Description
L’Aigle de la Victoire by Rance 1795 is a Leather fragrance for men. L’Aigle de la Victoire was launched in 2013.
The manly, penetrating notes of agarwood and leather captivate your mind, releasing a hypnotic sensuousness. The most daring among Rancé 1795 Fragrances has come back with a new, bewitching soul. In 2015 the fragrance was reformulated.
A bold interpretation of the leather note, the Fragrance debuts with fresh notes of Mediterranean bergamot and grapefruit. The heart unveils fruity raspberry touches, mixed with the aromatic birch. At the base, the Perfume’s burning soul: the opulent elegance of
sandalwood and cedarwood, which daringly match with oud and vetiver. The sensual vanilla gives the Fragrance a bewitching final touch.
Before reformulation top notes were calabrian bergamot and bay leaf; middle notes are thyme, birch, patchouli and labdanum; base notes are agarwood (oud), incense, vetiver and leather.
The nose behind this fragrance is Giovanni Rancé.
Kaidia – :
Not for the faint hearted, it is a very competitive and self-assured scent, that is as domineering as it is imperiously manly.
At first glance you may think of him too assertively dominant, ballsy to the point of almost annoying, but he is just a naturally masculine and macho animal who always wears leather driving gloves (with a tad of a short men in high heeled boots complex).
It could also easily be mistaken for one of Tom of Finlands half dressed in leather / half naked (indulging in sodomy acts against a birch tree) yummy characters as well.
This is a men essence in a bottle.
WARNING: proceed with caution!
yana04 – :
Aristocratic perfume with a strong aura – fitting for a scent whose inspiration is the hallmark victory of Napoleon.
Powdery cedar with powerful leather undertones. With a dash of warm herbal patchouli with animalic hints. I have the new version, which is very wearable. Good sillage and longevity. It’s complex formula is a pleasure to wear, and although mostly linear, there are some subtle nuances during the drydown that bring out oud and bergamot. Classic masculine French sophistication.
webdesinger – :
Rance 1795 L’Aigle de la Victoire. the blast of patchouli and leathery notes in the opening is harsh and it comes so suddenly like thunder striking on your head in midnight. very soon, i recover from the shock and now i can pick the mysterious birch note and it’s getting stronger but tenderer at the same time. it’s like i’m stepping into a forest somewhere in Europe. it’s cold and quiet first. i sense danger coming out from somewhere at anytime. however, this scent has become so comfortable that calms me down… it’s like a shelter to protect me from harm. i feel fantastic being covered by this scent. the very final touch that i get at the end is very similar to that i get from Carner Barcelona Cuirs, which i also adore very much. L’Aigle de la Victoire is by far my best blind buy in 2016!
i am not sure if my bottle is pre-formulated or reformulated. it lasts over 24 hours on paper and approximately 10 hours on me. great sillage.
ETA: i ordered another bottle and this time i believe i received it in the original formulation. the fecal scent in the opening is much stronger and longer-lasting. i enjoy this scent and yes it is very special but i highly doubt about its wearability. the reformulated version is tamed and more pleasant, in my honest opinion.
artistka – :
@avagard you are certainly testing the refolmulated.
The old one has a monstrous sillage and projection
qaw119speagoessenda – :
Super dry fecal dusty leather and oud, I smell neither bergamot nor raspberry, the super earthy base for me is not patchouli but Nagarmotha whose ueber dusty smell reminds of Henna powder once widely used to paint hair. Really masculine but too close to skin, very minimal sillage and projection. It evokes something very gloomy, much more than Black Tourmaline or the similar. Not too pricey for being “niche” but anyway overpriced for what you get.
andnadandnad1 – :
Well..looks like the eagle turned into a pigeon
They have reformulated it…
and it’s less than half the power and the beauty of the old one.
There goes another beauty…
desmodeuS – :
est on: paper strip.
Impression: wood, old wooden cabinet drawer.
It’s perfectly the same scent as my drawer in my bedroom, at my parents house.
