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karrnavellla – :
There’s no mystery in here. You can smell each and every note on the pyramid, very very well blended fougere. Although some reviewers mentioned the high price for a “simple” perfume, the differential in here is the high quality materials. You CANNOT find it in a vintage fougere fragrance, not even in a new niche fougere creation. Raw materials are NOT cheap and not every perfumista has the know how Mr Roja has. A fragrance for a real gentleman. That’s it.
fpz185intitytek – :
Really classy. After the fresh lemony opening I get a herbal pretty classic fougere accord. In the dry down I notice a weirdly food-like pastry scent… Like belgian waffles or doughnuts being fryed, although without any sugary sweetness and never to the degree that it brings it to gourmand territory..
Good scent, but there are cheaper and better options for classy classical fougeres.
Ugg Boots UK – :
Scandal Pour Homme EDP
It is a fact that the Roja Dove perfumes do not offer you anything new in terms of olfactory innovation. It is not the interest / focus of the brand this, turning then to the rescue of classic ideas that over the last decades or were cheapened or forgotten. Now as to whether or not it is worthy of the price that is charged would say that it depends a lot on what someone seeks in terms of luxury, whether it is extravagance or the comfort of the past. However, perfumes from the brand like Scandal Pour Homme sell well the concern with the details, which is a crucial point to sell a known idea at much higher prices.
Here we are in front of what was until the mid-1980s one of the pillars of the classic masculine perfumery, the aromatic fougére perfume, one that gives much emphasis to citrus, lavender, herbs and hot spices without aspects of sweetness. In that sense Scandal Pour Homme is not at all original, and may refer to several other creations of the past. For me, in particular, the balance of the idea goes back very much to the late Gucci Nobile and is a good interpretation of a fougére that emphasizes the medicinal aroma of the herbs.
But as I said early on, what sets it apart is the details and progression of Scandal pleases and much on the skin. The citrus fruits are well balanced between freshness and astringent / bitter aspect, lavender does not seem generic, the aroma of clove is well balanced and the base has a subtle woody, lacking the rubbery appearance that some eighties fougeres possessed. There is an interesting light green floral aura that reminds you lily of the valley, illuminating the more traditional and classic part of the heart of the fragrance and adding a charm to the idea. If your ideal luxury involves an impeccable execution of classic ideas with a touch of distinction Scandal Pour Homme delivers it well – the only otherwise in this case would be his name, since the fragrances hasn’t anything of scandalous.
horsedark – :
Ok day scent, lemony, but nothing special. Projection and sillage not so great either. Definitely not worth the $315 price for a 50ml bottle.
ics123Negeltzex – :
Scadalous price for the real value of this fragrance.
ImmeltLadedly – :
This is a textbook example of a classic fougere and i consider Scandal one of Rojas best scents.
ВолЯ – :
(This review is for the EdP version).
A nice, fresh blast of Lemon to open up, before drying down to a fairly deep Fougere. Longevity is good, 6-8 hours on the skin, and projection is quite good too. As with all the Roja’s I’ve tried thus far, everything smells completely natural, and not synthetic.
Quite nice overall.
pavpav777 – :
Fragrance -Scandal Roja Dove
Bottle from – 2016
Scandal is a nice,fresh,citrus,aromatic,natural and green scent.I’m not sure about “Quality/Cost Ratio”,but nevertheless it is a beautiful and well-blended scent.
Longevity – 8/10(8+hours)
Silage/projection -8/10(nice projection for the first 2-3 hours,silage also exist)
Weather – best in spring,summer(Versatility-9/10).
Age – 18+
Compliments – 8/10
Scent – 8/10
Main notes according to me -lemon,lavender,vetiver,ambergris,tonka bean,cardamom.
The drydown is nice and i get some – woodiness,tonka,nutmeg,floral and herbal notes and musk.
Emotions -fresh,relax,casual,green,bright,natural vibe.
Occasion -casual activities,office,dates,scholl,college and night out.
Very safe,pleasant and non-offensive scent.Could be a nice signature scent.Perfect for spring and summer casual activities.You’ll get compliments with this one.
levlb – :
First spray is lemon and lavender blast, in 15 minutes all herbal notes are joining the harmony and becoming really uplifting scent.
DAMN so FRESH, juicy and MOUTH WATERING, perfect for spring and summer maybe a little old style but fine.
Longevity is amazing for a citrusy based scent
Sillage is also very strong.
