Ranking 20 French Niche Perfume Houses Since 2012 - Which Would You Pick?

0:00 All right, guys. Long just dating video. I am going to be ranking top 20 French niche fragrance houses since I started shooting videos. So, we're going back to 2012. So, any brands that launched prior to 2012 will not be included on the list. It's a top 20 list though of brands, niche fragrance houses from France that have been launching fragrances since 2012. So, I've got a ton of honorable mentions. I've got heritage brands that have relaunched and after the outro there'll be a list of brands that I'll mention but they didn't make the cut and sadly two brands I wanted to include since I made the

0:45 rule of 2012 they have been left off brands like studio which I am a fan of but launched in 2012 uh 2011 and liquid imagineer or liquid Imagineer also launched in 2011. So, those brands are left off the list. But I I I planned this video quite a while ago. I I was actually mentioning it in videos that I was going to prep it, but one thing led to another and it was kind of uh just sitting there. Then I got the uh reminder from someone and I said, "Okay, I got to shoot this video. I planned it, you know, in 2025, probably around the middle or around spring of last year, and it is time to do it." So, this is in a deep dive format. We're going to talk about 60

1:32 fragrances, but probably maybe around 50 brands. Who knows? But before I start the list, I'm going to tell you the honorable revival brand mentions. So, there's several of them here. So brands like Dorsce, Dorsce Paris or Maison Dorsce is a brand I discovered in 2022 at uh Campo Martio in Milan and it's a re launched or a revival classic brand dating back to the 1800s. And of course I've uh mentioned Tonka Hysteria from that brand and really love that one. and they have a a ton of other fragrances that I recommend, but I have decided to leave that off because yes,

2:17 the brand originally sold fragrances decades and years ago and it has relaunched recently and are doing fragrances again. So the next brand, Violet or Maison Violet Violet Parfoms is another heritage brand that I discovered in 2018 2019 but really didn't start talking about them until around 2021 and uh Aner Apogee is one of my favorites from that house including being featured in a scent club kit. They just launched an extract of that where I do get the similarities but the extract seems so different than the original. I think I prefer the original, but another great house that I did want to include, but since they are a heritage brand, an

3:02 existing brand in the past, I left them off. Legalon is another one that I've spoken quite a bit about. Another heritage brand. In fact, I've got videos on the channel of Dorsay, Violet, Maison, Violet, or Violet Parfams, Legalone, all on the channel, so you can actually search the channel and discover them. I think leg galion is around 2014 2015. So they definitely uh relaunched around that time but I think special for gentlemen is a great scent from Legalon. Um Tul is also a really great one focusing on the lynam blossom and many other fragrances from this house. They re-released a lot of classic fragrances

3:49 that they had in the past, redone, and then I think they have rebranded uh a few times post relaunching around 2014 or 2015, one of those dates. So, you can uh you know um look up the brand and see and also search my channel to see what videos I've posted about that brand. And how about Orza Elrand? It's another house that I've spoken quite a bit about and I think they relaunched around 2014. I I've uh spoken quite a bit about them. Uh one of my favorite fragrances, Sheep Remuse, I've spoken quite a bit about. I really love that one. So, if you're in the on the hunt to discover these uh you know, revival heritage brands uh you

4:34 know, from France, definitely look up Orza Alrand. In fact, Orza El Grand was featured over the weekend in my spring fragrances video, a frag with a fragrance called Deja La Pronto. So, it's a a heritage house, a classic house. Definitely worth going to their store. In fact, Dorsce also has a store in Paris. If you make it there, go to their store. Or Lrand store is also great. I don't think the other two brands, Violet and Legalon, have stores. So, I haven't spoken much about Sheriggon. There's a few fragrances I enjoy from the house and hopefully I can do a video on their fragrances in the near future, but it's another brand that has revived, but it's a a classic brand and I I've decided to leave them off. LT

5:21 Piviver, which rebranded recently, I really really love this brand and um they've redone their packaging. They're kind of sort of similar to some of the presentation of Orza Alrand. So, that's kind of what excites me about this brand. But I I I'll I'll speak about the brand some in in the future in the near future because I really do enjoy their fragrances. But once again, it's a revival brand. Um I don't think I've mentioned the brand. I I might have well some of their older fragrances. I might have me excuse [clears throat] me, still trying to get over this uh flu, but I'm much better today. I might have mentioned some of their classic fragrances. Most importantly, their helotrope I've mentioned quite a bit, but uh hopefully I'll do a video on the line, some of their new fragrances, and

6:07 let you guys know about it. But their presentation is awesome and definitely worth uh checking out. And the last heritage brand or the revival brand I want to include here as an honorable mention is Jacqu Fat. It used to be a designer obviously folded and it was purchased by a niche group of niche fragrance group folks and they revived the brand as a niche house. So I have left them off as well since you know they used to exist in the past. In fact I have bought Jacot when it was I don't know if Jacot was making clothing in the '9s but I have bought Jacqu fought in the '9s. Um um I think it's called Porla M. But anyway, I've left those off. I just wanted to mention mention them as honorable mentions here. If you want to

6:54 look them up, you can definitely look them up. I've got plenty of videos on the channel on Jacqu Fat. Most of the brands I have mentioned, but some I do have a lot of videos on. So, those are the honorable mentions. And if you want to just skip around, everything should be timestamped with chapters, so you can just go right to the top 20, but uh you might want to just stick around and watch the whole entire video. So, I am going to start with number 27. I'm going through 27 to 21. I'm not going to mention or smell any fragrances on camera. Only the top 20 list will get actual smells or sniffs. But we're starting off at number 27 with Alexander J. This brand launched in 2012, I believe. And I've spoken quite a bit

7:40 about Imperial Peacock. Love that fragrance. And they have a few other fragrances. And I wanted to mention them because I do enjoy them. And we featured Imperial Peacock in a scent club kit. And they do have some great presentation for their fragrances and also um you know launched some awesome scents. Sadly, it didn't make the top 20. So, Lantrop Paste is a new house uh with Bertrand Du Shafur uh behind the brand. He's the perfumer behind the brand and I wanted to mention them here as well. Obviously, they didn't make the top 20 list. Let's see what kind of fragrances they release, but I do have a video on the channel with Bertrron. You can go catch that video to learn more about the brand and hopefully I'll start featuring more of their fragrances um in videos on the channel. So, 25. So, that was 26.

8:27 Then 25, we've got Headspace, which I just recently did a video on the channel. And there's also another video with the one of the folks behind the brand talking about the fragrances of Headspace when they just debuted their fragrances in 2022. So, there's a few fragrances from this house that I enjoy like Santal and Kersh is great. Uh there's a few others, too. Um the Genev is also really, really great. I love its uh cleanness. But check that uh brand out. You can search the channel. Now, this one was a bit of a tricky brand. Thomas Cosmala. I really don't associate this brand with France. I don't know why, but it's listed as a French brand. I did a lot of research I can find and it it came up as being French.

