New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . I am basing this mostly on my experience today after using just one walk-through spray of the stuff as the top layer of three broadly compatible fragrances. Unlike some online retailers, all of our products come in the original manufacturer packaging and are 100% genuine. I always considered Aramis to be the torch bearer of good quality affordable fragrances that are reformulated well.

All throughout the drydown the scent retains a recognisable retro style all throughout its lifetime. It takes a couple of months with air in the bottle , but now the weird vinegar smell has gone and developed into a sharp and mossy gem. After that, it becomes more feminine imo, as it takes on a powdery theme, the cherry lightens up and incorporates some floral notes and some kind of nougat note. Very strong well-blended Fougere, very masculine, most certainly leaning towards either older or well-dressed gentlemen.Bogart is at first more dry/bitter than Paco, whereafter it becomes rather pleasant and pretty similar to Paco. If it were from another House, it had another bottle and another image, for sure that this one would be among the great fragrances, recognized and valued as such. As it softens up, it becomes more mature and classy - not a modern classy but a piped tobacco grandad classy.

This stuff is really, really good, much better than I thought it would be, my benchmark for Jacques Bogart being One Man Show, a cologne I do not particularly like.Either the remaining accords are too volatile or they aren't used in a great enough concentration to back up the strong statement the fragrance makes at its start. From there a strong cherry tobacco note comes into play, sweetened by the tonka and vanilla of the base notes. It is in this context that I find more of us slowly but surely going back to what is now referred to as the "powerhouse" men's fragrance of then.