Scent is almost single level but one perfect level 🙂
Longevity 8/10
Sillage 8/10
Scent 7/10
MarioIvkov – :
Really nice smell, but it lasts 5 minutes and you have to dig your nose in your arm to perceive it. Simply unacceptable for any perfume, not to mention at this price tag. Roja Dove a master? With this ridiculous juice, who could tell! A shame
acdek – :
Aromatic fougère on steroids. Very fresh and masculine scent – wears well in winter or cold days of fall. I am not a fan of this one though I love Vetiver and Enigma from the same house. I guess what throws me off here is the cardamom and petitgrain (2 notes I could totally do without). Dry down is a nice blend of creamy woods complimented by a sweet tonka, nutmeg and rhubarb. It is a nice scent with a solid longevity and a decent projection. Would I turn my bank account into a ghost account for it? Absolutely not.
Scent: 7/10
Longevity: 8/10
Sillage: 7/10
Quality/Price Ratio: 3/10 (it is good quality but the price is exponential which is unacceptable) – for a very thorough and informative discussion on quality of ingredients and price of perfume see Andy Tauer’s interview – summary: ingredients, even the rarest, cost a fraction in a perfume bottle).
semen_sam – :
Am I nuts or is everyone else? I know this won’t make me any friends but this is garbagesauce to my nose. I mean that literally, it smells like those lemon-scented trashbags that someone dumped some John Masters Organic hairspray into (which smells nice).
It doesn’t smell bad it just does not smell intoxicating enough to warrant the pricetag if I’m blunt. The only scandal here is that price-per-ml and the stockholm syndrome people seem to be experiencing just because it is a Roja.
Scent: 6/10. Not unpleasant just…meh.
Longevity: 9/10 It does last forever as a skin scent.
Projection: 5/10 at best for the first hour, not much after.
Sillage: 4/10 for the first hour at best.
Would I buy a full bottle? Um…no thank you. Try Parfum de Nicolai New York off the top of my head. It’s actually a bit better in this “category”-at least to my nose on my skin.
grishtr – :
Very nice citrus woody perfume from Roja
I like it too much it gives me good mood espicialy in morning while going to my job
I prefer to use in winter rather summer
9/10
Diversant – :
It is such a nice fragrance. At first it smells very citrusy almost like a barber eau de cologne, and after a few minutes the citrusy smell gos a bit to the back ground and than it smels so good, just like a soft woody lavender minty kind of a smell just nice in the summer and spring but you can pull it of eny time eny were eny age eny time of the year. But it has to fit you. It is also a bit sporty but this fragrance has a enormous performance but it won’t scare people away
Sillage: 9/10
Projection: 8/10
Longevity: 10/10 at he winter 8+ hours summer 12+ hours
olegdelica – :
Okay, so here we have a classic case of plagiarism for I think he looked at “Eau Sauvage” and thought about how he could “dove” it up!
The end result is an amplified and ‘on steroids’ version of Dior’s classic.
It is great and perhaps the sole of his creations you can actually wear during summer.
Thing is, the original Dior, while not lasting half as long is perhaps 4x less expensive….
Very masculine and herbaceously, voraciously green and summer fresh in a non aquatic way.
Invigorating and uplifting, yet a copycat!
The olfactory equivalent to a double Espresso! Wakey! Wakey!
Irranttum – :
Is Roja playing games? What on Earth is the big difference between this and Danger; they’re both Classical ‘oldskool’ cologne re-imaginings.
Citrus (lemon and that petitgrain is done to zillion), woods, herby greens and violet.
Mm, does it have violet and does it have lavender, oh, yes, why it does! Quel surprise Monsieur Piguet!!
Booooring, and not even that ‘safe’. Mm, Scandal and Danger. What could that be, ah yes, of course!
That’s $450 per unit plz Madam/Sir!!
My rating: 3/10.
Quality: 8/10.
Aerohopleneritko – :
This is a very well done classic fougere with just enough musk to yield a slightly “dirty” masculine quality without sacrificing class. It has great longevity and projection and is of impeccable quality. I really like that it retains its complexity, even after dry down. When you first spray it, the lemon, basil and lavender are most prominent, followed by herbal and floral notes which give way to a very pleasant woodiness and light white musk on dry down. The floral and herbal notes stay, and are very well balanced with the woody and musky elements. Extremely well-blended into a symphony. My only complaint is it is a bit too sweet for my taste.
The first time I wore it, a woman buried her nose in my chest and told me she wanted to devour me. This is a very sexy scent and expertly blended with natural ingredients. Like any niche fragrance with select ingredients it is not cheap, but it is absolutely beautiful.
kula4ok_88 – :
I used up my sample long back. It was the extrait
version. A very nice citrusy, woodsy fougere.