9:13 I never see the brand selling in the France when I go to France. So, maybe that's why I don't associate it with France. I actually discovered it at Herods. But anyway, it does say France and it's listed as a French brand. I'm featuring it here at number 24. It's not listed in the top 20, but I want to highlight it. I've uh mentioned the brand quite a bit. In fact, I think yeah, I did a deep dive video on everything that I own for the brand. So, if you want to find out more about Thomas Cosmala, you can as well. The one that really comes up from that brand is Upper Lamore number four. And there's a few others that I really like from the brand. So, definitely a brand worth checking out. They do tend to use a lot of um molecular notes, amber woody notes and things like that. So yeah, I think

10:00 it's uh definitely worth checking out Thomas Cosmala, whether it's a complete French brand or not. So I put uh at number 23, Helenist. It's a new house. They just launched in 2024, I believe. And we do have one of their fragrances featured in in our sun clid uh kit. It's a Labrad Morphe. I don't know if you guys have gotten your kits yet. It's an awesome iris, violet, nutty, woody, slightly sweet fragrance, but I enjoy several of their fragrances. I really like the brand. The the curation of the fragrances is great. Uh the from the man behind the brand who worked for Simrise and is using Simrise perfumemers. So

10:46 definitely a brand worth um you know looking keeping an eye on and seeing what they do. But Labrada Morphe is great. Sadly I have a hard time remembering the names of the fragrances cuz they're very French names. But the one that's watery and clean and crystal clear, that is a great fragrance. And the new one, the musk is also but the whole line uh is awesome. So, had to be included here, but sadly it didn't make my top 20 list. At number 22, we've got Xnneilo. No, it didn't make the top 20. No, it didn't. I think the reason Xnihilo um I like the brand and I love the fragrances, but I feel like their

11:32 fragrances are a bit overpriced. I always felt like they were overpriced way before fragrance prices were going up up up. Other than that, once you get past that, I think they have some great scents. I really enjoy their fragrances. In fact, I discovered them when their store, Brand Spanking New, opened in 2015, and I walking walked in there in Paris, and they gave me a ton of samples. I did a video probably on the previous channel, but maybe it's on this channel. I can't remember now. But they've they've they've become huge and they crank out a lot of fragrances. They have a lot of extracts. They have a lot of exclusive offerings. But sadly, as I was doing my, you know, notes, it just didn't make the top 20. But do let me know if you're a fan of the brand. I've I've got a few videos on the channel of the house. You

12:19 can check them out, but do let me know what your thoughts are on Xneilo and if I have if I should have uh featured them in the top 20. And then the Harmonist at number 21. They just did not make the top 20. And the harmonist is another brand similar to Thomas Cosmala that that I kind of do not associate with France because I don't see their fragrances there when I travel. Not at stores that I visit. But I believe the Harmonist did have a store in Paris. I've never been to that store. They used to have a store in LA. I went I've been to that store, but I think that store is closed. And I discovered the brand at um Barney when Barney was still in around as a retailer or department store. But you can search the

13:05 channel and find out more about the harmonist. Sadly, it didn't make the top 20, but there are some great fragrances from that house, especially the Flora Nebula uh that I recently spoke about. Really awesome scent. I really love it. And their oud that they came out just before the the the the Flora Nebula. So, you'll hear more about the harmonist. In fact, I've spoken a lot about the harmonist. Um, and again, doing the math, it just didn't make it uh in the top 20. So, that's the the intro. It's a long intro, but as I said, we do have chapters here. You can skip around. I did want to mention these brands that didn't make the list. So, we're starting at number 20. And at number 20, we are going with Attelier Matari. So this brand I

13:51 discovered in 2019. They debuted their fragrances at Pity Fragranza and instantly I saw their bottles and was quite drawn to them with this kind of stone looking um you know caps and uh square you know bottles. And so I I I I was drawn to them. I'm going to talk to you about three fragrances from each brand that I'm going to talk, you know, talk about here. And again, number 20 is Attelia Mataryi, which we're starting off with Cedra Fagalia. I just decided to include three fragrances that I think are pretty well known or you you should check out if you don't know them. And I think Cedra Fagalia is a great

14:37 update to something like Philosopicus from Dipique. It's a green, woody, spicy, creamy fragrance, but they've amped up the greenness. It's a bit more modernized and I think it's less milky than the the uh philosophic or Premier Figier from Larchazon, which are very similar fragrances. What I like about this one also, they've thrown in spinach as a note. So, it's got an overdose of greenness. So, it's super woody, green, really, really green. slightly milky creamy, but it's just an overdose of the aromatic greenness and uh creamy woods and maybe some spices thrown in as well. It smells like

15:24 spring foliage but more deeper towards the warmth of spring and into summer cuz sometimes when you walk under the fig trees, you do smell the the smell of the you know the fig trees amped up the the smell amped up because of the heat. So this is uh giving me those kind of vibes. So Cedra Fagalia, awesome scent. Really awesome scent. The one I um actually discovered the brand with was Bad. Well, it was called Pota Umbret before when they first launched, but that they renamed it to Bada umbret. Ba meaning wood. Ambret is a note from nature. It's from a plant that is musky and powdery. maybe

16:09 a bit vegetital and it also has a slight fruity booziness, but it's h covered up with a lot of iris powder here. So, it's super musky, powdery, dry, and woody and very, very sexy. uh being drawn to the ambret note. One of my favorites mixed with it's powdery, but I told you that it's got all these different uh you know characteristics. It's um a bit vegetital. It's uh very powdery, somewhat fruity and boozy, but mixed with iris, it overdoses with a lot of powdery touches and then adding the wood. So, it's a very woody, powdery, musky offering and very, very sexy. I

16:57 think I love that about it. Guada ombre from Attelier Matari. And then the third fragrance I want to highlight is Nuroli Hazbaya as one of their extracts. Um I think it's uh definitely one of my favorite extracts from the house. They now have four I believe. They also have the the burgundy which is I think it might be a bit polarizing of a scent. The burger um wait burgundy. No, the oregano. The oregano is polarizing. They have the amber papier burgundy something. I forgot the name and then the the um oregano, black oregano, which I think is very polarizing. But going back to the naroli hazbaya, just imagine

17:43 something similar to love don't be shy. the marriage of orange blossom naroli with h sweet vanilla marshmallowy creaminess but thrown in a lot of pistachio which is a delicacy that I grew up eating and they've captured it very perfectly because love don't be shy doesn't have the pistachio's nuttiness and the delicacy that we have is basically orange blossom flavored ice cream super velvety smooth creamy and then once uh it's plated or It's uh you know scooped up onto a cone and you dip it into uh chunks of pistachio and then you start eating it up. That's what this smells like. Super yummy. So that's Nuroli Husbaya.

