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Ejaazi Intensive Silver - like this one bc it’s fresh and spicy and interesting and will likely get another one as long as the price stays low TASTE: Grilled pineapple. Pineapple upside down cake. Pineapple margarita. Ambrosia salad. Pineapple kesari. Blind and you won’t realize the longevity until you extra spray it on a fabric and leave it in a room for a day and find it to linger around your nose in a good proximity.
Not so unisex to me, more masciline, but if a lady is confident and likes D&G L'imperatrice for summer and Xerjoff Erba Pura for winter, this will be a good choice for spring and fall. Al Fursan is a more traditional compact glass bottle with gold accents and a magnetic cap (similar to Sauvage). Sprayers are fine on both - they spray a short but wide puff of juice. Honestly, if they would've just left that dirtiness out, it would've been ok. Not good, not great, but ok. Instead what we have here is the one-eyed, one-legged cousin of Detour Noir that never left the clean room in the basement of a hospital laboratory. Somewhere between pineapple-flavoured Flintstone vitamins wedged in the over-heated plastic dashboard of a 1983 Honda Civic, and fresh babyfood vomit. Clearly someone was in a hurry... Although I don't get any Aventus vibes whatsoever, I'll admit that something in the mid does remind me of a single accord from the original Club de Nuit Intense edt. But for the first hour, it's that awful saffron-oud mix that dominates. Medicinal and with a powdery and crystalline sweetness. Definitely vibes of Oud for Greatness, although nowhere near as woody or spicy. There's a bit of Ameer Al Oudh Intense Oud too but without the whole By The Fireplace feel. If I were to place it in a genre, it would be a relative or distant neighbour of BR540.....ish. Absolutely nothing smells anywhere close to natural in this; and although the blend does get better with time, I find myself becoming more annoyed with each sniff. What can I say. The style just isn't for me.
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Paris Corner Pendora Dream Catcher (I only smelled D&G The One EDP once but fell in love with it immediately) SMELL: Pineapple Jasmine soap. Car Wash air freshener. "High-end" dog cologne from groomers. Pineapple Fresca. This is an incredible fragrance. Great scent, smells like pineapple being sliced on a wooden cutting board, nothing further. This has to be one of the most heavy pineapple scents I’ve ever smelt. Although this does have a slight woody dry down to it, I can’t smell the oud as the base notes suggest, neither the floral/powdery notes. The pineapple is weirdly familiar in a way I've never experienced. My favourite fragrance in my small but growing collection is Lamar by Kajal - that fragrance is miles better than this in almost every way, but the two fragrances aren't trying to do the same thing. But where Qaed Al Fursan impressed me a few seconds after first spraying it was the 'realistic' nature of the pineapple. Synthetic, yes, but there is no second guessing what citrus or fruit you're smelling - it's pineapple. Like store bought pineapple juice, but in a pleasant way, where the wood notes ground it and stop it from being cloying. It's 'pineapple with woods' and not 'woods with pineapple' in the way Hacivat is. Apart from smelling mouth-wateringly and realistically edible, it also has the benefit of being super versatile, fitting most seasons and situations. Plus, it comes in a surprisingly classy bottle, made of a nice dark glass with a golden raised metallic horse design going on, and a lightweight, but magnetic, cap.
Compared to ARMAF Italiano Nero (another pineapple scent) the Armaf is more mature, round, and woody. The Armaf Nero bottle is garbage though. Overspray the shit out of this if you’re brave enough to buy it and not stand the burned plastic smell that stays for 2-3 minutes. Ramz Silver - dislike the pear opening but love the woody dry down and it’s absolutely beast mode but won’t get again bc the opening is not to my taste opening is too feminine imo If you’re torn between Rave Now and This scent go with whichever you find cheapest they are essentially identical, except the bottle. I keep seeing Aventus thrown around as comparison, I think you guys are off on that by a pretty big margin. We gotta get away from saying all pineapple is Aventus it’s like saying all Nikes are Jordans. Regardless it’s really good, really cheap, and mass appealing!
In summary, if you put Qaed Al Fursan in a Parfums Vintage bottle and sprayed it on me (or yourself), you could fool me, maybe momentarilly, maybe all day. I think the closest comparison I could make is another kind of cheap fragrance - Zara Vibrant Leather Bogoss. But in the dry-down, QAF is clearly superior, it has a much smoother scent profile and definitely smells like it's a more expensive fragrance than the Zara one (which it is, but not by a lot) and overall like a more mature scent (not mature as in "older gentleman" but just... slightly more sophisticated). I could see QAF working in almost every season, while Bogoss really feels like something you should only wear in late spring/summer. The Bogoss also has quite a bit of that lemon which despite being a top note, honestly feels more apparent to me later on when i'm wearing it.
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