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andrew900 – :
An absolute masterpiece of bold perfumery from Bernard Chant. This wasn’t some gooey cheap bubblegum sweet scent or acrid wood/spice/fresh nonsense. Green,floral, animalic resinous yet floral.
Belya – :
Hmmmmm! Not sure about Devin at all. Love the house of Aramis but this one bothers me. Bought 100 ml EDC thinking I would probably like it. First spray was awful: animalic, harsh and frankly nauseating. Re-boxed it and walked away. Later that same day tried Halston Z14 and immediately drew comparison, but with the Z14 not invoking the same wave of disgust (wet cardboard rarely does).
So, here we are a week later and I am braving Devin for the second time. First, a misting into the air yields strong, bitter citrus reminiscent of burnt orange as in caramelised marmalade. Not hugely offensive but not particularly inviting. Next some muted florals such are indistinct to my nose. Then a wave of stale lemon and geranium which quickly gives way to wet leather, some rather synthetic amber and oakmoss.
Now a reasonable application to the skin. Again the bitter citrus with some subliminal lavender equally scalded. Geranium next but a slightly off geranium, almost as though it had passed it’s best and had been consigned to the compost bin. Beneath a slightly cloying marzipan note. Nothing fresh at all: no clean lemon, no pine, no particular pleasure. Back to that amber which is a much less wholesome version of Ambre EDP by Molinard (I will come back to this). Finally, rotting straw and wet leather completed an oakmoss dry down.
So, why the mention of Ambre by Molinard? Well, by layering Devin and Ambre a more acceptable scent is created. The Molinard smooths out the slightly off notes of the Aramis product and provides it with a very needed lift. I hadn’t intended the combination but it is likely to be the only way for me to wear Devin.
sevuk – :
Smells like… countryside?
Dirty old leather, horse poo, wild herbs, sweat… Throw in some cigarette smoke, and you’ll be able to smell the picture from Marlboro ads from the 80’s.
I’m keeping a bottle only because I hope to have the whole Aramis Gentleman’s Collection one day.
JoseAugusto – :
I like wearing some men’s scents on occasion, and this is one I like to wear at the cottage. We have pine trees all around, and from September onward, it just feels right on me. Clean, green.
I see nothing dated about this. Any man who wears this will have the advantage of not smelling like every other pumped out oud or sugar bomb.
patrol – :
The more you wear Devin, the more you come to understand and appreciate its “Country Cologne” designation in the context of 1970s sensibilities. Oh, it’s country alright; but not the fresh green foliage, blue skies sort of country. Nope, Devin is dirty country. This is horse stables, pine needles, and dirt roads. More in the direction of Quorum and Yatagan than Green Irish Tweed. More daytime than evening. In the right mood, at the time, Devin is a magnificent rural masculine! Alongside Aramis and 900, we have yet another Masterpiece from Perfumer Bernard Chant.
tigran_vv – :
This is a most enjoyable “old school “ fragrance. No, no, no, nothing at all like Yatagan as some have suggested. Yes, both are in the leather type category, while Devin has a distinct leathery aroma it is also sweet with a lovely orange top note and lots soothing and smooth but not menthol pine. Yatagan is leather alright, smelly, dirty leather like the filthy saddle that had been sat upon by some unwashed Saracen horseman for a number of years. These are two very different leather fragrances. Now back to Devin. Devin is to my nose very similar to a favorite discontinued fragrance of the 60s and 70s, Prince Obolenski Russian Leather. There are a number of others Russian Leathers that came out, also notable is the Del Oro version which is similar to the P.O. Russian Leather. Barber shop sweet, vibrant orange , smooth pine and most of all a sumptuous leather supported by some florals and aldehydes. This is definitely one for mature guys who still carry the vigor and confidence of their youthful heyday. While this is mainly a more casual fragrance it could be worn with a suit to a more formal affair if you’re a sharp enough dresser. The projection is very good so if you wear Devin it will be surely noticed (silage is a plus however longevity isn’t phenomenal, expect 6 hours or so. The Prince Obolenski RL lasts a full day plus!)
