It's less about impressing.
It's more about wearing something that makes you
feel really, really great, really, really powerful.
And so sexually, I'm going to say that, sexually in command.
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Hold up.
He's in a suit.
Yes, I am.
This video of seductive, sexy fragrances, I thought
I'd make an effort.
I thought let's pretend we're having a date night
and I'm going to get a bit dressed up for you.
I've even got myself a little whiskey and ginger.
I popped the ginger in because I normally get a bit carried away,
and then I got a bit nose blind, and it's more about the booze
rather than the fragrances.
So, last week I did a video on spring fragrances.
We're at the end of that.
And as I was going through the box of fragrances, there were
a couple that I picked out.
And I was just so intoxicated.
Something took a hold of me and I just thought,
wow, these are sexy.
We all have different things, which are sexy to us.
And we all lean in on those different sort of moments.
Whatever you're into, whoever you're into, as long as it's
legal, as long as no one's getting hurt, then go wild.
Be free.
Be you.
I salute you.
But these are the ones that I definitely smell
and think, Oh God.
Fuck this.
Fuck.
Let's just do this.
There could be a few words in this one.
So if you're easily offended, go on, get out of here.
We don't want to see you.
No, do stick around, I'll try and keep it clean.
Okay.
I'm going to start with, I've got five.
Let's call it a top five.
There'll be a couple of these videos.
Again.
I need to get some sort of ranking on YouTube.
The first one I featured a couple of times, Black Orchid.
It's Parfum Black Orchid by Tom Ford.
The original Black Orchid, I didn't hugely like, I find it
really sickening, sickly, heavy.
I found it just one of my friends, and I spoke about this
before, she used to wear it.
And I just, when I got sat next to her, I just was a bit
like, Oh yeah, that's great.
Haha.
But this one.
It's addictive.
It's sensual.
It's sexy.
Black Orchid is all about, it's a fantasy note of what this
Black Orchid do smell like.
And, there's also black truffle in it.
There's ylang-ylang.
There's plum in this.
But there's a real injection of rum absolute.
So you've got, something, where are my strips?
You've got something which is quite boozy, but it's
still really rounded.
So it's not boozy and hectic, like a night at the park with
your mates when you're 16.
But it's classy and boozy.
Much like myself.
Let's have a spritz.
What I love about this is, it's so addictive.
You're kind of like, do I like this?
Don't I like this?
But you're really moving in on it.
If it's on a neck, you literally are having a little nibble,
like some sort of vampire.
It's so sensual.
It's so sexy.
It's warming.
It's everything that you want in a sexy, sensual fragrance.
I've banged on, banged on about this a few times, and I'm going
to bang on about it again.
I think it's a really fantastic launch from Tom Ford.
It was in 2020, and I just think, the way that they
can have upgraded that original was just perfect.
Also a gold bottle.
It can get a bit trashy, I think, with, with
gold, but this is great.
Rounded, juicy, sensual, sexy, all those provocative
goodness that we love.
Yes.
Okay.
The second one, here we go.
He's really into it.
Isn't he?
The second one actually is not yet out.
This is out in May.
So May is tomorrow, the 1st of May.
So I don't have a really nice bottle, but I will
get some pictures, and we'll splash those up too.
It's going to, like.
But this is Van Cleef & Arpels Orchid Leather.
I got sent this by the PR.
I did an evening spritz, and we went through new
launches, and I just kept on coming back to this.
I was captivated by it.
I wanted to wear it.
I wanted to drench myself in it.
It was sexy.
It was heady.
It was hectic.
And it was everything that I want and need.
There's not much left in this.
So, I mean, they didn't give me very much.
Come on guys.
When this is out, I'm going to get this.
I think it's just so, so gorgeous.
So this is the first time that Van Cleef & Arpels,
who is a brand that I don't particularly know, this is
the first time that they've used leather in a fragrance.
This one made me kind of think of, there's a Carolina Herrera,
Platinum Leather, which I really quite liked, but I love this.
