САН4О – 2022-06-30:

3 out of 5

Savile Row is easy to like. Having been released in 2003, it was ahead of its time in its heavy use of ginger, a note that would come to dominate the 2000s in similar releases like Dolce & Gabanna The One and Dior Homme Sport 2012. The One toned down the florals and amped up the cardamom, while Dior Homme Sport 2012 removed the tobacco and amped up the ginger to breaking point. This trend peaked with the release of Tom Ford For Men, which is essentially a grown-up Savile Row with high-grade materials and the butch-factor turned up to 11.
There are a lot of suggestions that Savile Row has a classical bent, but I wouldn’t go so far as to compare it to fragrances of the 1970s or 1980s. Savile Row is a suit and tie fragrance from 15 years ago, and that is retro and classic enough to understand what you will smell when you spray it. It is a product of its time, at the cusp of a new trend and borrowing the softest touches from the past.
Savile Row opens impressively with a rush of supercharged molecules that have a passing resemblance to bergamot, rosemary and cardamom. When this opening accord exits after 45 seconds, the tobacco appears briefly for a few minutes, smelling faintly like cigarette smoke in a room. Then follows a mandarin-ginger accord that also smells great, supported by a floral mix that is pleasant but indistinct, and a tad plasticky or rubbery. Ofcourse tuberose has this rubbery facet, but a tuberose lover will be disappointed by the effort made here to represent tuberose even though the fragrance itself continues to smell good. In the later stages, 5 hours in, a smooth patchouli interacts with amber and suede and a mossy note. Thankfully Savile Row does not falter at these late stages, becoming cozy and seductive.
It’s a shame that discontinued prices are now hovering around the $90-$100 USD because at that price I’d rather buy a discounted bottle of The One or upgrade to a discounted bottle of Tom Ford For Men. But since perfume collectors are rarely hostage to choices, this is a nice, sufficiently unique addition to a large collection.

okzhetpes – 2022-06-30:

5 out of 5

Exactly like cartier de santos

матрешка))) – 2022-06-30:

3 out of 5

I´m in love with this fragrance! I am going to buy another bottle before it is too late! I have a 50ml bottle, but it seems that it is not enough to me! Such a beatiful fragrance…

fzz813Diobtetty – 2022-06-30:

5 out of 5

This is a pleasant and well-executed example of the rarely seen/smelt male floral fragrance. It starts with a strong tuberose which gives a predominantly feminine aspect to the top notes. Soon it becomes mixed with tobacco and then moves into a floral-leather phase. I guess a lot of the notes listed above are subsumed into the floral aspect of all the stages. The end is very tenacious and it is a gentle amber/musk combo.
It has a retro vibe, going back to a 70s aesthetics. It can be a unisex fragrance, easily worn by a woman. Very long lasting, almost impossible to wash off. Reasonably strong projection, too.
It is unusual in many ways and definitely not a generic contemporary male fragrance.

cessisgughict – 2022-06-30:

4 out of 5

I´ve received this perfume today! I confess i was curious to smell it! It´s a fantastic perfume. I would venture to say that this is one of my favourites so far! Simply genious! I have to smell other perfumes from RJ. Great, great job on this one!

h168mk23 – 2022-06-30:

4 out of 5

PS: …..after wearing it now for 24hours, it is evident that – as every well blended, high quality fragrance – it becomes one with your skin chemistry & body heat and develops into different vibes & moods during the dry down. Much to my surprise it has some similarities with AD by Alain Delon which I truly love.

AlexanderTGreat – 2022-06-30:

4 out of 5

Yes, yes, yes! Pure joy bottled. A masterpiece up there with Insensé, The Baron and Nino Cerruti! Yves Cassar (the nose behind Intuition for Men) had created and eternal classy composition. Flowers playing in an orchestra with ginger, basil, tobacco, tea, lavender, petitgrain and patchouli. Heavenly. A stunning blend. THIS is what I call a true, charming, intelligent perfume! World class! Bravo Richard James!

dr_doz – 2022-06-30:

4 out of 5

For me it smells like a burned-out flat after the firemen took out the fire and you can still feel the heat and the smoke and the mixed smell of melted-burn plastic and wood.

