time for May's haul guys, brand new fragrances that i'm going to share with you today and give you my
first take on them you guys know the drill every month we do this so stick around i got seven brand
new fragrances to share with you maybe they will blow my mind maybe they'll blow your mind let's go
before we get into these fragrances guys understand that some of these fragrances are
hyped up some of these are talked about some you may heard of but some you may not even have heard
of just like the one i'm going to be sharing with you in this video today which is a flanker of a
niche fragrance that's right a lot of niche brands are now getting into the flanker game so
without any further ado guys let's hop into the choices let me know in the comments
what have been your favorite 2022 releases that you guys have tried so far that really impressed
you up into this point we're coming up almost in the halfway point of the year so i'm
curious to read in the comments below what have been your favorite discoveries of 2022 so far
kicking the list off here with this one from Ralph Lauren this is Polo Earth, this fragrance is a
gender free unisex scent really minimalist as you see here from the bottle from what you see it's a
very natural looking bottle and the bottle itself has a saying in the back that it says it's 97%
natural origin meaning all the ingredients here are naturally sourced except for three percent
of them i don't know whether that's truth or not or gimmicky the sprayers are pretty good on this
there is a slew of notes here there's a ton of different notes citruses lavender
some resins but i'm going to be honest with you what i get most out of this fragrance here from
the get-go here on the sprayer is it's going to be a Neroli Portofino of sorts like a Tom Ford
Neroi Portofino kind of a vibe very citrus very uplifting very aromatic and then it has some
deeper elements here like the lavender perhaps some earthy components this is simply put a very
citrus refreshing aromatic and uplifting type of a scent that everybody could wear simply as that
it smells good you're not going to disappoint when you smell this the thing here is because it's
97% natural, is it going to last a long time? is it going to have a very good performance? projection?
so forth and so on we don't know i don't know yet i have to wear this get more wearing perhaps
share with you guys my full thoughts on this maybe a full review but from a first stand
impression here this is actually pretty good when you look at the notes there's a lot of
notes guys we're talking a lot of floral notes but what i'm thinking it's really standing out
the most here is going to be the spearmint up top which gives us this nice bright refreshing
vibe that i talked about some florals in the heart but the lavender is really the star show
the star player of the show here and then there's a beautiful fruity vetiver in the base
this is very nice definitely androgynous anybody can wear this and i think anyone that smells this
will actually enjoy this one a great one for the warm season up ahead. Next up we have from the
house of Paco Rabanne the newest Invictus Platinum, this one here got me really curious
from the get-go because when i looked at the note breakdown it had a boozy absinthe note up top and
truly had some really promising notes so i was very curious to checking this one out
and of course sharing with you excuse me here i got the gigantic 200 ml bottle normally i
don't get the big bottles but this time around we went with a 200 ml, the bottle looks
pretty good a little tacky some might say it has little wings here nothing really out of the
ordinary, you're used to with the you know this particular lineup of fragrances they look
like the little trophy and this one here is no different like i said it's a little bit of gray
gradient here on the bottle itself and it has the little silver wings so let's go guys the moment of
truth here let's see what we get out of Paco Rabanne Invictus Platinum.
All right so the opening here will give you a similar vibe to the Aqua which is
really nice it has the beautiful grapefruit that we love the absinthe here adds a little tinge of
booziness too but not overly boozy if you're thinking it's going to be a great boozy scent
not quite but it does remind me of a tropical boozy drink like a tropical drink that you drink
around summer time springtime so it's very uplifting it's very playful is the right
word i'm looking for here the mint here is great the absinthe is nice very playful very
youthful great for maybe going out for romantic settings date settings if you're
going out with your friends at night time this is going to be one of those really
people-pleasing crowd-pleasing compliment inducing that type of a scent very youthful vibe here this
is going to be probably right now since Aqua has been discontinued long gone the 2016 Aqua this
is probably going to be the most youthful from the collection i'll be honest with you it is
sweet it is safe it is pleasant but i do like that absinthe with that mint that you're getting up top
here which is quite unique from anything that i've smelled so far from this particular line
i'm really liking this one here and again i'll put the the ratings next to me so we can
speed things up but i think from a first impression standpoint this is actually quite a
good one not great but quite good. Now this next one is one that i'm very very hyped up myself to
try and share with you guys because i do love the brand in fact over the last years they have been quite
busy with the parfum and the parfum intense releases and now they have Eau de Parfum
ECLAT which is a lighter perhaps more of a spring/summer version of Brioni Eau de Parfum and
