Love your channel + appreciate the intel! My dad’s signature scent was Old Spice and I think it’s the reason I love carnation notes/accords so much. The red bottle of Lauren was my first real perfume, gifted in the early 80s when I was in my early teens. What a pleasure listening to this! Thanks for the generous sharing.
I love these trips down memory lane. When you can find great masculine fragrances in the past you can trace how far we’ve explored and expanded our universal tastes. Having oak moss disappearing from fragrance is a crime.
Fun one to finally get through, I'm a bit younger (36 this year) so can't really imagine wearing Amaris at 10 haha. By the sounds of things I had a much trashier journey on fragrances but I think it's true what Dan said about Polo - your earliest fragrance memories shape your current interest. I still like fresh green fragrances... Earliest I remember wearing properly is Tommy, Tommy and Polo Sport were my late 90s when I was starting secondary/high school. My dad actually had Green Irish Tweed and I had no idea what it was, he kept it next to some CK Obsession, Old Spice and Cool Water. I had no reason to believe it was any different. The only one of these I remember 'borrowing' was Cool Water. During my uni days I was still full designer, a couple Armani - Night and White - both now discontinued. I remember smelling PR Ultraviolet and thinking it was really interesting so had a bottle of that too. I think I'd also have to say Aventus and Dior Sauvage had an impact on me, I'd be lying if I said any different. I don't actually like Sauvage these days, the EDT anyway, but I found it new at the time and enjoyed wearing it. Aventus when that was new to me in about 2014, I felt like - I can't believe this now - why do you need anything else? This is exactly how I should smell. Obviously you get bored, tastes change a bit and well, the quality went massively down IMO. Other than that I think I could say particular notes changed things for me, when I first found oud that I liked, leather and tobacco. I think these are notes I would have previously turned my nose up, but they're now some of my favourite.
Wore the hell out of Polo Green in the late 80s (high school). Royal Copenhagen as well. Today's Polo Green is fairly close and still nice..love it still. You Will scream 80's if you wear this now. My girlfriend wore Lauren (deep red bottle) in HS. Loved that as well. Thanks for the great video!
These guys are awesome . Love how they review unique indie brand fragrances & not just the same old Clickbait top 10 garbage like 90% of the other reviewers.
I left a comment on the wrong video lol! Love your channel. Very enjoyable learning about your scent journeys/lives. So personable snd personal. Thank you!
I figured one of you had to be an organist, I'm glad to know that it's Jo, and Dan, keep singing! Thanks for the background on how the channel got started and got it's name.
Ok solid lists this time! I can only imagine creed coming out with GIT in 1985 I was 2 yo but looking back on other fragrances of that time they don’t even compare! Also a huge fan of Gucci
I'm a perfumer and just did a recreation of Envy. It's parfam strength. You can have it for nothing since I enjoy your show. I also did a recreation of Tobacco Vanille with a honied cigar tincture.
Hello Friends! What a lovely video! Thank you so much for sharing your formative and important scent experiences! ❤️ Some truly great ones on your lists! 🙌😀
Amazing 👏 🙀 video guys! What journeys you have taken over the years! Loved listening to this and I decided to have some of my (Japanese) wife's sake and a few spritzes of some of my journey #fragrances too! Here's a few of mine... 1. Escada Magentism for men. So this now goes for £150 a bottle. Discontinued. Gah. This is GRAPE COLA. And this for me was EXACTLY what Dan gets from #Timbuktu 2. Shalimar. Yes. I used my mom's bottle and bloody loved it. The compliments I got from 20 something women wearing this! 3. #Creed Virgin Island Water. This was the Creed for me. Summer, rum, dried banana skin, hot salt and sweat in a pool. 4. Quorum. My Aramis, if you like. 20 quid from my pharmacy in Crouch End. And....BOOM! What power 🔋 (older bottles). This turned me on to the greener, oakmoss and filthier smells... Honorable mentions: Club Scent = Joop Homme... yikes! And first experimental one that opened my eyes was #Yatagan
You guys are great and very realistic honest passionate !!! Your thoughts on fragrances are very appreciative!! My top 5 no particular order,, invasion barbare, new york intense, scandal cologne roja, mfk masculine pluriel, le barbier de tanger. Iam 44 and my favorite fragrance growing up was polo crest and drakkar noir and cool water
The first aftershave I brought was in Portugal on holiday from one of those great fragrance shops that you used to see whilst on holiday abroad, it was a Lacoste splash on aftershave and the reason I brought it had nothing to do with how it smelt I brought it because I loved my Lacoste polo t-shirts it was 1985 I was 16 and I smelt great. Going forward because I got an Armani shirt I got an Armani fragrance, Cerruti jeans Cerruti fragrance and so on ( i still love Cerruti 1881). I’m glad to say now I’m older I buy fragrance’s on how they smell rather than matching them with the clothes I buy.
