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slavikprivet – :
I can do my happy dance now! This smells just like Costamor Tabacca. I was so bummed when Costamor Tabacca was discontinued because it was my absolute favorite. I can get Frank No. 3 now. Only thing is it costs twice as much. It’s worth the investment though.
UPDATE…Not so sure about this anymore. The drydown is quite masculine and not the sweet juicy tobacco drydown that was Costamor. *sigh* So long Tobacca Costamor…
massimo – :
This is an interesting take on tobacco and goes down a different path of the many tobacco/vanilla/honey fragrances out there.
The use of apple gives it a fresher vibe than what you would expect from tobacco fragrances. The florals keep it light. The amber give it some warmth. There’s a hint of spice. The only thing I don’t get is woods to my nose.
If you love your tobacco scents and want something lighter and brighter, it’s worth sampling for sure.
simbians – :
Sweet, cozy, well-blended with it’s own, distinctive character. I love it. Great winter scent casual or formal.
resing – :
I don’t know about this one. I’ve worn it periodically across all four seasons. Sometimes I really enjoy the fruity tobacco opening. Reminds me of a pleasant autumn smell. But it’s not really tobacco I’m smelling… it’s an ultra sweetened rendition of the tobacco note. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
What turns me off from this scent is the presence of some off-putting synthetic ingredients I’m picking up. The notes need to be of high quality, be it synthetic or natural, and i’m afraid they’re simply not. It smells too much like the designer-of-the-day fragrance. If I close my eyes I get any number of “woodsy” notes that half-ruin the experience. Oddly, the chemical I am picking up on is the same as Dior Homme Eau for Men, which strikes me as generic and cheap.
Definitely worth trying for fans of sweet tobacco-inspired scents. Just don’t expect quality on the level of Tobacco Vanille or even Burberry London, which costs about 1/6 of Frank Los Angeles 3.
scooter2475 – :
I am a BIG fan of traditional masculine scents, such as tobacco, so I recently picked up a bottle of Frank No 3 and I am very glad i did! This is a fantastic scent IMO!
FN3 is all about the tobacco. From beginning to end, the tobacco shines. But it is not a dry or harsh tobacco instead it is a soft, slightly sweet and chewy tobacco. It opens center stage with tobacco and apple performing a slow and sexy dance. They are featured in the spot light, captivating the audience. Each note enhancing the other as they glide over the stage of my skin. A soft floral vibe joins the tobacco and apple on stage, but it stays at the fringe of the spotlight, present, but not impeding on the stars of the performance. Amber emerges and starts to share the spotlight, bringing a warm powdery vibe. Finally, wood and spices join the floral along the edge of the spotlight. All notes dance in complete harmony.
To my nose FN3 is a very masculine scent. Warm, inviting, classy and sexy. I can see this one in either casual or dress clothes. I get great longevity out of FN3, projection is a bit strange on my skin. Just when I think it has vanished, or become a skin scent, it moves back into the spotlight, once again capturing my attention. I am highly impressed with FN3.
FN3 is compared to Costamor Tabacca, I am sad to say that I never got to try Tabacca. Maybe one day I will run across a bottle of that one.
Bottom line, if you like Tobacco scents, you should to try a sample of this.
Giliu3 – :
Squeaky clean tobacco. Frank No. 3 is fresh and ambrosial, opening with dried apples, not juicy — a little powdered, a little tannic, and a little rosey.
A delicate floral sweetness from jasmine then dissipates the soft, dry powder, which escorts in a glassy, luminous amber that gives No. 3 a vitreous feel that hovers above the skin.
Just like Jose, I do prefer this over By Kilian’s Back to Black in which the dry down was too powdery for my preference, hindering me from purchasing a bottle. However in No. 3, the tobacco note is not as dark, but still present, fresh, sparkling, and gently bound with a thin wood veneer.
Frank No. 3, you and me, we’re gonna hang out for a bit and get better acquainted, you shy, dazzling beauty! I feel comfortable around you already. I’ll be keeping your number in my tobacco fume black book.
autizm – :
Sadly they reformulated Costamor Tabacca. To me it doesn’t smell the same. Tabacca had the distinctive cherry and apple sweet apple note that made the perfume more original and feminine.
Viiti – :
I received my bottle of Frank No.3 from Luckyscent about a week ago, and needed a few days to wear this fragrance and give everyone my opinion.
