Rewatching this review because yesterday, I attended a lecture by Marc Antoine Corticchiato in the Perfume Lounge in Amsterdam. What a great expericience that was! 💛 Such a generous and gentle man! He lectured us about spirituality and sensuality in perfume and let us smell all kinds of raw materials he used in his fragrances as side by sides. So I think this may have been the first time I have smelt REAL oud and things like the extracts/essences of vanille madagascar, ambre gris, styrax and tabac etcetera. It was great! He also spoke of his personal history and the stories behind his creations. Horses are very important to him as he lost both his parents at an early age and working with horses and riding them brought him comfort during his grief over his tremendous loss. So that explains that theme in his work. I bought Un Bel Amour d’Été which I had sampled a few times already and he signed the box for me. 🥰 He only speaks French but he spoke slowly and clearly so I could very easily understand him. I think it’s really worth investigating if you could do an interview with him joined by an interpreter because I am sure you and your audience would love to hear everything he has to say. 🙏

Looking forward to your Halloween edition 2024 episode!

I love your reviews

Thank you for these reviews, I so look forward to them.

Thanks Mr P. Amouage has just released three highly concentrated frags made by Duchafour, Rasquinet and Zarokian. Would love to know what you think about them.

Joy has always been until today my preferred woman fragrance. When I was a kid I used to smell it. My big sister used to wear it too and Inused to buy her Joy when I travel just to have the chance to smell it.

Incense also when of my favorite notes : I was craving Narcotico from Meo Fusciuni and happy that folders days are here now to wear it. Did you know that house?

I just applause for the courage you had to sniff those extraits! 😂 like somebody said in the chat Matière Première is all what is wrong with actual hyped pop niche. No surprise they called into that extraits trend. Really don’t like the house. However, I wear Botafumeiro from Carner with a close DNA to Encens suave but not as screamer and not as much woody ambers.

This brand I was very excited to try when it launched, unfortunately I found them way too synthetic. I remember them to have a very well judged consistency throughout the line, but lacking any authenticity or semblance of natural ingredients.

I was only able to get a sample of the Vanille Planifolia and just love it! It is very unique to my nose, nothing that I have tried before. We know that we have an artistic creation when different people are differently inspired by it. There are so many parfume houses that can do "complex" fragrances these days, but simplicity well done is another matter.

Excellent take on vintage Yatagan. It's probably the main reason I never picked up the modern stuff. Can't deny a tinge of envy watching you sniff Joy though. 😄😭 Sounds mmmarvellous.

Not sure why, but I pulled the triger on Centaurus…fingers crossed 🤞 Hope to see you again on the roads of Norfolk 😉

Not sure if anyone has commented on this yet but I just sprayed Barenia and to me it is very close to Floris Chypress-only the Floris projects significantly more. As such, I wouldn’t say it’s at all original

Im personally a very big fan of Creed. With that said I sampled both these scents and was very disappointed. If these type of scents are the future of Creed they will be losing a fan.

So sad I missed this one!! I had a bottle of Joy De Jean Patou from the 50's that was my mom's. What an absolutely perfect fragrance!! :) I've seen some vintage bottles of EDT online and after watching I just might take a risk and purchase one. :)

I prefer Jo Malone to Creed quite frankly! 😀

Universally overpriced

Encens Suave is addictive (And aren't u worried Aurelien could be watching this review. His feelings are going to be so hurt)

Thanks for the video. Personally, although I like several of their fragrances, I see this whole idea of extracts as a way to renew interest in the brand and, of course, an additional source of income without much effort. However, just to justify the brand a bit, I would like to add that Aurélien Guichard once said that many people he knows have stopped using fragrances because they are too complicated and overwhelming for them, so he wanted to make a composition that would be understandable to them, that they would know what do they smell like. and one more thing: a charming Bolshevik?? seriously???🤦

MP is Montale for hipsters.

"N22. I could weep tears of joy....lifted straight up to the heaven" uhh exactly! Love it so much.

I do enjoy French flower and Encens Suave which I enjoy as an amber (rather than an incense) I really didn’t like Crystal Saffron (car tyres anyone) and I HATE (I don’t use that word frequently) Vanilla Powder - just horrifically dry yucky coconut powder/husk affair. I felt very nauseous.

Monsieur Guichard est trop généreux ici!

My experience with fragrance gym boys are chaos that wear hugely intense fragrances to the gym. Creating forcefield around themselves that others quickly bounce off.

Ouch! It was very nice to hear the subtle Jubilation and Epic endorsement! I came to your chanel during the Amouage Non-Critique period and must say I really really wish I could get your opinions and inclusion in lists! I’ll savor those three (inc incense rori) mentions! Keep slipping them in please!

I spit out laughing at your first sentence about Yatagan, because it’s exactly what I said in my head when I saw the title: Yatagan is a funny one. 😅 it’s a unique creation. I distinctly remember a few swinging dads who wore this in the 80s and I didn’t smell it again until around 5 years ago. It smacked me in my memory banks! 😂 I wish I could get a decant of the old stuff.