Of this list I have a few bottles of vintage Kouros, about 30ml left from Gucci Envy, 15ml of Gucci Pour Homme, Floris Santal, Guerlain Shalimar EDP, and the 4160 Tuesdays The Waft from The Loft. The WfTL belongs up there with the other iconic fragrances - it reminds me of strolling through Kensington Church Walk...visiting Hornets etc. A stunning powerhouse.
Agreed! I purchased some of The Waft from the Loft too from #4160Tuesdays - it's SO GOOD! To me Jo and Dan's composition gives me refuge, sanctuary and comfort. It brings back me sitting wearing fragrance working on some guitar parts for songs with my band, in our local church ! Pews, rain and church wine 🍷 with the incense blasting!
Great video, I was going along the journey with you thinking of stand out fragrance which started with Brut and Diesel, and through a few until around 4 years ago when it totally changed and since then I have spent £1000s brought and sold most of my purchases until recently where I buy them out of obsession and yet they are like collection pieces now which never lose value. Things like Auphoire and ALD, Dixit and zak, Tsgva, these things I will never sell and I’m so happy to have them.
I love the smell of old spice, it's a shame it's not as good as it used to be. And I'm lucky to own a near full bottle of gucci envy...what a lovely fragrance
The Waft from The Loft is now on my wish list, very nice picks I love to wear female Gucci Envy a la Chanel 19 but soapy probably like more clean, Im waiting for your review of Habit Rouge L Instinct, nice video as always
My god Jo , we share something in common 1975 first ever fragrance I tried was Aramis I was 7 years old , my brother bought it & kept on spraying it on me , he ended up hiding it from me, after that fell in love with Aramis 900 still to this day in my opinion both are classics 😉👍
A-Mazing fragrances gentlemen. I had the same Polo beginnings. While everyone was wearing Tommy, Boss #6 and others, I was up to my neck in green fougeres, leathers and spicy ambers. No wonder all the girls were swooning. 😆
Sorry to say but bentley absolute is like a rough sketch compared to the masterpiece that is Gucci PH 1. It’s missing the deft touch of cumin that gives it that slight sweaty carnal vibe that never quite goes to b.o. like cumin often does. Jo i also agree about Gucci PH 2 a really really beautiful fragrance & for me has been the bench mark for all tea fragrances.
It’s the same perfumer, but I think he probably did a cheaper version for Bentley, then did a revamped version of Gucci ph1 in the form of Papyrus Oud for his own line.
I was just thinking…”man it would suck if Jo just dropped that Ottoman Empire II on camera” which led me to think; have either of you, Dan or Jo, ever dropped/smashed a bottle?
As i see many similarities and your pointed my attention to a Sex Appeal that i really like maybe you like some of my favs as well 😃 - Irreverent - Black Gemstone - 1725 Casanova ✌️🙂 Have a great one
Interesting hearing you associate scents with your fathers. I wonder if the children of collectors like us won’t be able to make any firm linkages with us since we’re spraying multiple different, and new, perfumes every day…
@@WaftsfromTheLoft My little 2.5 yr old comes snuffling like a truffle pig when I get out my sample case. I think he mostly exhales onto them, but we have a good time. Who knows which, if any, of my collection he’ll associate with me.
OMG!! Aramis is the very first perfume I wore too! My mother gave it to me for Christmas when I was around 10!! That is such a coincidence!! LOl!
I think it was the first for many. A truly iconic fragrance
Love your channel + appreciate the intel! My dad’s signature scent was Old Spice and I think it’s the reason I love carnation notes/accords so much. The red bottle of Lauren was my first real perfume, gifted in the early 80s when I was in my early teens. What a pleasure listening to this! Thanks for the generous sharing.
