what's going on everyone so today i'm going to talk to you guys about my favorite discoveries
of 2020. i do this every year around january time i go over my favorite discoveries of the
previous year so instead of doing a designer and then a niche video i decided to just pick
up the absolute top five favorite discoveries of designers and top five favorite discoveries
of niche combining them in one really cool video for you guys so these aren't necessary fragrances
that were released last year but these are definitely my favorite discoveries some of
them could have been released last year or 2019 but nevertheless these are the favorite fragrances
that i discovered or became in contact or tried for the first time and they really spoke length
to me last year so if you want to know what these discoveries are stick around the video's up next
what i'm going to do here to make this fun and fluid i'm gonna do um one designer one each one
designer one each so forth and so on so let's start with the first designer here now this
one here came to me as a surprise uh this is a fragrance house that i love but it's a fragrance
house that most people really talk about them except for like the wanted line which gets a
lot of you know compliments gets a lot of talks here in the fragrance community wanted by night
specifically but the one i'm talking about here it's at zaro and the collection i'm
talking about is going to be the central blends collection released in 2019 for the
most part and they had two later releases that were made i believe in 2020 which was the mint
and ginger lover now i'm going to talk to you guys about for reference here wild mint
now the whole collection is quite good but the wild mint was definitely my favorite
i absolutely love mint my fragrances the mint here the spearmint in particular is
very predominant it's up front and center as you spray this fragrance it has a very aromatic citrus
kind of a vibe to the fragrance in some woods and vetiver at the base but is a great great
fragrance that you're going to get confidence you're going to smell great and it gave me like
eight plus hours which i think for a new designer these days to get eight plus hours is quite a feat
as most fragrances are giving you five to seven if you're lucky so quite a good release and a cheapy
might i add so a zara per ohm central blends wild mint definitely one of my favorite discoveries the
whole essential blends but in particular the wild mint one of my favorite discoveries of 2020. now
let's go into a niche here now this particular brand is a brand that came to me as a surprise
when i first found out about it they were the highlight of scent explorer 2020 perhaps one of
the most talked about fragrance brands because not only they're a niche brand they're very innovative
very creative but also very affordable for a niche company of course current nyc is
another indie brand that i absolutely love but i haven't discovered them last year i've actually
known about them since 2018 but this particular one i discovered last year and i'm glad i did
and it's called precious liquid and the fragrance i'm going to talk about today is going to be
vanilla orchid now the gentleman behind this brand you know in of itself is a great great gentleman
a lot of fun to be around he's very knowledgeable he's actually the gentleman that produced a couple
uh tom ford private blends including woodwood which is tom ford fire blends uh top selling
fragrance when it comes to private blends from tom ford it's their number one selling fragrance
so this guy has an extensive background he's a very good nose and vanilla orchid is a
great fragrance now not only this fragrance but the whole collection of precious liquid
has something for everyone they're very aromatic they're very um
very um innovative they're very well blended this one in particular of course has the
floral aspect has some creaminess to it has some spiciness but the vanilla here is done
like a vanilla bourbon type of a vibe and also has figs in it so it's very unique
the dry down it gets really creamy almost like a creme brulee it's not a gourmand fragrance but
instead a very well executed vanilla scent with a floral slash fruity undertone amazing guys check
out this brand it's got some really really cool stuff and i'm sure you're going to find something
you enjoy now going to another favorite discovery of mine of last year is going to be from another
underrated house that don't get much talked about and there are three underrated designer brands
that i always talk to you guys about you know you should definitely consider checking out isi
miyaki is one of them cartier is another one and the third one is definitely this one here which is
salvatore savateur and the fragrance we're talking about here is ud por um now even
though it's called ud prom it's not really a predominant food-based scent there's perhaps wood
here but it's way in the background very faint very subdued what you do get here is a gorgeous
leather and i said this before and i'll say it again this should have been called
leather purom or insatiable leather or a leather supreme something along those lines because what
this is guys it's a perfect leather base scent it is absolutely fantastic one of my favorites if you
want to know more about this i'm not going to go too deep into these fragrances i'm going to pop it
up here i did a full review on this one one thing is for sure this is a masterpiece amazing this is
an instant classic um if you like fragrances like bellamy for instance you're going to love this one
it's like a modern take on that fragrance we'll just leave it at that so definitely one of my
favorite discoveries sabatore ferragamo udpor now this particular fragrance here comes from a line
which is a collection within this brand that i wasn't really familiar with i knew their dark line
which was their signature or main collection but i didn't really know anything about the white woods
collection when i found out about this collection this one here i tried the whole line one shot and