Is it terrible that I enjoyed watching you struggle through these? 😝 I had never smelled anything from this brand, so I ordered a couple samples and coincidentally they arrived today. I smelled along with original Encens Suave and found it to be neither suave nor terribly incensey for that matter. And yes, weirdly sweet and maybe fruity?? I got the Bois D’Ebene as well but left it at the office so can’t comment. Not terribly hopeful for it after seeing this!

Can’t help but like Green Irish Tweed for the mister. I do note the previously jaw dropping price no longer appears so ridiculous, given the price point of mediocrity in the pool of pricey perfumes now, it’s relatively mid.

For anyone wanting to witness the extremes of the human experience, I recommend watching Persolaise's Viking Cologne review and then watching his Chanel extrait top 5. 😂 No matter what you review Mr. P, I always learn something and I'm always entertained.

So nice to see multiple live uploads today! Each time I'm hoping to see something from Nicolai, maybe one of her new 3 "gourmands" or the new Iris from last year. In any case, thanks for your words! :)

Now I'm sad I'd never know the joy of wearing the original Joy! The Dior one is 😑 What a beautiful episode. Thank you Mr. P

Can you do review on petrichor

Thank you for this video! My relationship with matiere premiere is quite complicated as it started as such a big love at the beginning of this Hobby. I was quite certain I will get many of them. After I learnt more about the perfumery and got to discover more about its art form, the relationship fell down. I owned radical rose but had to sell it due to its bombastic sillage and extreme sweetness. Parisian musc started bothering me. I never really liked Santal Austral and Falcon Leather as they became too huge and angry using your words. I think currently I get along just with their softer side: French Flower and Neroli Oranger. In the end, I think their appeal lies in their straightforward and easy to understand approach, which is not necessarily bad if you are looking for minimalism, but I don’t like they make them so big against all the odds.

Really looking forward to your review! I sniffed these some weeks ago. Some of them were not bad but I had to do a double take with the price! It's becoming ridiculous! I think the brands look at the market and decide to float in the same plane so they can be "taken seriously". ES was my favourite of the bunch

"The best Creeds I have ever smelled " i love that line 😂 I was so excited to wake up this morning to 3 new vidoes from you! I sniffed those on the blotter last week. As you said, they were pleasant and 'meh'. Didn't want to spray on skin in case I like them too much for that ridiculous price point 😂. The price is a branding thing. It's projecting an aura of exclusivity more than a reflection of "materials used and the star dust infused juice" Anyway, always a good laugh reviewing Creed and reading the comments! Btw, what is beautifully sublime is the Amouage opus VIII still on my wrist from the night before, I'd rather spend my money on an old bottle of that!

I wish I could smell your version of yatagan.

My Caron discovery set was delivered 2weeks ago and to be honest all the fragrance (including the new releas3 oud excelsa)were underwhelming,felt watered down ☹

Yatagan and Joy, oh the glory. So pleased for you they turn out to be pristine. When I purchased a vintage edt of Joy about nine years ago, the seller included a full little black and red cap with gold thread bottle of Joy extrait as a freebie. That was such a nice gesture, I think of that seller every time I wear Joy.

Joy - what on earth was Dior thinking in getting rid of the sublime Jean Patou Joy. And all for their own deeply unpleasant version that no-one was interested in. I have a bottle of the real Joy and I treasure it. It is truly beautiful. I hope Dior is ashamed, they certainly ought to be.

I really like Neroli Savage 😅 - there I've said it ...

I would say end 90s for the green dot symbol, the EU legislation was 94 but that takes minimum 2 years to be implemented

I was also put off by Santal Austral and feel much better now, thought something was wrong with me. Encens suave is OK but really loved their Neroli Oranger 🎉

I work in this space and have many French colleagues who often use ‘qualitative’ to describe ‘high quality.’ Over time, I’ve realized this is due to a translation error-they believe it’s the correct way to express ‘high quality’ in English. On another note, I’m also in the minority who wasn’t impressed by MP, and I feel similarly about Commodity. Both brands seem to be trying too hard to appear niche without embracing the true essence of niche perfumery. Instead of offering something innovative or boundary-pushing, they come off as following trends.

I love vanilla powder, and I wear it. I make no apologies. The extrait Radical Rose is NG.

Loved that Neroli too, amazing one ❤ it is called Neroli Oranger

I have to disagree Twilly works perfectly from grown ups not just for youngsters… and to me this one is a bit too mature for my 50s !

Max forti released a video today: creed adventure 3x aged batch 😅

Qualitative in English can be used in the sense "of high quality" (depending on the context), whereas in French qualitatif means referring to quality (opposite to quantitatif), in French it doesn't mean high quality :)

Couldn’t help but laughing at the poster and the ridiculous name 😂