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s07061974 – :
Iron Duke means that only a person of iron can wear it because it takes a great personality and the right occasion.
We start with 100% pure RUM and TOBACCO and here I am in armor on a tower-fortress of 1400. My job is to guard the precious treasure of the Duke but, at the moment, I’m looking at the starry sky. next to a hearth which, slowly, generates small sparks that rise towards the firmament.
-In the distance:
Shoot, scream, the rattling of swords just unsheathed by the resistant linings in LEATHER, the thunder of the guns, the dark crackle of rifles.
– At the fortress:
The alarm sounds: horns and bells. Such as?! I’m in battle !? No! I do not want to find myself inside it! I do not want to fight! A dear friend saves my life by sacrificing his. I feel so much anger, revenge, rancor. That’s enough! I take my pistol and extract the ivory horn with the little one inside that triggers the cruel device: GUNPOWDER. In unison, everyone, together we cry, pierce, break, we destroy every human, animal or immaterial ambition. So much death and destruction for what? To defend our Duke!
End.
Fragrance: 9.5 / 10
Persistence: 10/10
Special features: Gunpowder.
In a word? BOOM!
mindall11 – :
شاهکار به تمام معنا.بوی باروت،چرم،توتون و رام به وضوح مشخصه و گرمای آتشینی رو توی اینکار ایجاد کرده.مرسی از دوست خوبم جناب فرزاد .همیشه من رو مورد لطف خودشون قرار میدن
rbsunhaoz – :
Leather and also bit animalic. I didn’t get tabacco or smoke. Definitely leather is main player for me. Quite interesting but i like Coeur De Noir much more from this house. Not super long lasting, neither strong projection. Easy and nice to wear.
Scent : 8/10
Longevity : 10/10
Sillage : 6/10
fenfen – :
Dense, ashen rather than smoky, slightly boozy and tobaccoy, but not in a debauched way.
Unlike others, I don’t get a triumphant battlefield vibe from this, more a foggy dawn of a morning-after, cordite and metal lingering over the dead, on a cold morning, so no blood or rot (yet). Our (anti)hero is standing on a hill, slightly removed from the scene, his greying hair dirty and long, his faithful horse impatiently waiting behind him; last glance on the scene below, and he wraps the velvet-lined tattered cloak around him and he’s gone.
It’s probably the most gunmetal-coloured fragrance I have ever worn (though this is tempered by the more organic aspect made of leather and tobacco).
I like it, I like it a lot, although the imperial implications of the name are putting me off and I might need to rename it privately.
chw749speagoessenda – :
One of the most photo realistic scents and a artistic masterpiece, but alas hard to wear.
You get a aromatic feel, but it is dense and heavy somehow. It is full of the smell of old iron, graphite,smoke and even lead.
It makes me think of cannon fire and is a very masculine fragrance. This could be the scent of a villian in a cold war submarine movie.
It lasted 6 hours or so , but like lalique equus this scent has a ghost or lingering memory behind it. moderate projection, but distinct and noticeable.
I can only see a older gentleman wearing this and love the creativity here.
dmitriy_sever – :
Scent – tobacco with a dark tinge, which later settles into a moderate barn yardish leather.
Season/Time of Day – I prefer to use this one in the colder months, day or night.
Projection – I did get noticed, I didn’t get a compliment.
Longevity – I get 24hrs consistently.
relikess – :
Another explosively aggressive volley of fire from Beaufort, though it’s not half as weird as some of the others and sails (just a very little) closer to the mainstream. Bold and bombastic, but it doesn’t suffer faint hearted wearers gladly.
Really pungent rum & gunpower open, with the leathery reek deepening hour on hour to give an expansively confident, butch, rawhide feel to the thing. Truly the smell of a flagwaving imperialist kind of guy. (But a brave and lovable one rather than an outright oppressor.) Note that this is NOT a ‘gentlemen’s club’ leather – rather, a seriously macho men’s bar leather. It’s quite a roughneck in its way, though not nearly as hostile as Tonnerre. I love rough stinky leather scents but this one was just one shade or two too harsh for me – and worst of all – one end of the leather shaded into a really rather aggressive smell of urine – not sexy/animalic/civet/catpee, more like a dank stone passageway outside a pub on a weekend.
That sounds horrible, but overall this really isn’t – it’s butch as you can imagine, full of real character and punch – yet it’s still really not for the nervous nellies and definitely not for a blind buy. Obviously as a female user I’m probably not in the desired demographic for this one anyway. Give it a go if you’re willing to fight your corner – I can imagine it stiffening any man’s resolve!
