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I never use my office for filming and I thought I'll do it.
It's a bit sparse.
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So we are officially into autumn.
I think this is like the best season for fragrance.
We can be layering our clothing.
We can be layering fragrance.
We're adding things on, there's more warmth, there's more depth.
And there are so many great fragrances that you can be trying out.
I just want to focus on niche.
Niche.
What is niche?
I kind of thought I knew what niche was.
And then when I actually sort of Googled it and looked at it,
I thought, okay, well, niche is not what niche I thought was.
So niche really is anything that's not a sort of
fashion-designer-turned-fragrance-house, so the likes of, I suppose like Chanel
or Dior, or any of the more sort of mass ones, and it's not by a celebrity.
So I have got five here.
Now I'm going to get straight into it.
They're all linked down below in the description.
I have found the best prices and there are reviews on ManForHimself.com.
There'll be more of these videos for autumn.
So this is not a top five.
This is just like a really great edit.
Okay.
The first one I've got for you is Ostens.
This is Cashmeran Velvet.
This is gorgeous.
Impression Cashmeran Velvet.
They've got six fragrances, each based upon one note or molecule, much like
Escentric Molecules, if you know them.
If not, I will link the video that I did.
But this one is based upon the molecule of Cashmeran Velvet.
This for me is autumn because it's warm, it's inviting, it's
familiar, it's gorgeous, it's great.
I love it.
It's great on the skin.
And I think out of all of the fragrances that I've got here, this will be
the most sort of crowd-pleasing.
I should say this is £105 I want to say for 50 mils, nothing in this is cheap.
Nothing in this is budget.
Not that affordable.
And so if that's what you're looking for, might not be the video for
you, but it might give you a sort of idea about stuff that you do like.
This is just so gorgeous, and people have likened this to a love child of Le Labo
Santal 33, if you know that one, really great warmth, a sort of Woody note,
very familiar, just something which you feel like you want to wrap around you.
A love child of Le Labo plus Molecule, and because they do base it on
this sort of one molecule note.
And when you do buy one of these, you get the bottle of 50 mils, and
then they give you this little, a sort of a little one, which is just
the molecule they're basing it on.
So you can kind of layer them and have a bit of fun with it.
But I think this is really great.
I love the idea of Ostens.
This one is beautiful.
This is just easy on the skin.
The performance is okay.
It's more like a nuzzler, so it's quite an intimate fragrance.
The sillage is not like projecting, like "Hello!
I'm here with my Ostens fragrance!"
It's more like, "Oh, what's that fragrance?
Quite like that."
It's more like that.
And then longevity is fine.
Like it does kind of last-ish on the skin.
But I like this and I will link it, check it out.
Okay.
I'm going to go into from Ostens, I'm going to go to BDK Parfums.
This is a French brand.
I have a couple of these fragrances licking around.
I don't think I've ever spoken about them, but I am now.
Now, this is Gris Charnel.
I looked up, like, what is a charnel or carnel.
Charnel is really a place where they store bodies.
And when you sort of look on Google Images, don't do that, there's
kind of skeletons and stuff.
This is not smelling like death.
This smells beautiful.
It's fresh.
It's open.
There's a black tea note in there.
There's a fig.
I think fig is gorgeous.
And then there's these really great bourbon notes.
So it's got a sweetness and then a Woody base, Woody earthy base.
This one to me is a little like Penhaligon's,
Penhaligon's Roaring Radcliff.
That one has a rum on the top.
and then it's kind of got this Tonka sort of note.
So with this, you do have this really fresh opening, and then
there's a slight sweetness.
Okay.
From Gris Charnel, £150, a hundred mils, not cheap.
We're going to move on to a firm favourite of mine.
I've spoken about this fragrance in a lot of videos.
I also shot with it in Paris.
This is L'Artisan Parfumeur Noir Exquis.
This is everything that is good about a gourmand fragrance, and it's certainly
a fragrance that really lends itself to these sort of cooler, crisper months.
And this takes inspiration from a French patisserie.
So if you can imagine sort of Sunday morning, let's give you this.
Sunday morning, you can have walked into the bakery, or has
that Saturday, Sunday shop?
It's a weekend.
And you're sort of meandering down the streets.
There's this really great scent, something sweet on the air,
which is just drawing you in.
And as you get closer to the window, you're looking at
all these gorgeous things.
Someone may be in the window putting things out, and you've got your eye.
You've got your eye on it.
That's exactly what you want.
You go in.
There's this smell of coffee.
There's maple syrup.
There's that sort of freshness of orange.
And then there's like these little Woody notes.
Woody notes, maybe not so much in a patisserie, but that's
what gives it a base on this.
Now it is so gorgeous.
