Description
“New york stinks.
It stinks of cheap harsh tobacco and dense exhaust gas.
The traffic jam seems endless.
And stinks of hot rubber and stale steam.
People are weird. The fashionista lady with the glowing-green stilettos orders a huge pretzel.
And stinks of lurid street-food of any sort. Cinnamon and fries. Mustard and caramel.
The cherry of the whore’s bloody-red lipstick melts with the strawberry of her chewing-gum.
The side alleys are just garbage and urine.
But find your way through the crowd of bachellorettes waiting for the male-strip show, and it will be a flood of tuberose and carnation.
I feel like having a walk tonight.
Go get my crab cakes and a burger. And breathe the city miasmas while reaching the place.
Oh I love this city. How do I love it” — press release of the brand. Times Square was launched in 2017. The nose behind this fragrance is Bruno Jovanovic.
izerli92 – :
This is very much at first about violet and osmanthus on my skin. A delicate scent. I’m relieved the styrax remains low key on me. My skin normally amps it up.
It smells like a sunny, early spring day when the violets are just appearing.
Further down the timeline and the styrax starts to become more prominent. I now get more of the tuberose and some rose. The violets and osmanthus have all but gone. It is now a much damper, a heavier scent staying close to my skin.
It’s a pleasant scent but nothing special. I’ve smelt other very similar scents. I get good longevity and moderate sillage.
x19x – :
9:30 – rubbery guaiac and a sweet rose. Normally I read violet as lipstick, and I don’t catch any of that in the open.
10 – gone? Or barely sticking around. Smells like a simplistically sweet violet and sandalwood.
3:30 – Resprayed. This isn’t a good perfume, but it’s an interesting fragrance. It smells like my deodorant and melted children’s toys. It reminds me of grocery store carnations wrapped in cellophane. It smells *cheap*, but not like cheap perfume. Cheap as in trashy.
(I just realized how mean that sounds. Adding in that I often revel in trashy. If I had any confidence I would be a terrifying combination of leopard print, hot pink, and skin)
If the dry-down was stronger and more wearable, I would love this. I’m into strange opens that turn into something pleasant. Luctor Et Emergo comes to mind. Smells like doll heads.
Prihlop4uk – :
Testing this out today, and so far i like it! Boozy and intoxicating, it’s a bewitching blend of tar, violet, rose and incense, to my nose at least. Middle notes are greener and more mellow. It reminds me of the trashier sister of lipstick rose, instead of being demure, she wears a leather guns n roses jacket, tight leather skirt and steel capped boots. Wears the same lipstick though.
Февраль – :
Painfully sweet violet bubblegum, with a faint woody catch to it. I love violets and respect Masque Milano as a line, but this feels too candied and juvenile, especially given it’s been done better – Insolence comes to mind – many times before.
Xeroxtmvkd – :
Where is the candy quince, and the sorbet peony?
those notes can’t be the real ones! i am smelling some virgin lemonade daiquiri! with quince as a decoration & peony on a vase.
Some osmanthus = yes
Styrax = hints
hazelnuts = Hell NO
Violets = yes
Oud, sandalwood, rose, tuberose! = i don’t think so
I am quite sure that this sorbet like fragrance is quite fruitti, fizzy, and very summary so far of course (5 to 10 minutes in) but doesn’t contain oud, & roses! maybe later! let’s wait and see.
After all, it is quite impressive as i never thought that this approach is Masque’s. Quite a new style for Masque and impressive to be honest.
Shok13 – :
This lands on the skin in a busy mess, which quickly becomes Cherry cough syrup with wafts of garbage (rotten fruit note ala Insolence)and a discreet Asphalt note. Fairly linear, but the creaminess of the Sandalwood kicks in at about ten minutes and mitigates the awful Cherry a little bit, but not enough.
Not terribly wearable, IMO.
vas666 – :
Reading the story behind this fragrance, it seems that Times Square smells of everything, so, no help here. I like geographical references in perfumes, but some realistic descriptoin of the actual notes wouldn’t hurt either!
What I smell, instead, is a funny and childish cherry, which isn’t even mentioned in the pyramid, so I guess it’s the combination of osmanthus, violet and rose that provides this “lip gloss” accord.
Lip gloss and tar.
The dusty, almost metallic aspect of tar is the second most prominent note and it isn’t bad, because, otherwise, the cherry alone would smell similar to any Bath and Body works product.
No, Times Square is interesting because it “seems” light and playful, but actually it reveals its complexity throughout its life on skin.
It’s like a younger, more conformist sister to Russian Tea (same house, different nose), the notes are interestingly melted together, they aren’t “pyramidal” but co-existing instead, from the opening notes to the end, and the end is fascinating, really.
volkhv63 – :
@cedric.fichtner – Twisted Lily, Brooklyn (and online) carries it. I just received my sample from them. It’s a fascinating scent. I just sprayed some on, so I have to live with a while, but I’m very much liking it so far.
lncuk – :
After testing Fredrick Malles Monsieur also created by Mr. Jovanovich, I really look forward to this. only hope that the rose note is not too pronounced..
evgen19799 – :
Can’t wait to smell this perfume. I think I will like it as I like New York.