![]() However, I’m hugely in the minority on my lack of enthusiasm for Portrait of a Lady. I certainly don’t think it’s worth the high Malle prices. It was also, however, unoriginal, linear, painfully purple and fruited, and wholly boring. Portrait of a Lady then took less than 4 hours to turn into a somewhat dry, very subdued, completely muted blur of simple patchouli and incense with an endlessly lingering, unpleasant hint of sourness before it finally died away. It’s a fragrance that lasted just over 9.25 hours on me, and that I found to be tolerably nice. ![]() I really dislike purple patchouli, and there is a hell of a lot of it here. ![]() The simple nutshell story is that, on me, Portrait of a Lady started as a conventional jammy rose with incense and endless heapings of purple, purple, purple, fruited patchouli. I’ll avoid getting into the details of just how much purple patchouli there is in Portrait of a Lady, how it becomes a skin scent on me less than 3.75 hours into the perfume’s development, how there are subtle elements of something synthetic in the base (perhaps thanks to the Ambroxan), or the way there is a weirdly soapy tinge to the fragrance for a few hours. Portrait of a Lady has been largely imitated by many similar, jammy, incense purple rose fragrances since then, but it really doesn’t knock my socks off. So, I’ll spare you the lengthy, moment-by-moment analysis of how minimal the clove is on my skin, how long the raspberry lasts in an additional surfeit of fruitedness that I did not enjoy, or how it ends up creating a sour note that lingers well into the perfume’s final moments. It’s a well-done triptych of notes that eventually turns into a bipartisan interplay of incense and patchouli, but that’s really about it. The notes may vary in prominence or strength, and the background elements certainly become less noticeable as time goes by, but Portrait of a Lady can really be summed up as nothing more than fruited, jammy, patchouli rose infused with dry incense. And it never really changes from that essential characteristic. Īt its core, Portrait of a Lady is a simple fragrance of rose supported by twin pillars of patchouli and smoke. Read on for the 39 best colognes for men.Spirit of a Dying Rose by Vincent Knaus via. Some of them are new, some classic, but each should make a favorable impression. So here are 39 of the best fragrances for men, in all kinds of categories perhaps these will help guide you towards one or two of them, to make shopping (even if online) all less stressful. That's not something we get to do, which is a curse and a blessing, because we love helping others find the colognes that best represent them, in hopes that they get to attach memories to these smells. Maybe you're shopping for your definitive, “signature” scent. We try to test as wide a range of cologne for guys as possible, and to put together this guide, we sniffed and sprayed over the course of literal years. It can build a positive association with a friend, a date, a total stranger. ![]() But a great fragrance can turn heads for the right reasons. You can’t get much of a story from a moisturizer or shampoo. But it’s one of our favorite grooming products because of the huge variety in sensation each fragrance summons-or the story each cologne tells, if you want to be a little grandiose. We rounded up a comprehensive guide to the best colognes for men because shopping for a fragrance can be tough-much less if you’re doing it online.
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