ordered special flacons so her perfumes could be applied with tactility.

I'm wearing a tiny dab of the Kiki extrait today, a lavender-musk-caramel (just a hint) wonder.

 

[ChypreInBloom]

It's true I love Guerlain, Chanel and Hermes, and a few others too. But I have realised that it's Caron I love best. Parfum Sacré has been my favourite, with its soft creamy spice and rose blend. Today however, I'm wearing Tabac Blond extrait, a wonderful discovery. It's very rich, spicy, lively, then dries down velvety and smooth, with a strong tobacco personality. Perfect for winter here, below zero...

 

[JON RODGERS]

I guess I will get on the Guerlain train...

 

[H_West]

I've always had a hard time of deciding if Dior or Chanel is my favorite house. I think I tend to lean to Dior. But since I'm going with Dior now the next weeks pick will be easy. So, Dior then. I'm syncing with one of my all time favorites:

Dior Homme

 

[Puma]

It's not a big surprise that Caron is my most worn and favourite house. I own fifteen of their vintage perfumes. For today I picked
POIVRE, which I hardly ever wear, as there are only a few drops left.

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[teardrop]

Decided to go with L'Artisan, my most worn house last year. lt's hard to define what it is about this house that appeals to me, but l'd say it's something to do with their interpretation of the natural world.

l'm using this opportunity to finish my sample of 25 Obscuratio, a softer version of Black Orchid.

 

[Schubertian]

In L'Heure Bleue eau de toilette today. Ah, it is beautiful! It's never been a sad scent to me but rather wistful. Exquisite. It's what Ellen Olenska could have worn in The Age of Innocence.
💙
I will be looking out for a bottle of vintage extrait this year. (Après l'ondée is also on my shopping list in the new bottle. I've grown to appreciate its delicacy.)

Guerlain is such an easy house to fall in love with, but it's not easy to keep loving it these days.

This. In addition to the prices, in fact nothing from their recent offerings has enchanted me to the effect that I have to have.... (the three "ouds" for example). The classics speak to my soul. I really, really hope that at least they'll continue to take care of their illustrious heritage...

 

[Blue_Eyez]

it's been a horrific day. Not a slightest exaggeration in sight unfortunately. Torrential rain all day and very strong wind. I spent all day indoors working, with cat sleeping close by, and wore Vetiver Tonka by Hermes. I love its salty creaminess with polished driftwood texture.
Now we have a state of emergency declared. With at least one dead, many stranded all over the city, Elton John gig cancelled, thousands of homes flooded. The rain stopped for now. But there is more to come, another month worth of rain overnight.

 

[FiveoaksBouquet]

it's been a horrific day. Not a slightest exaggeration in sight unfortunately. Torrential rain all day and very strong wind. I spent all day indoors working, with cat sleeping close by, and wore Vetiver Tonka by Hermes. I love its salty creaminess with polished driftwood texture.
Now we have a state of emergency declared. With at least one dead, many stranded all over the city, Elton John gig cancelled, thousands of homes flooded. The rain stopped for now. But there is more to come, another month worth of rain overnight.

So sorry, Blue_Eyez. that sounds frightening. Be safe!

 

[MistaPanda]

Apparently, Tom Ford was my "most worn house" in 2022... which makes sense since I particularly enjoy (and could find a regular use for) most of the 13 bottles I own.

- Oud Wood, Grey Vetiver EDT & EDP, Noir EDP... ended up being absolute favorites of mine
- Plum Japonais is a staple during colder months, very cozy
- Beau de jour is great and has a lavender note that reminds me of my childhood
- Noir EDT is a perfect - more versatile - addition to the EDP
- I love Tuscan Leather's DNA even if it's not always an easy pick
- White Suede reminds me of my mother (didn't know why until recently... when she found an old bottle of Noa in some drawer and started wearing it again, guess it was her signature at some point ^^). I do not really wear it... but I know I'm going to keep a bottle to stimulate my olfactive memory as time goes by
- I do like the scent profiles of both Italian Cypress & Noir Anthracite even if I haven't worn them often... no doubt their time will come !
- Noir Extreme is quite cozy and easy to wear, but I find it a bit boring on the long run (probably because of its sweetness)... anyway, I'll definitely insist on this one in order to be sure
- Eau de Soleil Blanc isn't a bad scent by any means, but I found it a tad too feminine for me to wear comfortably... I'll probably give it a few other wears this summer though

For today's synch I considered giving time to either Noir Anthracite or Noir Extreme...Tuscan Leather could have been an option too if I knew where the bottle was... But in the end, I decided to go with Beau de Jour ! Versatile, invigorating and it's been a while since I've worn it ! A perfect pick to go through that grey, dull day 😁

@Blue_Eyez : Frightening, I hope the weather conditions soon improve where you are, take care and stay safe !

