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vni908InsuffBooni – :
Continuing in our rose series for Valentines day, Immense Pour Homme by Jean-Louise Scherrer is a Wal-Mart clearance rose. Wal-Mart demands that their suppliers give them the cheapest prices on everything and as such the quality of their merchandise suffers. Its almost like you just know the cut roses that come into Wal-Marts are 2 days older than the ones the florists get, and then after they do not sell for a couple of days Wal-Mart marks them down and tries to move them fast. You buy roses from Wal-Mart and you get the last 2 days of wilted enjoyment from them rather than the crisp enjoyment when you buy a fresh bouquet.
The scent is a chemical mess. I have praised the synthetic achievement of Tea Rose. Immense is synthetic done badly. I do think this is a mostly rose fragrance but you can smell the violet and pepper. The pepper is nice but the blend and mix is awful and overshadowed by a chemical travesty. As the ruinous chemical opening dries down the rose comes out a bit more and has a weak wilted rosy drydown.
Performance and sillage are both awful. This is a skin scent from the opening and performance struggles to last 4 hours.
My usage patterns of it is light. Occasionally, perhaps once a month, I will use it about 2 hours before bed. I get a brief light rose scent that relaxes me right about when Im ready for sleep. The drydown is slightly passably relaxing and brief. Mostly, I wear it when Im really dirty and smelly anyway just to cover up some stench and get value from the product. Its so bad, that I use it as disinfectant for cuts. Needless to say a backup bottle is out of the question.
Value is awful. I bought this on clearance. The bottle is nice and has a skyscraper thing going on and is the best thing about the scent. Regardless of price there is no value in an awful scent. I bought this from one of my most trusted fragrance retailers and a guy who sells Creed in his shop. He spoke of it kindly and was glad to sell it but it was a failure of a purchase even while discounted. You can go wrong in even the highest end of shops. But make no mistake, this is barely worthy of a Wal-Mart triple red sticker clearance red light special blowout.
I will rate this at 55 and place it in an F and Fail category. There have been others on Fragrantica who compared this to GIT and it is not. Sometimes a bargain scent is not a good idea.
I love the bottle and initial presentation and I did not pay much for this product. But when I got home, I realized that the only value was the beautiful bottle and the end of life drydown that was oh so brief. Its possible that I bought an old bottle with compromised juice but the horrible opening suggests that this is not the case. When you go to Wal-Mart it is easy to buy things that you regret. I think we all have done it. That clearance bin movie that was not so good or the vacuum cleaner that broke the day after the warranty expired. You can get a little bit of enjoyment from Immense if you try. But you have to try and you have to look for the good in things to do it. The bottle is nice. You have a very brief 1-2 hour window of subpar wilted rosy drydown that is relaxing and a little bit of pepper spice to distract you from an awful opening. But this fragrance has no value to any but serious collectors who want to try a new house and who like the bottle. This is the kind of thing that you buy when you know there is going to be a fight when you get home and the roses are going to be thrown on the ground and stomped on but you want to show that you tried. The taint of Wal-Mart is already in the wilt.
datskovromario – :
Another take on the Green Irish Tweed type idea, which also includes Stardust for Men. This one seems to have some calone along with dihydromyrcenol, making it quite strong but not so great if you aren’t a fan of obvious calone (I’m not). Note that I just sprayed it on a card and then decided that it might not be agreeable. Moreover, I’ve got Stardust and prefer it to the others of this type. I also have Corinto Rouge, which is like a simplified and more wearable Cool Water, though I think there are more significant differences between CW and GIT. I just mentioned CR because it too has quite a bit of dihydromyrcenol, but not calone, and it’s sweet/powdery like CW (but not like GIT in that respect). Anyway, to sum it up, I think Immense will be enjoyed by those who would like a variation on the GIT theme and don’t mind or even want some noticeable calone.
romant – :
I admire Raphael Haury. He makes fresh, clean and pleasant perfume. Not the kind of sharp, ozonic like orthers. Really love this one
maydaylox – :
i wasnt as impressed as i thought i should be,its just ok.
Alekus – :
A friend of mine used to use this.I really like it-it’s not a typical aquatic men fragrance.The pink pepper makes it interesting and provoking.