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Alex-Dnepr – :
This is a really interesting scent and I am still somewhat unsure what to think. There is a lot going on in the beginning but as soon as the drydown happens, this reminds me 100% of the scent you can get when walking by blooming Mimosa trees or smelling those yellow blossom bushes that are so common on the slopes of Vesuvio. There is an interplay of violet and woodiness even though “wood” isn’t a component that I find particularly descriptive. Feels really old school and maybe slightly behind the times in 2018.
lohoduwv – :
Carthusia uno reminds me at earlier times, an olds perfumes like eau sauvage by Dior, or Pour Homme by Van Cleef & Arpels, these greats scents signed by great noses. The nose behind this scent is a woman (It’s never too late) who was assigned by The old and noble house Carthusia a big Lady Mrs Laura Tonatto.
Uno openes with orange and bergamote notes, followed after twenty minutes by a very very little touch of violet delicatly and perfectely balanced with aromatique herbs rosemary and thyme, then after 30 minutes the base is sublimed by noble sandalwood and vetiver. A fresh scent perfect for the summer.
edik9114 – :
it’s a soft, smoothly blended herbal scent. oddly, i get a slight ‘flat cola’ scent from it
Alex_1977-77 – :
This opens up soft with a slight medicinal mossy powdery aroma. And then you can smell violet and vetiver adding to the mix. Adding to this is herbs and musk.
It smells strange and uneven to my nose and the violet with that medicinal accord stand out like a sore thumb. Good ingredients but not to my taste.
uxi915speagoessenda – :
Numero Uno is a traditional Italian scent filtered through a woody chypre lens. It is bitter, herbal, camphorous and balsamic, with patchouli in place of the usual oak moss chypre base. Comparisons to Mitsouko are inapt; it’s more of an ’80s masculine chypre than the fruity moss bomb of Guerlain’s classic. It’s nicely done and very naturalistic, but too fusty and traditional to hold my interest.
volka7777 – :
Great Italian type sent. The longevity is amazing and although sillage is soft those you want close to you will be able to enjoy it. Very fair price for such a quality product. Carthusia is not a house thats well know so you get to wear a fragrance that’s not at all common. I don’t get the old man thing at all. I would substitute “old” with “classy” and thats my take on Numero Uno by Carthusia.
viktor4140 – :
عطر كلاسيكي أنيق
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maximk2001 – :
Its Old School. 3 Notes. The leafy oily note takes first place, though its second tempo in-line.
Straight forward and no complications but sophisticated.
I am carried away in imagination and memory to a small town.
Stone houses built from wall-to-wall within intimate lanes and roads with cobble stones. White faded picket fences with paint peeling off, climate is cold and people are selfish, all unto themselves. Uncut lawns with wild flowers growing in corners coming up through the fence. Homes are well kept with furniture handed from previous generations. Clean and Self centered.
Its a gloomy day and skies are cast with thunder storms.
You want to buy some good tobacco from an old shop selling antiques, stamps and stale chocolate and old books.
And suddenly from the back of your mind, You are reminded of the great things the Greeks and Romans did and wonder why the hell you are born unto this shit stale town.
The perfume reminds me of great nations, of merriment and plenty.
Use only if you can carry this well. Its brute and classy on a classy person and its cheap and foul on a man known to take short cuts and who does not understand or discuss the values of quality.
Wear lightly
Dry eau de cologne-like fragrance
Ok for any season
Linear
Fresh Beautiful Orange note vanishes after a few minutes.
Skin Notes after 2 hours on a sweaty day is pleasant.
Mezgu139InsuffBooni – :
This is a fragrance that sings of a bygone era. This stuff goes way beyond old school. This fragrance feels ‘ancient’ and because of that it transcends the typical labels of ‘Dad’s cologne’ or ‘Old Man’s scent’ that are often projected onto fragrances steeped in tradition.
I can’t explain how enjoyable this fragrance is – not because it is better than most fragrances or more groundbreaking – because it’s not. Instead it is because it is so unlike the endless coveyor belt of current designer fragrances. As I sniff this I feel like I have stepped into a time capsule that’s taken me back a few hundred years.
I can visualize the image of someone in a little laboratory room crafting fragrance from recipes loosely scrawled on small pieces of paper. Dipping into old overused glass flasks filled with natural extractions and little satchels of various precious resins.
There is a potent herbal freshness in the initial application that soon gives way to a natural resinous softness. The combination of herbs and resins gives way to something engrained in my past – akin to scent saturated wood in an old church.
