"You Live You Learn" -Alanis Morissette

I had posted about this a while back on the main RMRS page but I figured since I'm a part of this group now, I'd post about it here.

A few years ago when I was a complete Noob (Now I'm only a moderate noob😎) I bought this on Ebay. I had heard a bunch of rave reviews from "influencers" and found this at quite the discounted price. So naturally I bought it despite warnings from childhood about "If it's too good to be true....etc."

When I got it I was impressed by the packaging. It all looked really legit. To think that this much effort and money would be spent toward faking a fragrance is pretty impressive despite being reprehensible. What made me start to realize that like Tommy, I'd been hosed, was the fact that it just smells like pure dried tobacco leaves. I know Herod has a middle note of Tobacco and I'm sure it's pretty prominent, this was just that and really nothing else. Sweetness and Tobacco.

Granted it's not offensive, just clearly not the real deal.

I did a little research and the main way to tell it's fake despite the very convincing numbers is the cap. This cap looks good, but it's very light cheap plastic.

Anyway, just wanted to share this burn so some up and comping Noobs can learn from my hasty mistake.

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