 

[sakecat]

If I were truly honest with myself, my favorite life-long house is whatever fragrance oil I picked up from Renfest that year.
Still love indie oils and have an ungodly amount of 6ml bottles under my bed from various Etsy sellers.

Possets from when Fabienne was alive has pride of place in that collection. I've gone through hundreds of mL of oil since another fine Basenoter (it was either ComDiva or TaoLady) introduced me to her. Sadly, I haven't purchased from them since Fabienne's estate sold the business. I still have a few hundred mL of various oils to keep me entertained and the scents are aging quite well.
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For the purposes of this synch - I'm going with Dior Dioressence.

Mom had a bottle of Dioressence that I wound up using - starting in middle school (we're talking early 80s).
She finally gave me the bottle after I spent the better part of a year sneaking into her bathroom to use it.
From then on, save for a period in college/grad school when I was too broke to get perfume from the department store, there has been a bottle of Dior on the shelf in regular rotation. Mostly Hypnotic Poison and Addict.
Currently have a bottle of Poison on the shelf in rotation and some manufacturers samples of a J'Adore flanker that I haven't tried yet.

I recently acquired a mini of 10mL Dioressence. Vintage unknown.
Unlike the last time I tried it 10 years ago - this juice smells just like I remember. Green, spicy, creamy and mossy.
Will check with the fine folks on the Vintage forums to see if they can help me identify the vintage of this mini.

[Update: Bavard, WarmJewel, and Cook.bot helped me identify this bottle as from the 1980s. SCORE! And that explains why it smells more familiar than it did 10 years ago]

 

[FiveoaksBouquet]

Checking in wearing Chanel, which has become my favourite house, with a multiplicity of favourites among their offerings. Today’s choice is the first Chanel I ever wore, N°5, the parfum, supplemented by edt as well from a bottle that will likely be finished later today. Long live N°5!

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[Pheusinger]

Chosing a favorite house could be tricky for me...but it's really not. No slight to Caron, Guerlain, Chanel, Dior, Tom Ford, etc, all of which have made my nose happy over the years. All are great houses and I've more than a few of each. But for me, the house that's embodied what this journey is about...

D.S. & Durga perfumes and fragrances

basenotes.com

 

[ClockworkAlice]

@Blue_Eyez - ouch, that sounds scary. Stay safe and hopefully people you love stay safe, too.

@ChypreInBloom - I love Parfum Sacre, too! I should try Tabac Blond some day also.

@chypre - thank you for your post! You made me interested in Vero Profumo, too. I haven't tried anything by the brand and I knew nothing about them before, but the founder seems to be an awesome woman.

@H_West - you smell amazing.

@FiveoaksBouquet - I knew you'd pick Chanel! I just wasn't sure what would it be. I was almost thinking you'll pick Chance again. Nice photo as always.

@Pheusinger - I see D.S. & Durga is definitely your favourite! I haven't tried anything by them but I'm getting curious, too. I like your photos, too.


This morning I, just like @teardrop, took a chance to finish up a sample that was laying around almost empty! Mine was Eau du Coq by Guerlain, which I got from a dear basenoter a few years ago. It's a lovely classic eau de cologne, and I was cherishing it and dabbed it only a little each time I wore it.