18:30 So that is the number 20 brand uh Attelier Mati. Let's move on to number 19 brand L. So L we're going to talk about Musk K first. Musque. I actually spoke about this one recently uh in the spring video over the weekend. Um I don't know what it is about this. It hasn't matured, but it's acting even even further sexier as since the first time I smelled it or the the previous times I should say. So it's gotten stronger is what I'm trying to say. And I could smell it like it's a musk focused fragrance. There's a lot of musky notes, probably molecular notes in

19:16 here as well. Sometimes you might not pick them up as strongly, but I'm just saying that right now it's acting quite strong and I could smell it for a fragrance that's supposed to be kind of a personal fragrance. So, it's u a lot of musky notes. As I was saying, it's it's powdery, but it's also super clean. And there are some light marine touches and woods running throughout it as well. So, it's so good. It's so sexy. And I really love the DNA here. It's this is definitely a personal fragrance. It's it's just meant to be worn uh you know for yourself. It's not a projection monster. It's not something that's going to leave a major cloud when you're walking down the hall, but somebody close to you might smell this and be like, "Wow, you smell so yummy." So

20:02 that's Musk K. Uh that is the first fragrance from L. Then we've got Amber K. She's got Chameleia K, Venique, Vanilla K, I can't remember. A lot of K focused fragrances because the brand is called L K. But wow, have you guys gotten your nose on the Amber K? It's so yummy. Uh, a really, really awesome fragrance. So, I'm highlighting my three fragrance favorite fragrances from the house. What I like about this one is I like it more than the vanilla K or whatever the vanilla one was called. It's am it's like lots of amber but not heavy and dense like if you consider amber fragrances like gran swiris or umber

20:49 sultan or umbre preso there's um refinement about this but you can also pick up the dusting of cacao on it. So just imagine amber with a lot of woods in the base and that sprinkling or dusting of cacao. Also, it's a bit chocolaty, but in the end, it's, you know, it's reinous, it's spicy, it's powdery, but not overwhelming cuz it's smooth. It's super super smooth, but super sexy. So, L's Amber K is yum. Uh, definitely one of my favorites from last year. And then my my first favorite from the house, I discovered in 2019. I remember when I first smelled it at Javoy in Paris. I think it was 2019. Yeah, it was 2019. It was when I spent

21:36 um a few days before Mayday there and I visited the store and I saw this collection for the first time and Poem the Sagano um it was a brand that was not distributed or really had far like it didn't have distribution so it wasn't easy to get except for uh you know getting it from Javoy but it's this very green juicy succulent uh take on a green fragrance. It's It's not anything I like I've smelled before. It's a lot of mint. I I guess there's a lot of mint, so it might come off a bit like mojito, but when you keep smelling it, there's a definitely like an aloe vera succulency or something gelatinous like that. So, it's a bit tart. It's a

22:21 bit sweet. It's It's definitely very aromatic and minty and kind of giving you the vibe of a health drink smoothie kind of because it has that, you know, um, succulents. It's so yummy though. Really great fragrance from the house and perfect to wear in the heat. So, that is Ela K's poem, the Sagano. If you can see the bottom there, they don't write the name. Oh, they do write the name on the side. Never mind. All right. So, that is L at number 18. Number I'm sorry, number 19. At number 18, we're going to the house of Bon Parfumer. So, Bon Parfumer at number 18,

23:07 starting off with 402 Mr. Shadow, created by Kam Bish, launched last year. definitely has become my favorite from this house. But there's a few others that I really enjoy. I think this came out just after the Iris Cartahena. I think that's what it's called. And it was almost like they launched something really great. People were resonating with it. And then they just launched this like massive fragrance uh M Shadow. It's a bit vanilla. It's a bit reinous, but it's Kambish. And he's done some fragrances like this that it reminds me of. Um, like most importantly, the fragrance from Chloe that he did,

23:53 the vanilla fragrance, it's not identical, but it gives me hints of that. This is more reinous. It's um spicy. It's more ambery. whereas the the one for Chloe isn't is a vanilla. But what I like about this, there's a slight greenness running throughout it. And then the the the I think it's called vanilla or van plania. So there's there's Garland's vanilla or vane plania. And then the opposite would be or the other one would be for Chloe. So they're very similar names. So I always forget but there is something slightly green running throughout this which to me is uh an awesome contrast. So great

24:39 scent from Bon Parfumera. This is um 403 M shadow in X-ray to parfam concentration by the way. And then at 104, I mean, sorry, not 104. The second fragrance from Bon Perfumeware is 104. And 104, I actually recently featured in the spring video. We do have some of those uh fragrances here. 104. If you're a lover of highestin like me, you've got to get your nose on this. If you're a lover of ivy focused fragrances, you have to get your nose on this. So it's basically bitter orange or green orange. Orange vert jasint and liar. Leier is ivy. Jasin, I think that's how

25:25 you say it in French. It's hyasin. And then of course green orange. Orange vert it says. So it's a bit citrusy on the start and then the hyinth takes over. And I was mentioning in the spring video, I was recently at Whole Foods and I went to the Flores section or the flower section and the hyestence are in bloom and I could smell them so fragrant even though I kind of lost my sense of smell for a bit with this flu. But those really hit me and this is awesome that way. But this to me seems like it's more of a humid environment like it's in like capturing cuz there's a humidity about it. It's the strength comes off kind of humid. And also when you're in the summertime, when you're near ivy, you can actually smell the ivy uh under the

26:10 heat of the summer. Like when you walk by it, there's this uh very interesting green woody kind of a smell. But this is uh really awesome. One of my favorites from from the line. But this one is not extract. I believe this is an odaparfam. Actually, you know what I have to say? They do have an X-ray to parfom version of this. I don't care for it as much as I like the original, but you know, it's not always me liking the X-ray parfom version. Um, did I already mention that? I was mentioning something in a recent video. For me, X-ray parfoms are great. I really love them, but sometimes I prefer the original versions. And um, in this case with 104, I really love the original. I think the

26:57 extract is a bit too thick. And then the third fragrance I'm going to mention from Bon Parfumeare is 003. The very first fragrance I actually got. I had a 50 ml of the frazz. It's already done and over with. What I like about this one, it's very fresh and perfectly green for summer. It's yuzu violet leaves and veter as you see it right there. So 30 uh 03. Um if you like violet leaves, it's a bit green. It's ozonic, but you know, it's powdery still because it is the violet leaves. Not as powdery as a flower when it's used. Uh, but I like its freshness. It's a bit crisp. It's definitely watery, ozonic. It's a bit spicy and of course earthy. The the vetr