After shaving use some Aqua Velva aftershave and then spray on Devin. It’s like the fountain of youth.
alex5773 – :
Good Heavens,
This stuff stinks!
There are no castoreum, ambergris,or civet notes mentioned in the pyramid, so what else could give my bottle this nasty, animalic reek?
The musk note is voted rather low.
I do not get any pine.
There is a similar note in Yatagan, but it is more like cat urine, and it is milder.
bufalo7777 – :
To my nose, the current formulation of Aramis Devin smells almost exactly like the current formulation of Aliage by Estee Lauder, which I love.
The opening of Devin has more bitter citrus than Aliage and as it dries down, it has more pine, but they are very much related to each other. The advantage of wearing Devin over Aliage is that it lasts longer. Devin is a little more complex and masculine, I guess. They are super similar to each other though.
Devin is spicy and woodsy, yet fresh without being soap-like. The bottle states that it is a ‘country eau de cologne’, but think more Town & Country. There is something upscale and sophisticated about Devin, but it is still earthy and warm. I’m glad that this is still available after so many years. Love this stuff!
Bastard – :
I’ve only tested this once, a few years ago. To me it smelled like a stable: hay, horses, and horse poo. But not in a bad way! I found it actually quite interesting and nice. Might be fantastic on a hot cowboy. 😉
pabEsomoshome – :
Really lovely green scent. starts off nicely green and fresh and dries down to a great woody floral. this is old school, but not old man. the final dry down can smell a little animalic, but all around a great scent. very good sillage and longevity is good on me.
Rockbond – :
Thanx for letting me know. I didn’t try woman’s division of Lauder’s perfumes, but as I remember (Lauder for men, Knowing and obviosly Those two) have Lauder DNA which makes them smelling alike, with small differences, so I agree.
Mevnr090InsuffBooni – :
Mikkiboy. It smells like Aliage which is a woman’s fragrance. This is a green scent and very unisex
serfert – :
Since everything in terms of fashion rotates from time to time, I am just waiting for Devin to become men’s choice again. Hopefully all this short lasting, sweet smelling metrosexual crap should be destroyed once for ever. This is the real men perfume. No woman likes it, no any girl says “I like it on my boyfriend”, but we man like this !!! It’s green, like a wood that we like to timber, it’s strong like a forest river that we like to cross, and it’s inviting like wilderness that we like to explore. This is all opposite to comfort that woman like, so this one is for men 100%. It’s smell of nature, not an office one.
Some comments tend to use term “Oldfashioned”, which is true for people who forgot how the nature, or animal smells, but have seen the grass only in city park, or see some animal in the zoo, or on their lap top while smelling on some sweet designers rubbish.
I am aware that today reformulation is weaker then original one, but there is always vintage edition to be found. Absolutely great scent.
logun1969 – :
So after reading the article ” Best In Show Green Fragrances ” I saw this as an honourable mention in the choices of Miguel Matos, and today I was browsing in TJ Maxx , minding my own damn business , when BAM Devin , tackled me knocked. the Bvlgari BLV gift set out my hand pointed his finger and said, to me ….”I am cheap, you don’t have me and you have nobody like me in your fragrance wardrobe”.
(Well that’s not exactly how it happened.buuut )I wrestled with whether to take him home or Paris Hilton instead in all her sweet mangoey goodness.I took a shower and sprayed him on ,citrusy opening, then comes the coniferous. blast, strong and herbal lavender followed by an aldehydic and floral sweetness ,is there but the notes are very well blended I can’t individually name any one ,at this stage it reminds me of my grandfather’s aftershave,a leathery note steps in that gives the impression of tree bark when it marries that piney topnote, very vintage smelling I am seeing Magnum P.I moustaches and curly chest hair in my minds eye a galbanum drydown .Very good sillage from 3 sprays I must add.A great blind buy for someone who goes for aromatic fougeres and bright citruses and sometimes heady florals..
RokEcopeFrork – :
Warming and leathery, dry and spicy. I’m enjoying this as a masculine but i can rock this. I also might use it to ‘leather up’ fragrances, though it is beautiful on its own.