I always wondering why my drawer smells extremely pungent.
Hate the scent. But now, the nostalgic scent, kinda grows in me. And goes into my wishlist.
More in depth review after purchase.
Clone: Ralph lauren green.
infileque – :
Warning! This perfume had been reformulated and is very different from what is described in these reviews.
They (Rancé) have decided to lighten the original with the prospect of selling more easily.
Pity.
bogos09 – :
Beautiful.
An animalic expression of birch and leather. At first I thought it smells like excrement, a lot of excrement in a bag. Wrong. This is not it. To me it’s birch at its best, wrapped in leather and some musk plus some spices to make it even more interesting. It has a little bit of Fumidus, but it’s even better, it’s not a clone nor a copy.
Longevity and sillage – both are through the roof. I had to take three(!) showers to wash it off me for good.
This is a winner, the best fragrance released in 2013, without any doubts.
Гроссмейстер – :
I brought home a sample of L’Aigle de la Victoire from my local perfume shop, along with a few others, noteworthy for their skank/tar notes. The opening of this one rivals that of my beloved Oud Cuir D’Arabie, although they smell differently. Four tiny sprays from my little sample vial kept my nose more or less surrounded by a wonderfully rich and raunchy composition for an entire day. I think what I like most about this one is the unique dry down, which maintains much of the skankiness while avoiding the amber/vanilla dry down of Knize Ten (which is quite civilized, compared to L’AdlV). For the whole day, I felt engulfed in a warm cloud of perfectly balanced raunchy leather and green, woody herbs and incense. I haven’t been this excited about an animalic leather fragrance in quite a while! You must try this because nothing else smells like it.
androsin – :
Le caleçon de Napoléon après une grande victoire devait sentir approximativement comme ça.
Superbe!
Napoleon underpants after a big victory should smell approximately like this !
Superb!
Darkzone – :
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
L’Aigle De La Victoire is an uncompromising, straight-forward and extremely potent skanky / woody leather that immediately gained a spot up there together with the most popular testosterone-monsters in this genre.
I’m gonna give you a bunch of parameters so that you can’t say you haven’t been warned of what kind of monster this is. Rien and Leather Oud are the first ones that come to mind. If not for objective similarities (which are there BTW), surely for their striking and uncompromising iterations of leather…but then also, Boadicea The Victorious Complex, Mazzolari Lui, Montecristo, Oud 27, Yatagan, Parfum D’Habit…ok I’ll stop it here.
So, it’s an hardcore sweaty leather with a thick animalic presence and green-resinoid (incense) facets. A dirty patch note reinforces the overall dark-woody vibe by providing a kind of creepy vein. The most interesting aspect though, is that L’Aigle De La Vctoire is built around an extremely classic bone structure that brings to mind of several masculine chypres of the past while still feeling anything but derivative. Again, thick, ballsy, daring and, in the end, even reasonably priced. Kudos to Rancè 1795 for delivering such a anachronistic and unapologetic beauty.
Tremendous sillage and beyond exceptional longevity. Skank-lovers, you’ve been warned. The others, should probably stay carefully away from this.
Rating: 8.5-9/10
OMEN696 – :
I sprayed it today on my skin for the first time. The opening is very strong & intensive. A bitter floral, woody & spicy scent and a little bit citrusy. I think the floral bitterness is from Thyme. YES! it’s definitely thyme. 😀
I don’t have a skilled nose, but I could smell some dirty animalic scent from the beginning that lasts until the end .
After some minutes (about 30) that herbal-floral and citrusy notes became moderate, you can clearly smell leather, oud and vetiver. But not that kind you probably get used to it. This oud is very oriental. Vetiver & leather have some old-dirty mood.
As I know “Victorie” designed by Jeanne Sandra Rancé in the tribute to Napoleon. So it should smell like this; An Old Powerful Masculine scent.
“L’Aigle de la Victoire” has moderate sillage with great longevity. It doesn’t suit me, but I really admire and like it.