Around noon I changed into something that's more common and more universally loved, but also less common and less universally loved here in Basenotes - and it's Guerlain's La Petite Robe Noire! I do have a travel spray of the original EDP (well, the modern version, not the original original one) and I actually really enjoy it - it's a very happy and uplifting scent to me. It smells of cherry, almond and liquorice, and also some black tea and tonka and vanilla. It smells young and carefree, maybe even a little immature, but in a best possible way - it feels almost sparkly and lifts off my skin in delicious wafts and just brightens the day, and also layers nicely with many other scents, especially other Guerlains. I'm not sure if I'll upgrade to the bigger bottle after I finish the travel spray - I kind of want to because of all the praise I just said - but I also have bigger bottles and backups of other two LPRNs I actually like and wear more as I find them not necessarily objectively better, but subjectively better fitting me - the darker, dustier, rosier Black Perfecto EDP and brighter, greener, fresher Eau Fraiche. And the pink bottle/pink juice of the original is actually what bothers me a bit and stops me from getting a bigger bottle, too. Pink is not my colour. Lolita Lempicka/Lolita Lempicka Mon Premier is actually very comparable to LPRN in what it does for me, and it's usually cheaper and the bottle is nicer, so I might actually get that one again after I finish my LPRN.
Huh, I'm rambling again. Sorry

I'll top my LPRN EDP with La Petite Robe Noire Black Perfecto Eau de Parfum Florale in the evening. I really enjoy layering the dresses together, they really work well together.

 

[Diddy]

it's been a horrific day. Not a slightest exaggeration in sight unfortunately. Torrential rain all day and very strong wind. I spent all day indoors working, with cat sleeping close by, and wore Vetiver Tonka by Hermes. I love its salty creaminess with polished driftwood texture.
Now we have a state of emergency declared. With at least one dead, many stranded all over the city, Elton John gig cancelled, thousands of homes flooded. The rain stopped for now. But there is more to come, another month worth of rain overnight.

Please stay safe! Mother Nature doesn’t play around, nor have sympathy for anyone.


I’m leaning Creed for the sync today, since I haven’t had coffee and just know I’ve got more bottles of Creed than anything. But I need to not be dismissive of Chanel and Dior. I will report back soon.

 

[Pheusinger]

@Blue_Eyez - ouch, that sounds scary. Stay safe and hopefully people you love stay safe, too.

@ChypreInBloom - I love Parfum Sacre, too! I should try Tabac Blond some day also.

@chypre - thank you for your post! You made me interested in Vero Profumo, too. I haven't tried anything by the brand and I knew nothing about them before, but the founder seems to be an awesome woman.

@H_West - you smell amazing.

@FiveoaksBouquet - I knew you'd pick Chanel! I just wasn't sure what would it be. I was almost thinking you'll pick Chance again. Nice photo as always.

@Pheusinger - I see D.S. & Durga is definitely your favourite! I haven't tried anything by them but I'm getting curious, too. I like your photos, too.


This morning I, just like @teardrop, took a chance to finish up a sample that was laying around almost empty! Mine was Eau du Coq by Guerlain, which I got from a dear basenoter a few years ago. It's a lovely classic eau de cologne, and I was cherishing it and dabbed it only a little each time I wore it.

Around noon I changed into something that's more common and more universally loved, but also less common and less universally loved here in Basenotes - and it's Guerlain's La Petite Robe Noire! I do have a travel spray of the original EDP (well, the modern version, not the original original one) and I actually really enjoy it - it's a very happy and uplifting scent to me. It smells of cherry, almond and liquorice, and also some black tea and tonka and vanilla. It smells young and carefree, maybe even a little immature, but in a best possible way - it feels almost sparkly and lifts off my skin in delicious wafts and just brightens the day, and also layers nicely with many other scents, especially other Guerlains. I'm not sure if I'll upgrade to the bigger bottle after I finish the travel spray - I kind of want to because of all the praise I just said - but I also have bigger bottles and backups of other two LPRNs I actually like and wear more as I find them not necessarily objectively better, but subjectively better fitting me - the darker, dustier, rosier Black Perfecto EDP and brighter, greener, fresher Eau Fraiche. And the pink bottle/pink juice of the original is actually what bothers me a bit and stops me from getting a bigger bottle, too. Pink is not my colour. Lolita Lempicka/Lolita Lempicka Mon Premier is actually very comparable to LPRN in what it does for me, and it's usually cheaper and the bottle is nicer, so I might actually get that one again after I finish my LPRN.
Huh, I'm rambling again. Sorry

I'll top my LPRN EDP with La Petite Robe Noire Black Perfecto Eau de Parfum Florale in the evening. I really enjoy layering the dresses together, they really work well together.