Just paired with SL à la nuit and it works!
Intoku – :
When released in 77, 18year olds globbed onto this one. Application is a glob onto the palm, then spread the glob around key areas of the 1970s hairy, studly dude body, (pre-steroid era). Back in the 70s kids didn’t need steroids or growth hormone to beef out, that was for a few bodybuilders such as Arnold S and Dave D, we just globbed this stuff on, coupled with our body hair and facial hair, not to mention our car, we rocked our world. Dear millennial, you would never had made it in the 70s, with just Pong, Asteroids, and Battlezone you would have been lost. Cars were our internet, the back seat was our bedroom, Devin was our friend, God bless
icferriesf1 – :
Aramis Devin was a blind buy for me in my recent interest to try out vintage juices. Now I didn’t hate it, however this is far different than what I expected, based on reviews. As a scent itself, it is not hideous. It doesn’t make me want to vomid, it is actually pleasant as a normal scent. However can’t imagine it as something for a man to put on his skin and go to the office, or to an event!. I’d say it suits more to a grandma, or to a priest!
Top: I get a crisp citrusy smell, overlayed with significant bergamot. This goes away in few minutes.
Mid: Very floral and green. Jasmin is the main smell I could pick, perhaps that’s why I didn’t find it masculine. Also some leathery, creamy, green vibe going on here. I also smell a soft orange blossom, but that could well be something else..
Base: Now that’s where it goes really bad. I must quote my girlfriend here: “This smells like inside of a church, the church candles!” And you know what, it is so true. The base is what you smell in those old churches, the moisty incense, candle-like smell. To make it worse, it is the majority of its lifecycle on your skin. This incense is not like what you get from Lalique, or Comme des Garcons. It’s very…um…Christian..religious..it’s leathery creamy incense…Not my thing.
Overall, I can use this as an aftershave, maybe at home every now and then as a cologne like my grandma used to make at home – but no way near a classy, elegant man scent I had in mind. A no brainer to try before buy, definetely NOT FOR EVERYONE.
briedsAdheste – :
This perfume is for those who have very strong natural body smell. It blends it’s animalistic note with the body odor and make the whole sillage thing mysterious and exotic. Very generic for its ingredients but after application only Devin does the magic and it grows on every user of it.
Yudj – :
A dark green cologne for men from the 70’s and though it’s as outdated as bell bottom pants and jump suits for men, it’s a breath of fresh air in our world of modern chemical messes and gourmand sweetness for men. Devin is a classic young man’s introduction to real cologne for men. If this frag were to be reproduced or rehashed today I would have no problem with aldehydes if done right like in the opening. Smells of fresh lemon aftershave, with noticeable aromatic floral touches of lavender and wormwood plus galbanum. The opening is very well done one of my favorites from Aramis and so straight out of the 70’s with it’s emphasis on green notes. Fresh and soothing like chamomile tea.
Pine needles and pine tree are redolent in this scent particularly as it enters the middle stage where it joins in pastoral scents of oak moss and cedar wood. A few spices here and there can be detected: cinnamon, a dark black cinnamon, pepper, and caraway. Something akin to tobacco. There’s patchouli which itself is herbal and smoky and adds an edge to the spices and greenery. Finally the scent dries into a clean musk and leather. Smells of animal notes but in a good way, like your own skin with a perfumed leather like gloves old fashioned 18th century riding gloves made of real horse leather. The notes of oak moss and galbanum in the formula are notes that we don’t have anymore. They were banned from fragrance by the IFRA and so a frag like this is a reminder of what we used to have and a look at what we lost. The galbanum note can be recreated chemically but it’s not as common or as prevalent as it used to be.
A fresh and dark green woodsy scent with big pine and cedar, a classic masculine scent for a guy any guy who wants to smell ‘different’ from the rest and shows not his age but his good taste and his maturity. I love colognes from this era 70’s because they remind me of my father and his friends with their traditional smoky tobacco or green woods kind of smell. I am sure I have smelled this before long ago but have always enjoyed it. It’s approchable and not intimidating. Easy to wear. The best time to wear it is autumn and winter. It’s also similar to a good green soap. Clean and uncomplicated. A drugstore cheapie it may be but it’s good stuff. The fragrance is available for purchase online from various sites including Amazon.com and eBay. Old and new editions are the same formula.
