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I was going to do a video on new and notable, really like
the fragrances that have come through my front door and
landed on my desk, and I've been testing, and I've been
kind of working out what's good for you, what's good for
me, what's good for the world.
But I actually went on Instagram, and did a quick
poll and asked you guys: do you want to see new and notable,
or do you want to see my heavy rotation of fragrances?
And to this point, I just decided to film it.
How many did you do, if you're not following me on Instagram,
come and follow @manforhimself.
Sixty-four per centof you wanted my current rotation,
including Jonathan Bangarang, JoeJoe36, Sean James McCew,
Sunny, Ed, Jacob, Veno, Ryan.
Loads of you.
So that's what I am doing.
Now, a lot of my fragrances, I don't know if I'm sitting
like this, if I'm sitting like this, I'm just going
to, just going to go with it.
A lot of my fragrances are still in storage.
I have been in this flat since November, but it's been done up.
It's been renovated.
Do you like the colour?
And, so I have had like certain fragrances that
I keep on going back to.
I've got about 20, maybe even more fragrances with me.
I know it's still quite a lot, but there's ones that I am sort
of doing as my heavy rotation.
So I want to tell you a bit about those.
I'm also just saying, this room smells incredible.
You may be able to see this green boy back there.
Crabtree & Evelyn fragrance candle.
Fragrance candles?
Scented candle, is beautiful.
I absolutely love it.
I'll link it.
You can check it out.
It's not going to break the bank.
It's smells good..
Right.
The first one, is the cheapest that I've got here.
Leather Skies by All Saints.
I like bang on about All Saints fragrances.
All Saints as a brand to me is like basic white t-shirt,
really expensive jeans, a leather jacket, which feels
amazing, but doesn't look great.
I feel it's a bit of a nineties brand.
But the fragrances are so good.
So good, and so cheap.
£49 for a hundred mil.
And I just, I love the bottle.
You've got this kind of like concrete cap.
You've got a little picture in the back.
They just feel really good.
There's that one, Metal Wave, which I also loved,
something else I love, something else I love.
They're on manforhimself.com, you can check them out and
find the best one for you.
£49, so, so good.
Anyway, Leather Skies was sent to me by Paula.
Hi, Paula.
How are you?
And she said, I don't think you've tried this one, maybe
you should try this one.
And I said, thank you.
I love it.
I really, really love it.
In terms of leather, it's the softer side of leather.
I, I am a huge fan of leather fragrances.
Shout out if you're also a leather fragrance fan.
I just think with leather, we have so many different
options and combinations.
You can spice it up, with a bit of cardamom.
You could add a sort of floral facet with a rose.
I do have something coming up.
You could, what else could, you could add a bit of citrus,
with a bit of bergamot.
I just think leather takes to all these
different notes so well.
This is more on the spicy side of leather.
So this leather, there's also sort of resinous tone
in this, which I think has got a sort of warmth on it.
When I say, like resinous, I sometimes think of more
of that, sort of sparkly amber, amber over here.
But I just think this is beautiful.
So easy to wear.
And at £49 , I feel like I spritz this
like, more than most.
Also, the performance is good.
Like it does last on the skin.
It lasts on the skin.
It projects.
It's not a huge amount of sillage but enough to know.
And it's, yeah, it's gorgeous.
Check those ones out.
I'll link them below, also at manforhimself.com.
Okay.
Thank you.
Let's put you to an old favourite.
Old favourite.
I have spoken about this so often they literally
should be paying me.
Dunhill Icon Absolute.
I had a couple of comments from you guys.
I want to find them.
I'll see if I can, from the guys who have blind purchased
Dunhill Icon Absolute.
And you guys all love it.
This is one of my most complimented fragrances.
This is one of the ones I feel most comfortable in.
It's just really, really, really gorgeous.
Dunhill Icon, spread the wrong end, Icon Absolute.
The other Dunhill icons, I think are good and I would wear them.
But this one, I think this must be my fifth bottle.
This does have Amber in it, and it is such a perfect fragrance.
And it's on manforhimself.com, I will always find you
the best prices in the UK, US, and anywhere else
you can find in the world.
So you can check that over there.
And it is actually one of my Man For Himself Holy Grails.
And this is another leather, there's leather, there's oud.
I want to say there's tobacco leaf.
So there's a slight smokiness to it.
But it's a really great, oudy, leathery fragrance with
an opening, which is citrus.
I'm pretty sure it's bergamot in the top.
But we do kind of work through those citrus top notes and
then just get into this really great, warm base.
It is beautiful.
It's sexy.
It's confident.
It just is great.
And it's probably one of the fragrances that I've
worn the most in life.
And that says a lot.
Dunhill, I love you.
Get me as the face of this.
Just so, so great.
Okay, so that was a leather one.
This was kind of a leather one too.
I think all of these are best going to be, no they're not.
Okay.
So another one, and let's transport you...
to Cairo.
You can see here, this is the first bottle I've had, but I
have used a lot of this and I've spoken about this a lot.
Penhaligon's Cairo.
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous fragrance.
When I first smelled this, I did feel that it was really heavy.
Like it really kind of envelopes me into this world
of like souks and spices, and a bit of dust, to be honest,
like a bit dusty mummy in the corner, but it's great.
It's, um, I feel like the way that I'm looking at
fragrance during this lockdown.
I'm fucked with it.
I've got to say, I'm so tired of lockdown.
It's so important.
Stick with the rules.
Stay inside.
It is so important.
I have to say that.
And I want to say that, but I'm also just like so tired of this.
