6 reviews for Mark Buxton Renegades

1. 

   rus17 – 2022-06-07:

   3 out of 5

   Cannabis is a hidden note in this lovely fragrance, which is reminiscent of Kinski for the first few hours of wearing it. The difference is that Kinski is warmer and more suitable for winter and fall, whereas M. B. is greener and can be worn even in summer. Smoke for the Soul By Kilian is suitable for summer too.
   After a few hours the cannabis scent fades away, and other green notes get stronger, and the guaiac wood and leather get bolder. The scent lasts more than twelve hours with a good sillage.
2. 

   Katherine_fromAC – 2022-06-07:

   5 out of 5

   There is something very ironic about the independent project created by Mark Buxton, Geza Schoen and Bertrand Duchaufour. When creating a project called Renegades the trio of classically trained perfumers want to have fun, do something different and strive to establish something unique. The problem is that apparently the only thing they have actually achieved is to have fun, since the promise to do something challenging that seems to break with the corporate world in practice reflects is that they may not even realize that they have incorporated corporate practices, since the world of business has more faces and sizes than a caricature of mass perfumes.
   Of the 3 perfumers perhaps the most unknown is Mark Buxton, since his commercial apogee happened when the niche perfumery began to gain body. He is together with Bertrand Duchaufour a great responsible for establishing as vanguardist the line of perfumes of the Comme des Garcons in the decade of 90 and 2000, creating icons like the original CDG and the CDG 2. Looking at the fragrantica it is possible to see that he has a catalog extensive and diversified that goes from mass perfumery to more artisanal and authorial one. Mark Buxton is not exactly a Renegade, he is one of the minds that has helped shape the more subtle and pervasive sides of the niche and commercial perfumery of the past two decades.
   The fact is that I expected his fragrance free of charge and full of creativity and natural elements something innovative and that would take his style to a new level, but his perfume seems more a reflection of his career than something innovative. Renegades Mark Buxton reminds me of his most well-known and complex perfume, CDG 2 Man, but instead of being more daring the composition seems more restrained, just as if someone had pruned his freedom. There are also echoes of the scent of his friend, Geza Schoen, with a green note reminiscent of the Kinski perfume cannabis idea. It is as if this were more a collage of ideas, as if the 3 perfumers had thrown on the table their favorite accords and used and chosen to make a mix of them. I also see influences of the green and acid scent of Rhubarb from the perfume of Douchafour to Aedes Venustas. And what perhaps strikes me most here is something that takes on a slightly earthy and vegetable scent of irises that gains a prominence amidst a vegetable base and a brilliant aldehyde scent on the way out.
   What I think is sadder of this is that 3 such talented perfumers have to use the same tricks and bullshit of marketing that they say they are fighting. Why the hell are you going to create an avatar on a project where you will ultimately reflect your own style? Or reject the system by mixing ideas you used in it? Conceptually the Renegades project is a mess that does not make sense, but the compound perfume is good after all because even with a ridiculous concept the 3 perfumers can do something decent because they are really good.
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   bigtipica – 2022-06-07:

   3 out of 5

   Funny name since there is nothing radical about the fragrance. Buxton’s creations during the 90’s matrixed this type of masculines; angular, crisp structures supporting mainly woody forms. These haughty hybrids flirt dangerously with crudeness but evade it through great perfumery skills and good materials. Incidentally, the present vogue indulges perfumers to further peel off layers of an already gaunt style of perfumes producing scents that are becoming alarmingly bare. Buxton’s renegade is basically a de riguer variation of a bitter green theme (galbanum, vetiver, incense, pepper) supported by powerful wood ambers. It short of works but leans a bit too much towards the side of French Lover only a shade drier. Nice job but why the daft bottle.
4. 

   IIomudop – 2022-06-07:

   4 out of 5

   Available at LuckyScent (100 ml eau de toilette $210 US)
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   bootman2001 – 2022-06-07:

   4 out of 5

   I agree with the similarities to Blow Up but where that one settles in on a strangely herbal and blasé drydown this one amplifies the smoky and resinous side of things. the result is a much more exciting and wearable fragrance and one of the better things Buxton has done since the early 2000’s.
   Theres a lot of strange components to this and it changes a ton through wear. At one point it reminds me of wet paint, at another point I get a cannabis accord which slowly evolves into a strange bitter-green vetiver with an aromachemical that reminds me of an electrical fire (think Noise from Ephemera’s Unsound). It eventually settles in on this dark, almost oily black leather vibe with a warmly sweet resinous underbelly and a bright, cutting sort of greenness overtop. Not the easiest fragrance to describe but quite pleasant.
   Performance is much much better than Blow up as well. Strangely out of the 3 Renegades, my least favorite perfumer of the trio ended up making my favorite of the batch. Worth a try for fans of the modern and bitter-sweet.
   7.5/10
6. 

   ufdhji75 – 2022-06-07:

   3 out of 5

   Smokey/vegetable/leather delight!
   A little bit similar to Blow up-Cinema olfactive but on steroids. It’s like you’re a daily weed smoker that has his leather biker jacket all smoked up.
   Absolutely wonderful and definitely the only Renegade from the line !