Whoever you are, whatever you like, these are
going to suit you.
But it's all about kind of your confidence in wearing that.
So if you're going to wear a £30 fragrance but £200
suits, then I like your style, go forth and conquer.
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I did a spring fragrance video.
Yes, I did.
Did a spring fragrance video a couple of weeks ago,
and I gave you a five...
I don't like top fives because I've got so many
favourite things, and I think fragrance should be
about expression and about how you feel in that moment.
But, I also want to get a few views in this.
So let's stick top five in the title.
Will I?
I don't know, but anyway, you're with me and these are
five for spring, five gorgeous fragrances that actually
will last all year round.
I thought I'd use this as a bit of a prop.
The five fragrances are in there.
Stick around.
It's going to be a laugh.
I've also got a peppermint tea.
Last time I had a gin and tonic, but this time I thought
I'll go a bit, a bit safer, because after a few sits
and a few sniffs, I got...
it just got a bit much.
Okay.
I'm going to start with this one in here.
Ooh.
Hello.
If you are a follower, an audience member, and you've
been around for a while.
Then you will know I've spoken about this before.
Fou D’Absinthe by L’Artisan Parfumeur.
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
You might think that spring has to be, has to be just
a bit airy fairy, a bit nothing, maybe a bit sparkly.
But this one is sexy.
It's got an evening sort of vibe to it.
It's quite crunchy in certain parts.
Like, I, I love this.
This has patchouli in it.
It's also got star anise.
So there's this kind of like fresh, but
also spicy vibe to it.
When I was in, when I was in Paris, I shot a video
of L’Artisan Parfumeur.
And we went to, Adam who works with me, we went to the Moulin
Rouge at night because this is all about that sort of absinthe
nights, like really, really wild times, which I think
must have been such a laugh.
And hopefully after this Covid, small pandemic thing that we're
in at the moment, then hopefully we could be having times like
that, get the absinthe then.
But I think this is gorgeous.
It is so different from anything else that I've smelled.
The star anise definitely gives you that spicy kick.
A spicy, woody kick that I just want to be kicked by.
This price point, I will link them all down below.
I'll also try and get them all on ManForHimself.com.
I'll find you the best prices.
This is around 30, £130 mark, so it's not cheap, but so,
so gorgeous, so, so great.
And let's go from, thank you, let's go from one end
of the scale to another one, and this has featured...
so, by the way, I do have fragrances that I've never,
do you know what, I'm going to give you a fragrance
I've never featured.
Here you go.
Chantecaille Vetyver Cèdre.
Cèdre.
Chantecaille is a really well-known...
if you know, you know, a really well-known beauty brand.
But it might not be that well-known.
But Vetyver Cèdre is, as it suggests, vetiver, and
that's what excites here, vetiver and cedarwood oil.
It is great.
I've dropped my blotting strips, just going to
spray into the air.
I know this, they had two.
Hello.
Two new ones that were launched.
And the reason I think this is so spring-like, spring-like,
is the warming wood from cedarwood, Cedarwood, I was
thinking it has this warmth to it, very light and bright.
And then the vetiver gives it this grassy sort of edge.
So there's, there's definite freshness.
There's also a really great bergamot and grapefruit, really
juicy notes on the top, and also just a touch of juniper.
There's another juniper one in here.
I liked juniper cause it makes me think of a gin and tonic.
Love a gin and tonic, really thirst quenching.
Perfect for spring.
Perfect for summer.
Perfect for autumn.
Perfect for winter.
It's just perfect.
And this is £150, I want to say.
She's pricey, but, I think it's great.
I really, really enjoyed wearing this.
And also musk, vetiver, patchouli on the base.
So it lasts.
But it's so, it's so open.
It's an open fragrance.
It doesn't make you feel like, Oh God, that's too much.
That's on top of me.
Unless you want it on top of you, in which case,
this one isn't for you.
Light, bright, spring, gorgeous.
Thank you.
Okay.
Right, if you liked juniper, but you think in £158 pounds,
it's just a touch too much.
Then, I'm going to take a sip of my peppermint tea and I'm going
to get this one out for you.
Abercrombie & Fitch First Ins-- Abercrombie
& Fitch First Instinct.
This bad boy has been sprayed a lot by me.
Someone who tends to gravitate towards chucks
of money a fragrance, but I think this is so, so great.
Twenty-something pounds, 28 pounds?
Let's just call it maybe an even £30 on that, but
£30 for a bottle like this?
Abercrombie and Fitch.
Fashion, is that fashion?
It's clothing, brand that is very much, was very much based
on the sort of alpha male, girls in hardly anything.
Gorgeous gorgeous people, but I don't think much
going on in their head.
But the fragrance that was created is just perfect.
Gin and tonic in there, aromatic pepper and sueded musk.
But for me, it's all about that, that gin and tonic.
I also get, sort of like violet sort of quality to this?
I have worn this, like, a lot, and I think it smells so much
more expensive than that £30.
Again, like, I think always with price points and
brands, it is marketing.
That is the world we live in.
Essentially, I am marketing right now.
But I'm marketing with a conscience, let's say that.
I'm also discerning.
I'm going to pick out stuff that's decent.
And also all of these can be worn by anyone.
Whoever you are, whatever you like, these are
going to suit you.
But it's all about kind of your confidence in wearing that.