27:43 is not super rooty, so it comes off fresh and not heavy, but it's a great freshy to wear if you want something different than all citruses. You definitely notice the crispness of the the violet leaves. They do come off crisp. Anyway, that is 003 from Bon Parfume. Number 18 is Bon Parfumera. Number 17, we've got Acro. Acro with smoke. So, same time I discovered L, I discovered Acro, but I didn't really and actually there's another brand here that I also discovered on on that same trip to Javoid. It was at the same store, but Acro I I sampled all the Acro fragrances

28:29 and I I I enjoyed some, but for some reason they didn't stand out until I visited uh in the summertime I was at that same year, 2019, I went to Lucky Scent in DTLA. I I circled back to Acro cuz they were selling it now and I smelled smoke and it was a bit warm. There was uh some humidity. The smoke came alive. Actually, it came out like it really smelled great. And when I was testing it out in the dry down, it reminded me of a bit like tobacco vane. But just imagine tobacco vane with more of a smoke like like realistic smoke. With tobacco veneer, you don't get the smoke. And also what I always mention is it's a great layering tool for tobacco

29:15 vane because to me this one does dry down to be a bit like tobacco vane minus the warm spices like cloves and cinnamon and things like ginger that um tobacco vane might feature. But if you combine them you do get the real smoke from smoke backro smoke and it it creates that kind of a bit more intense version but it won't clash because there's similarities there. The the smoke is smoke tobacco and also benzoinne. Benzoinne is a resin and most likely tobacco veneer features it in the base as well or something similar. And it's a vanilla. So it's a it's a resin that's a sweet and vanilla. So I think the marriage between tobacco van and smoke would be awesome. But to me this is a

30:02 bit more simplistic and it needed the heat to really resonate with me. And then once I wore it out in the heat, I was like, "Wow, I got to get me a bottle. It smells so good." So that's smoke, the first fragrance from Acro that I started talking about. Then it's Ink. Um I I I was going to do Dark and Awake, but I've spoken a lot about Dark and Awake. Let's talk about Ink. In fact, Ink was also featured on the in the video over the weekend. Ink is um a veter fragrance, but it's kind of rubbery, smoky, leathery, inky, dark kind of uh ink. And it garers compliments, which off my skin, as I was mentioning, I'd have

30:47 ladies go like that. It's it's very interesting to have that happen behind you because you're preoccupied. And when you hear that, you're like, "Okay, somebody's like liking my fragrance or maybe not liking it, but uh yeah, she she liking it." And it's it's it's great because um I wouldn't think this fragrance would do that, but it does. The thing I I have to say about I think the reason it didn't resonate with me when I smelled it at um Javoy for the first time, there is a thinness about these fragrances, they're not super beast mode. I I don't think they are. I mean, they might have great lingering power, but they do need a little heat. Uh, your body heat will start amplifying the fragrances, but ink is so different

31:34 than smoke, but I think they're really great uh creations personally. And I'm going to talk about Glow. Glow is their amber fragrance. And Glow, since it is um, you know, it's not a clear bottle. It's it's a extra parfam as you can see right here. If you guys didn't know, all of the fragrances of Acro are created by Olivier Cresp who works at DSM Fermanish. He is a um perfumer probably most known for the fragrance Angel. This is a reinous amber spicy like golden. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you guys

32:20 smell in color or texture. I I definitely do here. This does smell golden. It's It smells vanilla, ambery, reinous, maybe balsamic, but spicy. And it's an amber. I I wouldn't say this is my most favorite amber. You guys know what ambers I like. Matri Permit Gantier, uh, amber pursu sultan. But I think I think it's a slightly gourman leaning sweet, spicy, powdery, reinous amber that it eventually develops to to remind you a little bit of some of the more popular ambers. But I mean, I'm not saying it's bad. I I like the way it smells. I love ambers.

33:05 They're one of my favorite styles, but there's so many that I really enjoy, you know. But if this is the first time you're checking out the brand, I I I I recommend you try Glow. For me, Dark and Awake are definitely solid. In fact, for a while, I was wearing Night, which is a super spicy um um cumin forward fragrance, which is very polarizing. I really love it. I love the cumin note. The fragrances initially were all about addictions. Smoke is cigarette smoke. Night was an addiction to sex. Acros awake was a coffee addiction. Um, dark was a chocolate addiction. So, they that's what they are, but I'm not sure. Glow is an addiction.

33:52 Let me know. So, Acro is a brand number 17. Let's move on to brand number 16. And 16, we're going to Matier Premiere. Matier Premiere. Yes. You guys like the brand? So, I pulled out none of their extracts, unfortunately. But they do have extracts. We're going to talk about vanilla powder first. Go figure. I hated this fragrance when it first launched. I I mean, I didn't like it at all, but why has it gotten addicting? I don't know what it is, but I felt like something was weird about this smell. Just like Bakarat Rouge, I didn't really click with it. Maybe it's the overdose

34:37 of the amber woods in the base. There's a lot of it. Maybe my nose didn't like it. But now I really enjoy the the way it smells. It's a powdery. It's a dusty, dry, powdery vanilla. So, it's not the liquid variety of vanilla that you're used to, but it's sweet and spicy. And I wouldn't say it's uber sweet. There is the extract as well which I I do enjoy of vanilla powder but yeah it took me a while to get used to this one and you can tell from the video I did like when this launched there were a lot of vanilla fragrances that launched around that time and I was like I wasn't really digging it but when you smell it a lot you get used

35:23 to it and you're like like really end up liking it. I mean sometimes it happens with fragrances. Let me know your thoughts if that has happened to you. But vanilla powder, let me know if you're a fan. Now, this one actually was even more of a turnoff, but this has also gotten really addicting. It's crystal saffron. Now, this one was so sharp to my nose. Crystal. When you have the word crystal, you know it's going to be cold, icy, metallic, sharp. So, the saffron is metallic smelling. has a metallic quality but also leathery because you you pick up leather and sharpness here. And there's an overdose of amro sand in the base too.

36:11 There is a bit of a greasy kind of um texture or smell or feel. There's a roughness. It has a bit of an industrial. See, that's the same thing I thought with um Bakarat Rouge. It felt like it was industrial. Like the overdose of amroan in that fragrance, my nose just couldn't tolerate it. But smelling it over and over again, I really got addicted to it. And this is kind of somewhat similar. But I really enjoy this right now. I love the way it smells. But it's a saffron. It's a lot of amro sand spices and woods and leather. I mean, it's coming off very leathery, too. Let me know if you're a fan of Crystal Saffron.