The coffee, the maple syrup, the orange, the sandalwood, I'm pretty sure.
There's Tonka.
There's just such great sweetness to it, but without being sickly sweet.
And you'll see that this is one that I always reached for.
It is, when we've had the source of more familiar, Ostens' one there,
this is familiar in a sense of, it's that great jumper that you loved.
It;s a jacket that's going to be an under your bed in one
of those vacuum-packed bags.
You've taken it out for winter and you've just put it on and it just feels so good.
And that is what L'Artisan Parfumeur is to me.
It's just beautiful artisan fragrances, and just the best.
This is great.
Again, I will link it.
Check it out.
130, 140 per mark.
I'll link it.
Now this one is one that I have been wearing non-stop since I received
this, about a week and a half, two weeks ago, and this is beautiful.
I'm obsessed with it.
This is Miller Harris Oud Éclat.
Now Miller Harris actually wasn't really a brand that I knew much about.
I'd smelled a couple of them.
I didn't own any of them.
This is so great, and it is just out.
Now this is Oud Éclat, as I just said.
When you think about an Oud fragrance, you will be thinking, well, I certainly
was, of these sorts of deep, heavy, almost a bit too, like overpowering
fragrances with that Oud in the heart or in the base, or even both.
And they sit so well on the skin, just because they've
got this great performance.
Now, what Miller Harris have done is they've flipped this.
So they've taken at the Agarwood, the Oud from what might be in the heart or the
base, and they've stuck it on the top.
That totally changes what you get with this.
So on first spritz, it is that Oud that just jumps out.
There's also a sweet base, which gives it just something which is, like so much
different from the other sorts of Ouds.
There's another Oud coming up and that is more of that sort of smoky Oud.
And there's also leather in this, there's these Woodsy notes.
There's a floral sort of note there too.
But this to me just has a lightness to it that kind of picks it up slightly.
You've still got that sort of bowler vibe I think that you have with an Oud.
When you spray this and you wear this, you smell expensive, but by
having the Oud on the top, it just picks it up and it keeps it moving.
The projection of this is fantastic.
People are going to smell it around you.
And the longevity on the skin and on your clothing is also fantastic.
This is so great.
This is expensive, but they are doing two mils or two mil size, I don't
have anything two mil, for £3.50.
I'm going to link it, it's all on the website.
I think it's a fantastic idea.
So if you want to try it for a lot cheaper, you can do that there.
Okay.
From a light and bright, I say light and bright, there's still like a bit
of depth on this, a lot of depth.
From that, we're going to go to the opposite scale, and we're
going to go for a heavier Oud.
This is Oud For Greatness and this is by Initio.
Now, again, Initio wasn't really a brand that I knew of.
I have quite a few samples from Initio, but when I was sent
this, by the brand, they said, we think you're going to like this.
And they were right.
Now this is the most expensive out of all of the ones I've gotten here.
£270 for, yeah, 90 mils.
So it is pricey.
Now with the Miller Harris, we have that Oud on the top, the Oud
is now in the heart with this.
There's at a slightly lighter lavender top.
There's also, I want to say saffron in there.
So kind of has a slight spiciness to it.
And then there is a patchouli and a musk base.
So there is a warmth to the base and a slight earthiness to it.
This is heavier, it's darker, it's deeper.
But with that lavender in there, it just seems to round it.
So I picked these two Ouds out, actually, because I didn't want anything which
was too, there's a fragrance called Royal Oud, there's also one that's
just called Oud by Acqua di Parma.
Those are heavier fragrances, and I think they lend themselves really
well to a winter sort of fragrance.
I mean, I would wear it all year round.
I want something that's going to kind of like hit you in the face.
But if you do want something lighter, and for those more sort of transitionary
months, then these could be great for you.
This is expensive.
This is punchy.
It smells decadent.
It smells luxurious.
It smells expensive.
And I think it is so, so great.
And I think with this list, hopefully I'm giving you something kind of for everyone.
The BDK, the sort of, the tea and the fig, lighter, all the way down working
to something a lot heavy with this.
I will link it again.
I'll also see where I can find it for shops.
If you pass somewhere and you see this, or you see any of those,
pop in, give it a smell, get a sample and smell it on your skin.
But this, the bottle, I'm not such a fan of.
I think it's a little...
nouveau.
That's such an awful thing to say.
But the scent is beautiful.
So don't judge your fragrance by its bottle.
So there you go.
Okay.
Thank you very much for watching.
I'm going to give you a designer one maybe next week, or I can do some more niche.
There's so many fragrances I want to talk about, I'm not
just going to stay at top five.
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It just feels a little bit bare.
And all of these are reviewed on ManForHimself.com with
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