It is somehow unique yet recognizable at the same time. It feels familiar even though I cannot pinpoint where I have smelled those resinous dry-down notes before.
The brilliance of Laura Tonatto is evident in this fragrance. All together enjoyable and strangely makes me think of the paintings of Fra Angelico.
charger – :
Dark green herbs & spices…
This is a nice woody “chypre” style fragrance. I like it a lot! It has just enough spice and kick to keep it interesting and with character.
I want to say it’s a “mossy” fragrance… but there’s no oakmoss listed in the notes. Instead, there are a selection of many different dry green herbs and labdanum, which gives this a rustic, bitter and green feel. The real component that sets it apart is the orange note… and the orange here is paired up with the background bitter, moss-like herbs to give it an overall masculine feel.
This really is like Guerlain – Mitsouko but with an orange note. However Mistouko is sweeter overall. I also think this that Numero Uno is more bitter, and therefore more masculine. I would say this is Mitsouko but mixed with Terre d’Hermès. It has a rugged, “dirty” or “mossy” orange… amongst all the Mediterranean herbs and spices. I think it’s a very good choice for men.
This is definitely one that more men should check out. The price (for a niche house) is not so high as other brands. It’s a fragrance which evokes the masculine styles of the past (the fougères and mossy chypres of the past) but with a unique modern twist (the orange note). Very wearable. In fact it has got me noticed and complimented whilst wearing it. Very nice, and definitely worth a look
raketka – :
Soapy-salty-herbal-muskiness in a bottle! Did I say musky? This bright yet bitter bold fragrance is unique in the sense that it’s executed with a relatively traditional concept in mind. Resulting in something that’s not necessarily “new”, but rather made in a simple fashion. An underrated new-classic and a personal favorite!
Astosyses – :
Numero Uno can’t help but have high expectations with a name like that.
It’s a classic take on the chypre type perfume I’d have sworn there’s oakmoss in here as it has that trditional feel. In essence it’s a woody warm, slightly floral, herbal, musk fragrance. Opens with bergamot and clean vetiver then the sharp labdanum, and myhrr start to come through. Then as it dries down settles to a more herbal type fragrance with patchouli, all these elements excellently balanced and don’t take long to transition & quickly settle into a singular entity.
I get a kind of animal smell, it’s a natural one of pheromones, like skin or more specifically…scalp.
Bare with me on this one.
Some fragrances evoke this quality of when I kiss my girlfriend on the top of her head and I get a slightly herbal, soapy, shampoo, hair and warm scalp smell. Sounds a bit pervy I know…I don’t have a scalp fetish honestly.
So a good fragrance then…good but not great. It certainly communicates what it needs to with clarity and has good longevity and projection on my skin.
byvalyi – :
mitsouko dei poveri. allora accattatevi mitsouko! trattasi infatti di colonia con note erbacee, floreali e chypre di fondo. l’evoluzione è comunque piuttosto monocorde e parte da agrumi strasentiti, senza passare per la complessità dinamica di mitsouko . ricorda vagamente il floyd dei barbieri… se si considera il costo di un profumo di nicchia, direi di non soffermarsi su cose inutili come questa.
genacva13 – :
Very simple generic men’s floral chypre. You like the smell and you’ve smelled it before but nothing about it excites you.
Putting what I just said a side. It is decent and priced fairly.
Good one for the office or for someone who wants to wear a conservative cologne that no one will be offended by.
Just average longevity and sillage.
StydayHeake – :
When I embarked on an excursion to the isle of Capri, complete with a boat ride through the grotto apparently depicted in the Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue ads, I had no idea that Carthusia was a serious perfume house. At the time (way back in 2003), I knew very little about Italian perfumery at all. So when I hiked up the hill and browsed in the gift shops and found that one of them had local-made perfume laid out on tables to beckon tourists, I picked up a bottle of Fiori di Capri simply as a souvenir of my journey to such a beautiful place.
It turned out to be a good floral perfume, if a bit sharp for my tastes, but I still never investigated its provenance until relatively recently. It turns out that Carthusia makes excellent perfumes, including Numero Uno, which I am wearing today.
This fragrance is marketed to men, and upon initial application it seems like just another fine men’s aromatic cologne. All of the usual suspects are present: lavender, orange, rosemary, vetiver… It smells like an herbal-citrus cologne for a few minutes. What happens next, however, is a transformation to a truly delightful grassy chypre deserving of the name “perfume”.
At this stage I am reminded of something along the lines of Balmain Balmain–strangely enough marketed to women, though many find it to be masculine–proving yet again that gender designations are meaningless.