With leather, and I've said this before, leather,
you get different sort of types of leather.
You get the harsh, brash, sort of cheaper sort of leather that
you might get on some guy in a really dodgy nightclub in Essex.
Hi, if you're from Essex.
You're always welcome here.
But then you get these other sort of leathers
that are so soft.
And the sort of leathers that you'd get on a gorgeous coat.
And it's the type of leather you want to sit your face on.
It's a type of leather you just want to like get under.
It's warming leather, it's soft, it's creamy, it's buttery.
And that's what I'm getting from this sort of leather.
It's less about the sort of top notes in this for me.
And I think that's kind of what makes such a, such
a great, sexy fragrance.
You know, once that stride down, once it's on your
skin, whoever you with is going to be nuzzling.
You want to smell that that night, you want to be
smelling it that morning.
You want to be moving into the afternoon, maybe on
the sofa in the afternoon, then back in bed at night.
So you want your fragrance to last, and it is all
about those base notes.
And it's about what is left.
You're naked.
You literally have that and only that on your skin.
So beautiful.
Slight sweetness for the vanilla, but...
need this.
Thank you for much for sending me this.
I will be liking a full bottle, if possible,
when it is launched.
I'll link it.
All of these are linked, and the four are on ManForHimself.com.
wIth the reviews.
This one will be reviewed properly as soon as it's out.
Okay.
If you like those sorts of, sweetness, but you might
also like a bit of smokiness.
You like your spices, you want it hot.
You want it cold.
You want it now.
Then, Penhaligon's Blazing Mister Sam.
He's confident.
He's verging on cocky.
Everyone loves his charm.
Their words, not mine, but I actually would
go along with that.
Second one of these I've had, Blazing Mister Sam, and it was
Very Talented Mister Ripley.
That's a film, Robin.
And the other one that I actually love, someone shouting
at this and telling me, Robin, it's this that you love.
I can't remember.
Blazing Mister Sam and, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Roaring Radcliff,
Roaring Radcliff, I love.
Those are those sort of bourbon notes, but this one is tobacco.
It's vanilla.
It's hot spices.
It's cold spices.
So there's cardamom there, which is a cooling spice.
It comes back in.
There's also cinnamon in this.
But what I love about this is, to me, some of the
other ones were date night, and they were a bit like,
you know what's coming.
But for me, this one is about confidence in yourself.
It's less about impressing.
It's more about wearing something that makes you
feel really, really great.
Really, really powerful.
And so sexually, I'm going to say that, sexually in command.
It's just so, so great.
And with tobacco and vanilla on the base.
I, I love tobacco.
I think it smells absolutely amazing fragrances.
I like when, tobacco, and like a bourbon or a rum are
combined, I think you have something which is elegant,
something which has established, something which is grounded,
but still has this sort of sweet gourmand sort of quality.
And this is what you have in this.
You do have a slight sweetness of vanilla without being sickly.
And then a slight smokiness of the tobacco.
It's not tobacco, like some guy on a street corner, like puffing
on his like rollies, but it's tobacco in a, a real kind of
like smokey drenched-ness, ness.
Just add ness on the end, and you can turn anything
into a something-ness.
Oh, thank you.
You are gorge to the gorge.
Okay.
Let's stick you on this one.
I was.
So I received this right, Atkinson.
I've got to get the name right here, Gold Fair in Mayfair.
And I received this maybe last year and I opened it
and I thought, Oh, trash.
Absolutely not this gold bottle.
This is not me.
It feels a bit bling.
It feels a bit...
and I just thought, no, no, no, no, no, no, not me.
And then I spritzed it, and then I played with it, and then I
came back to it and thought, I can't stop thinking about you.
I really, I can't stop thinking about you.
Where are you?
I need you.
And it was this and I needed it.
I wanted it.
I had to have it.
And.
It lasts on the skin.
It's got a great performance, and it's sexy and it's sensual.