I have been looking for a a really nice tobacco-based scent. I have a number of other tobacco scents including Phaedon’s Tabac Rouge, By Killian Back to Black, The One for Men EDP, decants of Dior Prive Cuir Cannage and Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille, scents with Tobacco in them like Maison Martin Margiella’s Jazz Club and Armani Code, where tobacco plays a supporting role and not the main star of the fragrance.
So what’s this one like? Pretty good. Good, not great.
When you first spray Frank No.3 on your skin, you’ll definitely get wafts of tobacco. The tobacco isn’t very deep though – it’s quite soft and the apple accord adds to the sweetness of the pipe tobacco. Adding a slightly floral quality to the fragrance are the jasmine and tea rose. The traditional amber and woods form the base of this scent and give Frank No.3 some backbone. As the scent dries down, I do find the tobacco note continues to evolve and become more predominant.
Over the years collecting fragrances, I’ve come to appreciate fragrances that don’t scream, and Frank No.3 probably suits the kind of fragrance I like in the longevity and projection department. It’s not loud. It does last a fairly long time, but it really is more of a close-encounters scent. You can smell it for a long time, but you have to be within a certain radius of someone to smell Frank No.3 on them.
Frank No.3 is a pleasant smelling scent. To be honest, I prefer it to my bottle of By Killian Back to Black, which I feel has too much of a ‘baby powder’ dry-down. If you are a tobacco lover and want a heavily intensive tobacco scent, I’m not sure if this is for you. Tobacco is the star in this scent, but it’s a softer and more subdued tobacco. It’s a moist tobacco too – not a dry tobacco like some other fragrances out there.
Frank No.3 definitely has a place in my collection. I prefer it to Dior Cuir Cannage, and definitely prefer it to a bottle I gave away – Serge Lutens’ Chergui. I think it’s an intimate, sensual scent that one could wear on the coach with a significant other. It’s warm, it’s cozy and smells pleasant. It’s not something one would wear on a night out or in a club. It’s suited for Fall and Winter, though I would say Fall is best due to limited sillage and projection.
I sometimes wonder if this fragrance could have been a bit bolder with the notes and sharper and less subdued (without being a projection monster). I like the apple top notes when I spray this scent and appreciate the dry down this scent evolves into.
If all of this sounds good, give this one a try. Not sure if true tobacco lovers will love this one, but I think they may like it.
Jose
FRED200 – :
I owned Tabacca, and after running out of it about 3 years ago I waited and asked and harassed LuckyScent to find out when it would be back. Even though the scents reported here in Fragrantica for Frank No 3 match exactly those of Tabacca, I cannot say it is the same perfume. If it is, it has been reformulated. I remember Tabacca being a tobacco and amber bomb…both smelt most prominently and it was a fight between the two. You could smell the sweetness of the apple and it was just slightly feminine as the flowers notes came through. However, that was shortly lived for guys who loved Tabacca because after an hour or so the flowery notes would subside and the tobacco/amber combo would remain for the duration….it was also long lasting…at least 12 hours on me which is extremely difficult because my skin swallows perfumes like a good cold beer…However, based on a sample I was given, I don’t remember Tabacca smelling like Frank No 3 does…I could barely detect the amber and the tobacco was very soft…the smell was light and the duration was short….it just smells like a sweet perfume with a duration of 2 hours…then it went skin…disappointing that my Tabacca is nowhere back yet…
katrinrf – :
Frank No 3. is the latest release, and the latest to be reformulated (now in 2016) of the original trio of Frank Los Angeles fragrances.
I certainly get the fruity and spicy elements in the opening but it is much more powdery on my skin than the note breakdowns and reviews I’ve seen/read, I almost expected to see iris as a note. Perhaps it’s the jasmine that combine with tobacco to create a powdery unisex vibe. Ultimately, I don’t get much amber in the dry down either, so I’m a little disappointed from the description but also borderline suspicious that there’s something wrong with my sample, though it’s from Luckyscent like
Unlike No 1. or No 2., it’s not particularly masculine at all, as this is wholly unisex as far as I can tell. It’s a bit unique, too, as the powdery tobacco vibe isn’t one I’ve gotten often.
5 out of 10
layd5 – :
This is Costamor Tabacca renamed.:)
Morena – :
i try this a couple of times and i really dont like…