36:56 And then we're going to talk about Onan Suave. Who's a fan of this one? So, this does have somewhat similarities to things like number five from Rosendo Matu, maybe Cat. the incense and combo of warm resins, ambery resins is kind of what it does. But it doesn't maybe it does have a little vanilla. It's not as sweet as Baby Cat. And I'm not saying Baby Cat is a super sweet fragrance, but it does act a little bit like that. You know, it's warm. It's sp pepper, like black pepper in here cuz I'm smelling it.

37:44 Peppery spices. Maybe it's a bit leathery, but lots of incense or olabanam frankincense and ambery notes. What is the brand going to launch next? But let me know if you're a fan of an Suave. That is uh brand number 16, Matier Premiere. Remember, this is a list of my top 20 favorite French brands post 2012. So, the year I started shooting YouTube videos. Now, I don't know if you guys know, this is my second channel. So, the first channel is nowhere to be found. So, you can't find any videos prior to 2015 cuz it's no longer there. But since 2015, this is the the second channel. And I started

38:31 shooting in 2012, so I decided to uh feature brands 2012 and on. So, we've got um only those brands here in the top 20. And then I'm going to talk about a few, well, not a few, a lot of brands that I decided to leave off this list because they just didn't make the list after the outro. But let's move on to brand number 15. Going to the house of Initio. Parfam Marley's not on the the list. They launched in 20 2009, but this is their sister house, Initio. They launched in 2015, by the way. And this is Lift Me Up. Somehow, for some strange reason, I grabbed all white bottles from the the line. I don't know why, but that's what happened and I'm gonna go with it. Uh, but I do enjoy

39:18 other fragrances like Atomic Rose and um there's the um the cherry one which first I didn't like then I started enjoying. I forgot the name of that one but lift me up. Wow. It's such a uplifting I should say uplifting kind of a vanilla solar tropical maybe a little bit vanilla. Uh it's super creamy and smooth and very very comforting. When I when I smell it, it somehow it just gives me a relaxed feel. So, I I don't know if it's the way it's smelling smooth, but it, like I said, it's super creamy.

40:04 There might be coconuty touches here. There's definitely sunny solar effect happening. Lightly beachy and tropical, but again, it's it's gourmand light, I think. But very cozy. Very super cozy. That is the Lift Me Up. Let me know what your thoughts are on Lift Me Up. Add a comment below. Up next, let's see. Oh, these bottles uh caps are not Okay, they are on. Um, up next is Rehab. In fact, I got a whole full review of Rehab on the channel. I mean, when I first was going to speak about this fragrance, I don't know why, instantly

40:49 reminded me of Parfamza Marley. Then I said, they're connected. Why? Why wouldn't it smell similar? They're probably using similar perfumemers. I mean, this one reminds me a little bit of Leighton, I think. It's kind of um aromatic take on a creamy vanilla tobacco. It's again once again super like super smooth. No rough edges whatsoever. Same thing with uh the these two that I've spoken about and the third one as well. They're very smooth, clean fragrances. I think I think because the bottles are white, the idea of pure comes to mind. So, they're acting very smooth. And I don't know why

41:35 I decided to go with these three fragrances, but I did. Those came to my mind first and I decided to go with it. But there's a few others like Atomic Rose and I'm drawing a blank with the name of the one with the cherry which I didn't like at first. I didn't hate it. I just didn't didn't think it was all that great. then it just grew on me and ended up really enjoying it. But Rehab, I think it's quite solid, but it does remind me a little bit of, you know, Leighton or Marley Fragranc's DNA. And then the third, which also was featured in the spring video recently, is Musk Therapy. So basically a smooth, creamy, fruity musk. You guys like this one? I have a full

42:21 review of this one on the channel as well. I mean, it's so it's it's an easygoing fruity musk and simplistic, not super wimpy. It's it's it's quite longasting, but I wouldn't say these three fragrances are like projection monsters. These aren't fragrances that are going to be showstoppers, although they have strength. They're not like wimps, but they're made in a way that are not like big in-your-face projection monsters and things like that, but I like the way they smell. I think the um the musk therapy is probably the lightest out of the three, but I think it's a given it's a musk. But I like how

43:09 the the fruity notes contrast against the musky notes. But again, as I was saying, there's also creaminess here. So, it does come off creamy and smooth at the same time. So, that's Musk Therapy and that is Initio at number 15. Let's go to Jeroboam next at number 14. Now, Jeroboam is the sister house to Javoy, but Javoy unfortunately doesn't make this list because they launched in the 2000s. Um, I think the story is interesting about Javoy as well. It's almost like it's a heritage house brought back, but I'm not 100% sure. But let's go to um Jeroboam. I actually discovered Jeroboam

43:55 a winter that I was I think it launched in 2015. So, I was in Paris uh December 2015 to January 2016. And they had the brand there. And I bought three of their fragrances at that time in the 30 ml and it was uh Insulo was the first one I fell in love with. It's a delicious super spicy um vanilla fragrance and again very longasting and also has a dark color when you spray it and you could see how dark it is. Don't spray that on your white shirt but wow this is yummy. It's super sticky smelling vanilla, but I wouldn't say this is super sweetly gourmand. It's spicy,

44:43 very spicy and woody. Very longasting, but you can feel and like experience the stickiness of insulo. There's maybe some butterscotchy undertones, maybe slight caramelly undertones and even smaller like chocolatey touches, but I think it's more like butterscotch caramel rather than like chocolate. But it's it's it's quite boozy as well. But it's a delicious delicious uh vanilla fragrance. Super yummy. There is a little bit of a citrusy effect happening there as well. But insulo is awesome. Then we've got Gooo. Gooo probably is

45:29 the most popular of Jeroboam's fragrances. Everything about this fragrance, I should have fel fallen in love with it right away, but for me, it took a while to understand this fragrance. It just threw me off uh for some reason. Now I'm super addicted to it because it is a pachuli focused fragrance, but for some reason it I don't know if it rubbed me the wrong way, but I just couldn't understand it. Like it reminded me of head shop and candies and incense and of course pachuli, but it smells great. It's long lasting. It's not super heavy, but again, great ling lingering power, but it smells great. And people do compliment uh you wearing

46:16 this fragrance cuz you know it does leave a trail. It's got this uh strength about it and it blends in with my body chemistry perfectly. So it does a great job of leaving a trail and I like that about it. But for some reason it tricked me at first. It reminded me like the color maybe it's the color orange. Uh it's it it always came in an orange bottle. Maybe that also threw me off cuz it was the first time I saw an orange color where everything was brown and this orange thing comes to me to to me and it's like and it's like this head shop incense pachuli thing hippie kind of puli thing with like a hard candies uh in orange color kind of a thing but

