I haven't realized I didn't make this video for you guys in a while, this is going to be part three
of flankers that I like better than the original fragrance that they were modeled
after, so you guys know that flanker is, basically an iteration of a fragrance with certain changes
or amped up notes or chords but keeping the structure of the original, so in today's video
guys five incredible flankers that I like even more than the originals. Stay tuned they're up next
Welcome back to another video Max Forti here, if you guys appreciate the channel show your support
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so you get videos like these straight into your feed. Kicking things off here with flankers that
i like better than the original, this is going to be a fragrance that now is available in
all black bottle, this is an older formulation but still the same scent and we're talking from
the house of GUERLAIN and this is going to be L'HOMME IDEAL L'INTENSE, what an incredible juice. By the way
all five fragrances here are going to be fragrance that you could potentially wear all year round
the heavier ones, the darker ones like this one here, you're gonna have to go a little lesser
on the sprayer right now because it's going to be summer time for us, some parts of the the world
it's going to be actually fall going into winter, so you can go a little heavier but here in
America, North America we're going from spring to summer, so you're going to go a little less
trigger happy on the sprayer with this
fragrance because it's getting warmer out, but all these fragrances you can actually wear them
all year round. This one here L'homme Ideal L'Intense, like I said now available in a dark bottle which
i'll you know put it on the screen for you guys, this is going to be a great fragrance
from Thierry Wasser, this is my favorite from the L'homme Ideal
collection and it is my favorite flanker from the original, reason being because it opens up
so beautiful with this spicy, red chili, it has cardamom, almonds, a leathery undertone
all of the Ideal fragrances will have this almond, vanilla kind of undertone, that "guerlainaid" accord
that Guerlain is so famous for, but this is going to be the collection of Guerlain that is more
mass appealing or designer-esque, even though I consider Guerlain to be perhaps the best
and the first niche fragrance house of all time. This fragrance also has bulgarian rose, patchouli,
vanilla, sandalwood, and smoky notes. It's got this boozy almondy kind of a facet, it's almost like a
nice drink or cocktail, and it's just very warm, very inviting, very
sensual, a great scent for dates, romantic settings, again, I like this even more than the original
and i really like the originals, so L'homme Ideal L'intense is a great flanker that is even better
than the original, of course in my opinion. This is another flanker that I do love and I like it even
more than the original, from the house of YVES SAINT LAURENT I love the original, the
predecessor, the one that started it all, which is L'HOMME. But this one here is actually a flanker
that went dark, they took the original L'homme structure and made this incredible
fragrance which is very well known worldwide, this is sensual, l it's great for nightwear, as the name
implies, it's LA NUIT DE L'HOMME, the night of the man, this is an older bottle from 2011. Of course whatever
you get today is going to be a little lighter, it's not going to be as dark and as longer lasting
but if you manage to find an older bottle you have found gold, this is bergamot, and cardamom,
but the cardamom here is what really sets this fragrance apart from anything out there, it is
an absolute stunning designer fragrance, released in 2009, we there's also black pepper, lavender and cedarwood,
it has this dark barbershop feel, but it's more of an oriental woody spicy kind of a take on it,
vetiver and tonka bean adds the sweetness to it, it's sweet, it's dark, it's
voluptuous, velvety, almost powdery in the dry down, but it's a very very sensual juice, it's another
one that's very compliment inducing, if you want something to smell great, ladies love the smell of
this fragrance on a guy, so LA NUIT DE L'HOMME from YSL, still great today just not as powerful, if
you manage to find something from 2012 and older you have struck gold, but La Nuit de L'homme
is a flanker that I actually like it more than the original L'homme. Next up is a flanker from the
house of HERMES, I know you guys love Hermes and for a reason, because Hermes is, I think along with Guerlain,
they're probably the two best "designer brands" out there, when it comes to consistency
and putting out good stuff that's not more of the same. This one here took a DNA that
was just groundbreaking in 2006, which is Terre D Hermes, which is a a dark orange and vetiver, smoky vetiver
kind of a nuance, introduced in this particular fragrance here in 2018, which is my
favorite from the Terre d Hermes line currently, this is going to be EAU INTENSE VETIVER, you guys know how much I
love my vetiver fragrances, and this one here is an extremely beautiful vetiver, which is fruity
the nose behind this one is Christine Nagel, which is the
in-house perfumer right now, this fragrance is an absolute stunning vetiver, it has nuances of
spice and woods from Creed, so if you like that fragrance, you're going to love this one, this is
going to be a sichuan peppery vetiver, with a ton of bergamot, it's very fruity, it's very inviting,
we all know that bergamot happens to be one of the most used notes in perfumery, more than
90% of fragrances have bergamot in them, this one here really did a great job with this
calabrian bergamot, it's really in your face, up front and center, very fruity with the vetiver