Is it that obvious 😉🤣. But really, favorite house is a tough category. So many greats!

 

[HouseOfPhlegethon]

Be safe, Blue_Eyez!

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Wearing Camel by Zoologist Perfumes. My favorite house, if I had to choose only one. I own 15 of their scents. Zoologist is the very first niche brand I got interested in years ago (2015?). I couldn't afford to buy any back then though. I eventually decided to collect [nearly] all of them in travel-size form [when I got tired of buying designer frags that didn't impress me.]

 

[ClockworkAlice]

Be safe, Blue_Eyez!

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Wearing Camel by Zoologist Perfumes. My favorite house, if I had to choose only one. I own 15 of their scents. Zoologist is the very first niche brand I got interested in years ago (2015?). I couldn't afford to buy any back then though. I eventually decided to collect [nearly] all of them in travel-size form [when I got tired of buying designer frags that didn't impress me.]

I haven't smelled any of the Zoologist perfumes yet, but I have always been fascinated by their artworks and how they always stay on theme. I feel they're such a unique house thematically and their creativeness can be seen without even sniffing the actual perfumes as they do care about curating their line in a visual and thematical way so much.
Is Camel your favourite from the line?

 

[tdem1961]

@Blue_Eyez , my heart goes out to you. Please stay safe.

Guerlain features most prominently in my collection. Much as I love it now, I somewhat backed into it. None of my family or friends ever wore Guerlain, and I only became aware of it when Champs Elysees was heavily promoted in Macys. But not until I joined online perfume communities did I learn of the magic of Jacques Guerlain. So I’m in synch with vintage Shalimar extrait today.

 

[Diddy]

Ok, I’ve had a coffee. But alas my brain refuses to operate at a speed conducive to critical thinking. So to save myself from rupturing a vessel, dropping my IQ from a full 4 to amoebae, I just went with Creed Santal Imperial as my SOTD.

Quite honestly, I struggle proclaiming one house as my favorite. While I have mostly Creed, Chanel and Dior are nearly as much. And there exists brands like DS Durga, which @Pheusinger loves, that I’ve only experienced in limitation. And then there are others which have one-offs that are all time favorites but I don’t posses much else from the house, like 1872 and Clive Christian. So I cheated the sync, going with both a house I love (namely in older form) and one of my all time favorites fragrances.

I hope everyone has an amazing Friday!

 

[grayspoole]

Although Guerlain, Caron, Patou, and Lanvin were strong contenders, I have to go with the house of Dior.

Although it has fallen on hard times lately (hehe), in its heyday Dior produced a series of exceptionally beautiful, distinctive perfumes, and I love every one of them in their vintage forms. I’ve put on some vintage Miss Dior EDT although I’m still drinking coffee in my jammies.



In addition to the incomparable Miss Dior (1947), I wear Diorissimo (1956), Diorama (1948), Dioressence (1969/79), Diorling (1963), Diorella (1972), and Dior Dior (1976).

 

[IsoESuperman]

VAYA CON DIOR!

Choosing a favorite house is not my favorite exercise. Depending on the day it’s either Bruno Fazzolari, Christian Dior, or Hendley Perfume. The most worn stats indicate the same.

Today we’ll say Dior and I’m wearing Mitzah. I’ve logged over 100 wears and it is my most worn from the house, I will log many more to come. The venerable @ClaireV recently reviewed it on her blog, worth a read as always. Finely tuned amber/incense/patch with a distinctive texture. Lovely stuff.

Fahrenheit, the older feminine releases, Dior Homme, Eau Sauvage, Poison and its flankers, a number of excellent Priveé (or whatever it’s called now)…plenty to love.

 

[LiveJazz]

Today we’ll say Dior and I’m wearing Mitzah. I’ve logged over 100 wears and it is my most worn from the house, I will log many more to come. The venerable @ClaireV recently reviewed it on her blog, worth a read as always. Finely tuned amber/incense/patch with a distinctive texture. Lovely stuff.