this is going to be like i said Eau de Parfum Eclat, we're talking a vegan fragrance with natural
ingredients so quite different from anything we've seen out there from Brioni and especially
from the designer realm of things so i am quite curious to smelling this one i don't know what to
expect here but the bottle does look incredible it's got this beautiful frosty white
bottle finish to it just like an Aqua Di Gio kind of a vibe so i'm very very curious to getting
my nose on this one and sharing my thoughts with you. I've actually done impressions and also
reviews on the Eau de Parfum and Eau de Parfum Intense for you guys if you guys want to know more about those
fragrances i'll pop them up here so you guys can check them out but this is the newest 2022 let's
see if this is going to be just a gimmicky release or this is actually worth you guys checking out
This is interesting, what is the word i'm looking for here, it's very different meaning it doesn't have a
really strong smell this to me is smelling similar to the molecule fragrances the Molecule 01
hat wood chip that cedar chip it's going to be one of those fragrances that i think
are going to be more on the molecular level meaning if you spray this on you're going to be
probably not smelling too much of it but i think people around you will actually get whiffs of your
of your scent they're going to say "hey you smell quite good" but on the test strip here this is very
musky a little bit creamy and definitely woody but nothing really to brag home about i'm actually
a little bit confused here i'm really going to want to wear this more
or wear this at all on skin to really have an opinion formed but i think on the test strip here
it's a little bit confusing and when you look at the note breakdown i even get more confused
because we're talking rose we're talking ambroxan and we're talking grapefruit there's a
lot of nice notes that i think would really pop especially with a nice clear bottle like this
perfection for like spring and summer but what i'm getting here is this very fleeting very subtle
musky woody and very uninspiring kind of scent to be honest with you, my least favorite from the
Brioni line i hate to report this but so far this is a disappointment for me and i do enjoy the line.
Over the last couple of years i have talked to you guys about this particular fragrance being one of
the best designer releases out there and if you haven't gotten your nose on this one you
definitely should this is going to be a woody spicy patchouli with a whiskey upper
introduction note we're talking Cartier Pasha the Parfum 2019 which like i said over the past few
years has been the best release when it comes to designers and guess what there is a new one now from Pasha
Parfum which is actually a 2022 limited edition eau de parfum which is not the same fragrance
prettier bottle and i wanted to do this on purpose to bring both here side by side so you can see
how beautiful the 2022 not that this one doesn't look good but this one here even goes up a next
level here with this gold tinge that it has and what they did here is they actually made a melange
of spices and really emphasizing the note of mysore sandalwood which is the best sandalwood you
could possibly get in the world of perfume when it comes to sandalwood my source and what is the best
one and this one has that particular sandalwood and it's really embellished and enhanced with
all these spices so i'm really curious to try on this one, I love the house of Cartier i think
it's one of the most underrated designers and when it comes to the Pasha lineup i absolutely
love it from the original edt to the edp 2019 and now this one, and there's other ones maybe
someday i'll highlight the whole Pasha line for you guys but this one here is the newest one
and my gosh it is absolutely stunning, so it's going to have a lot of nuances of the 2019 meaning
it's boozy it's spicy it's definitely very unique elegant sophisticated and definitely masculine
a lady could pull this off of course it's got the booziness it's got the the spiciness
but this beauty of this green creamy fougere with this enhanced sandalwood and the booziness
that you're getting here is absolutely out of this world good, again, i'm gonna have to
say it again this is one of my favorite releases right now in 2022 even more than Reserve Prive
from Givenchy which i love guys this is great stuff from a first impression standpoint this is
just heart stopping i can't wait to rock this in evening wear dressier occasions and of
course as the weather gets cooler fall winter this is going to be probably in my top picks for sure
get your nose on this one. Next up we have a flanker of a niche fragrance this one here was actually
released last year around fall time late fall of last year so technically 2021 but
it's not reaching america until about now so we're going to call it 2022 just because now
it's starting to become available here in u.s and it's going to be a flanker of Mancera Cedrat
Boise which this particular fragrance if you know it it's going to be a fruitier more floral
version or very similar to Creed Aventus it's like Mancera's take on Creed Aventus
but in a more floral way, a little bit more imaginative not just cookie cutter as a lot
of companies do this is going to be the Intense version of Cedrait Boise, i'm
completely curious here, by the way they have changed their caps now they're no
longer screw-on now they're going to be magnetic just so you guys know maybe you didn't know that
and here's the bottle just like the other ones and it says Intense Cedrat Boise, let's see
The sprays are beautiful beastly you can control depending how hard you push
and this is very very nice, what i'm getting here guys it's going to be
