To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
FriendMadison – :
While all the YouTube reviewers are busy focussing on Enigma, it is Reckless, Danger and Fetish that show off Roja’s best contributions to male perfumery. This is a stunning, fresh, spicy, green, woody fragrance of incredible depth and quality.
stas009 – :
Cinnamon, spice, sweetness. A woody backdrop. Stays pretty linear to me. It’s a seductive, date night scent. Girls tend to really like it and I’ve had a lot of compliments, both at work (which I really wouldn’t recommend this for!) and in a night out scenario.
Moderate to good longevity for me…maybe 5-7 hours where it’s easily noticeable and projects about a foot away for maybe 2-3 hours.
If you want this effect and can’t afford X or Reckless try Costume National Homme. I’m shocked it’s isn’t one of the comparative scents as they are very similar after you get through the sharp opening on the Costume National, also a great date scent.
A 9.0/10 for me. Worth getting your nose on.
1457471 – :
Very sound fragrance again by Roja. It’s not easy to tell what you are getting at first but it does seem to be a very slightly sweetened mixture of all the notes listed above
It’s a little woody, but never harsh nor pungent at all, very slightly boozy (maybe?) and some cinnamon, bay and the others I can detect.
I don’t quite get the unbound X comparisons. I find Reckless to be cleaner, more refreshing yet smoother and much more refined than the Clive christian.
The note pyramid makes it appear far more green than it actually is (for me) to the point I had been refusing to even sampling it as I was sure it would not be down my alley.
The Quality is superlative and the whole mixture modern and extremely refined; it has that ‘expensive smell’ where all key elements of woods, bits of resin, and buttery orris roots and the greens have been balanced and sweetened to make it almost mass appeal. It’s also very smooth, never getting ‘prickly’ or that annoying powdery vibe
The scent during the later drydown does get distinctively woodier instead of straight sweeter or balsamic / resinous, so I don’t quite prefer that but the quality is so good and other notes like the sweeter resins still balanced that it is a rare case of being ignorable for the greater good this time.
The hidden draw of this scent is the Styrax-incense accord. It’s amazing here in the drydown,, subtly sweet yet gentle but present and assuring.
Or maybe it’s another similar note (some are suggesting Ambergris?) but whatever it is, it’s nice and paired with the most gentle of sweetish incenses, it’s bordering Magnificent!
It’s not the perfect one for me but very rounded and good effort by Roja and a Great signature scent definitely. I may hunt around for a decant =)
My rating: 6/10
Quality: 10/10
wertymor – :
Okay, Roja Dove has now become the best Perfumer of all time, in my eyes. This is great!
qwe359 – :
Lovely scent, sillage is not as potent as some describe. I do not get citruses but I can definitely distinguish the bay leaves, the clove, the cardamom, labdanum and the lovely vetiver. This is a complex fragrance that develops really nicely in time, ingredients are so well balanced that at no point in time you can pinpoint any ingredient overpowering another. It is like a scents manège where clove, ginger and cinnamon chime in every now and then on a dark background of moss, wood, musk and the leathery labdanum. I could swear there is ambergris in it although it is not listed.
Scent: 8/10
Longevity: 7/10
Sillage: 7/10
Cost ratio: 0/10
Overall: 5.5/10
Don’t be Reckless save your money.
jbb687speagoessenda – :
This is a great fragrance, and it is nearly identical to Clive Chrisitan X for Men. If you were to blindfold me, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. If you like this composition, then flip a coin and confidently choose one of the two. They both are ridiculously expensive and their performance is similar: longevity is average (but better with X) and they sit close to the skin (especially Reckless).
Reckless is a touch earthier, and I’m sure Roja would say his ingredients are higher quality. On the other hand, X offers more dry, natural cinnamon … but these are minor nuances. I scored X a perfect 10/10, so in fairness, Reckless would earn the same. If originality or longevity matter to you, then subtract accordingly.
I purchased X, because I tried it first and it was love at first sniff. One note of caution: I grow anosmic to Reckless quickly. For that reason, I would suggest that you sample both.
matroskin-l – :
another great creation from Roja Dove……
ebd967Unlogrere – :
This fragrance by far is amazing, i like it’s originality and it’s amazing correspondence with the name. once i sniffed it i felt the rebellionity and the recklessness of a man who is nasty and dirty good! elegant but playable, masculine and virile in away that made him admirable to all! the main dirt was the Henna note that made it naughty accompanying the cardamon and the dirty cinnamon that mixed with bay leaves & cloves and results in the henna effect. it is amazing although it’s quite expensive. this is NEVER repetitive and it’s quality is amazing.