this one here just stood out to me and of course this is from amahud and the fragrance we're
talking about is the white woods collection and the fragrance is wet stone now wet stone
is going to be essentially an aquatic citrus oh my god it smells so good it's a citrus
aromatic slash aquatic fragrance it's got this mineral vibe to it there's also food in here
there's also some spices i like to call this a fruity aquatic with the backbone this is a
very long-lasting aquatic fragrance it's extremely complement inducing definitely one of my favorite
discoveries of last year you know this stuff here is not in a countdown i'm basically telling you my
top 10 favorite discoveries last year period all fragrances here are great you know on their own
and every single fragrance here will offer you something that's definitely worth checking out
so whetstone a great aquatic fragrance that's citrus that's aromatic and it's got some unique
components that makes it a standout fragrance definitely one of my favorite uh for this for the
spring and summer it's definitely something that i reach out for a lot i wore this a lot last year i
believe it made my top one my number one fragrance in the top picks uh of my rotation for i believe
this summer time of last year and it's definitely gonna make perhaps even my spring and summer lines
uh you know top picks uh my uh rotations because i love this stuff so much so nuff said wet stone
great fine for me great discoveries i'm glad to have found this white woods collection and there's
a new one that i'll be sharing with you soon that i've been wearing now and testing which is called
himalayan wood which is also from the white woods collection so let's jump into a designer release
now we're going to do back to back underrated houses now we're going to talk about nuit say noah
arjant this is from isi miyaki now this is going to be a spicy fruity incense type of a fragrance
very unique there's frankincense here there's a ton of cardamom spices there's a beautiful fruity
note in here it's a little bit smoky but it's another one that's great for complements and it's
quite unique there's nothing in your designer counter similar to this stuff and so much so i
think this was made exclusive to the dubai middle eastern market so you're probably not going to
find this fragrance at your general store but i highly suggest you guys checking this out at your
favorite discounter of course you can find this at fragrancebuy.ca which is the partner of the max
40 channel and you're going to not only find this fragrance but you're going to find
the whole line of ici miyake fragrances which is just absolutely stunning i love the brand
not so much they're citrus aromatic fragrances i think they're nice but they're not as long-lasting
or as powerful and not as um unique but the dark collection the stuff that comes to the middle east
the european market is definitely where it's at so no argent one of my favorite discoveries
and again one that gave me a lot of confidence just smells unique very amazing ladies love this
this particular scent profile so if you haven't tried anything from isimiyaki yet this will be
a great one to get your feet wet so to speak uh noir zhen from isi miyaki now we're to go back to
the niche side of things now this particular one is also from a house that i discovered at
assan's in 2019 but really didn't dive into the brand too much but this past year 2020 i really
dove into the brand and found some incredible gems that i absolutely love this particular
one is called new york intense now you guys are probably getting tired and sick of me talking
about this one but it's an absolutely stunning fragrance what this reminds me of it's a spicier
darker version of uh you know amwash's jubilation 25 so if you like that fragrance i know you're
going to like this this is resinous it's opulent it's regal it just smells amazing there's so much
going on in this fragrance guys it's just one of those fragrances that you can't dismiss if you're
wearing this and you walk into a room people are inevitably going to ask you what are you wearing
you smell amazing fragrance dubois new york intense one of my favorite discoveries of last
year and i'm glad to dive deeper and deeper into this fragrance brand because i think it's from the
niche side of things a very underrated house now it's privately owned so they do a lot of things
the way i like to to to get things done which is without constraints with the freedom of creation
uh they can utilize ingredients that otherwise companies would probably not use too much so
guys dive into this brand if you're not familiar with it really uh pay attention to the fragrance
to what they're doing something exquisite and special when it comes to the niche side of things
guys let's jump back into the designer now another release that for years i wanted to try i always
heard about it here and there but never really pulled the trigger and i'm talking about fragrance
that i've actually received last year i was ready to pull the trigger but somebody said hey max
i'll gift this to you as your you know birthday gift i'm so glad they did i'm talking about
brioni for man now this fragrance here i believe was released in 2015. like i said for many years
i've been wanting to pull the trigger but never actually did this is an exquisite fragrance guys
absolutely fantastic smells amazing very unique very intriguing there's definitely this fruity
spicy smoky facet to this fragrance there's a gorgeous note of cedar wood here if you love
cedar this is going to be a masterpiece when it comes to cedar you know base sense it's cedar it's
spices it's woody almost has like this leathery undertone absolutely fantastic complement inducing
ladies will love the way you smell and it's one of those boss ceo type sense it doesn't come cheap
guys but it's one that i would highly recommend you guys checking out if you haven't checked out
