https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Omanluxury/Hommage-1744-126621.html Anyone seen this or interested?

Good day gents! New addition today, and pretty much going into a no-buy period. Currently have all I want, unless something trully remarkable pops up. I may end up swapping Missoni Wave for Superleggera. Ended up prefering the more musky, less playful take on the DNA of SL. Today I finally got "a" fragrance from M.Micallef. Tested my decants of Desirtoxic and Desirtoxic L'Intense about a month ago, and absolutely loved them, but as many borthers suggested, I found L'Intense to be considerably more wearable/versatile. So had to order a bottle. Came in today! But... did it? Bought it from venba, whom I bought from several times. No issues ever. Last one I had bought was my bottle of GNTONIC, that came with what seemingly is the more basic cap. I attributed that as it being a tester. But this Desirtoxic I bought as tester as well, and came with the more "classy" cap. On to the rest... order is for L'Intense, packaging states L'Intense, stickers state L'Intense, bottle seems to be the more black-blotched bottle of the L'Intense, although somewhat less than expected (I'm sure it varies)... but on the side, it just says Desirtoxic. No L'Intense. I thought it should. Did the bottle change? Scent-wise, it does seem to be L'Intense instead of the OG. Need some more time to compare them. This puts my mind at ease a bit. Batch Code suggests a July 2025 batch. Any knowledge worth sharing from our BoS Wisemen?

This is the start of busy season for me, and god knows I need it. I hate being idle, and sitting on my hands is never good for my bottom line (LOL). So after a very long weekend working SXSW events, weddings, and an a cosplay shoot that involved some serious set construction, it was nice to come home and find this in my mail box: Item 1). TPG Scent Club Kit 018. I used a $10 discount for filling out a survey from them to purchase this kit. I was mostly excited about The Hellenist Le Bras de Morphee (The arms of Morpheus). I tried it at the Scent Room in Dallas back in February, and was really impressed by it. I think, for me, it was overshadowed by L'ombre d'Artemis, but it's a solid violet, orris, hazelnut with a woody, creamy dry down. I can tell it's going to be a favorite. Sarah Baker's Va Va Vanilla is a nice surprise. I wasn't really interested in it, thinking it would be a vanilla bomb, and it kind of is at first, but transforms into a rum and cherry fragrance with a hint of coffee and smoke. It's a vanilla for the over 40 crowd. L'Orchestre Liqueur BPM is interesting, too. Tobacco, leather, vanilla, and patchouli. I'm looking forward to wearing this later when I haven't blown out my nose on the other two. Item 2). I got the cover of one of my favorite publications - Bachelor Pad. It's a retro pin-up magazine in the style of early vintage men's magazines. It's very tongue in cheek, and the editor pushes a 60s - 70s Playboy aesthetic but without the nudity. I'm including the cover here, but will refrain from posting the interior since it might not be appropriate for everyone. Anyway, I'm quite proud. It's my 15th cover for the magazine and my 25th feature, and marks me as the photographer with the most covers that they have published. The fragrance next to it is Anfar Mistral Earthy, which was a gift, along with some other items that I can't show, from the publisher. On first spray, I think it's in the same vein as Althair / Liquid Brun, though it seems to be its own thing. I'm not familiar with the brand, but will follow up on it.

Preparing for snow Armageddon here in southern Wisconsin over the next three days. Welcome to March! Well day three of my ATH challenge is here and alphabetically landed on the now named Censored Elixir due to legal naming rights issues. I will just cut to the chase on this beautiful frag and say it’s a 9.9/10. Why not 10/10? It’s just too sweet for a hot summer day unless indoors for me. And the pricing lately is abhorrent. Absolutely office safe and unisex. In fact my twin sister made this her fave of my collection and absconded with her own 10ml from my bottle. 😂 Max aroma has definitely gone up on the pricing for sure in the last year. Yes the cost is prohibitively high and all the numbers I’m seeing currently are around $4-$5 per ml in a 100ml bottle. Thats not attainable for many in the current market. I was lucky to score my current stock when it was slightly better pricing. Supply and demand along with Aaron’s OCD with quality limits what is available. Plus I honestly think it is also a marketing ploy. Over the last two years this house has completely exploded the market. Why???? QUALITY!!!!!! You may not like a certain scent profile(I haven’t found one yet). Though if you’re being honest with yourself you have to agree he creates some of the highest quality frags out there. Personally I’d put him in my top 3 quality level houses out there. What say you brothers???

Shoutout to @Mark DiCiero for helping me spend my money recently 😁 I did a poll asking if I should buy PDM Sedley or Lorenzo Pazzaglia Summer Hammer and left it open until 7:30. It was tied at 7:30 and Mark recommended I grab this one so I used it as a tie breaker 😁. Total blind buy for me. Full review coming in a few days when it warms back up! The note breakdown is so extensive it took 2 screenshots