Description
A new addition to The Contemporary Collection, Pirates’ Grande Reserve comes out in 2017. Its enticing rum-and-chocolate signature is the very essence of expedition and discovery, vibrant with the thrill – and danger – of the high seas.
“Pirates’ Grand Reserve is a rich, adventurous brew of brigands and buccaneers. Chocolate and gloriously aged rum pay delicious homage to English gentlemanpirate Sir Francis Drake, who sailed around the world under Queen Elizabeth I’s flag. As daring and romantic as the legendary explorer, Pirates’ Grand Reserve puts a dangerously intoxicating spin on a perfumery favourite: rum. Full-bodied, fullblooded and, full speed ahead, Pirates’ is a fragrance to walk the plank for.”
Top notes: rum, cacao, vanilla, heliotrope, jasmine
Heart: Virginia cedar, geranium, clary sage, broom, cardamom
Base: patchouli, helvetolide, cashmerean, moss
Available as a 100 ml EDP.
Драго – :
I waited an entire year to try this out because I couldn’t find a sample. Finally I buy a decant and this is my second try/different day with this and I am utterly disappointed.
The notes are so discordant to me. I get none of the beauty that the notes should have provided. If this is the Pirate’s Grand Reserve, they probably should have sunk the ship instead.
Oh, and I have Nosy Be Patchouli, and I love it and it’s listed here “as like” but I cannot find any similarities here with this.
Vidocq1977 – :
One of a kind Amazing classy fragrance.
Opens with strong, authentic and deep whiskey accord backed by chocolaty musky floral notes.
Very unique, mysterious and luxurious.
Two sprays and you wont smell like anyone else.
vladislavmatasov – :
Agree with Zizonia’s assessment 100%
uoker – :
The recipe for Pirates’ Grand Reserve Atkinsons
Ingredients:
1.Bvlgari Black (or Bvlgari Eau Parfumee au The Noir)
2.Noir Exquis L’Artisan (or Bois Dore Van Cleef and Arpels, or By the Fireplace Replica, or Santal Majuscule SL etc.)
Stir well before spraying.
Quite familiar and nice.
Secure – :
This is soooo nice! Well, more than nice actually. I love it.
Playful, lightly dirty rum fragrance. It just works so well and it is not that sweet on me. Like Q80 I get a lot of heliotrope with its almondy-like smell. Then it sits on a vanillic/caramel-like, patchouli, woody bed. The nicest part for me is that it never becomes too gourmand. It keeps a little booziness in the dry down almost like a fine spirit caramel liquor or a buttered rum. In fact, it is what I expected Kilian’s Phantom to smell like. But Phantom ended up being way too sweet & chocolaty for me.
Despite the rum, woods, patchouli & sweets Pirates GR has a certain clarity. It is never overwhelming. I don’t feel like I am wearing something thick or too dense. It also reminded me a little of the boozy aspect of Byredo’s Seven Veils, but Pirates GR is much more playful & easy to wear.
In a few words… a playful, lightly dirty, naughty rum fragrance with a caramel twist! Do have a try!
cardiodoc – :
Atkinsons Pirates’ Grand Reserve starts like a pirate attack, a shock for the senses, a messy chaos of boozy and chocolatey rum and shots of spicy-dirty notes everywhere around. Daring, unexpected and quite masculine.
Unfortunately this stage dissipates very soon giving way to an increasingly-extreme powdery drydown. This is calming yes, not cloyingly sweet but, I repeat: extremely powdery rum.
More than a tireless battle-hardened buccaneer this is a groomy pirate that does not plan to leave his bed in the master cabin under the bow while the battle rages right there in the outside.
ivangol – :
Nauseating, maybe the name is meant to imply that the wearer will feel seasick when they wear this. I get mainly cashmeran and heliotrope.
spartak73reg – :
Where can I buy it online?
Please, contact me if anyone of you is going to sell it for the fair price. I can pay immediately by pay pal, so that you could ship on my US address
metzvsfbnhh – :
BAM! Vanilla, rum, chocolate all stashed in a dead man’s chest. This is no gentleman pirate! Smacks you like that boozed up bloodhound Lord Flashheart. Oo-ar? Oo-er. Bloody gorgeous.
Danehaxrqopgu – :
This is very sweet but very good. And for some reason does not get cloying. But you need to like sweet. A very interesting fragrance at first it was a love, and then it was too feminine, and then it settled down and was a great scent and yet all I wanted to do was drink it. I’m still confused by this one but I’ve decided to click love. Hmmm. Maybe I do love it. At first I thought I did.
mratlett – :
There is something wrong happening in here! the dominant isn’t chocolate! the dominanat is the heliotrope, vanilla blend! then comes the cacao booze with some soft cashmere.
It is nice & the combination is good, but there is something wrong happening! it’s either the oils used in here is quite cheap, or the doses isn’t right that made the juice unbalanced! as mostly i begun to feel the sweet cashmere more than the cacao.
The colder it goes the better it become, but it just doesn’t present the booze cacao quite well and as it should be presented.
It’s cute after all, but mostly weak for a gourmand. It could’ve been much better but i sort of liked it.
After 2 hours, the calmer the better it gets, and i believe the top note needs to be tested more cause as far as i remember, it was quite chaos but the calm down was a surprise!
Edit (29th Oct 2017) The more i test it the more i get overwhelmed! it goes from one ride to another and settles beautifully. I got overly interested on this frag.
seymur456 – :
A very original and niche cocoa fragrance.
Cocoa is blended with heliotropine (powdery and vanillic), rum, white flowers… And a pinch of animal notes. Castoreum reinforces the liquory facet brought by rum.
On my skin, the fragrance is a bit woodier that on the blotter.
It’s not a dark cocoa note like in L’Heure Défendue de Cartier, it’s more a white / milky cocoa note.
But the other notes prevent the fragrance being too sticky.
Well done, Atkinsons!
Jutrowoj – :
After a long anticipation I was finally able to test Pirates’ Grand Reserve, which has just arrived to stores today. Expectations were high for this one. The sales assistant sprayed it on the blotter and the first thing that hit my nostrils, right off the bat, was the divine rum note. Delicious and boozy!
What a wonderful beginning, I thought and… that’s basically where the “wonderful” part ended for me.
The rum note, although very beautiful, is very fleeting and dissipates within just couple of minutes.Then all I could perceive was a cacao note, “oily” dark and slightly bitter, accompanied by some kind of soft woody-patchouli-earthy combo, rather linear and staying close to the skin. Nothing particularly surprising or ground breaking.
I couldn’t really detect much heliotrope nor vanilla in there, certainly not the style Guerlain would do.
Bottom line: this is not bad, but definitely not what I imagined and hoped it would be, based on the key notes. So do not blind-buy, test properly before, considering the price tag, and don’t get fooled by the top notes. Give it at least couple of hours of wearing to see what it really is, before you decide to spend your money for this one.