Description
New York Man was created for the Peace-Love-Perfume Project, a collaborative project launched by Carlos Powell in celebration of his highly active community of perfume lovers. Perfumers were asked to create fragrances based on the Peace-Love-Perfume logo.
Shelley Waddington of En Voyage Perfumes intertwined meditative wafts of incense with rich musks and ambers, and added in some “City Lifestyle” notes to represent that special New York Man who is everything a man should be; peaceful yet sexy and strong, ready for action, and secure enough to share his softer, sweeter side.
Peace Notes: Incense, Myrrh, Sandalwood, Smoke, Patchouli, Cannabis Flower, Natural Oudh, Resins.
Love Notes: Sexy Animal Notes of Musk, Ambergris, Castoreum.
Perfume/Cologne Notes: Citrus Notes, Fir and Cedar, Herbal Notes, Jasmine.
Bonus Notes of Scotch and Cigars.
New York Man is an eau de parfum, available as a 1/4 oz. spray. New York Man was launched in 2014.
SerjGroza – :
This is simply one of the sexiest musky perfume “for men” ever! I never really cared about musks, but this one really blew my mind! How can it be so addicting!? Turns out, maybe it’s not a “musky perfume” after all (at least according to other voters); maybe what I perceived as sexy cinnamony musk is in fact balsamic tobacco? Either way, it’s really good–animalic and warm, yet tamed with class.
Thomas_D – :
This is very well made, good silage and amazing longevity. Do I love, love, love it no, but I do like, like like it YES. Will you love or like it, I don’t know, but it’s certainly worthy of a try.
Евген24 – :
The idea of New York Man was a collaborative effort between Carlos of Brooklyn Fragrance Lover (on YouTube), his Peace, Love, and Perfume (PLP) group on Facebook, and Shelley Waddington of En Voyage Perfumes.
The notes include: the “peace notes” of ncense, myrrh, sandalwood, smoke, patchouli, cannabis flower, natural oudh, and resins. The “love notes” are notes of animal musk, ambergris, and castoreum, with bonus notes of scotch and cigars. Shelley classifies this as an animalic woody aromatic.
The notes really belie what kind of fragrance this really is, however. To look at the breakdown, one might easily think this was only for fall or winter wear, and that it was gigantically bold and unrepentantly in-your-face masculine. It’s not. Despite the masculine notes, they come together in a wonderfully gentle, way. Myrrh, incense, and resins dominate, but there is a soft greenness and distant jasmine that surrounds the whole scent which makes it quite nice. These subtle touches make it more versatile and open to wear in more seasons. The spices – my nose picks up mostly cinnamon and clove – are wispy and clean, not the aggressive type that jump down your nose and make you want to sneeze. I personally never get whiskey on my skin, which is A-okay by me. A nice, creamy sandalwood provides a pedestal for everything to rest on. As it ages on my skin, anything that was faintly animalic in the opening has toned down, and a spiced sandalwood with hints of leather and musk remain.
This is really quite a surprise to the nose. Not your average spicy, woody scent, and by no means a “freshy,” but actually a little bit of both. In going with Shelley’s vision of the refined New York man, she undoubtedly chose to make a perfume that does not scream out for attention, and she succeeded. I get average longevity on my skin, perhaps four or five hours, with one or two hours of a nice cloud of sillage. The person who wears this commands attention, but doesn’t demand it.
If you like spices, myrrh, resins, incense, and tobacco, but also want something that is well-behaved and sophisticated, I would definitely opt for this. Women attracted to similar notes should not let the name of the perfume deter you from trying this. While I think smelling this on a man with a three-piece suit would make almost anyone swoon, there’s something about this that lends itself to being worn by women, too – especially once you give it several minutes to dry down on the skin. As with any sophisticated New York man (or woman), there’s much more here than meets the eye, and Shelley Waddington has done a beautiful job at capturing much of it.
Verus – :
A bottle that small should be an extrait. 7 1/2 ml of an EDP? Why bother.
sidr1709 – :
The only word i can think about to sum up this perfume is the contradictory word. While most of Shelley fragrances already get me at the first moment, this was one that i didn’t know what to think, where to fit. Is it a clean or animalic perfume? A commonplace or a different one? A more mainstream thing or more artisanal? The question here for me is that it’s always the two things at the same time, never fully integrated but never fully separated either. Maybe this is the result of the project, a fragrance made to reflect 3 sides of a project to celebrate 3 years of the facebook community Peace Love Perfume at the same time it tries to reflect all the nuances of a NY Man.
Without looking the notes, New York Man made me think at first in sandalwood, musk, cardamom and alcoholic aromas. Exactly this combination of creamy spices and boozy aromas is what makes me think of something more mainstream, since it’s a theme being frequently explored at this sector of masculine creations lately. And then, altough i don’t see any spices listed on the fragrance notes, there is something spicy on it and this first impression i would relate to the Perfume/Cologne Notes of the project.
And it’s exacty in this first moment that the first contradiction came to me. Suddenly, there is another element in evidence and one that makes me think in an odd aroma, something that i would expect in a more conceptual thing. I see it, in a distorted form, a very urban aroma, something that reminds me of a metallic aroma, spray paint;The curious is that it seems to come from inside the boozy spicy aroma, as if it evaporated with it. Also in this moment, the second contradiction is that what was clean and mainstream suddenly start to develope discreet animalic nuances, a mixture that seems to be of earthy, musky, woody aromas. At this point, New York Man wins some points with me for presenting a moderate oud use, that doesn’t make it common, and also for having a very abstract floral nuance mixed into the animalic and controversial part. This is the Love side of the creation for me.
Finally, the last side i see is the Peace one, when after 2-3 hours the fragrance calms don on skin At this moment, i thought it had already gone and got disappointed, but as the temperature of the environment where i was started to warm up i noticed that this part from it seemed very natural, so very discreet and soft, a peaceful musk, a discreet woody and something slightly salty. Altough very pleasant, i just wished it was more intense on me.
Certainly New York Man seems to reach in a successful way the proposed concept, but the contradictions of man suggested in the NY man doesn’t seem to marry very well with what makes me happy. Anyway, it’s an interesting fragrance to notice changing, even more so due the surprise points it has during its journey.