it's that time again time for unboxing first impressions i
got five fragrances here to go over with you including the two brand new
one from Dolce&Gabanna, this was THE ONE GOLD and one brand new from Michael Kors called
EXTREME JOURNEY that no one's talking about, let's see what these fragrances are all about ;)
welcome back to another video I'm Max Forti today first impressions, if you love to smell
great, you love to make a great first impression, this is a great place to be, if you guys enjoy what
i do here show your support. Let's get cracking here, five fragrances, one thing i want to
bring to your attention is the partner of this channel fragranceby.ca which i love to finding
new fragrance releases just like the ones you see here, but also finding hard to find discontinued
fragrances, under their rare jams tab, case in point right here, we have a Pal Zileri which is an older
fragrance and of course 2011 fragrance BangBang from Marc Jacobs which is a great peppery type of
a fragrance, which i've never tried, i know the original BangBang from 2010 so i'm very curious
to try this one and give you guys my feedback, but the point here is you can find discontinued
and hard to find fragrances at fragranceby.ca under the tab "rare gems" and of course new arrivals
for brand new fragrances great selection fast shipping. Let's get cracking let's
start with Pal Zileri is actually a fragrance house that is very underrated it's a
fashion company from italy i actually did a video "good bad ugly underrated" and the whole collection of
privê brand they had, i'll pop it up here if you guys missed that video, that line has been
discontinued but you can still find it out there and i highly suggest you do if you like really
refined italian you know perfumery but this one here i have no idea what it's like never tried
i think it's 2013 fragrance it's just named Pal Zileri, self-titled, I know nothing
about this fragrance, I'm going in completely fresh here but from what i remember the house is
actually pretty good quality so i'm very curious to try this one, the bottle itself is going
to be cylindric, the green is this like greenish ambery kind of a color, plastic cap, nothing to it,
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the details are below check it out. Okay this smells really good guys, so this is going to be a fresh
woody aromatic/lavender type of fragrance, this is going to have a little bit of an
old school vibe to it your barbershop style fragrances but it also has a little bit of
Dolce&Gabanna the one the original vibe so it's like you take about THE ONE and you add
some green woody lavender barbershop feel components to this fragrance that's what
you're gonna get here, not bad, i would rate this 7/10 i don't know anything about
longevity or the performance but on the scent alone here it's actually pretty good, let's get
to the next one here which is going to be Bang Bang from Marc Jacobs this is going to be a
flanker of the original 2010 release which was great and i'm going to tell you guys the original
Marc Jacobs bang to me was the best peppery fragrance i've ever tried, the only problem
with that fragrance was performance, for those of you that have been wearing fragrances for
a long time for a longest time you know that pepper is a great aromatic and spicy
kind of a scent profile, these bottles are actually pretty good it's like somebody
took a punch here and dented the bottle, i like the actual shape of these bottles, very
unique, again this line has been discontinued for Marc Jacobs so if you can find these go ahead and
pull the trigger they are nice and they're starting to climb up in price so
again from what i remember the original sprayers are pretty good it was a very nice
aromatic green peppery type of a fragrance, this is actually very nice guys, it's going to have a
little bit of a blue feel to it semi-aquatic ozonic but it's actually a woody spicy with that aquatic
marine vibe underneath it but it's not so much a blue scent it's more of a woody
aromatic scent it's actually very nice i'm giving this one right off the bet here 8/10
it's a little better than Pal Zileri because i'm really digging that ozinic
peppery vibe that i'm getting here, supposedly the performance is not going to be great because the
original wasn't great either so i have to wear it to let you guys know more about this one but
again just to highlight the fact that fragrancebuy.ca gives you the opportunity to find
rare gems it's just great, not many places do that. Next up we're going
to talk about Dior Homme Parfum 2020 release, this is going to be the restructuring revamping
of the Dior Homme line, as we saw with Dior Home Intense which again i tried both and reviewed
for you guys, i'll pop them here so you guys can check out those reviews, they have completely
neutered those fragrances making them a lot more faint and ethereal, they don't last as long
they're a little lighter not as dark as i would love them to be, so this one here i have no idea
I was really hoping to get a hold of this and again fragranceby.ca
had this in stock but quickly sold out, it we'll get it back in stock, so just to let you guys
know if you go to fragrancebuy.ca and you don't see something in stock right away don't worry about
it, there's a little button underneath that you can put your email and set up a reminder, as soon as it
gets back in stock they'll email you guys right away and you can purchase that fragrance which
they replenish the stock constantly, every month, so this is Dior Parfum 2020 release
in comparison with the 2014 release you can see the differences here at the front of the bottle
the batch code is going to be etched in the side corner here of these bottles which will match
the box themselves but you know the changes are here in the front you can see clearly
i'm going to spray the 2014 here just so i can remind myself of how good this fragrance was
which by the way i do have a backup because fragranceby.ca had the original in stock
for a while, not anymore and this one happens to be one of my wife's favorite, this is going to be
this gorgeous Dior Homme Intense vibe that we love with the coco, patchouli,
adding spices, oud and dark leather to the fragrance, just
breathtaking, long lasting, powerful, just a beast of a fragrance. The new 2020 i'm