and the peppery vetiver that is right in the composition from beginning to end, rather simple
note breakdown, but a very complex and very sophisticated juice at that guys, Terre D Hermes
Eau Intense Vetiver, vetiver lovers this is a must-have. This next one here happens to be my favorite from the ACQUA
DI PARMA collection, you guys know I love the colônia genre which then became a dark
fougere with the infusion of oakmoss, but the colônia genre itself is something that was
incredible, very trendsetter, very old, very groundbreaking that was curated back in the 1700s
this one here is going to be my favorite colônia genre fragrance of all time, this one here was
released in 2003 and two master perfumers got together to put this together, Jean-claude Elena
and Bertrand Duchaufoeur, two of my top ten noses in the game of all time ,and the fragrance i'm talking
about is ACQUA DI PARMA COLONIA ASSOLUTA, ladies and gentlemen this is the best colonia genre
fragrance in the world today, I'm telling you right now, this is bergamot, bitter orange, spicy
pimento, it smells so good, this will be my scent of the day today, it smells like a million bucks,
you put this on, you walk into a room and you're going to commend attention, because the scent itself
is just absolutely stunning along with that bergamot, bitter orange, and pimento note up top, you
have jasmine, vetiver, ylang-ylang and cedar, so it's a woody floral and spicy vetiver with jasmine, a little bit
floral as well in the heart, in the base we have oakmoss, resins, patchouli and white musk. This is sensual, this is
attention grabbing, this is a boss ceo type of a scent, this is something that
whether you're dressed up or dressed down, if you want to put your best foot forward, this is
a fragrance that you must have in your fragrance collection, your wardrobe, it's not that expensive,
I'll have all these fragrances listed below for you guys to make your life easier, you can find all
these fragrances at a discount from fragrancebuy.ca which is a partner of the Max Forti channel
making your life easier as always, if there's any discount codes, anything that you should know about,
getting these fragrances at the best possible price, the details in the link of this video
guys, enjoy, check it out, Colonia Assoluta is as good as they come, if you love the colonia genre
especially right now, spring and summer, it's a perfect fragrance to wear whether you're dressed up or
dressed down, you're going to smell better than anybody else. This last fragrance here that
I'm going to share with you today is definitely one that I love more than the original because
it's a little bit darker and this one has the note of oak moss that the original does not. The fragrance
I'm talking about, if you guys follow my channel, you know my taste, it's probably one of the best
citrus aromatic fragrances ever made from 1966, from Roudnitska, which is one of the best noses in
the game, the fragrance is EAU SAUVAGE from DIOR, not Sauvage but Eau Sauvage, but the fragrance I love even
more than Eau Sauvage is this one right here guys, which is EAU SAUVAGE EXTREME concentrate, this particular
fragrance guys is a masterpiece released in 1982. No this is not aged, this is timeless,
what this fragrance is, and the cool thing about this fragrance is that it has been
re-released so you can actually pick this up, not only can you pick it up but you can also get it
at a discount from fragrancebuy.com, which I have a link below, I picked
up another bottle for myself because the one I have here happens to be an older vintage bottle
which has the splash on and not the sprayer so I wanted a sprayer bottle, so I'm picking up a bottle
which is in the mail, it's coming and as soon as I get it I'll share with you guys in one of my "unboxings"
but I'm telling you right now guys EAU SAUVAGE EXTREME is a stunning timeless kind of a juice, it
took the Eau Sauvage which is already groundbreaking, amazing, and made it even better, just like the
bottle, it's darker, it's very compelling, it's very attention grabbing, it has basil, bergamot, fruity
notes, a gorgeous lavender here, patchouli, aldehydes, iris, jasmine, coriander, rosemary, sandalwood, amber,
oak moss, musk, patchouli and cedar. If you look at the note breakdown from Eau Sauvage it's a rather
simple composition but masterfully done, so it's really aromatic, inviting, just
sophisticated and elegance personified in a bottle, a gentleman, a classy kind of a fragrance,
this one here took all those elements from Eau Sauvage and made it darker, even more compelling and sexy
sensual, darker, if you wanted you could wear Eau Sauvage for the morning in the
80s, you could pick this up and perhaps wear for nightwear when you want it to be a little bit more
mysterious, a little bit more daring, this would be the fragrance you'd pick up, like i said guys,
it's not dated, instead it's timeless. Check this out guys, I'm telling you, if you have a taste
similar to mine, if you want something different, if you don't want to smell like everybody else
that's rocking those blue scents, those sweet vanilla, tonka fragrances, this is definitely
going to set you apart and make you smell like nobody else guys. I hope you guys enjoyed these
picks, amazing fragrances that I love even better than the fragrance that they were modeled after,
these are better flankers than the originals trust me on that, like I said, if you have a similar taste
to mine, if you wanted something to set you apart, a lot of these fragrances will do that for you, will
give you the edge, will elevate your style, as you guys know fragrances do that. As
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