47:01 anyway sometimes things like that happen but I do enjoy this one quite a bit. There's a whole deep dive video on the channel. In fact, a lot of these brands I'm talking about, I have videos on the channel, so you can always search and discover the brands further. But Go, let me know if you're a fan of Go. And then I'm going to their latest fragrance, Kunamo, which was definitely one of my favorite launches of last year. And I'm not a pear person. Uh, and the pear in this smells super awesome. Super juicy and drippy contrasted with all the muskes. I really love the way it smells on me. The juiciness adds the freshness and the muskes add the sexiness and the strength and the depth. So to me, pear I

47:47 always think of young and childish or girish, but this is not a girly fragrance. At least to me, it's not. Um, it's a kind of a ripe, juicy, wet, tart, sweet tart, you know, pear with a lot of muskes and it has strength. It has great lingering power. It smells great in the heat because of that juiciness and of course the projection and all that kind of stuff. The muskes projecting off of you, you know, blended in your with your own chemistry. I think makes a very super sexy fragrance. And I never thought pear could be sexy, but it can be with this fragrance for sure. Really awesome scent. I love it. So, Kunamo is the third fragrance from Jeroboam. And Jeroboam is uh the 14th

48:35 brand, French brand that I'm talking about. Up to number 13 next. And we're going to Lumari. Lumari launched in 2021, so they haven't been around for a long time. And they put out the most amazing fragrance with Porto Hole. I remember getting my nose on Porto Hole in 2022. I was surprised. I was a bit cautious. Instantly, I thought, "Oh, no. They're doing a marine fragrance." No, it's blue. And you put your nose to it and you're like, "Oh, it's not marine, but it's salty. It's fruity. It's a bit sweet, tart. It's woody and it's musky. And it smells so yummy. It really is yummy fragrance. I I kid

49:23 you not. If you haven't got your nose on this one, please do. It smells awesome. It's not marine even though it has the name port hole. Um, it's the salt that gives you that kind of an effect. Sea salt basically. It does have caramel. I wouldn't say this is a caramel fragrance. There is a stickiness though, but you know, you've got pineapple which has that sweet tart effect and the the salt kind of cuts through that and the caramel, but you have all the woods and musk and things like that thrown in there as well to make for an awesome wearing experience. I love it. So, port hole, we've actually featured that one in a scent club kit, I think in 23, I believe, a year after it came out. Let me know if you guys got that kit. But let's move on to the next

50:09 fragrance from this house. We have Al Maria. Alm Maria. Uh this is um another fragrance that was featured in the scent club kit. We we featured this one um in our second scent club kit actually. It's a very masculine. So I think the brand says it's a gourmand. I don't really consider this a gourmand. It has gourman notes but it's tobacco. So it's a bit smoky. very woody. It's very spicy. It does It does have sweet notes. It has almonds, but woods, spices, smoky ashiness kind of take over, but it's super longasting. And you definitely experience the the

50:55 ashy smokiness of the tobacco. So, it does act a bit dirty. Dirty in a good way, not in a bad way. Like it's ashy, I should say, rather than dirty. But but it's super sexy. I think the the way it smells and on skin it lasts a long long time. This is a really awesome scent. Al Maria, when the brand launched, this had this had become my favorite out of the line. And then of course, Lumari's Portole came out the year after. And uh it was um you know awesome that they have like um a great fragrance created from the same team of perfumemers and you know releasing uh two three awesome fragrances back to

51:40 back that are totally uh wearable you know but the third fragrance is their latest fragrance not created by the same perfume perfumer team it's created by Julian Rasan actually it's Amber Malatia let me know if you guys are famili familiar with amber malatia. So, this is a a totally different take on amber. It's a very fruity take on amber. So, apricots are king here. So apricots it's once again super sweet, tart. So for me, this is like a completely unusual take on amber because the fruit

52:27 really dominates and usually I don't associate amber with fruit. So it gives it a more fun and playful effect rather than amber being super serious. There is definitely a very creamy layer here. It's creamy smooth, but very enjoyable fragrance, I think. It's it's it's different, you know. It's it's not like the fragrances of the brand where they were working with one group of perfumers and then they launched this but before this they also launched a fragrance uh that was very fresh citrus aromatic kind of ice cold uh created uh

53:14 by Christian Provenzano. So, they've kind of branched out and you can tell the DNA is not the same, but I think it totally fits the line. I mean, Amber Malatia is totally connected to Lumari and how unique their fragrances are. Uh, let me know your thoughts. Have you tried Amber Malatia? What are your thoughts on Porto Hole and Almaria? Add a comment below. But 13, it's Lumari. Lumari's three fragrances and they launched in 2021. I'm not I'm forgetting to mention when the brands all the brands launched, but I'll write them uh in the info box. Hopefully, I'll remember. But let's move on to the next brand. We're going with Lorester Parfam. And first fragrance, Piano Santal.

54:02 Uh super creamy, milky take on sandalwood. Really awesome smell, I think. Really cozy and comforting as well. Maybe a bit slight bit animalic musky, but the milk effect is really there. Like sometimes sandalwood comes off milky without adding milk note to it. This literally has the note of milk. It also I believe has the note of skin or something that like an accord that smells like skin, a human skin. So that's why I think it kind of creates a slight animalic effect. But in the end, it's super cozy. It's a milky take on woody sandalwood. Smooth. Super smooth.

54:50 I think it's a great fragrance. One of the best in sandalwood out there. What are your thoughts? Piano Santal from Lorester Parfam. Then we've got Liquor BPM, which is in our latest scent club kit. Liquor [clears throat] BPM. Somebody told me recently, this smells like chamomile. And I never thought of this as chamomile, but now I think about chamomile cuz I grew up with chamomile cuz used to drink chamomile tea. What do you guys do? Do you guys get the chamomile here? It's a boozy offering. If you've ever like picked chamomile and you know dried it

55:36 or bought dried chamomile, not in the tea bag, but the real flowers, there's a certain smell that it kind of smells like in here. But it's super ambery, woody, and very spicy, but also very boozy. And of course, um, you've got that kind of chamomile effect happening. It's a long lasting offering, but it's not super thick and dense, you know, liquor BPM. Let me know your thoughts on that one. Let me know if you sampled it in the latest uh scent club kit. And the third fragrance from Lorestra Parfam is Cocktail Appalachious.

