You guys love a good new release don't you? I know you do! I have seven brand new fragrances
here that i haven't tried and perhaps one of them or a few of them will be amazing
so stick around let's do a first impression as we do here in july's second hall let's go
Welcome back to another video max here i've got seven brand new fragrances to share with you we've
got Issey Miyake, Guerlain, Hermes... let's get into it. Let me know in the comments below what has been your
favorite 2022 release so far and what fragrances you've heard about that are coming out that you
guys are really getting excited for? comment below. Just so you guys know i prep these fragrances
ahead of time before i shoot the video so i don't waste time in film so these have been unwrapped
and i have a tester strip here ready to go just to make this video a little more concise and faster.
Let's go. So we're going to kick things off with a new one from GUERLAIN this is
HABIT ROUGE L'INSTINCT, what i understand from what i've heard through the grapevine is this fragrance is going
to pay homage to the 1965 original Habit Rouge but it's going to add some different nuances to
the fragrance let's see what those nuances are. The bottle now has been standardized or they
have this template of a square looking bottle and that's going to be the template of all releases
for fragrances unless it's part of the La Matiere Collection or part of
a private blend so to speak but the main line of Guerlain fragrances will always be with these square
looking bottles and from what i understand they have been reformulated as well which is
never a good thing. Now, L'Instinct does have a little bit of the old Guerlain in it but
very little guys it's just way in the back you don't have that powdery "Guerlainaid" vanilla
vibe that you get with the original, this is a lot more modern it's a lot more sparkly a lot
of citruses is up top here there is a green tinge here perhaps a vetiver note some herbal
nuances it's a good smelling fragrance but i can't help to tell you guys this is one of
those been there done that it's not going to be anything unique or groundbreaking or trendsetter
it's going to take your breath away i'm gonna give this a six and a half out of ten it's a
little bit of a boring release sadly i was really hopeful for this release right here. One
more time as a quick disclaimer i'm not rating the fragrance overall, this is not an end all be
all kind of a rating this is just my exact initial thoughts on the tester strip and first impression
standpoint that's all. Next up we have FERRAGAMO and i love Ferragamo i think Ferragamo just like
Issey Miyake, Cartier, always puts out quality for really good pricing this is one that i was very
very excited and i can't wait to share my thoughts with you this is FERRAGAMO BRIGHT LEATHER when
you talk about leather tobacco boozy accords in a fragrance you get me at hello and i get really
excited for the fragrance so i am very excited for this one this is the big boy
beautiful bottle it's got this brown beige tonality to it let's see what this one here
is all about, the sprayers are great you can actually control depending on how hard you push
and this is a very nice bright leather as the name would have it's going to have this really nice
sparkly fizzy grapefruit up top it's definitely fruity and the leather starts to come through but
it's in a very easy to wear kind of a leather it's not going to be rough and tumble rough
dark leather it's like the name implies a bright sophisticated elegant and smooth kind of a leather
i like this one from a first impression standpoint i'm giving this one a a 7.5 out of 10 it's really
good it has potential. And again speaking of brands that give us quality Issey Miyake is one of those
brands which i always love to share with you my thoughts on this brand this is NUIT D'ISSEY BOIS ARCTIC
which is going to be from the name it's implying to an arctic woods kind of a fragrance which i'm
thinking it's going to be sparkly maybe a mint note i don't know the bottle looks great i love
the green teal kind of a look from darker to lighter I am very excited about this one and i have
to be honest though i haven't heard much about this one or the little bit that i've heard people
weren't very impressed so let's see what we get out of this one. So it opens up really nice but
it doesn't have anything too unique about it and again when you look at the note breakdown you have
some citruses up top but most importantly you don't have ambroxan here mentioned
as a note you definitely get a little bit of an ambroxan vibe here but you definitely get a ton
of vanilla and tonka in the base of this fragrance and i think it's going to really come through as
it warms up with your body chemistry and to be honest with you it's a little bit like Versace
Eros to my taste so it's like they're trying to steal from that particular genre and
scent profile so i'm going to give this a 6.5 out of 10 it's a little bit of redundant
kind of release more of the same it doesn't smell bad but if you already have those fragrances
this is going to be just a redundant release. Sadly guys because i do love Issey miyake and i was very
hopeful for this one and like i said over the past maybe year or two they haven't really given us
some home runs as they did from like 2016 to about 2020. they had some really good releases out there
which i've shared with you guys over the last few years but this one here is not one of them.