anything that's really intriguing or unique over the past few years when it comes to designer
brands i think brionne did a great job with this one and i believe there's another one from this
one here which is a par fun edition which is a darker bottle that i haven't had the pleasure to
try but i'd love to try if i could get my hand on it's also one that i hear some good things about
now brianna i think because it's you know highly priced and you can't really find it at discounters
i think it's the reason why people don't really talk much about them and they're not known to
make fragrance i think they only have like two or three fragrances in their portfolio but briony for
man is definitely one of my favorite discoveries of last year that i'm glad to share with you today
jumping back to the niche side of things now this is a fragrance house that's very underrated hardly
any talks here it got a little momentum last year around spring and summer time and i'm glad to have
this one in my collection they're a brand that are based in sweden so european brand and the name of
the brand is called swedaft and the fragrance i'm going to share with you today is called rasputin
or rasputin now this particular fragrance is going to be very very fruity very aromatic
and a little bit spicy but it has this almost eucalyptus minty type of a vibe to it with honey
that it just makes it so special to me because i love eucalyptus and i love honey in my fragrances
and i think it was done to perfection here guys and another thing about this fragrance too is i i
kept it hush and i didn't really talk much about this fragrance last year
but i have to tell you not only was it my one of my favorite discoveries of last year
but the little that i wore this fragrance which wasn't that many times i think i wore this about
six or seven times but every single time i wore this fragrance especially in the first hour or two
i've always gotten positive remarks people said wow you smell really good today
what is it you have on today so it is one of those fragrances that are going to captivate and get
you positive notices so it is one that perhaps i will be wearing a lot this year it might even make
my top spring which is coming up soon uh niche fragrances to wear because i'm really digging this
one so responding one of my favorite discoveries from last year some of the notes here include ood
pineapple tonka beans cinnamon cloves white musk and of course i get the little wild honey slash
eucalyptus five in this fragrance as well amazing discovery from last year one that i'm glad to
share with you guys and you should definitely consider checking out if you're looking for
something unique off the beaten bath now the last one here from the designers side is one that was
released in 2017 and it is criminally underrated and i think i've only seen a handful of people
talk about this fragrance granted it is hard to find and i think it has been discontinued too so
that may contribute to the fact that it is not really talked about but i highly recommend you
guys trying this fragrance we're trying to get at least a decant because it is nothing short of
spectacular and i'm talking about botega veneta pour om parfum now this is a 2017 release as i
said it's a gorgeous dark leather think of a black leather which contains all this spices saffron
floral undertones this is just incredible guys it's perfect it would make a lot of my top
you know cold weather videos this year it just didn't make it because again it is hard to find
i think it has been discontinued hence the fact that i discovered this early last year but
really didn't make my top videos because i didn't want to share something so amazing with you
guys and you guys not be able to try probably hate me right now for saying how amazing this
is uh but this is an incredible dark leather fragrance guys if you can get a hold of this
and it's still available in your neck of the woods i would say pull the trigger and by the way if you
can get a bottle of this please do get in touch with me because i'd love to get a backup bottle
but take a vanity poor ombar fum definitely my favorite discover of designers last year
my favorite um fragrance for the designer realm of things that i have the ability and the opportunity
to try definitely try let me know in the comments what do you think i think i think this whole
potega veneta por hom collection is actually pretty good i own all of them uh maybe i'll share
it with you in a good bet ugly underrated from this house because i think the poor almost very
underrated and i think it's it's a collection that is really more deserving of your attention the
last fragrance i'm going to share with you today is without a shadow without my favorite discovery
niche fragrance from 2020 guys this is a fragrance house that i'm so glad to have discovered i'm
very happy to share with you they were actually at scent explorer 2020 the best way i like to
describe this company is if you took and matched two italian houses if you took musk milano which
has great creativeness and tremendous quality of ingredient ingredients and you mashed it with
nassomato which is like one of the most bold dairy and powerful fragrances when it comes
to niche fragrances you put them together you get this tremendous italian niche house which is from
pompeii and the house we're talking about is agato parfums and the fragrance here is called castia
monty guess the best way to describe this this is like a leathery saffron type of a fragrance which
contains incense spices jasmine there's a floral aspect here and a gorgeous ambery woody dry down
just amazing one word to describe this heavenly check out this brand i think it's definitely
very underrated we haven't really heard much about this brand but that's going to change i think over
the next couple of years i go to performance will really make a great impression here in
the fragrance community because they are quality they're very unique and they're ahead of the game
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