LILIAN7 – :
Was given a half a bottle of this last summer by my too-cool-for-words uncle in southern California. As well as another half bottle of RL Polo Green. Both are first-rate pine needle scents. Devin is a rather striking cross between Polo Green and Bernard Chant’s classic Aramis: pine needle plus that barber shop scent. Longevity for me was average rather than strong–the morning application seemed to wear off by noon. Sillage was probably above average.
At first I much preferred Devin to Polo Green, but after wearing it almost daily for a few months, I’m not so sure. My bride liked this, as did I, but the bottle is now gone, and I have no plans to get another. I will remember this fondly for its bracing aroma–but not quite convincing enough to make it a more regular habit.
ed_1987gr – :
This is simply a gorgeous green chypre. Maybe that is a redundancy.
Anyhow, I dissed the Aramis line for a long time but now that I have discovered, I am in love with their scents!!! They r truly fabulous!
Funny, but this perfume does not remind me of EL Alliage. It reminded me of a wet Cristalle by Chanel.
The 70’s references are abundant. This is like walking on recently rained garden of the most fragrant flowers. There is the fresh and sharp smell of wet leaves, and the beautiful smell of carnation, jasmine, who knows what else. The term country is apt to this cologne… this is the smell of nature. You are relaxing on your country estate while the rainbow flashes on the sky and the sun is bright on the recently showered garden. The smell of pine trees is breezing on the air from afar…
Smell great my friends.
bulah003 – :
This one is ok, herbal green with animalistic notes, I could smell something like civet although its not mentioned in the notes breakdown.
longevity and sillage are below average
Pass
Update: I tried it again to see if I would change my mind, I had to scrub it after an hour
Criontoxob – :
Take the best of Aramis and add huge dosage of sweet flowers in it. Huge means Huge. That is Aramis Devin.
I love Aramis original. I love floral notes. But this one somehow isn’t for me.
Should test out before buying. Longetivity & projection is also much lower compared to Aramis. Think I should have gone for 900 instead of this one.
Spasateli – :
old school herbal fougere reminiscent of Krizia Uomo, green and woody, slightly animal in the background… moderate sillage and not so long duration, it’s a cologne grade juice after all…
basem – :
Beautiful and 70s charm. It is warm and subtle. people call it harsh and strong, but i really did not find any thing like that. This is not harsh not even in opening. It actually portraits the same picture as shown above.
overall i really like it. But longevity is really not good. it fades so quickly and that is pity.
Lecha – :
This is pretty strong especially the animalic leather note in here. Smells pretty much Alive and kicks you in the face with that harsh smell. Can be a little offensive but the florals take some time to come out as they are initially overpowered by that living breathing and kicking leather
isacha – :
wow! i smelled the aramis original right away and now i know that it is (artemesia).i would have dropped azzaro pour homme for this. this is superb! like layering aramis with azzaro pour homme.oh here comes leather now.
jsw440speagoessenda – :
The bottle I have is a current version and I got it in a trade.
Even though I hate using the term, the fragrance is decidedly “old school”. It has strong and very distinctive leather and carnation notes and that’s pretty much all I get out of it. It’s quite interesting to me, due to the fact that I normally have difficulty picking out leather or a specific floral note in fragrances but in this case, there’s no trouble at all. If someone were to take a new leather belt from a leather goods store, pile carnations on top of it and then ask me to smell it, Devin is what I’d smell.
On the plus side, as the fragrance dries down, the leather and carnation notes do start to blend together more and become less distinctive on their own. After about an hour or so, the leather starts to fade away more, while the carnation steps forward and it ends up becoming more of a floral scent.
While I hate to label a fragrance as decidedly masculine or feminine, I’d say this is very much leaning toward a masculine audience.