56:25 So, if if any of the brands that I spoke about today you haven't experienced yet, let me know. Add a comment below and if you've been wanting to experience any of the brands that I spoke about that, like I said, you haven't yet and you've been curious which one makes you want to try the that brand first. Add a comment. Let me know. But this is Cocktail Appalachas. This is also a boozy fragrance. Totally different though. This is woody, boozy, spicy once again, but it doesn't have that chamomile effect obviously. I do get a little bit of almondy effect in this. Maybe a little bit of cherry as

57:12 well. I could have sworn these two fragrances are created by the same perfumer, Port Hole and Cocktail Appalachious. Who can tell me? But Cocktail Appalachious is yummy. There is a little bit of a peppery spice in it as well. Yeah. So, Cocktail Appalaches, the third fragrance from the house of Lorcaster Parfam, which is at number 12. Now, let's move on to the brand Sora Dora. Let me know if you're a fan of Sora. Of course, the first fragrance I'm going to talk about is Janney.

58:01 Jani is so yummy. Have you tried it? It's super sweet, though. You've got to be into sweet. If you aren't, maybe you won't like it. So, it's inspired by the tart tatan, which is an awesome delicacy. It's almost like apple pie here. It's doughy. It's nutty. It's fruity, spicy, very autumn winter kind of uh homebaked sweet dessert kind of a thing. So yummy. It smells so realistic. So realistic. It's too delicious. Like you almost want to eat it because it smells like apple pie. Literally smells like apple pie.

58:52 Like put it putting putting it to your nose. How realistic it smells. Damn. I like it when the fragrances do smell realistic. Even though, you know, sometimes they might be made with synthetic notes ingredients, they still smell that smells like real apple pie to me. The next one is Mandural. Let me know if you're familiar with Mandor. Mandural to me is a fruity kind of vanilla gourmand. Not as intense as Janney, but it has great longevity because they're all X-ray to parfam offerings,

59:41 but there's something sexy about Mandural that I don't get sexiness from Janney. Janney is full-on gourmand. I don't not many times I consider gourmand to be super sexy, especially the ones that are super sweet. But there is something sexy happening here with Mandor that I like that I really really enjoy. But yeah, next to Janney, it's not acting as strong because Janney is completely beast mode. It's so super sweet and intense. This one has more elegance. It's a bit more subtle. It doesn't shout too much kind of thing, but it is yummy. And then um the third fragrance from Sorodora I'm going with Lubu. I know

1:00:30 this might be a bit polarizing. Um the inspiration for this is the Papierre the Armony but I'm not sure if the inspiration came through. I don't know if you guys know Papierre the Armony. Papi the Armony inspiration was also with um Vad Armony from Gerlan which is discontinued. This is the same inspiration. In fact, it kind of reminds me of the smell of papier the harmony because I I have some that I use. It's spicy, smoky, and sweet and reinous and amber, of course, because Papier the harmony is inspired by benzone. So, it's smoky, sweet, sweet and smoky

1:01:16 spicy. And you basically light it up and that's kind of what you get. You got the smoke from it when you're burning it and you have that here. I don't know why this um this fragrance became a bit polarizing. I don't know if may maybe people were expecting something like Janney, but it's it's definitely not. But I do enjoy this one. I I mean I I I prefer Janney for its realistic apple pie, you know, inspiration, but this one also enjoy cuz it's more ambery and spoke and smoky. Let me know your thoughts on Lubu. Let me know your thoughts on Sorodora at

1:02:02 number 11. So, I do want to specify that I went through the list as much as I can. If I accidentally left off a brand, I apologize in advance because I I went through I did I did go through. And of course, stay tuned till after the outro where I will talk about what I didn't make the cut. But let's move on to the house of Parfams Ducita. At number 10, we've got um Flur Lalita First, which is a green floral fragrance. Recently featured in my spring fragrances video and one of my best one of my favorite fragrances from this house. I absolutely

1:02:48 love it. It's super sexy. So there's creamy elements because white flowers do give you that. There's galbinum in here. There's pachuli in here. It's just a great intoxicating combination of notes together. So lovely. It does remind me me of spring and it's reminding me of spring flowers. I mean, I've been walking around a little bit in the city and I see at the parks a lot of um flowers blooming. a lot of magnolia, pink magnolia or purplish magnolia and there's a certain fragrance there. So it smells green and kind of earthy but you know a bit creamy. So you've got that

1:03:34 here. It's so good. This is so good. Flirtito is is a is is a masterpiece I think. But we also have to talk about tonka latte. Tonka latte is um you know it's a super delicious tonka focused latte experience. So in the end it's super nutty. It's almondy. Tonka does have an almondy nutty bitterness. Tastes also similar to me. The taste is kind of like an apricot pit. You guys ever tasted an apricot pit? But you get that here with the tonka. A lot of it. It's a bit bitter, but it's so super creamy, but also frothy. Like you froth milk for

1:04:21 your latte or cappuccino, you've got that frothy texture. It's super creamy and frothy, velvety smooth. For me, having a latte or I don't have lattes, I have cappuccinos. It's 50/50. The coffee has to be good and the milk has to be perfectly frothed. If it melt if the the heat of the coffee melts the milk froth, then I don't like that coffee. And you get that texture here, that frothy texture. It's so velvety smooth, but it's it's a tonka latte because that's what it is. Cuz it's tonka. It's bitter almondy. So that's tonka latte. And the third fragrance from Params Ducita is Moonlight in Chiang Mai. Yeah,

1:05:08 this has kind of uh crept up there and has become a favorite of mine. It's it's um it's spicy, acts a bit molecular, but it's woody. It does have a little bit of the characteristic of a fuer, but super modern. Not anything like Fujer Royale or anything like that. It's a lot of zesty citruses as well, spices, but it's unique. It's unique, but also very enjoyable. It's definitely leaning masculine, and it's fresh and woody and spicy. And again, it acts molecular. I I I've mentioned it to Pisara is if there's

1:05:55 amroan in here. She insists it's not. It's the teakwood that's in here that creates that effect, which I'm fine with it. Maybe there's also a little bit of a watery aquatic thing happening here, but it's so good. It's It's a perfect everyday signature scent for a guy, I think. So good. Really, really awesome. I don't I wouldn't say it's specifically made for a guy. I think it leans masculine. A woman can totally pull it off. So that's Moonlight in Chiang Mai. And that's uh Params Ducida at number 10. Then we're going to the house of BDK with three fragrances. They're at number nine. BDK is number nine. First is Pases Extra Parfam.