Jirlenaf – :
I loved Tonnare and was equally interested what else BeauFort had to offer and this one didn’t disappoint. The opening is absolutely heavenly improving on a Nasomatto type theme by just making things a little more grown up and evoking a time and place gone by.
I’d say it’s smoky but not in the usual and obvious way, and resinous in an almost gourmand sense but savory…if that makes any sense? The rum is adding it’s booziness, the gunpowder works right through to the dry down giving an amazing quality and freshening proceedings with hints of earth, metal and greenness. Then the tobacco resides in the heart of Iron Duke. Notes which are all plainly displayed in a quite brilliant composition that dries down to a real and sumptuous leather but with that resinous woody quality there too. This is a triumph of a fragrance, brilliantly realised, well balanced and oozing with quality. The fragrance starts out fantastically and dries down to a mature and earthy smell, which I can’t fault in any way. The name of this fragrance is fitting right from the first sniff….Iron Duke is not the sledgehammer you might expect and definitely shows more restraint that Tonnare. Both share the bold, refined and considered qualities which seem to be the calling card of this house.
pbmp – :
Rorshach1004’s review captures the feeling perfectly! The inspiration for this one is a cavalryman riding his horse through battle, complete with the aroma of saddle leather, gunpowder, and a hint of pipe smoking before riding. On my skin, the amalgam is an extravagant outdoorsy larger-than-life scent that reminds me of the best pepper scents. There’s a green, spicy, peppery underlying accord that makes this smell fresh and clean. Reminds some of saddle soap. The construction is so expert, I kept smelling my wrist to pick out different notes! Definitely a pleasure!
Memnb455JeomiWogkig – :
A very interesting fragrance. Closing my eyes I find myself in the times of the old American west. I am walking up to an old weathered barn. Opening the door I am overwhelmed with the odors withing the barn. The most powerful being the piles of gunpowder that line walls. A group of men look up at me from their table where they are playing cards, drinking rum and smoking crude cigars. Lanterns flicker in the barn and light dances off of the saddles piled up in front of me. These scents mix together with the underlying odor of the animals that used to live in this barn. The men draw their guns from their well worn leather holsters and point them at me… Yes, I get the sense of impending danger from this scent…. or a night out with the boys in the old west… depending on if you are friend or foe…
ID is a high quality scent that has great projection and longevity on my skin. I see this as much more of a masculine scent than feminine scent. It works better in causal attire, but I can wear this in a suit.
Bottom line: This one is worth a sample.
VALERY-SS – :
Boozy gunpowder.
It’s exactly the notes sown above gunpowder, tobacco, & leather in a boozy bag. The dominant is the gunpowder, but i do smell something i have smelled before but i just can’t remember what it is! maybe it’s cement.
the colder it goes the leathier it become, as it turns balsamic, with few citrus, and slight mint. It goes salty as well & sometimes i feel there is linden. It reminds me of “Kinski” fragrance.
It is fair.
Inkov_Timur – :
SOTD/Testing Beaufort’s Iron Duke, which was launched last weekend at PITTI. Appropriate, as today marks the anniversary of The Iron Duke’s death. This is the first scent that I have had the opportunity to try from Beaufort, and I’m well impressed with it. People have said that it’s quite reminiscent of Guerlain’s classic Habit Rouge, and I must admit, the leather note in Iron Duke does give that impression. But Iron Duke, is much more that just a leather scent, there’s guns, the wood from the ships, gunpowder. To me, it’s what his private study at No1 London, or Apsley House as it is more well known, would have smelled like. It’s a scented holographic image of the Duke himself. A big thank you to Bloom Perfumery in London for sending the sample out so quickly.
Rodsesque – :
Starts with a strong boozy note, and morphs into a deep, rich, smoky, opulence that is redolent of smoke-filled men’s clubs of a bygone age, when Britain was still ‘Great’ and Napoleon skulked and moaned in defeated solitude on the island of Saint Helena. You can get a sample from the official company website, and I strongly advise that you do. The fragrance, like the Iron Duke himself, is a loud, proud, bold, brash, winner. To experience it is to reconnect with the somnambulant masculine defiance of a bygone age. Can you feel the stirrings of reconnection with the glorious ancestors of the heroic past? I feel it. I feel it in the air, in the mood of the Brexit country, the scent of the past re-igniting a new age of self-reliance, optimism and pride. Britain is freeing itself from the chains of the continental tyrant once again. Petty continental collectivists come and go, but Britain is forever. Our little island will be ‘Great’ again. In a smoke filled room of eternity the Iron Duke watches over us, raises his glass, roars a defiant toast, and launches Britannia into a future as proud and heroic as the celebrated, glorious, triumphant past.