Wow, scentxplore 2025 was a huge hit, venue was completely huge, more vendors came through as well as reviewers on social media. Met a lot of people as well going to the panels for xerjoff and memo paris and hearing the perfumers story on how they started. Getting samples and samples. Almost 4 full bags, buying my first city rhythm fragrance, Puerto Rico, and getting signed by perfumer Niles D Ramadhin himself. As well as a discovery set from amouroud parfums, getting pictures with lorenzo pazzaglia and trying his 3 new unreleased products, that's not in their collection yet, but I can tell you its gin and Tonic vibes, cherry, fruit vibe and a dark coffee vibe. What an amazing turn out. Pictures will be uploaded soon.

I saved the best for last and tested it intensely today. It’s arguably the strongest fragrance in the entire line. For context, none of the SWY fragrances have ever lasted more than four hours on my skin, so I was hoping this one would be different. The scent profile is very likeable. Cinnamon, sweet caramel and vanilla with extra spices. On my skin it smelled fantastic for the first half hour, but by the 2 hour mark it had already faded into a skin scent. 4 hours in, it had disappeared completely. I’m definitely not noseblind either, because I did one spray on my T-shirt and it’s still going strong. I’ve never had a fragrance project this well on clothes. Off the T-shirt it pushes about twelve to fifteen inches, which is wild. Unfortunately, this confirms that SWY is a complete miss on my skin. The profiles are great, but I just can’t wear them. Maybe my skin chemistry will change in a few months or years, and I’ll revisit it then. For now, it’s a fail.