... I mean it's great that a new generation is getting into fragrances and all, but ...

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This one’s from @Henry Clay , another home run from him. Pulling this out tonight to pair with a cigar. What’s interesting is the opening doesn’t even read as a tobacco fragrance at first, it comes across more like a dessert. Sweet, almost gourmand, with vanilla leading the charge before the tobacco settles in. The tobacco is there, just really well blended into the rest of it. There’s a faint sweetness running through the whole thing, plum wine most likely, that keeps it from ever feeling like a straightforward smoky tobacco scent. This is going to be perfect for a night with the cigar.

Ok guys I know this is a fake, but it was 45 bucks for a discontinued fragrance. I was feeling froggy so decided what the heck. Let’s see how this goes. Took maybe 2 weeks and just got it today. I have to say this presentation looks pretty legit. The QR code on it even went to the amouage website. Did a test spray and smells pretty close to what i remember, like a citrusy rose scent. I will further review it on a full wear, but I am pretty impressed by the quality of fakes now. Stay safe out there with your buys, if its this easy to get a high quality fake like this, you just never know nowadays. Also if we ever meet and I smell like a citrus rose, mind ya business. 🤣🤣🤣 Stay smelling great my brothers.

For this warm Sunday on Long Island I went with something a little different today — Acqua della Regina from Santa Maria Novella. One of the things I have come to love about fragrance is that sometimes I’m not simply wearing a scent…I’m wearing a little bit of history. I tend to really enjoy Heritage houses and their stories. And this one has quite a story. Santa Maria Novella traces its roots in Florence all the way back to 1221, when Dominican friars began cultivating herbs and preparing remedies. Acqua della Regina came later, in 1533, when it was created for Caterina de’ Medici and taken with her to France for her marriage to the future King Henri II. That is nearly 500 years of history in the fragrance I put on this morning. 😎 The fragrance itself feels remarkably appropriate for a warm summer Sunday. It starts with a beautiful combination of Italian citrus, neroli and petitgrain, but there is also lavender, rosemary and clove underneath that gives it a fresh herbal and slightly spicy character. What I like most is that it doesn’t smell “modern” in the usual sense—and I mean that as a compliment. There is something wonderfully clean, elegant and restrained about it. The citrus isn’t particularly sweet. It feels greener, brighter and more natural, with the herbs and spices giving it just enough character as it develops. It’s one of those fragrances that reminds me why I enjoy Heritage houses so much. I certainly appreciate new fragrances and new ideas, but there is something pretty special about enjoying a composition whose story reaches all the way back to Renaissance Florence. A quiet Sunday, beautiful weather, nowhere I need to rush… Acqua della Regina feels just about perfect today. 😎🇮🇹