Additionally, although the fragrance would likely have more appeal to men in their late 30s and up, I see no reason why a confident, younger man in his 20s couldn’t pull this off – quite nicely, in fact. It would be different and I doubt anyone else in that age group would be able to pick it out.
Projection and longevity are excellent.
LaphElatPleap – :
scent : 6/10
sillage : 9/10
longevity :8/10
100% night fragrance
old-school fragrance
panin 1987 – :
Fragrance Review For Devin By Aramis
Top Notes
Aldehydes Orange Artemisia Lavender Galbanum Bergamot Lemon
Middle Notes
Carnation Cinnamon Jasmine Caraway Pine Tree Needles
Base Notes
Labdanum Leather Amber Patchouli Musk Oak Moss Cedar
If I had a son and who was turning 18 and about to go off to University, this would be the perfect gift. In fact I bought it just for that future date. Even the name Devin brings to mind a good looking well dressed preppy guy; plays tennis, baseball and rugby. Devin is athletic but not a jock; intellectual, academic, but not a nerd. He has dark brown hair, blue eyes, a lean athletic sturdy build, a sweet face, and his whole life ahead of him. This fragrance would be a suitable introduction to men’s colognes for a young man.
At the first spritz of Devin, I sensed the smell of citrus which is rather typical but pleasant. There’s a bergamot orange at the beginning and the fresh coolness is also assisted by aldehydes. Now when we think of aldehydes in fragrance openings we think of women’s perfumes, i.e. Chanel No. 5 No. 22 Arpege, but these are not powdery aldehydes more like cool fresh sparkling youthful aldehydes. For me this gave it a slight unisex quality and I could easily call this a unisex but it is still very much a man’s cologne. The opening is not feminine, just fresh and youthful.
When the heart notes begin to appear, there’s an aromatic lavender scent, pure lavender which wafts into the air early in the performance of Devin. Then there’s a spice scent of Artemisia caraway and cinnamon. There’s some flowery smells here and there, namely a carnation, which is more like the green leaves and shrubs around carnation flowers. There’s also a dark jasmine. With the caraway, and Artemisia/cinnamon combination plus the carnation, there’s a resemblance to Havana also by Aramis but I would say that whereas Havana stays soft and lightly spicy, Devin progresses into a much darker, woodsier scent.
As it develops it leaves behind the light touch of citrus, flowers and spices, and then it feels like Devin is growing up before our eyes and becoming a man. He’s graduated from college and we’re fast-forwarding to when he’s in his 30’s. He’s now smelling of pine tree, oak moss, patchouli. It’s a bit on the cabin in the forest type of scent. It smells like Devin has left behind the city and the college life, and has a little lake house made of woods. There’s a manly leather and musk which is very indicative of a “mature man”. Once that musk came in, plus all the woods, I knew that this fragrance could not be called unisex. It’s like following the life of a young man who grows up and gets his life together.
The patchouli in the depth of the base of the fragrance is what keeps the entire thing together. It smells green, herbal, woodsy. The amber is not the amber I have experienced countless times in women’s perfume but rather the resinous and darker smokier part of amber. For me the opening is young, citrusy, fresh, cheeky, spicy, but the ending is more relaxed, leisurely, calm and woodsy. It feels like Devin lived his life and retired in the woods.
Such a beautiful fragrance.
I would have worn this myself but the pine needle-patchouli-too much oak moss thing gave it such a masculinity as to make me want to smell it on other men, or as I had previously mentioned, on a future son. This is a great Aramis scent. It’s not too far from smelling like a variation on the first Aramis, and it’s also smelling a bit like Havana. I would say that it smells like a combination of all of them. I highly recommend this scent to young men who want to wear something more “grown up” sophisticated and makes the statement that you are mature, confident, intelligent and ambitious. Great to wear to job interviews and on the job/office, a scent of success and for those seeking success.
Check out my reviews for other Aramis scents. These are inexpensive fragrances but in no way are they cheap or bad. They are by far the most fantastic cheapies in the market today. If you’re a guy or girl that enjoys fragrances that are affordable but have complexity and allure/sophistication, Aramis is for you.