So if you're going to wear a £30 fragrance but £200
suits, then I like your style, go forth and conquer.
But this is just so, so great.
And I do think of it as a sort of spring-summer, just because
it has, it's very rounded.
It's very inviting.
It's very much like, "Hey!
How's it going?
Nice to meet you!"
Rather than, "Hey.
How's it going?
Nice to meet you."
It's less sexy.
It's more welcoming and it's gorge.
Gorge?
Who says gorge?
I do now.
Robin James, 2021, Man For Himself.
Thank you very much.
Let's go...
I was talking sexy there and I want to go super sexy.
Carine Roitfeld, who was the Editor-in-Chief
of Vogue, uh, France?
Oof.
Yes, she was.
She has launched seven fragrances, which I have here.
Seven fragrances inspired by seven lovers in seven cities.
I just go wet and wild for that vibe.
I've got the travel set here.
This was very kindly sent to me, obviously with the hope
that I would feature this, and it sat in a box while I was
moving and I didn't get to it.
And then while I've been looking at fragrances for
different videos that I've got coming up, I've got a
very sexy, seductive video, hopefully coming up next week.
And I've got one on summer fragrances.
I think we just fast forward into that.
But when I was going through these, I was having a spritz.
I was having a wear, and I kept on coming back to them.
Seven fragrances inspired by seven men that Carine Roitfeld
met in seven different cities.
I just, I'm like, hats off.
That is what fragrance should be.
It should be moments.
It should be memory.
It should be sex.
It should be excitement.
It should just be a full love story.
Like that is what we're here for
. This one, Vladimir, and very much has a sexy story behind it.
And I'm going to read it to you.
I took this directly off the website.
This is not some sort of erotic fiction that I've written.
This says:
"Your hand guiding me in a firm, but gentle hold.
We slipped into the wings of the Mariinsky theatre,
while the dancers warmed up to the sound of Tchaikovsky.
You lent towards me and tenderly kissed my cheek,
enveloping me in a sweet, lingering odour of amber."
Gorgeous.
I just love that she's got these stories.
She's worked with a perfumer and said, this is my story,
sex it up, get it in.
Oof, that's what she said.
But what is great about, Ooh, ah, what I love about
this is, there's some similarities between this,
Vladimir, and First Instinct.
First Instinct is all these juniper, very fresh,
very inviting notes.
And I think that this one is almost like a
very adult, a lot more expensive, $260 for 90 mils,
expensive, version of that.
This has got grapefruit.
It's got geranium, bergamot, sage, cedar.
And then she talks of amber there.
There's amber, and there's incense.
So amber, I preach.
I preach, yes, I do.
I preach that it's got this sort of golden tonality to it.
It's warming, it's smells expensive.
It sits on the skin.
It lasts.
And then with incense, it's all about that smokiness.
Smoky notes.
And I think it's beautiful.
I think it's beautiful, and I'm excited to get
into the seven men that she's got in that pouch.
I might even do a dedicated, dedicated video where I just
sort of read the stories, spritz the things, and we
have a bit of a laugh, because I think it's so, so great.
I think it's absolutely beautiful and I want
to entertain, so I'm going to do that.
So well done, Carine.
Gorgeous, get your lid back on, gorgeous launch, and I'm
excited to get into your men.
Okay.
Pop you in there.
Okay.
The last one is, another sort of new release, and this is by...
L’Occitane.
L’Occitane have got, they have various fragrances.
There were actually three that got sent to me, must be maybe
at the start of the year.
And then they had a really sort of citrus, very EDT,
wasn't a huge fan of it.
One which was last year.
But this is great.
And there's another one which I think is so, so
sexy, gorgeous, perfect.
And this has got rosemary.
It's also got driftwood and red seaweed, so there's
a salty sort of vibe.
There's a herbaceous sort of vibe.
There's a driftwood sort of vibe.
I mean, driftwood, what is even that saying?
It's kind of like dried out wood.
But I think the rosemary is, to me, what makes this summer.
Rosemary, think about it.
If you're going to have lamb, sorry, if you're
vegetarian or vegan or just...
have a pet lamb, but with lamb, you do get that sort of
sprig of Rosemary on the top.
So I think very spring.
And rosemary to me also is herbaceous without
being like, Oh God, that's just too herbaceous.
It's herbaceous with an opinion.
You know, I just think it's got a bit of something to it.
And I think this is beautiful.
One of the things I found with this is, compared to the last
fragrances, this does last.
I'm sure this is a parfum.
Yes, an eau de parfum.
And the other two are also just as gorgeous.
This to me is just like really out of all of these, probably
one of the most wearable, I feel like it's the kind of fragrance
you could wear every day.
People might not necessarily think, Oh God, he smells great.
Or, Oh God, she smells great.
or, Oh God, they smell great.
I just think, this one is just easy on the skin.
It's easy, day out.
It's easy, easy, it's easy breezy.
Whereas, the other ones might be a little more easy in the
kind of like, night out sense.
But what I'm gonna do is I'm going to link all of them.
I've gone a bit weird and a bit like buzzed because I've been
spraying fragrances all day.
And this just sometimes happens to me.
This is why I had to have a peppermint tea
rather than a whiskey.
And, but...
I will, oh, hello.
I think it's an Amazon order.
But I will link all of this.
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