Thanks for sharing your scent memories!
I love these trips down memory lane. When you can find great masculine fragrances in the past you can trace how far we’ve explored and expanded our universal tastes.
Having oak moss disappearing from fragrance is a crime.
btw, really love your channel and your format!
Thanks!
I went to the Floris shop years ago on a London walking tour. At the time, I wasn't into fragrance 😭 one day I will return!
So should we!
some absolute bangers, happy to see those
Great vid fellas! Dan, Polo Green was the fragrance that got me into fragrances! I used to wear it when I was fifteen and loved it! Uncanny!
Awesome!
I love what you fellas are doing all the way through and through. Very simply genuine guys.
Thanks!
Fun one to finally get through, I'm a bit younger (36 this year) so can't really imagine wearing Amaris at 10 haha. By the sounds of things I had a much trashier journey on fragrances but I think it's true what Dan said about Polo - your earliest fragrance memories shape your current interest. I still like fresh green fragrances...
Earliest I remember wearing properly is Tommy, Tommy and Polo Sport were my late 90s when I was starting secondary/high school. My dad actually had Green Irish Tweed and I had no idea what it was, he kept it next to some CK Obsession, Old Spice and Cool Water. I had no reason to believe it was any different. The only one of these I remember 'borrowing' was Cool Water. During my uni days I was still full designer, a couple Armani - Night and White - both now discontinued. I remember smelling PR Ultraviolet and thinking it was really interesting so had a bottle of that too.
I think I'd also have to say Aventus and Dior Sauvage had an impact on me, I'd be lying if I said any different. I don't actually like Sauvage these days, the EDT anyway, but I found it new at the time and enjoyed wearing it. Aventus when that was new to me in about 2014, I felt like - I can't believe this now - why do you need anything else? This is exactly how I should smell. Obviously you get bored, tastes change a bit and well, the quality went massively down IMO.
Other than that I think I could say particular notes changed things for me, when I first found oud that I liked, leather and tobacco. I think these are notes I would have previously turned my nose up, but they're now some of my favourite.
Wore the hell out of Polo Green in the late 80s (high school). Royal Copenhagen as well. Today's Polo Green is fairly close and still nice..love it still. You Will scream 80's if you wear this now. My girlfriend wore Lauren (deep red bottle) in HS. Loved that as well. Thanks for the great video!
If you like the OG polo, you have to try what i consider its best and better re-interpretation: Soudain l'Hiver from Henry Jacques!
Henry Jacques are so ludicrously priced I’m staying well clear of them
@@WaftsfromTheLoft i can see that. One bottle is worth many average perfumes IME/IMO :-) you should visit their Paris store btw. What an experience!
@@WaftsfromTheLoft another thing is that yes, a 15ml oil bottle is around $800 but it is better than most other scent and also lasts forever :-)
These guys are awesome . Love how they review unique indie brand fragrances & not just the same old Clickbait top 10 garbage like 90% of the other reviewers.
Thanks so much!
@@WaftsfromTheLoft :)
I left a comment on the wrong video lol! Love your channel. Very enjoyable learning about your scent journeys/lives. So personable snd personal. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I figured one of you had to be an organist, I'm glad to know that it's Jo, and Dan, keep singing! Thanks for the background on how the channel got started and got it's name.
I have a bottle of Envy that I could part with for a very small sum, only to a very good home. 😀 Thank you for including ours.
If Dan doesn't take it Sarah, I'd love to buy it from you!
Ohh, that’s VERY interesting to know!
Remarkable picks
Thanks!
Taking it back to the days when fragrances had no restrictions. Great job gents.
Thanks!
Ok solid lists this time! I can only imagine creed coming out with GIT in 1985 I was 2 yo but looking back on other fragrances of that time they don’t even compare! Also a huge fan of Gucci
I'm a perfumer and just did a recreation of Envy. It's parfam strength. You can have it for nothing since I enjoy your show. I also did a recreation of Tobacco Vanille with a honied cigar tincture.
Hello Friends! What a lovely video! Thank you so much for sharing your formative and important scent experiences! ❤️ Some truly great ones on your lists! 🙌😀
Lovely chaps still the best channel …2016 is released …….Musar 😀😀😀😀😀
I had a 1998 bottle for NY eve!