I found it very long lasting. I think as far as
Roja Dove scents are concerned its best to go
for are extrait instead of edp. Most of the reviewers
don’t mention about what they have tried- extrait
or edp. This is a bright scent. Bright like daylight
in India compared to Fetish which I consider a dark
scent. If you have a bottle in your collection then
I must say I admire your choices in fragrances.
mortal – :
I would say this isn’t a favorite of mine. It’s quality and well blended juice but it’s not for me. This it straight up, citrus and floral accords. When first applied I get lemon, bergamot and petitigrain. Shortly after the citus opening, comes the lily, vetiver and cloves. There is some rose notes that sneaks in and out but it’s very light. This is pretty much what you get from this scent. At the very end it dries down to a patchouli and nutmeg scent. If you’re a guy who likes to smell like citrus and flowers then it’s perfect for you.
My advice to the wearer of this scent is to apply it during the summer and spring months. This would be more of a day time scent. Like “fetish” this one is going to either turn people on or off. I think this is a good choice for some but not a blind buy, by any means.
*Projection 7/10 not a very strong scent more of a lighter juice
*Longvetiy 7/10 doesn’t last as long as the rest of Roja’s potions
*Day time scent
*Spring and Summer
titov9316 – :
A classic fougere with good quality ingredients. No more, no less. While I definitely love the genre, at the same time, I don’t see any good reason to recommend Scandal Pour Homme over the thousands of cheaper alternatives we can still have easy access to.
With that said, it definitely smells good but it’s not as complex and “intriguing” as I expected.
A minor word on the name: “Scandal Pour Homme”. Sounds like a cheap drugstore masculine a-la “Arrogance”.
Rating: 6.5/10
quoroSokDuell – :
Okay so upon purchasing my first (and I suspect my last) Roja Dove fragrance I insisted on getting some 5ml vials filled of the other scents seeing as I shelling out so much on Enigma.
Thankfully I got them in the end, I’m quite familiar with Fetish and Danger already so these were the other two I wanted to wear properly and review.
This yet another triumph!
Honestly, although my recent reviews may tell a different story, I’m not a cheerleader for Roja parfums. One thing however cannot be denied, they are of supreme quality and transcendentally deep. This has a classic manly aromatic nature to it, doesn’t last well and the pricing is quite frankly stupid…but I still adore it.
Surely that is testament to how good this stuff smells?
Quick mention of the name…This seems to be a theme of similarly provocative adjectives used in Roja’s line like Scandal, fetish etc…and I have to say there’s nothing Scandalous about this one. I accept he can’t very well call it… “Fairly generic late 80’s/90’s masculine fare which is very pleasant and well made” aside from the fact it wouldn’t be very dynamic, it won’t fit on the bottle.
To me this one opens with a trademark bergamot & some lemon verbena then into fresh spicy herbal type territory, something I love. There’s a fruity sharpness about it and maybe even a slight rhubarb note? There’s certainly labdanum and the warmth of woods, oakmoss and sandalwood… it’s brilliant. This is one that just keeps getting better and better as it dries down, with more nuances coming through.
I’ll be honest upon application in the first few minutes I made the mistake of thinking… yeah this is some standard stuff. Not too awe inspiring, a very good masculine and like a upmarket Pasha de Cartier or Ralph Lauren Safari.
Then it develops further and you realise it’s so much more. I remember seeing a Youtube video review asking…’What is quality? and can you smell the difference when the best quality ingredients have been used?’
Well it’s a pertinent question and I’d be the first to admit…maybe not always. However this is a case in favour of the likes of Roja parfums and Xerjoff etc…where in this instance you DEFINITELY can.
Does that mean I want it?
Well I still feel a bit hard done by on the performance front but I except that it’s not everything. I have the parfum version and it lasts several hours which is more than acceptable but I don’t think it’s too much to ask for to be nothing short of astonished by the performance, certainly not at this price.
I’m starting to think that the EDP’s might even be better on the performance stakes (My Enigma EDP is excellent for longevity) and if that’s important to you, perhaps avoid the parfum versions and save yourself substantial money for twice the juice.
Scandal is great smelling and luckly I have enough left for another wear at some point.
sony_fm – :
I hope I’m not the only, and this is my only concern right now.
This doesn’t last too long on my skin, nor does it project. Im hoping it’s because of the season, we are going into autumn now so yes please that be it otherwise this is my worst blind buy ever.
Anyone?
tcl 300 – :
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.