That was a lovely review, and the point about Mitzah's sweet/airy texture is how I feel about Guerlain Bois d'Armenie: "as if all these materials had been placed in a low oven, dried overnight, and then, once cooled, ground to a fine golden mica that applies like one of those edible body dusting powders."

I have used up my Mitzah decant and miss it. Bois d'Armenie decant is getting low, and I may need a bottle.

Anyway, got to be Guerlain for me, though it's a close call with Dior. And I'll wear Bois D'Armenie.

PS ... "VOYA CON DIOR"...going to get me every time!

 

[Toxicon]

An awful lot has changed over the past couple years, but at this point one look at my wardrobe makes it clear which house comes out on top: Serge Lutens. Something about the vibe, the intentional strangeness, and the playfulness just works for me. Or perhaps I just connect with Christopher Sheldrake's style (considering I also love Sycomore, which he created with Jacques Polge). At this point I own 11 bottles: Ambre Sultan, Chene, Fils de Joie, Five O'Clock au Gingembre, L'Eau d'Armoise, L'Innommable, La Couche du Diable, La Fille de Berlin, La Participe Passe, Santal Majuscule, and Vetiver Oriental. I know longtime fans of the brand will point to earlier releases and older formulations, but as a newer convert I can at least attest that a lot of the newer stuff is great on its own terms. The only real disappointment in my collection is L'Eau d'Armoise - not that it's bad, just unnecessary and too short-lived for its own good.

To kick things off, I wore my two newest bottles yesterday, one on each arm - Santal Majuscule (which was one of the first I sampled but only just tracked down in bottle form) and Five O'Clock au Gingembre (my newest Lutens experience, and an instant favorite). Today I'm syncing properly with La Couche du Diable, which is ostensibly a Lutens take on rose/oud, though it doesn't smell like it - it's more about scorched labdanum, burnt wisps of cinnamon and tangerine around the edges, with some rubbery synth oud adding texture to the unholy mix. Something about this reminds me of chinotto or maybe campari - dark and bitter, undercut with a strange sweetness. Probably not for everyone, but I've come to love it.

 

[Trilby Lark]

... It smells young and carefree, maybe even a little immature, but in a best possible way...

Try Guerlain Insolence some time. It is also very youthful and fun! A lighthearted violet. 💜

 

[Trilby Lark]

I must go with Chanel. Today, it's Jersey, for no other reason than it's handy. I got it out yesterday for my sister to try. Any Chanel I blindly grab is sure to please me.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Next one from the Guerlain camp is the original 1980s release of Derby. This one is a powerhouse!

 

[ChypreInBloom]

It's not a big surprise that Caron is my most worn and favourite house. I own fifteen of their vintage perfumes. For today I picked
POIVRE, which I hardly ever wear, as there are only a few drops left.

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Wow, what a stunner!!! Love your pick!

 

[ClockworkAlice]

Try Guerlain Insolence some time. It is also very youthful and fun! A lighthearted violet. 💜

You are right! I love it, too!

 

[Ken_Russell]

Many great options.
Admitting to be quite inspired by so many of the great posts and the scent houses/preferences mentioned in this thread just enough to find fairly permissive scent choices within if not nearly all houses mentioned.

 

[FiveoaksBouquet]

I must go with Chanel. Today, it's Jersey, for no other reason than it's handy. I got it out yesterday for my sister to try. Any Chanel I blindly grab is sure to please me.

Hear, hear! 🤗

 

[CookBot]

Many great options.
Admitting to be quite inspired by so many of the great posts and the scent houses/preferences mentioned in this thread just enough to find fairly permissive scent choices within if not nearly all houses mentioned.

Pick a house, Ken!

 

[NabiE]

The most represented house (and an old favorite) in my collection is L'Artisan Parfumeur. My pick for tonight is Traversee du Bosphore, the first from this brand I fell in love with and ended up purchasing, and also my first niche perfume, if memory serves me right.

 

[Schubertian]

Around noon I changed into something that's more common and more universally loved, but also less common and less universally loved here in Basenotes - and it's Guerlain's La Petite Robe Noire! I do have a travel spray of the original EDP (well, the modern version, not the original original one) and I actually really enjoy it - it's a very happy and uplifting scent to me. It smells of cherry, almond and liquorice, and also some black tea and tonka and vanilla. It smells young and carefree, maybe even a little immature, but in a best possible way - it feels almost sparkly and lifts off my skin in delicious wafts and just brightens the day, and also layers nicely with many other scents, especially other Guerlains.