Paywogtifyfaw – 2022-06-30:

4 out of 5

smoother and more flowery brother of Mauboussin Homme, very elegant scent

x19x – 2022-06-30:

3 out of 5

This reminds me of Jaipur pour homme by Boucheron, but without the ‘oriental’ spices and incense. It has a similar delicate powder-iness to Jaipur, a kind of floral fizziness. But it remains masculine. It also fits the same kind of wearing for me as Jaipur, but because it lacks the degree of spiciness, it’s more suitable for work and more adaptable for formal occasions. For me this a very versatile fragrance. The smell itself is excellent – 9.5/10. It’s softer than Jaipur but appears to be long lasting. Excellent.
It also reminds me of Insense by Givenchy – bit less sultry and evening. It has a similar musky caramel heart to Insense but there’s a crisp edge on top which makes it more passable as a work fragrance.

turbolen – 2022-06-30:

4 out of 5

You’ve Got Style! That’s What All the Girls Say!
All Your Suits Are Custom Made in London!
Savile Row (2003) By Yves Cassar
Richard James’ Savile Row is like walking into London’s most exclusive high-end men’s suit stores in the 1990’s. Richard James is located at 29 Savile Row and he’s been there since the 90’s, one of the most upscale and elegant tailored men’s wear shops in the UK rivaling even Italian fashion stores. As other reviewers have testified, this is a polite, conservative, elegant fashionable dandy gentleman’s cologne. A refreshing citrus-floral aromatic fougere with dry notes of sandalwood, tobacco leaves, patchouli, oak moss, green notes, a chypre for men with nods to well known green colognes like Eternity for Men, Monsieur de Givenchy, Gentleman, Green Irish Tweed and Gray Flannel. Totally Brit. Formal but casual, flexible for day wear and evening wear, matching up with a suit and tie, dress shirts and slacks. Clean, no nonsense but hardly dull. If one had to picture one person that would wear it: Henry Higgins from My Fair Lady. For non fictional people: Daniel Craig, Prince William, Jude Law, Hugh Grant, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, David Beckham, all of whom are customers of Richard James’ in Savile Row.
Starts off with green notes and a green tea scent, herbal tea, with orange and citrusy scents like bergamot orange next to green leaves; a kind of tea scent for sure with spicy but not too spicy touches of basil, ginger and cinnamon, cardamom and coriander. These notes usually take me to a clean fresh place like a morning breakfast room in a hotel in London, like the Ritz, where one is dressed up for breakfast. The tea note is thoroughly Anglo-British and my cup of tea sort to speak. Possibly unisex I suppose (for women that can pull of CK Eternity or Gray Flannel) but I think the suede-leather and that tobacco aroma keeps it masculine. The scent is light and not an in your face fragrance at all. It’s an aftershave and after-the-shower revitalizing tea and tonic for your day.
The dry notes are based on green things: moss, the green leaves that surround lily of the valley, petit grain or orange blossom green leaves, Indonesian patchouli plant, and vetiver. Spicy-green and medicinal, botanical, herbal. Soothing and aromatic. The florals in this scent remind me of CK Eternity with a feminine touch or rather man in touch with his feminine side. The floral accords consist of rosemary, a major note of fleshy and creamy tuberose but for me the lavender at the top is the key player. This is a very clean very gentlemanly lavender, simple and very charming. Inoffensive. One can even wear this to the office for work, without risk. One of the better and vintage-like indies in the fragrance industry. The price is very affordable but you get a high quality cologne.
Soundtrack
Dress You Up In My Love Madonna

пятка99 – 2022-06-30:

5 out of 5

This is a wonderful fragrance. suitable for all year round and all occasions. finally a male Tuberous !!! a fragrance that leaves a mark. conquering women. It is dandy. elegant. herbaceous. .ricca floral notes. It opens harsh with basil, green tea, petit grain, rosemary and mandarin in evidence.
then the spiciness of coriander and tuberous sweeten the smell. then tobacco and suede conclude this masterpiece. 10/10
longevity and sillage very good. I love this perfume. the other notes are a nice rose, amber, patchouli, oakmoss and sandalwood which also makes this creamy fragrance.

cancer – 2022-06-30:

5 out of 5

The more I wear Savile Row the more I get a fine milky chocolate out of this fragrance.
I still have the first release and can´t tell how the new release smell like.
The first fragrance was made in Italy. It´s a coloured fragrance. The concentration is remarkable.
Good staying power, soft but bright projection, and the most important, gourmand like chocolate smell.

pbs2003 – 2022-06-30:

5 out of 5

I managed to pick up a bottle of this cheaply ten years ago and realised quickly that one wouldn’t be enough so I bought a couple more.
A lovely combination of floral notes, lavender, suede and tobacco that lasts all day, managing to be both bright and smooth at the same time
Savile Row doesn’t remind me of any other scent I’ve tried and is a joy to wear.
Great value for money.

Severinets – 2022-06-30:

4 out of 5

A remarkable fragrance. Truly an outstanding, understated floral fragrance for men from a less known, British house. Richard James is a fashion designer (based in Savile Row, London, the home of quintessential British traditional male fashion). He is a men’s fashion designer but very British and understated. Much like this fragrance.
What I like about it is that it is traditional but at the same time modern and cool. The bottle is unusual and quite intriguing, and the scent itself is a fougere but not a boring, traditional one but a modern, vibrant, daring one. With tuberose, suede leather and tobacco, this gives an unusual mix to an otherwise conservative, masculine genre.
I would put this amongst the great masculine florals of the last few decades, the one which comes to my mind is The Third Man by the French house of Caron. I would recommend this one to any well dressed gentleman out there. It’s incredibly easy to wear and extremely pleasing. I would recommend trying it out if you have the chance.

b52akm – 2022-06-30:

5 out of 5

I actually didn’t buy this, but received it in a swap. I had been interested to try it but had never got around to actually sampling or buying it.
When the swap option came up I jumped on it. Glad I did too.
First impressions were that the suede is too overpowering, but now I have worn it a few times and gotten used to that I have really settled into this one.
After an hour or so the suede calms down and the tuberose, tobacco, creamy sandalwood and a sweet lavender come through.
I am looking forward to trying this more in the cooler months when I think it will be more suitable.
I don’t think this would suit everyone, it is a bit of an acquired taste, and I think you need to try it out a few times. That said, I think it is very nice, and I am glad I added it to my collection.

Vladimir07121978 – 2022-06-30:

3 out of 5

From the listed notes and the reviews, it should have been a keeper in my collection; tuberose and suede sounds really nice. It was a disappointment from the first spray, where I could feel the alcohol together with a combination of white flowers with a vague and poorly made suede node.
I have no issues with white flowers, but couldn’t distinguish any particular flower, so my tuberose wasn’t there. And the suede…a very cheaply made accord. It doesn’t change much; the flowers become more prominent and the suede, thankfully fades to not even be noticed after a couple of hours which makes the fragrance to lean on the feminine side. Pretty powerful at the first spray and within the first hour. After that, it’s starting to become closer to the skin and by the sixth hour it’s almost gone. A real disappointment.
Scent: 4/10
Longevity: 6/10
Projection: 6/10

zubr061093 – 2022-06-30:

5 out of 5

In a word: classy. I’m surprised to see quite so many notes in the database. To my mind, it’s a little more simple, which is to take nothing away from its superb quality. Savile Row opens with mandarin, soft floral notes, and suede (or even soft leather) and eventually dries down to light sandalwood and tobacco. All the notes here are subtle, nothing particularly shouts out, and yet the blend is unique and wonderful. Projection is enough to be noticed and the longevity on me is around 7-8 hours. I’m almost embarrassed to say that I picked this up for a very cheap price, and yet it is one of the finest and most expensive smelling fragrances I’ve tried. Highest recommendation!

djtkachenko – 2022-06-30:

4 out of 5

WOW. I am under 30 again and I’m in Savile Row London during Fashion Week with my boyfriend at the time. He is in a men’s suit shop for a fitting. This is the best place for tailor made quality British men’s fashions, particularly suits. Cary Grant used to go there to buy his suits. This smells just like I would imagine Cary Grant smelled. This is a very sophisticated, mature, elegant, gentlemanly fragrance that is asking you to wear it with a suit and only in a suit. In fact it’s the type of cologne that is worn by men you always see in a suit and you suspect his closet is just full of suits. He has no Hawaiian print T shirts, no shorts, no T shirts with logos on them, just dress shirts. This is from another era of men’s fashions; Mad Men, the 50’s, the 40’s, men who smelled like they meant business while conducting business. This frag opens up with what else citrus. A bergamot orange and mandarin juice is there from the start. But this is not a fruit. It’s a cologne. Immediately you also get hit with spicy and aromatic scents in abundance: coriander, ginger, cardamom, basil, petitgrain, rosemary. It’s herbal and no surprise there’s a green tea scent. I like that it smells like tea because after all we’re in London and it’s 4 o clock tea time. The heart of the fragrance is floral, and the kind of floral heart found in women’s fragrances. This is a unisex fragrance to me. I’m wearing it right now and loving it. The men at my Wall Street Rotary Club have never heard of this one and I haven’t told them it’s a man’s cologne. I refuse to tell them what I’m wearing to give it an air of mystery but they are convinced it’s a great woman’s evening perfume. The floral scents include rose, lavender, lily of the valley and tuberose. The tuberoses are prominent and it surprised me. Tuberose in men’s fragrance! It’s like something Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard) would wear after all she “smelled of tuberoses”. It’s a strong almost gardenia like scent that does not apologize for being so fragrant. An equally bold strong rose is there too. I wish more floral scents could be in men’s fragrances. These are strong flowers and they become smokier and darker when the fragrance begins to wear off and dry down. The base notes are deep amber, lots of smoky patchouli, sandalwood, vetiver and suede. All of the base notes are masculine and have a potency that lasts a long time. It’s definitely a fragrance of power, confidence, ambition and guts. It’s something for a Wall Street financier, a CEO of a company, your boss. It’s also for women in the same role. I found it so beautiful. So sexy. So empowering. Maybe not all guys can pull this off but it’s an invisible suit so put this suit on regardless of age. I want to smell this on more guys and some women. I love this stuff. It takes me to Savile Row every time, and I see so many great men’s suits and they smell like this fragrance.

8prprofilk – 2022-06-30:

3 out of 5

This was a blind buy based on the positive reviews & interesting ingredients.I am really glad I did,such an elegant “Gentlemanly” fragrance.It wispers discreelty quality & suaveness.
The presentation is excellent,beautiful outer packaging reminding me of an exotic beach sunset.The bottle too is sculpted & fits in the hand comfortably with a reassuring heaviness.Simlar to the classic Halston for men “pebble” shaped flasks.
From the other reviews I can smell the similarity to Santos de Cartier,then as the fragrance warms the flowery,woodiness becomes apparent.Maybe the tuberose as found in Givency Insense?
On my skin the longevity is excellent lasting 6-8 hours.
Projection is subtle,never overpowering but enough to get compliments.
I would recommend this to gentlemen of any age.

san9i – 2022-06-30:

4 out of 5

Absolutely gorgeous fragrance, very traditional, yet very modern and very versatile.
My only complaint is that they don’t do an edp version of this hidden gem.

warlike – 2022-06-30:

3 out of 5

This has apparently been rereleased and according to Richard James it has not been reformulated(via online interview at fenwick website)

ZVERRAP – 2022-06-30:

3 out of 5

On first application you can smell a combination of tuberose, rosemary and lavender and it smells very classy.
After the lovely opening the scent gets very complex with facets of suede, green tea and a lot of other notes. It smells like Dia Man from Amouage though not as lush but certainly more interesting down to it’s complexity.
The projection is below average though the longevity is very good as I get several hours.
This fragrance smells very chic and way more expensive than it actually is. Also the scent is quite unequal and enchanting. A real gem!

poit – 2022-06-30:

4 out of 5

The big three. American Tiffany for men. German Escada pour Homme. And English Savile Row. All three are very classy and elegant perfumes. All of them were made to represent the quality of their brand.
Savile Row is a tuberose, leather and tobacco mixture. Complex and with good staying power.
A very sexy smell for an evening with your business friends or romantic moments.

Glom – 2022-06-30:

3 out of 5

This is a very interesting masculine floral; compared to its kin (D’Orsay Le Dandy?) it should be very thick and heady, but somehow it manages to be light and transparent. It opens as a kind of thin musk, with that group’s usual sweetness toned down a lot, and offset by what I take to be just a bit of spearmint. The florals are already there (carnation?) but everything’s held in check by a good dose of sharp spices that are close to the blend in Santos, though less dusty in the base. The spices seem to back off after a while, leaving wood to accompany the florals from before. I’m amazed at how dark and serious the florals are, yet not cloying or heady; I don’t think I’ve ever seen a fragrance pull this trick off so well, though now I know I’ll have to revisit Santos (and the Concentree!) and Floris #89. It’s also not powdery in the usual sense (iris?) but has a different sort of sweet chalkiness that you might still attribute to talcum powder. I think the only useability problem with this stuff would be encountered in the men’s room at an upscale restaurant or hotel. Namely, I’ve debated sometimes whether it either smells like an expensive liquid soap, a pleasant commercial air freshener, or as the worst case, a urinal cake or pad (unused, mind you). I also remember having the same thoughts about Le Dandy, and I think that it suffers from these associations a bit more because it has more fruitiness, so RJ is off the hook for that. Generally, though, I’d more likely treat it as a very thick Bulgari-type linen/laundry scent. And if I think of everything I disliked in Van Cleef and Arpels, Hammam Bouquet, JHL, C+S #88, or Ungaro III, this stuff manages to skirt around all of their pitfalls.

arci – 2022-06-30:

4 out of 5

Richard James ‘Savile Row’ was one of a series of good, but sadly discontinued or otherwise significantly altered fragrances produced in the decade 2001-2010 from a number of houses that could have benefited from better marketing and could still be very popular today. I was very disappointed when I found out that it, and my other mid-2000s love, Arpege Pour Homme were discontinued and flogged off at dime store prices, making remaining supplies prohibitively expensive for this university student.
Something about this perfume spoke to me in a way very few do. It reminded me of some of the better men’s scents of the 70s and 80s, namely Lagerfeld and Santos, but minus the funk, and with a beautifully subtle yet distinctive tuberose-iris-suede-incense accord that was terrifically distinctive. No one has matched or mimicked it, for what ever reason. Whenever I wore this, I felt luxurious, well put together, but never ostentatious, which is what perfume should do.
This evening, in trying to track another bottle down, I took a chance on looking at the Richard James website, the blog on which offered some very happy news: Savile Row will be “…coming back… Very soon,” accompanied by a photo of empty 100ml bottles on a production line.

константин64 – 2022-06-30:

5 out of 5

A stunning fougere … standout green tea accord encapsulated with soft spices , fresh citrus & patchy woods .