assuming it's going to be a little lighter because that's what they did with the whole collection
so i'm thinking that's what we're going to get here, Dior just have the best sprayers in the game
i'm happy to report that it's actually not very neutered but what i anticipated is exactly what i
said to you guys in my previous videos of Dior Homme , Dior Homme Intense, i think what they did is they
went down a level so the new Dior Homme completely different now it's just a woody aromatic
that has nothing of that beautiful iris and now Dior Homme Intense is what Dior Homme used to be
and the ew Dior Homme Parfum is what what the Dior Homme Intense used to be, so they went down
a level, that's what i'm getting here, this to me smells very similar to Dior Homme Intense
up into like 2012 with a little bit of a dark leathery facet but i'm not
getting the oud at all here i'm thinking it was completely extracted not as good as the
2014 release, simple as that, but a good scent nevertheless if you can pick it up do pick it
up. Let's talk about the two new 2021 releases that i'm very excited to share with you which is
Michael Kors Extreme Journey which up to the point of last year i had everything in this collection
i did a video "good bad ugly and underrated" for you guys, i'll put it up, here go check out the video
where i talk about everything Michael Kors and of course the brand new The One Gold which
from what i hear the buzz it's not great, so let me do the Michael Kors first
give you guys my first take on this one and then we'll talk about the Dolce&Gabbana The One Gold
from what i hear it smells good but it's not long-lasting but again we'll talk about it in a
second, i love the michael kors line i think it's just very classy, I love the bottles, very masculine,
a square look, the caps could be a little better it's just plastic, the bottle is
actually is this beautiful ambery gold type of a color, let's see what we get out of this one,
okay, from the bottle itself i thought it was going to be a spicy ambery type of a fragrance and it's
not, it's mostly an aromatic vetiver type of a fragrance kind of like in the lines of
Dunhill Homme, Dunhill for Man, let me look at the notes on this one, it's not great but good, it's
clean i think it's nice for daily wear casual and office type of a fragrance it's very safe
let's look at the note breakdown here, not really digging it because i think it's
a little too generic, the notes are pink pepper, cedar, patchouli, and leather, so i'm
not getting much of the leather here at all, the patchouli here is going to be green, not really a
wet ambery patchouli, and the cedar is again dry, the pepper adds a little bit of a
spiciness to it just like the spices that you get with Dunhill for Man, the original from Dunhill,
it's nice, it's clean, it's safe, rating here is 7/10, it smells good but it's not great,
now Dolce&Gabbana The One Gold, i have high hopes for this one guys, Extreme Journey was
very disappointing, i thought it was going to be much better, i think the Michael Kors for
Man, the original is a lot better, it's dried fruits and tobacco with patchouli, it's a lot nicer,
i think if you like darker scents from this line go with the original, you're not going
to disappoint. DOlce&Gabbana The One Gold has just a simple package in here, the bottle
you've seen one you've seen them all, they all have the same kind of structure, the cap which
is elongated rectangular, the sprayers are good in this one, let's see what we get out of this one,
this smells actually really good, really really good, it opens up really orangey
and spicy with some darker components kind of writing underneath like patchouli
amber, in the same vein as Eros from Versace, but this is a little bit more refined a
little bit more well-rounded, don't get much similarities here with the original The One
it's like going into a different direction a lot of people try to compare this
with Dolce&Gabbana the one intense that came out last year with the black bottle
which had the gold appointments, this is gold with darker details, but i don't see many
similarities at all because that fragrance had a lot more iris and floral components it was more
resinous this one here is a little sharper but it gets creamy i think as it starts to dry down but i
think the orange here the mandarin orange up top is really the star player i get some lavender in
here, let's look at the notes on this one guys, it's not bad, the scent itself is actually nice
i don't know if performance is going to be great, so we have blood orange, there you go,
red ginger, and italian bergamot, so that's spicy, orange that i'm talking about, very predominant
here, kind of like the blood orange we get with Paco Rabanne One Million but doesn't smell like One Million
it goes into a different direction, it's not that "bubble gummy feel" that you get, there's no ambroxan
in here, there's amber, wood, clary sage, geranium, cardamom, definitely spicy, vetiver, and patchouli
i like the smell i'm really digging the smell i'm giving an 8 out of 10, I'm really enjoying here
I don't know what's going to happen on skin, but it's not on my list of top favorite D&G
The Ones, i think Gentleman is still my number one and then the Parfum version of
the original The One is just the best, you can't go wrong with that one, this one here
8/10 on the smell alone, not bad. That's it for me, let me know in the comments your thoughts
on the Dior Homme collection, are you guys upset like myself that they went down a notch here? or
a few notches with their fragrances, what do you think about vintage or hard to find
discontinued fragrance? you like the fact that you can actually find these fragrances?
let me know your comments below and of course from the brand new releases here from 2021 what are
your thoughts on these, if you have tried them what are your thoughts on 2021 releases so far guys?
are they just giving us more of the same? if you guys are upset let me know in the comment
let's start a conversation. As always guys thanks for your support, thanks for hanging out with me,
as always remember, fragrance is an extension of who you are, so choose your fragrances wisely, i'm gonna
try this on skin now. Guys wear them well ;) see you back here again with another video very soon