So fragrance has been this amazing way to transport me
to these different worlds without leaving my home.
And Cairo does that, you know, it does that in spades
and buckets and, and mummies.
That was far too much.
It is just so beautiful.
It's, it's really lively as a fragrance.
Now, although it does have this really great, woody, warm base
with cedarwood and sandalwood, there is Damascus Rose in this.
Damascus Rose in the top.
I have grown to love, love, love, love, rose in fragrances.
And it's the way that Rose has been added to fragrances
in a really clever way.
So it's not like, hi, here's a Rose fragrance.
It's very much like the Rose has been added to bring a
different sort of quality.
So, I wouldn't say it's floral by any means, but
it, it does have a really great fresh floral, a touch,
opening, but then we work our way down through the spaces
and into the woody base.
I love it.
It's warm.
It's comforting.
It's inviting.
It's, it could be more like an autumn, winter, but I also
think like, there's this great warmth to it, that could even
be, like a summer's evening.
It's so great.
So beautiful.
I love it.
Right.
I'm gonna stick with Penhaligon's.
Penhaligon's, you guys are getting a lot from
me, but I love them.
Penhaligon's, I go one of two ways.
I either really love the fragrance and I really
want to wear it, or I think that's not for me at all.
I don't want that on my skin.
But then I smell it on someone else, and I think, oh, what
is that you're wearing?
Like, I really like that.
And it's quite often like a really great,
distinct, distinguished?
Distinguished, yeah, distinct fragrance from Penhaligon's.
What I do love about Penhaligon's is the
performance is exceptional.
It's going to last, it's going to project.
You can always smell it on your jacket the next day.
You can always smell it on the cuff.
And I just think their fragrances have so much
personality and they all, really, are like a calling card.
They're not just like a spritz, and like half an
hour later, it's gone.
They really do say something.
Halfeti Leather.
Halfeti Leather was the leather variety of Halfeti.
Halfeti is, I've spoken about this a lot, but you
guys wanted this video.
You wanted me to talk about the stuff that I'm wearing a lot.
Halfeti is their best seller, Halfeti Leather brings
leather to the best seller.
And I'm not so much of like a citrus fragrance fan, just
because I want them to be certainly heavier, but there
is bergamot on this at the top.
So you do get this kind of flitting, fleeting, I've
said this before, bergamot that comes and goes.
And then there's like this sort of nutty quality.
Cardamom, which is a spice.
There is cinnamon, there's nutmeg, and then there's
patchouli, oud, and, you guessed it, leather on the base.
And it is that leather and the patchouli which kind of
has this earthiness to it.
And then the oud, which has a really great
warming quality to it.
Beautiful, warm.
It's kind of like with all of these fragrances,
I would say these are like comforting fragrances.
They're comforting fragrances.
They are quality fragrances.
They are beautiful fragrances.
They're established fragrances.
And just to me, they have just brought me so much
warmth in a time that has felt quite dark and quite cold.
So, great.
Right, the final one is another leather.
I need to mix up what I'm wearing, but if you
find something you like, you got to stick with it.
And it's actually one of my favourite Tom Fords.
Someone's gonna say, I knew we're going to have a Tom
Ford fragrance, you always has to have-- yes, I do, Damian.
That's not even Damian, but yes I do, I do.
Ombré Leather Tom Ford was originally released as a
private blend, came back as a signature and it's great.
Tom Ford fragrances are expensive.
Do I think they are worth that?
Some of them, yes, I love.
Some of them, I do think, I'm not to sure.
But Ombré Leather is great.
And as a signature, that's what they call them, isn't it?
Yeah.
Signature.
It's cheaper.
This, I would say, out of all the leathers, bar this one.
This is so accessible, so easy and £49.
You should be getting this.
And, but this one, I think has got almost like a
sort of fruitiness to it.
It's a fruity rounded leather, and it's beautiful.
I find that some leather fragrances can feel sometimes
a little too, like stagnant.
Like, they feel like they're just a bit stuffy and musky.
Whereas this one, I feel has like, this really great
youthful sort of tonality to it.
It feels lively.
It feels soft on the skin.
It feels, give me more words, Robin, give me more words.
It's another warming one.
I often think of black currant when I wear this.
It's I think just because it makes me think of purple.
Do you get, when you spray a fragrance, do
you ever think of colour?
Like for me, I think gold when I do Dunhill Icon
because it's amber and it's also in a gold bottle.
With Halfeti Leather, I think about very dark red.
With this I think of purple, and it's just so, so great.
I think this was a really smart move from them.
Releasing this since the private blends.
They've done a few recently that I've just thought,
like, I'm not too sure if you should have done that.
But this one is so, so good.
That's me just like jumping around guys, but you wanted it.
Let me know if you do want these, new and notable.
I'll make sure that all of these, they're already
on manforhimself.com and I will link them down
below in the description.
So many more fragrances that I need to get out
of storage, and I want to get back on this channel.
And, oh also, I didn't talk about this.
This I've been spraying a lot.
This is a flower gun.
Flower gun?
Perfume gun.
But it is flower, Jurassic Flower by Frederic Malle.
This was something that arrived.
And I was like, what is this?
It's like a really posh Febreze.
It's fucking expensive.
And do I think it's worth the cash?
I'm not too sure.
It's something like a hundred and something pounds.
But the fragrance is so great.
Frederic Malle, another one I love, and Jurassic Flower,
just smell so so beautiful.
It's not floral, it's not whimsical.
It's got a good bit of weight to it and it makes my flat
smell beautiful, as well as the Crabtree & Evelyn.
But there you go.
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