So don't be deceived by the packaging.
Always go to that second date and see if you're
going to make it work.
Now, this one, in the video I did last week, I
should say, that was, one of them was Fou D’Absinthe
by L’Artisan Parfumeur.
And it had this, it had the absinthe note.
There's also absinthe in this.
Absinthe has a sweetness to it.
It's also very commanding.
It's slightly spiky, I think.
I think it really does turn a head.
And this is very much this.
And the other thing I should tell you about this, and I
only really noticed, there's a number on the back of these.
They are still available.
I did check on Selfridges, but this is 1075 out of 2000.
Only 2000 of these have been made.
So they very much are limited edition, and they
were created to celebrate Atkinsons coming back to their
original home in Mayfair.
And so there's got a story about it.
Also, the bottle is supposed to be like the inside of the shop.
I think.
I'm getting this wrong, but let's just sell it in.
But it's.
It's sweet.
It's seductive.
It's sultry.
There's nutmeg in there.
There's cocoa bean, there's vetiver, there's amber rocks.
So, there's just a gorgeous mix of everything.
But for me, it is all about that sort of sweetness.
The difference in this is that this, this has
a nuttiness about it.
I kind of think of this as like I'm a big cocktail fan.
I really do.
There's a cocktail shot that I've had a couple of times,
and I think of it as this, I think it's using like Kalua,
so it's like slightly nutty.
It's also quite creamy.
It sits perfectly on the skin.
And, but as I say, you know, this was one that I constantly
I've been thinking about.
If you can get yourself into an Atkinsons, do ask to try this.
It's gorgeous.
Or if you are a blind purchaser, and you've got
some money to splash the cash, then blind buy this.
I, I love it, but don't come for me if you don't
like it, there you go.
Okay.
Final one is the cheapest in my lineup.
And in last week's video, I had.
What, floatay?
I've got that wrong.
Bois Flotté by L'Occitane.
And this is the other one, they've got three in the new
launch and this is Karité Corsé.
Say it with conviction again.
And this is Karité Corsé.
Karité Corsé.
Sir, another Karité Corsé?
Yes, this is this.
This also has a sweetness to it.
So it's got a spiciness to it.
I would say, be careful if you're spritzing over a drink,
it's going to end up in there.
Out of the three of them that have just launched,
this is by far my favourite.
It's my favourite, because it has more of these sort of
sexy, sensual, seductive sense.
I was talking about bourbon before and there is, there's
bourbon in this and the base.
It's less, it's less present, when you do smell it.
I do think this one is more of that sort of sweetness.
There's roasted shea nut, there's coffee, there's cocoa.
There's just a touch of bergamot citrus in the top
but really for me, it is these spicy and sweet notes.
I'm sure sage, cardamom, black pepper.
So again, you've got that cooling of the cardamom, and
the warming of the black pepper.
For me, my nose really does hover around more of those
coffee and cocoa notes.
And I am just so here for it.
This is £75 for 75 mils, I would say in terms of performance.
I think it's very much in line with that price point.
It doesn't last a huge amount of time, but it certainly
is on the wrist, and it's certainly in on the neck.
So if you're in the mood for a nozzle, that person
is still going to smell it.
But I've loved what L'Occitane had been doing.
I really enjoyed the 3 cents.
The other one I think is a really good summer one.
So I might stick that even in next week, or the week after,
I'll do a couple of summer ones.
But, I just love fragrance, and I just love be like going
out and having a drink and just like date night, I think
it's just absolutely perfect.
I mean, you can imagine me on a date night.
One drink and then I'm like nuzzling.
Exactly.
But I'm going to pop that down, I'm holding that like a cigar.
I don't smoke, but if I did, this is what I do.
Actually, that's more like a sort of 1930's digital
cigarette, isn't it?
Anyway, there you go.
Thank you very much for watching.
Hmm.
Really hope you've enjoyed this one.
Again, I was going mental at the end of a fragrance
for you, because they really do get them up my nose.
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