not as floral as the original instead they're actually amplified the leather here the leather
here is absolutely beautiful it's going to be a little darker a little more resinous
definitely very elegant i think this is great for evening wear as opposed to the original one being
absolutely fantastic for all seasons go day wear dress up dress down i think the Intense
will give you that edge because it's darker and the leather that envelops it is just
absolutely stunning it will definitely be a great scent for dressier and
evening occasions, other notes that i have to mention here is not only it's going to have
the leather that i talked about you don't have a real pineapple vibe here instead they added these
orangey kind of citruses that are creamy spicy and leathery just great stuff guys it's definitely
not redundant to own both if you have Cedrat Boise but you wanted to the Intense, I definitely highly
suggest at least getting a decant you're gonna love it i'm loving it right now from everything
i've tried so far this is my favorite along of course with the Cartier Pasha but i think this one here
if you like that Aventus vibe but you wanted something a little different with more leather
you're gonna love this one. I don't know if you guys knew this i don't know if you guys saw
advertisements i know if you heard about it but the YSL Y Edt has now been discontinued but not
completely gone because regulations as they say forced YSL to release the fragrance again in 2022
just as a new packaging now called the new YSL Y EdT, so perhaps i'll do a comparison with you guys
side by side with the original why to let you guys exactly what the difference is from what
i've heard this is going to be a little bit more mature a little bit greener, not as
youthful or playful as the 2019 release, let's see what we get out of this one here on camera
it's going to have the same likability as you get with the original it's going to have this
beautiful blue citrus aquatic grapefruit blue kind of a vibe which we get with all these blue scents
so you smelled one you smelled them all however i don't get the sharpness that i used to get
with the original Y, i didn't get as much, they have since then toned it down
i think the 2022 release is a little bit creamier a little bit more well-rounded
and i'm liking a little bit more i think as you guys know if you looked at my reviews back
in 2018-19 when i talked about all the different flankers of the Y collection throughout the years i was not a
big fan of the brand i thought it was more of the same if i have to go blue i go Bleu de Chane;
i go Dior Sauvage i go with anything else that's blue that I think is a little bit better than
the Y, i think they're just copying what's trending and i don't think they're doing a very
good job with it to be quite honest with you with the Y collection i wasn't a big fan but
this one here i could see myself picking up reaching up and just rocking it because i think
it'll be one of those fragrances that it'll wear well on my skin and i think people will
love the way i smell, they'll love the way you smell because it's got everything you could possibly
want for a good blue scent it's uplifting it's bright it's happy and like i said they took away
that sharpness and i think it's creamier more rounded i think it's a better scent
altogether. It goes to show guys that sometimes reformulations or re-structures of packaging or
bringing a fragrance differently doesn't mean necessarily it's going to be neutered or sometimes
it's for the better and i think YSL actually did a good job with this reformulation or restructuring
of the Y fragrance in their collection. I got one more for you guys the newest from Chanel Paris-Paris
but before i crack this one open and tell you guys what my thoughts on this one guys understand and
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in this video because i keep you guys informed. All right so the new Chanel Paris-Paris the box itself is
very simple very minimalist just a thin cardboard box i don't know if you guys like this
particular line of fragrances i think they're very minimalist and not my favorite i like the
Les Exclusives of course the best, here is the bottle very simple this is supposed to be a rose based
damask rose base type of a scent so i am curious about this one because i do enjoy rose fragrances
especially during the springtime the weather we have right now the bottle minimalist, you got the logo
there the caps here are not magnetic so like i said as simple as it can get, the sprayer's okay
the smell is nothing out of this world good it's going to be a very faint rose scent something
very easy to wear you just pick up and go you're going to smell good but this is probably one of
the least favorite fragrances on the list here it is a new one from Chanel so for that alone it
gets people excited but i have to be honest with you when it comes to rose based scents i think
there's a ton of better options out there for the price point here, i'm not really impressed, other
notes here are going to be pink pepper there's some citruses as well of course in the opening
the damask rose is supposed to be the star player here but like i said very faint
way in the background and i don't think this this fragrance would last too long on my skin anyway
and i think like i said for a rose base scent there are a ton of better options. So let me know
guys are you familiar with this Chanel collection of fragrances? which one is your favorite which
one should i try from all 2022 releases, which one has been your favorite so far maybe
something i haven't tried yet i'll discover in the comments of this video. As always guys thanks so
much for hanging out with me stay tuned for more i will catch you guys in the next one take care