You make it sound so lovely, Alice! I wish I'd liked LPRN, but I guess it's just too sweet for me. I really don't do well with sweetness.

 

[Ken_Russell]

According to the most worn chart (at least the one resulting from BN statistics) for the last year, had to go with Heritage.

A truly good example of scents from a house did both achieve quite a few wearing records and yet still having so much to further-therefore personally joining and in favor of Guerlain crew (at least by BN standards) all the way.

 

[CookBot]

Jeez, it's practically sticky in here today with all the Guerlinade.

Guerlain is such an easy house to fall in love with, but it's not easy to keep loving it these days.

I feel your pain, Alice. I'm glad I've never been a major Guerlain fan, only owning a few of the historic essentials, since I've witnessed the pain of all you aficionados over the past few years as The Big G continues its slow-motion tumble into mediocrity at stratospheric prices. Same with Caron; I only loved a couple of them, but the tragic fall from greatness has been excruciating to watch, even from the sidelines.

Like Grayspoole and IsoEsuperman, I consider myself a Dior fan. But weirdly, I only came to love it in retrospect. It's a strange relationship, loving a perfume house whose products essentially died for you around 1990, and who you only discovered after they were dead.

And, as it turns out, Dior is tied on my shelves with Hermès! So I will celebrate the living entity of Hermès, and Chanel too, as the only two standard-bearers of old school pefumery who have not yet succumbed to the siren call of corporatization. Long may they reign.

 

[sagebrush]

Joining the Synch for a long weekend Etro extravaganza. Synched today in Shaal Nur (socialising indoors), followed this evening by Vetiver on the left arm (super-salty and savoury over the sweetness of Shaal Nur) and Ambra on the right arm, which brings out the woodiness of one or other (sandalwood, but also cedar) rather than being too sweet. Odd, but neither sequence is unpleasant.

I've not worn my Etros as much recently because of in-person work. Time to revisit them.

 

[Ebenas]

I didn't realise it was Friday, but I think I've inadvertently sync'd. Wearing Bruno Acampora Sballo today (oil), and as I've never not liked any of their perfumes (even Musc), they may be my favourite house. I only have full sizes of two (Iranzol and Prima T) - well 3 but two of those are Prima T (oil and spray), but I have most of the range in minis.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Going with another bold Guerlain, the one and only Djedi:

 

[Redneck Perfumisto]

Since becoming a BNer, my favorite house over the years might have been:

L'Artisan Parfumeur
Hermes
The Different Company
Creed
Chanel
Guerlain

and particularly the ones in bold. But last year, I "got into" Bath & Body Works, in a huge way, TBH, and that is the fragrance maker that the Basenotes Robot picked as my favorite house.

B&BW has really upped their game, IMO, with more solid releases in their usual fare, and a lot of things which are standing out. They released 4 men's fragrances based on liquor, and all of them are excellent.

Leather & Brandy
Coffee & Whiskey
Whiskey Reserve
Smoked Old Fashioned

They also released two "natural ambient" men's fragrances:

Mineral & Sea Salt
Birch & Eucalyptus

These are good, too.

To round out the new men's offerings, there is a seasonal limited edition called Classic Flannel that my wife complimented, and it really does smell interesting. Also one called Black Tie, and another (which I'm wearing right now) called After Dark.

After Dark is a very pleasant BIG TONKA fragrance that has grown on me. It has some relationship to Chanel Allure Homme Sport Eau Extreme (AHSEE), and if one wants something like the Chanel at a fraction of the price, grab this in the spray can for under $15. I would not be afraid to wear After Dark into a fancy restaurant, although Smoked Old Fashioned might be even better. These are all much better on skin than on paper, and actually take a minute or two to dry properly and "set up". After Dark even smells funky if not BAD for a minute, but once it gets going, it's great. None of this "selling topnotes" crap - these seem like real, classic fragrances. I also get excellent performance from all of them.

Have I sold anybody on my new favorite house? If so, your secret is safe with me! 🥳 🛀 💃 🕺