Slavik55555 – :
IT. Si tratta di una recensione unica per tutti i 7 profumi da uomo di Dove Roja, che ho ricevuto da una boutique di Roja in Inghilterra in qualità dei campioni di 2ml di puro profumo. Beh, cosa posso dire… non mi dispiace di aver sprecato €162 per soddisfare la mia curiosità.
Quindi, in ordine:
1. Prima di tutto, il più famoso e pubblicizzato profumo di Roja – Diaghilev non assomiglia comunque, a Mitsouko, o a una miscela degli altri profumi di Guerlain, come spesso può essere trovato nei vari recensioni, però, nelle sue note iniziali è leggermente ricorda l’apertura di Vol de Nuit (sotto una forma del profumo puro), solo che Diaghilev, secondo me, sia più debole e con qualche strana amarezza che per fortuna scompare dopo circa un’ora. Anche se in generale non è male, ma non vorrei indossarlo, come non vorrei indossare gli altri 5 di 7 profumi da uomo di Roja che io abbia ricevuto, l’eccezione sarebbe Roja Scandalo pour homme.
2. Nüwa, come si aspettava dalla lista degli ingredienti, puzza francamente di cumino ed è proprio insopportabile. E ‘una sorta di soffocante fetore di uomini sudati in una concentrata miscela dell’odore di mandorle.
3. Fetish e Reckless sono buoni comunque, ma poi, come spesso succede coi profumi di Roja, Fetish, secondo me, assomiglia come un gemello a Interlude Man di Amouage, mentre Interlude non costa € 500, ma molto meno. Insomma, Fetish e Reckless sono buoni profumi, ma, come dirlo, sono un puro esempio di “troppo”. Sono un sacco di cose di troppo. Per questo, credo, che i ricchi consumatori russi li adorano.
4. Di Enigma e Danger non vorrei nemmeno parlare – sono 2 noiose fragranze legnose.
In una parola può descrivere l’arte dei profumi di Roja come le opere nel genere Rococò: sono molto intensi, tutto sempre viene creato in stretta conformità con le leggi della profumeria di lusso, ogni dettaglio è preso in considerazione, ma… è troppo, non è nel posto giusto e in generale sono i soldi sprecati solo per il nome di Roja. Comunque, se un giorno, nonostante questa mia recensione, qualcuno deciderebbe di regalarmi qualche profumo di Dove Roja, allora certamente preferirei Roja Scandal. Quest’ultimo almeno, il più originale e, al tempo stesso, più stabile profumo di tutta la linea maschile. Diaghilev, per esempio, nella sua nuova configurazione si evapora abbastanza presto.
Mentre stavo scrivendo questa recensione, i 7 profumi messi in prova sono arrivati alla base della loro piramide olfattiva e ho deciso di aggiungere alla conclusione che tutti loro, tranne Scandal hanno completato la loro trasformazione ad un di tutto normale nota legnosa, come succederebbe anche nel caso della maggior parte degli fragranze maschili ad un prezzo di € 50 per una bottiglia da 100 ml. Perciò, spero che il tempo dedicato a leggere questa mia recensione vi sia passato in modo molto più utile del mio, sprecato per conoscere i lavori di Dove Roja.
VARXANGEL – :
After doing a full wearing of this fragrance, I came to appreciate the level of skill and artistry behind the craftsmanship. Roja did an outstanding job on this fougere by orchestrating a seamless blend of natural ingredients.
When you wear this, you feel like George Clooney stepping on the red carpet for this first time. This fragrance conjures an aura of experience, confidence, wealth, and class. I ruled this one out initially based on the price of admission. However, one wearing was all it took to earn my respect and admiration.
If you are looking for a classic men’s fragrance with superior craftsmanship, then look no further. I would go as far as putting this one in the same league as Creed’s Green Irish Tweed. For any aspiring collector or aficionado, please do yourself a favor and give this one a try; I promise you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
MNcfgYTF – :
This opens with a blast of lemon, basil and lavender and then gets slightly herbal, floral and woody for the rest of it’s life. It’s bright and aromatic and has excellent longevity and projection.
Now this is a very nice traditional fern like fragrance but do not get seduced by the bottle or expensive price point. Even though this scent is very nice it is not better or more special than a lot of the good designer/niche scents of it’s genre.
To sum up a nice traditional take on the fern like fragrance which has a herbal floral woody scent.
Traker69 – :
This is nice, but nothing new or original.Great summer scent, very clean and bright, but not sure if full bottle worthy considering its $435 in US.