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titan15 – :
I find this juice to be absolutely spectacular. It grabs my attention and holds it so that I ask myself What is going on here, what is that that I am smelling. It dances around all over the place. When I think I have identified a note, another one just pops out and my olfactory senses go crazy. A sheer delight of a fragrance. So lively and captivating. Intoxicating.
Zoonsemervive – :
This is a baked version of Bertrand Douchafour’s Renegade. Some aspects are really identical. Just looking at the notes, one would surmise that this fragrance is warm. You got the green notes on one side and then you have tobacco, woody notes, coffee beans, cognac, amber and leather on the other side. This is like a 1 versus 6 situation and the green note is absolutely holding its own causing the whole fragrance to appear somewhat “brown.” Searching for the prominent note on my skin is akin to a battle royal. The marriage of notes are blended evenly and to fulfillment. For 90 bucks, this smells like a niche that matters. I can see why this is a big deal for those that own it.
KREC_fuse – :
In Aviation Club, Montreal nose Isabelle Michaud celebrates the time when and the place where Paris first opened its arms to her: a now defunct gentlemen’s club on the Champs Elysees, at the time a well-preserved relic from The Gilded Age, puffing its way to the end of another glorious age, those magical days when smoking was allowed indoors: and, when, whatever else the club was ostensibly established to enable (gambling), the pleasure of smoking was the raison d’etre of most everyone there.
The smoke in Aviation Club is unlike any other tobacco I’ve encountered: this is chain-smoking cigarette smoke, dense clouds dancing ceilingward from the glowing tips of hundreds of Gauloises and Gitanes and assorted American imports. The throats that produce them are coated with unfashionably dark roasted coffee drunk as a drug. The dregs remain in pushed aside demi-tasses. The leather Michaud has invoked is faint and aged, not nearly as pronounced as, for instance, the leather of Marc-Antoine Corticchiato. It’s as though, in Aviation Club, the leather, like the club itself, like most of those inside, is clinging to a life even it knows is slipping away.
Penhaligon’s Endymion is Aviation Club’s closest relative; but, where Endymion sweetens up its coffee with lavender (and sugar), Michaud is content to offer us a picture un-tinted by nostalgia. This isn’t an impressionistic scent. Aviation Club is a realistic homage to a men’s gambling club on its last legs, and to the, perhaps unlikely, way it was that here, amongst chainsmoking, coffee-addled Parisian gamblers, a young woman from Montreal first found a home away from home. It’s a magnificent achievement.
tchuktuk – :
I too was fooled by the aquatic blast at the opening! And sure enough, that quickly subsided to reveal an invigorating herbaceous quality! There is a slight sweetness that helps to balance out the sharp, slightly medicinal quality of the greens. There’s a soft wood that carries this through the middle to a dry down that is both woody and slightly sweet, like a coffee and sweet black tobacco, sweet. I suppose the “softness” of the wood could be the leather’s affect? In any regard, I’m interested! This has both qualities of being unique and common at the same time. Big thumbs up!
gsx792Negeltzex – :
I took this as almost aquatic coming off the top but I think it’s the metallic and green notes that give this impression. Stiffens up to a faint woody scent that’s lightly sweet. Clear and almost-warm but not too warm. Pleasant and worth a try!
haron80m – :
I recently got a sample of this and adore it. It is incredibly sexy and is definitely a unisex scent. When I first apply, I get a tobacco-medicinal-boozy blast. I don’t get much coffee but it is warm and spicy without being overwhelmingly heavy. The green notes keep it relatively light. I have only applied directly on skin rather than spraying, but this way it doesn’t have great lasting power, which is unfortunate. Once I drain the sample, I’ll likely get a full bottle- this is a perfect fall scent.