At last i am resembled 😀
rus 28 – :
This is one of my top picks for the Roja Dove line. In a nutshell, this is a citrusy, labdanum, powerdy wood scent. Once it’s first applied, straight away you will smell lemon and bergamot with a hint of ginger and cinnamon lingering behind it. At the end, cedar, sandalwood and labdanum greet each other which are the prominent base notes giving this scent it’s final sweet powdery wood finish. When I first sampled this, my girlfriend said it smelt like Clive Christian X for men. She was spot on! This scent is very similar. I’d say this scent almost has the same identical top notes to CCX. This scent is extremely well blended. It flows so smoothly.
The more I smell Roja’s collection, the more it reminds me of other scents. It’s almost like he’s taken well known signature scents and created a remix for it or has tried to reinvent them. Like he’s taken oringinal ideas and has changed the way they should be in his world. I won’t give Roja an 10/10 for creativity but I’ll give him a 10/10 for quality and chemistry. He doesn’t paint his own pictures from his own imagination but give him a picture to paint and he’ll blow you away with his detailed artistic hand.
My advice to the wearer of this scent is apply it when going out and night during the colder months. If you want to smell modern and distinguished then this is a killer choice. People will be intrigued to know more about who you are when you walk by. I see this being worn by guy that can get after it, a guy that doesn’t live by the rules and yet, he rules.
*Projection 10/10 has a great silage. You’ll change the way the room smells
*Longevity 9/10 lastest all day but softens a bit
*Day time and night time scent
*Fall, winter or cool spring day
steergecaks – :
Everybody likes the guy that works hard but nobody likes the guy that tells you how hard they work. A tale fitting for the only ordained professor in the world of fragrances. That title alone should tell you everything you need to know about Roja Dove the person. Some may refer to his level of arrogance as Reckless. What a great segue to the actual topic. Say what you want about the man but he can make some damn fragrances! Note wise, this is a Reckless mixture of accords. Opens as a musky bay leaf dipped in bergamot juice. A stingy dose of labdanum gives it a ambery presence but not too sweet. Musky cloves start the process of elimination as it pertains to the lavender, but the lavender is never truly eliminated. It hovers like a condor swooping in at different times to remind you of that unmistakable masculine touch. Incense starts to emerge as Reckless goes into a slightly oriental direction. Not long after, the smoky elements disappears and what’s left is something less than a cavalcade of aromatics. As always consider the price…..
serg_mlt – :
EN. This is a general review for all 7 men’s fragrances by Dove Roja, which I received from his boutique in Harrods (London) as 2ml pure perfume samples. Well, what can I say about… I’m sorry I wasted $210 just to satisfy my curiosity.
So, in order of things:
1 First of all, the most famous and most publicized Dove Roja’s perfume – Diaghilev doesn’t smell like, Mitsouko, or like a mixture any the other Guerlain’s fragrances, as can often be found in the various review here, however, in its initial notes it slightly reminiscences the opening of Vol de Nuit (pure perfume edition), Diaghilev, as to me, is weaker and with some strange bitterness, which fortunately disappears after about an hour. Well, in general is not bad, but I would not wear it, as I would not wear the other 5 of 7 men’s fragrances from Roja that I have received, the exception would be Roja’s Scandal pour homme.
2 Nüwa, as I expected from the list of ingredients, smells hard of cumin and frankly is just unbearable. It ‘a kind of suffocating stench of sweaty men in a concentrated mixture of almonds.
3 Fetish and Reckless are good anyway, but then, as often happens with Roja’s perfume, Fetish to me smells like a twin of Interlude Man by Amouage, while Interlude doesn’t cost $600, but much less. I mean that Fetish and Reckless are good and high quality perfumes, but, I would say, that they are a pure example of what does “too much” means. I believe, that this is the reason why wealthy Russian consumers love them, because they have to show off the money.
4. About Enigma and Danger I wouldn’t even talk – they are just 2 boring woody fragrances.
If I need to describe in one sentence the style of perfumes by Roja I would call the Rococo genre: they are very intense, everything is always created in strict accordance with the laws of luxury perfumery, every detail is taken into consideration, but it’s too much, it’s not in the right place and in general you wasted your money just for the name and authority of Dove Roja. However, if one day, despite this review, someone would decide to give me a perfume by Roja, I would certainly prefer Scandal by Roja. This one, at least, is the most original and, at the same time, more stable perfume of the whole male line. Diaghilev, for example, in its new configuration evaporates too soon.
While I was writing this review, all 7 fragrances are arrived to their olfactory pyramid base and I decided to add in the conclusion that all of them, except Scandal have completed their transformation to a very regular woody note, as happens to the most men’s fragrances that cost from $50 to $90 for a bottle of 100 ml. Therefore, I hope that the time you find to read this my review was spent much useful than mine, wasted to discover Dove Roja’s perfumery art.