Numero Uno is not a masculine fragrance but a refined unisex grassy chypre perfect for spring and summertime but wearable all year round because it smells so great!
mnhung1712 – :
wonderful manly, playful, seductive scent. Numero Uno is a scent I could wear everyday, just might be a great signature. A statement of your masculinity, but not overly masculine if you know what I mean.. a woody, herbal beautiful scent that makes me think of the roman coliseum..all the fragrant smells that would have been going on a personal type of man smell.. , a masculine scent that’s for sure but not overpowering and actually quite an elegant scent but it also exudes a distinctive aroma and in a pleasing way very herbal. people around me seem to like this too.that is always a positive, have been told that smells like a bath oil .i get the patchouli / citrus note at first ..but that is not the dominant scent to me.. i pick up the aroma of that era like an incense burning in the background. really an earthy warm and powerful scent.where is my sword and shield? i think achilles wore this one. worth a try…got my sample from lucky scent.a few dabs stayed with me for a while…so good longevity from my point of view. one that i want to add to my growing collection, and my wife likes it..so a winner! and only the winner goes to dinner!
kinlyseilla – :
Soapy, green, floral, a little herbal and spicy, it reminds me of an old-fashioned lavender-based cologne. As it dries down it sweetens a bit, but the lavender remains prominent. It goes through a phase where it smells a little fruity, but then it goes back to the lavender cologne and stays in that mode until it finally disappears 12 hours or more later. It has enough sillage to make its presence known and has excellent longevity, but is at no point overpowerlingly strong.
It’s a well-made, conventionally “masculine” scent that would be wearable by anyone in a wide spectrum of situations. Not wildly exciting, but pleasant and dependable.
Kedsroorm – :
smells like a herbal bath, quite a relaxing feel to It
Chin65 – :
Gorgeous soapy chypre. There is something striking and hugely appealing about the cool, soapy quality created by a woody bitter orange, camphorous herbs and violet in Numero Uno. The chypre base of moss and patchouli gives a damp underpinning, but it’s the particular floral/herbal accord that defines Numero Uno from start to finish. A first cousin to Chanel Pour Monsieur’s chypre on one side and Grey Flannel’s violet-orange fougère on the other.
lkjhgfdsa – :
WARNING: Lots of Mitsouko comparisons below. Proceed with caution.
Numero Uno is a full-blooded chypre in smell; I instantly thought of Mitsouko, but with an orange note. I guess you could call this a masculine Mitsouko, although I always found Mitsouko to be unisex. Anyway, I prefer this one to Mitsouko and it lasts longer for me. It retains the sunny, peachy brightness of the vintage Mitsouko Eau de Cologne.
Overall, I think Numero Uno is a brilliant chypre with a sunny, laid-back Mediterranean feel. I think it’s suitable for both men and women and the price ain’t half bad for a niche firm. Definitely try it.
Alina – :
Occasionally I tire of the mass of aquatics and citrus scents that I smell on the men around me. Discovering Numero Uno was a nice change, something unique and pleasing.
Numero Uno is quite herbaceous, but not in an overly green sense. It has this deliciously smooth and soothing blend of herbs, with the lavender in particular giving it that dreamy feel.
I bought a sample of this for my boyfriend to wear and I absolutely adored it. I liked it not because it was sexy, or because it was particularly bold, I found myself attracted to its friendliness. It made him smell so approachable and cuddly. It actually makes a wonderful bed-time scent.
Some might say that this is a fragrance for older men, but I disagree. I also think despite its rather masculine scent, a woman could also wear this. The subtle, powdery violet in the heart makes it a tad unisex.
Sharp notes of orange only feature for a few seconds in the opening. I get a lot of rosemary, lavender, patchouli, violet, musk and myrrh in this fragrance. The eucalyptus note is there, but I can’t guarantee that you’ll smell like the Australian bushland with this fragrance, although it does have a rugged feel to it.
The longevity is wonderful, however the sillage is rather soft, hence the reason why I find this a pleasing bed-time scent. Numero Uno is not for everyone but it’s worth a try.
nikartg – :
I think it`S really #1 for men! The citrus/herbaceous opening is truly head-spinning yet controlled. Shortly thereafter, the myrrh note appears. This note’s role transports the somewhat linear, yet unique whole into its woody and musky drydown. I am not a fan of some musks, but this slightly soapy one works for me. I don’t get much of the eucalyptus or vetiver in this composition. They’re present but only as supporting roles. The main green/herb note appears to be thyme. The violet-ylang, heart accord is what makes Numero Uno special for me. If natural, unique and transcendental are your thing, go for it.