Goporronoteli – :
Devin is unlike anything I’ve tried before. It is paradoxically both calming and unsettling; familiar yet alien. It is utterly unique.
Bernard Chant was no stranger to classic men’s chypres by the time he created Devin. His first scent for Aramis, the eponymous Aramis, was a masterpiece of the leathery chypre genre – bold and spicy, yet warm and inviting. He followed that up with Aramis 900, a so-called ‘herbal scent’ that was really all about the rose and civet accord atop a classic, mossy chypre base.
Released four years later, Devin stretched the chypre concept even further. Yes, it has a standard citrus-chypre heart, courtesy of subtle orange bolstered by lemon and lime. And yes, there is a healthy dose of moss in the base. But it is the green, aromatic top notes that set Devin apart.
Devin opens with a huge blast of aldehydes – most commonly paired with floral notes, but here used to lend sparkle to a fresh, herbal accord of bitter galbanum and artemisia. As the aledhydes settle, Devin becomes soft and soapy – the heart is still very green, but less confronting. The piney, musky dry down sits close to the skin, but smells phenomenal.
Overall, Devin is well executed and really does stand apart – but it ultimately lacks the easy class of Aramis or the bold funk of 900. I’ll happily continue to wear it, but it is by no means among Chant’s best works, or an essential buy. If you’re a fan of Chant and classic Aramis scents, however, it is well worth a try.
aleksandrponomari – :
I’m just gonna say it: This is one weirdo fragrance! A piney male chypre that does a fougere fake-out at the top and slides into a whirlwind of crisp, tart greenery and aldehydes with the piney-ness always there. The dry-down has a musky costus feel similar to Balmain’s Ivoire (that’s my reference point, anyway). I like this! The Aramis fragrances I’ve tried have all been distinctly strange (although New West is the most wearable of the lot) and delightful. I didn’t expect this from what is considered probably the most mainstream American perfumer.
[update] I recently received a vintage bottle of Devin and didn’t like it. I’ll try it again, but I found the reformulation to be nicer, crisper…The vintage turns into a waxy, animalic thing that some people may find pleasing.
merstenfertersak – :
Excellent naturak and refine smell,
Nobody hate it.
But god it’s too weak!
Copiously sprayed on me and an hour later :
Unnoticed.
Wish it was just a bit more strong, amazing smell.
MAOS102 – :
Clever balance between green notes (with plenty of oakmoss and pine needles) and a warm, comfortable mix of cinnamon, carnation and galbanum that goes on forever. This tremendously satisfying blend always makes me smile.
Who said that it ain’t possible nowadays to find a deep, complex, authentic oakmoss chypre fragrance that even costs little?
Full marks to Estee Lauder for preserving this high end classic!
accord525 – :
من أروع وأفخم العطور على الاطلاق
لا يمكنني الاستغناء عن هذا العطر فأنا أستعمله منذ اوائل الثمانينات
بصراحة عطر خالد
yaroslavfox – :
This is another way to do reformulation correctly. I cannot choose between vintage and reformulation. They’re both great! At its heart is a piney citrus and green accord which manifests as powdery in the vintage and aldehydic in the reformulation, while still remaining distinctly and unmistakably Devin. I always imagined that reducing oakmoss and iso-E would be, well, reductive. But, no…not this time: it is actually enhancing, sending an old classic into a new direction.
Great job, Lauder Inc! You are now my favourite perfume house! LOL!
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Just FYI: The only other scent (that I know of) with this powder-to-aldehyde reformulation is Lagerfeld Classic. However, Coty Inc wasn’t able to pull it off and failed miserably.
Artur_555 – :
Having worked for Aramis in the past & worn Devin for many years,I was wary of repacing my treasured original with the recent reformulation.However having tried it,the new version is just as good but with a slight loss in longevity.
As Devin is so unique it’s hard to find a comparison (apart from Alliage),however Cover Drive by Twenty20, which is avaiable on eBay,has the same green grassines & deep chypre notes but with a slightly softer woody/leather dry down & it’s longer lasting.