Next up we have Tommy Hilfiger this one here is called TOMMY SUMMER OCEAN WAVES
so I'm not very hopeful to this one perhaps it's going to be one of those chippies and goodies
yet to be seen let's see what we get out of this one if it's going to be more of the same from
the juice from the bottle looks like it's going to be one of those casual easy to grab summer
scents that come and go, let's see what we get here, the sprayers are okay
but again Tommy's another brand that hasn't really put something out that's been great for a while
okay this one is okay it's gonna be in the same vein as your Nautica Blue or Nautica
Voyage it's your typical blue aquatic scent easy to wear clean crisp uplifting, it smells good but it's
another redundant release if you already have those blue aquatic summer scents you don't need
this, for sake of the scent being a good scent smelling good i'm gonna give this a 6.5
out of ten usually when i give it six or below it's really don't even bother six and a half if
you 10, if you don't have these type of scents you can pick it up for a good price but it's nothing great. Next
up we have a fragrance from HERMES i do love Hermes i do love this collection which is their
Eau de Cologne collection which is like a rainbow i love the color of the bottles they have an
array of different fragrances within this fragrance line and what they do is they
capture a certain note and they combine it with the color in this case it's called EAU DE BASILIC POURPRE
which is from french to english would translate to "water of purple basil" so again the bottle
should have been purple but it's actually a green bottle and this is the big boy the 200ML I do
love their bottles the colors are amazing i'm going to pop on screen here so you guys can
see all the different older colognes like i said they all capture different colors along with a
note this one here the basil which i love herbal fragrances but the citrus cologne genre is really
what these fragrances capture and that's exactly what you get here
it's fizzy it's sparkly it's almost like a soda pop think of like a 7up or a sprite opens
up very bright very effervescent with that citrus combination of grapefruit lemon limes
but then i think the basil will start to come through as the fragrance warms up but it's one
of those that you don't have to think too much you want to smell great on summer time especially spring
and summer when it's warm out this is one of those and i love it so much that i'm going to actually
wear this as my scent of the day guys and it is one of those very captivating scents i
think Christine Nagel is doing a great job with this collection and this one here right now
it's going to get an 8 out of 10 just from a first impression but it's got amazing potential to being
one of the best releases of the year for me so far. Next up a brand new from MANCERA, Mancera's
been busy this year as they always are but most likely, myself included here, Montale
actually has more releases per year and for those fragrances that Montale puts out for the most part
i'm not really a big fan because i think they're a little bit too pungent a little bit too over
the top but Mancera i think the quality the blending and i think they're a little bit more
sophisticated easier to wear this one here from the looks of it it's called MELODY OF THE SUN
I'm thinking it's going to have maybe tuberose because it's very in right now this particular note and
it's going to be something great for the time of the year right now maybe a little bit fruity
maybe a tiny bit of spice here let's see what we get out of Melody of the Sun from Mancera,
and Mancera always has great quality guys from the bottles to the boxes i do love this
little pouch that they give you so it's really cool i remember when i first tried this brand
i think it was back in 2010 or 2011 i was really blown away by the quality and the presentation
it's no different now, just a little food for thought: they have since changed now they are
magnetic caps before it used to be one of those screw down caps and this was also screw off
so it was easier for you guys to decant it, it's no longer that kind of a presentation, the sprayers
are always great with Mancera, so Melody of the Sun is definitely fruity definitely floral
but not as strong as i anticipated i do get some notes here that are very fresh in citrus maybe
some bergamot maybe some iris here in the base it is getting creamier and it's reminding me a little
bit of b612 from Nishane so if you like that fragrance i think you're going to like this one
i do enjoy Nishane interpretation a little better but it does have a really nice
almost a Molecule 01 kind of a vibe that meets B612 it's got potential from a first impression i'm
gonna give this one a 7 out of 10 it smells good but not great but i got to tell you guys i
think the most predominant notes here are going to be this green tea kind of a vibe
that's coming through there's a green tea note here there's a mate brazilian mate note white musk
but it's one of those fragrances it's not going to be very strong you're going to really have
to pump hard here to get kind of, but it's going to be one of those that perhaps
going to get you not smelling yourself but people around you will definitely smell you
that's what i'm thinking here from the first impression which is the same with B612 with
Molecule 01 that's the kind of vibe i get when i wear those fragrances but i do get
questions what are you wearing you smell so good i think this is going to be one of those
fragrances that you yourself can't smell too much but people around you will love the way you smell
and last but not least from ACQUA DI PARMA we have ZAFERANO which is really a saffron
fragrance i'm very excited about this because saffron it always gives you that leathery kind
of a vibe and by the way guys this is a Harrods Exclusive from Acqua di Parma I love the bottle
black is one of my favorite colors along with the gold here just looks stunning a beautiful cap
you got the H here from Harrods which is again supposed to be a saffron-based scent which
is going to be perhaps leathery spicy looks like it would have oud from the color of the bottle
but i don't know if it's going to have oud or not let's check it out , the sprayers are nice
i do get a rose oud leather saffron combination here it is rather tamed it's not going to be a
screamer of a fragrance but it does smell good if you don't have leather fragrances
that are a little bit harsh with the oud and saffron rose combination this
is perhaps something to check out i wouldn't go blowing down the doors to pick this up if you
have a well-seasoned nose if you're familiar with oud and rose combination fragrances
this is going to have that same kind of vibe along with that saffron leathery under tone, it's
nice smelling but again it's been there done that so for that i'm gonna give this a 6.5
out of 10 and perhaps the price here is also not going to be in its favor and i don't think
performance is going to be good i think it's going to be rather linear and sitting closer to
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be the highlight haul of the video, in this particular highlight haul my favorite is going to be this one
right here EAU DE BASILIC POURPRE from the house of HERMES i'm loving this fragrance
it's on me right now it's really giving me a nice scent bubble it's not going to be a very
strong projecting or performing fragrance because it's an eau de cologne concentration but that's okay
you can always go crazy over spray it's going to be great smelling it's not going to be offensive
trust me one of the best releases of the year so far it does something here very magical with the
basil the citrus the fruity notes i'm loving this. As always leave your comments
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