About halfway through my decant and I think I might just pick up a bottle of this before summer is over. A more grown up version of the OG, which I wore a ton as a young man. It definitely lasts longer and has some incense and patchouli to darken it up just a bit. Perfect for Colorado summer evenings What's your favorite ADG?

#sotd... Iris Raspberry by Primera Perfumes... Being the Iris lover I am, when I came across this fragrance, I had to get it. I was able to secure a 30ml sample. Well, let me say this now, if you are a fan of the Powdery Iris note, you will love this. Not so much the lipstick vibe type of Iris but definitely the powderiness. Add the sweet fruitiness of the Raspberry and there you have it, a very pleasing and captivating scent. Add the Iso E Super and Woody notes for some depth. The other notes seem to be there to support the two main notes. Violet, Musk, and Orris gives depth help to the Iris while the Floral Fruity notes, vanilla, and Amber all help with the Raspberry. From start to finish with the fragrance all I get is a sweet fruity Powdery Iris scent. No big changes, which for me, I really enjoy.This fragrance is not a huge projector but it definitely has longevity to it. It will leave a nice sillage as you walk by. I went more than 10 hours while picking it up on me in a close bubble. I give this a 10 out of 10. I will be getting a full 100mls bottle.

Suitable for an important family resort dinner tonight. This is a quintessential episodic fragrance. It is the antithesis of a signature scent. A 100 ml bottle will last you your lifetime and possibly even your son‘s lifetime. This is the house’s first fragrance, commissioned by Oman’s sultan in 1983. It is an unabashedly imperious scent, hierarchical, privileged, wealthy, opulent, powerful, even domineering. Not for the fainthearted. It opens with spectacular and nearly suffocating masculine florals but within 15 minutes the civet arrives – not dirty civet, but clean, animalistic civet still. The effect of the combination of these two sets of accords is nothing short of electrifying. In 44 years of fragrance collecting, I’ve smelled no other fragrance remotely like it, and none like it would ever be produced today, and certainly not by Amouage. The longevity and projection are massive. You’ll need to scrub this off. This one doesn’t go away all by itself. Unless you’re a man of considerable presence and bearing, I would avoid this. If you look up “unsafe blind buy” in the dictionary, this is the picture you’ll find, and on a man under 35 years old this would be considered a clownish affectation. If you think the 37th flanker of Stronger with You is too masculine, you wouldn’t want to be caught dead in the proximity of Gold Man. It’s still available at full retail on the Amouage site, but it is difficult to find anywhere else. Sample at your own risk. You’re into the royals here.