1:06:43 Favorite favorite fragrance from this house. It's the pichuli that does it always. But this is a fruity take on pachuli. It's pear and mango chutney. I believe the notes long lasting compliment getter. There's a woman that I walk past sometimes. She always compliments me when I wear this one. Um she's um security guard at a the place I go to. Um but there's a very sexy quality about this one. I never really experienced the original until much later after Passes X-ray came out. Um, but I can see

1:07:30 why the original might be very popular. That's why they did an X-ray to parfam of this one. I much prefer the I mean the X-ray of parfom in this case for sure because it was the first experience, the one I fell in love with. Now that I've gone to the original, I feel like the original is a bit too thin, but I think the original is the more popular with people, I just enjoy. I think there's also chocolatey touches in here, which makes sense because it has a lot of pachuli. It compliments the pichuli. Oh, it's so good. So, so yummy. So, that's Pasoar X-ray, the first fragrance from BDK. Then I'm going to talk to you about Velvet Tonka, which I'm certainly anticipating the launch of the X-ray of Velvet Tonka. But Velvet Tonka has been

1:08:17 one of my favorites from this house. And again, as I said, I can't wait to get my nose on the X-ray because it's out or it's an exclusive at Selfridges. But this to me, so it's Tonka beans once again. We had tonka latte from Ducita. Now we have Velvet Tonka from BDK. I mean, they're not identical, but this is also very creamy. It's nutty. It's sweet, but also honeyed. Well, I think that I think that the Tonka latte is also honeyed, but they they are so different even though they focus on the tonka beans. You know, tonka beans has become a favorite note of mine. I really enjoy

1:09:04 it. It's not only used in fuair as the base note, but it's also used as a gourman note like tonka hysteria from Dorsce. So yummy. Um, but this is again super spicy. It's almondy and tonka. I think it's a bit floral, but there's creamy touches. But for me, this in comparison to the tonka latte, this is not as creamy as tonka latte. And this is also a bit less gourmand than Tonka Latte. To me, it is. So, let's see what they've done with the Extra Param version, but Velvet Tonka is uh yummy. And the third fragrance from BDK I'm going to talk about Ven Leather because it's definitely a favorite of

1:09:51 mine. This might be a sleeper. Not a very popular one. It is a bit old school, but I like old school fragrances. I love the vanilla combined with the leather in here. It's um it's like an old old school leather fragrance but modernized but still keeping the old school vibes in it. There's a a major violet presence here which complements the the leather as well. So, it's powdery, it's sweet, it's uh leathery, but more like suede leather. To me, it's fragrances like Misia from

1:10:38 Chanel, Quan from Dior, which is discontinued. Um maybe fragrances like Royal English Leather from Creed, Nikise 10, Queer Fatish from Matrop Gantier. It's kind of um like a distant relative to fragrances like that, I think. But it's good, really great. So that is Van Leather, the third and final fragrance from BDK at number nine. Then I'm going with at number eight for Itellia Dour. So I put the Itellia Dor fragrances behind because I had a bottle fall the other day with the spring video

1:11:24 and it was a a wobbly bottle. So those are behind. Uh so let's talk about um Attellia Desour and we're gonna start with Rouge Sarai, my favorite. Come on guys, release an extra parfam of this. You can do it. So, roué was in our very first scent club kit. It's a super delicious Middle Eastern dessert come to life with plums and dates and uh the Peru balsom in here. Acts like you've drizzled honey on top of like chopped up plums and dates. And so, it's a it's balsamic. It's a vanilla, sweet, and ambery with of course the plums and the dates. It's so

1:12:09 yum. So, so yum. So, sadly, it's not one of the biggest sellers of the brand. So, maybe that's why they're not launching an X-ray, but they've only launched three X-ray parfoms of uh the house's original fragrances. Loomfalene, of course, got an extra parfam. Rose Omead, I believe, has an extra parfam. And um the one in the white bottle, the jasmine that's um with the marine notes, has an extra parfam as well. forgetting the name of that one. But this deserves an extra parfom, too. I think it's so yummy. But it's so unique to have the fruity notes of the dates and plums in here. And it doesn't come off super fruity, but yeah, there's fruits there. I think it smells a bit more like plums

1:12:55 because for me, dates, even though they're sweet and fruity, they don't have a distinct smell to me. So they kind of blend in more to be more of an amber texture rather than a fruity texture. So I think the the the plums are running the show more than the dates here. But of course the dates are providing their stickiness. You know, you got that here for sure cuz it's very sticky. Really awesome scent. Rooare. Uh let me know if you're familiar with that. And then we've got Cocoa Kima. So good. This is really really awesome scent. Awesome. Awesome stuff. It's an extra parfom. I just wish it had more projection. It doesn't have projection like I like, but it's so long lasting.

1:13:41 It also reminds me of uh Yeah, it reminds me of Fumeary Turk. You guys familiar with Fumary Turk from S Lutans? That's what it reminds me of. So, when I first smelled this and I smelled the other one, the cafe card I think or something like that, I didn't care for that one. I loved this one. This one was an instant love. I thought at that time it had something musky in it. And Fumary Turk from Sarah Lutan's which I just realized recently it reminded me of that. I get a slight animalic muskiness

1:14:27 from Fumeary Turk. And that's what I was associating the this fragrance to remind me of. But oh my god, it's good. This is so damn good. So so good. Um, so it's a bit I mean there there's probably pachuli in here cuz it's acting like it, but there's a lot of musk and they're only revealing the cacao and the cardamom. Everything else is supposed to be interpreted by you. I think that's what I remember them telling us. But it's so good. Really great. Um, if I do a ranking of this house, this is definitely top five, if not top three. It's that delicious.

1:15:14 And again it reminds me of fumeary turk but with a overdose of pachuli and amped up musk and of course maybe some tobacco but more like the leaf rather than smoke cuz this is not smoky and fumeary turk is also not smoky. It's a bit musty leafy. There's nothing wrong with musty. I mean I love for Mary Turkin. I love this one too. And um I mentioned recently also late last year, Fumeary Turk was in the tall black bottle. They've discontinued that collection. It's now moved into bell jars. So which it's even more difficult to get those fragrances. So if you're

1:16:00 looking for Fary Turk, get yourself a bottle of Cocoa Kima. Um there they have similarities. It's funny when I did that video, I announced the fact because I had just gotten back from France um and um I I I went to the Serge Lieutenant Boutique on the Ruse Staint Honor and they told me that collections discontinued no more. Everything's moved into the Bell Jars. I came back, I saw that there was some fumeary Turk stock out there and I me made the video, mentioned it, and I think the Fumeary Turk sold out. But prior to airing the video, I ordered a bottle myself. But there was some damn problem with shipping and it got returned and I never got my bottle backup bottle which I'm bummed. But luckily this this does come

1:16:46 close. Not identical by the way. It's it's it's it has its similarities. Now the last fragrance from Ailia Desour is Lon Feline. I can't get this one. This is how I discovered this brand. Well, I mean, I discovered the brand uh in um December 2014 uh January 2015 at Javoy. Uh but I was on a trip December 2014 uh January 2015 in France and I arrived in in Paris in on 20 in January 2015 and I went to Javoy and they had just put that brand out and I I I bought a bottle of Loomine. What I really liked about the bottles because they are very art deco

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