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edindilla – :
As noted by others, the composition blasts open with a dark, juicy, viscous black licorice. But is that a bad thing? Just as Espresso Royale is the most authentic coffee fragrance I’ve ever smelled, this opens with the most authentic licorice note out there. Heavy on the tonka, it’s Blue Sugar’s complicated, rebellious brother. The neroli+ginger combination freshens the licorice after about 15 minutes and eases the pulsing, darkness into the background. My skin tends to amplify white flower and this is no exception. The neroli eventually takes over, but the dark licorice anchors it and keeps it from floating away into the clouds. The vanilla runs along the base keeping this in the gourmand territory that I love as it finishes off to a syrupy, boozy licorice liqueur.
ronald2012 – :
Absolutely nauseating. Not worth 1 star! This is a cacophony of burnt rubber, sweet facets and notes that aren’t meant to be combined. I tried to let it dry down but it was headache inducing. Who in gods name could ever get through a full day wearing this juice? Hey, I don’t mind a challenging scent and love the strange Comme des Garcons but this is a mashup of clashing notes that are extremely off putting. I tried to give it an honest whirl but unfortunately couldn’t tolerate it.
da.st – :
The opening of this fragrance is absolutely revolting to me. It smells like burnt licorice and ginger. Normally I love a licorice note and a ginger note, but these smell burnt and are off-putting. But if you give this fragrance time to settle it calms down and the burnt smell goes away. You can also layer it with whatever you find missing in the composition, for example I like it with a Bulgarian rose oil or amber and it works nicely. I much prefer Sebastiane’s Espresso Royale though.
oko. – :
What smelled out of the bottle like a vanilla-dominant fragrance came off on skin as an orange chocolate nightmare, giving me a headache and nauseating me. I’ve never found grounds to harshly criticize a fragrance before since I’m generally apt at selecting ones that I’ll like, but Urban Legend was a $25 add-on to a full-priced bottle of Espresso Royale, which I love, so certainly this in no way is a referendum on the Sebastiane house, just Urban Legend. Smellers beware.
0 out of 10
Maxonnn – :
After reading and watching various reviews I was intrigued enough to try this fragrance, after already owning and loving Espresso Royale.
Initially there is something very screechy, harsh and almost nauseating about Urban Legend to me. I can detect tiny undercurrents of a dusty vanilla, but unfortunately it is swimming (or drowning) in an ocean of a sharp and unforgiving ginger and licorice combo; I can literally feel every inhale of it at the back of my throat.
The dry down on my skin is just like turning the volume down on the initial first spray, but oddly, it’s at this point where I get whiffs of the orange blossom poking through ever so slightly which plays marginally better with the toned down licorice note. The longer it goes on, the more I can tolerate it, but I’m not sure that’s the point of wearing a fragrance…
I’m really looking forward to trying Robert’s other offerings, It’s obvious he’s got some talent.
Danehawtezeui – :
Opens with ginger and something brown and herbal, like nutmeg, cinnamo, anise and cloves mixed with brown sugar and then baked in the oven. Edible, almost, like cookies that have been in the oven for just a bit too long. Also present in the background are the green notes that I have smelled before in this line. Vanilla and tonka soften the scent but do not play a huge role. After a while I start to smell hints of orange blossom and more soft ginger than the herbal spicy mix. The drydown is a mix of several spicy notes and a hint of sweet vanilla.
Sillage and longevity are moderate on me.
I like the herbal spicy fried thingy accord a lot, the green notes not so much. The scent does tone down a bit, focusing even more on the ginger part of this scent but strangely enough without the sharpness. It smells like dried ginger powder, mixed with other dried spice powders. Hmmm.
Nutsik57 – :
I would say that one of the characteristics of a good perfumer job is the hability to take a trend and an idea that already exists and exploring from a different angle, making it completely his or hers. When smelling a certain raw material, Robert had the idea to create for his brand, Sebastiane Parfums, an ode to Eau de Vie, a sort of alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of fruit. Thus was born Urban Legend, supported by the recent trend of alcoholic beverage inspired fragrances, a scent reminiscent of a classic commercial but that is unique in itself,
Urban Legend recalls the great Yohji Homme and its exotic aroma of licorice, a scent that has become an urban legend in the words of critic Luca Turin. However, unlike Yohji, Urban shows a more full-bodied and dynamic aroma, offering licorice but wrapped in a fine harmony of essences, including that which inspired the composition.
From the first moment already we feel an interesting fruity aroma, an alcoholic smell of fermenting fruit. This is not something totally sweet, instead it is a more dry and wet nuance that I do not remember ever felt in a perfume. The way it is used makes it exotic without becoming nauseating and tiring, and makes of think of the light notes of what seems a digestive alcoholic fruit spirit. Licorice comes soon with a minty aroma, dry, sweet, unique as only this essence is. Mixed into it you perceive a refreshing spicy ginger aura, which nicely complements the licorice aroma, blending with it. The two contrast with a classic amber base, an incense smell with sugary notes of tonka and a discreet aroma of orange blossom, which becomes more noticeable close the skin.
Urban Legend is very harmonic, is a scent that makes its transition from its exotic flavors to perfection so that you hardly enough notice how this is done. Its longevity and projection are excellent, an aroma that tries to stand out in the urban life and doesn’t do it shouting or seeming forced. It is perhaps one of the masterpieces of Sebastiane, an excellent familiar creationand unique at the same time.
Astedledfem – :
This is a very odd but interesting fragrance. At first I couldn’t identify what I was smelling, and although this scent is not for me, I was intrigued to figure out what it reminded me of. I kept thinking it is some kind of sweet food . . . then it hit me – black licorice coated in a paint thinner. On my skin I get a very strong acrid licorice. The licorice is powerful from the beginning, through the dry down. Hours later it morphed into kind of a pleasant wood scent, to me. None of these is listed on the notes, so it must be the way it reacts to my body chemistry. Urban Legend is unusual.
lol4000 – :
This creature is hard to put your finger on. It is sort of gourmand yet oriental. It is fresh yet dark and deep. It has this note in that isn’t listed that sort of has a boozy sharp accord yet it isn’t a boozy fragrance.
The Tonka is amped up but I would argue its the best use of the note I have experience maybe second to the way Chanel uses it. The neroli is similar to that of Sweet Redemption or something Bond would do and the ginger give it this freshness that is food (gingerbread) like sort of sweet not like ginger in many other fragrances that list ginger.
Opens with a glazed neroli (maybe the vanilla+neroli) then comes this potent gingerbread like accord that again is sort of fresh not heavy but sweet and then the this dark Tonka note similar to what is found in Espresso.
I really enjoyed this one and to be honest given my collection would buy this over Espresso and second to Black Magic. Performance is on par with Espresso