If you can seek out the original formula of Aramis Devin on eBay or similar it’s well worth buying.
rubka – :
Woody Earthy Chypre
Aramis Devin–straight out I like this very much! It is winter now and it works great on my skin in cold temperatures. It is very comforting and even cuddly to my nose, but I live for woody perfumes. Also, I am a woman, but tend to gravitate to woody, chypre, unsweetened perfumes.
So what is going on in Devin? First, it does open up with a lot of pine, with maybe a hint of citruses & bergamot around the edges, the way that fresh pine needles can have an orangey citrus undertone to them. The pine is strongest in the topnotes, and then it does a slow fade throughout the wear of the perfume. I think the galbanum takes up where the pine leaves off. The leather is also there, and I have to warn everyone, the leather is kind of sweaty. Yes, there is a sweat note in Devin. Very clean sweat, not skanky in the least, but the sweat note is evident for at least an hour.
The heart is my favorite part. Devin is really spicy, but earthy spicy, not kitchen spicy. It reminds me somewhat of a transition zone, where the desert meets the mountains. I can smell a dry sage/herbal note, along with cinnamon and nutmeg, and fresh soil, mossy & woody, the caraway and artemesia working together, all sun warmed and alpine, these are not dank northern forests, but captures the way I imagine New Mexico would smell, a hint of conifers in the air. I really can’t smell any carnation, but there is a strong floral note, jasmine, it’s more sweet and less white/indolic. At this point the floral notes are stronger than the green/pine notes, and the dry leather note is still hanging on in the background.
As it dries Devin becomes more and more woody, the floral notes fall away, and the leather comes out again (but not the sweat lol.) There is a LOT of oakmoss, vetiver and cedar in here. If you love oakmoss take note, I bought my bottle last year, it is made in the UK, and Evernia Prunastri is listed halfway down the ingredients list! Yay! Devin is still a REAL CHYPRE. Really I don’t smell that much patchouli in here, the drydown doesn’t disintegrate into laundry musk, it’s a real wood drydown.
Devin has moderate silage with 3 or 4 sprays, and lasts 6+ hours on me.
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Review is over, but here are the rest of my thoughts. Again fragrance has no gender, I do get that this is a perfectly masculine perfume, but I think that if you are a woman who likes older style fragrances, woody perfumes, and Aromatics Elixir, you should try this. If you’re an oakmoss huffer like myself you should also try it–100 mls can be had for $30 or less. If you’re a man and want a woody perfume, instead of an ozonic/calonic type thing check this out, there are no aquatic notes in here at all.
Devin DOES smell like Aliage, but it smells like the reformulated Aliage, not the original kind. It is primarily woody and then green (old Aliage is primarily green and then woody.) So–who orchestrated the reformulated Aliage? Bernard Chant is sometimes credited with creating Aliage, sometimes not, but I believe that it was reformulated after he died. So where does this all fit in? I also have no idea what Devin originally smelled like, so it’s weird that both perfumes have been formulated to smell alike. But then again they are both owned by Estee Lauder so maybe that’s the explanation. Perfume mysteries…
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= chevignon for men…period…my wife hates it, my father hates it, my mom hates it, my Son hates it and my daughter hates it…for real
same cloying aspect (herbal jasmin ?)which i simply hate in a perfume…some folks will like it…i’m not one of them…a 100% try before you buy…for me… one of the ugliest things i’ve ever smelled…
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This is one of those scents that you have to try a couple times to appreciate what’s going on.
I have to admit to being a fan of Aramis colognes in general, I have five fragrances from this house and find them all very different from each other, in a world where flankers are all over the place it’s great to see a brand that diversifies its scents.
“Devin” is very different to others I have tried in that it is a calming outdoor scent, if that makes any sense.
The first blast is quite sharp and you might be inclined to think that you would not like it initially, after a few minutes the ingredients settle with each other and form a wonderfully fresh scent, as the name implies, similar to a fresh country smell on a mild day (perhaps after some rain).
I live in Ireland and grew up in a semi-rural area, I currently live in a city center and like to put this o