Interesting topic and selection! Great video 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks!
You should really try Papyrus Oud 71...same perfumer as Gucci Pour Homme...smells very similar as well....really great stuff.
4160s Wafts has become a favorite of mine. Does anyone else get DS and Durga Bowmaker ? Anyways always a pleasure gentlemen ✌🏻
I'm very pleased to hear that. And, yes, I can see that relation.
Amazing 👏 🙀 video guys! What journeys you have taken over the years! Loved listening to this and I decided to have some of my (Japanese) wife's sake and a few spritzes of some of my journey #fragrances too!
Here's a few of mine...
1. Escada Magentism for men.
So this now goes for £150 a bottle. Discontinued. Gah. This is GRAPE COLA. And this for me was EXACTLY what Dan gets from #Timbuktu
2. Shalimar. Yes. I used my mom's bottle and bloody loved it. The compliments I got from 20 something women wearing this!
3. #Creed Virgin Island Water. This was the Creed for me. Summer, rum, dried banana skin, hot salt and sweat in a pool.
4. Quorum. My Aramis, if you like. 20 quid from my pharmacy in Crouch End. And....BOOM! What power 🔋 (older bottles). This turned me on to the greener, oakmoss and filthier smells...
Honorable mentions: Club Scent = Joop Homme... yikes! And first experimental one that opened my eyes was #Yatagan
Dan, your frames get cooler n cooler. Are those moscots? They look splendid
Thanks! They are Cubitts
@@WaftsfromTheLoft I’m checking them out post haste. Thanks for the great content, fellas
You guys are great and very realistic honest passionate !!! Your thoughts on fragrances are very appreciative!! My top 5 no particular order,, invasion barbare, new york intense, scandal cologne roja, mfk masculine pluriel, le barbier de tanger. Iam 44 and my favorite fragrance growing up was polo crest and drakkar noir and cool water
Excellent fragrances. Thanks for sharing your story!
The first aftershave I brought was in Portugal on holiday from one of those great fragrance shops that you used to see whilst on holiday abroad, it was a Lacoste splash on aftershave and the reason I brought it had nothing to do with how it smelt I brought it because I loved my Lacoste polo t-shirts it was 1985 I was 16 and I smelt great. Going forward because I got an Armani shirt I got an Armani fragrance, Cerruti jeans Cerruti fragrance and so on ( i still love Cerruti 1881). I’m glad to say now I’m older I buy fragrance’s on how they smell rather than matching them with the clothes I buy.
Ha, I don’t think I could keep up with clothes to match my expensive fragrances! Interesting scent memory!
More Floris review please! Love your channel :)
Of this list I have a few bottles of vintage Kouros, about 30ml left from Gucci Envy, 15ml of Gucci Pour Homme, Floris Santal, Guerlain Shalimar EDP, and the 4160 Tuesdays The Waft from The Loft. The WfTL belongs up there with the other iconic fragrances - it reminds me of strolling through Kensington Church Walk...visiting Hornets etc. A stunning powerhouse.
You’re very lucky to have a few bottles of vintage Kouros, and the rest!
Agreed! I purchased some of The Waft from the Loft too from #4160Tuesdays - it's SO GOOD! To me Jo and Dan's composition gives me refuge, sanctuary and comfort. It brings back me sitting wearing fragrance working on some guitar parts for songs with my band, in our local church ! Pews, rain and church wine 🍷 with the incense blasting!
Nice video and love it. I heard that YSL KOUROS is also discontinued. I would like to buy "The Waft From The Loft" by 4160 Tuesdays.
Whaaaaaaaat?!
Get the Waft from the Loft - amazing fragrance. Lasts for days.
Great video, I was going along the journey with you thinking of stand out fragrance which started with Brut and Diesel, and through a few until around 4 years ago when it totally changed and since then I have spent £1000s brought and sold most of my purchases until recently where I buy them out of obsession and yet they are like collection pieces now which never lose value. Things like Auphoire and ALD, Dixit and zak, Tsgva, these things I will never sell and I’m so happy to have them.
Gucci Pour Homme and Gucci Envy were my absolute go-to frags in the 2000s I couldn't count how many bottles I went through.
You smelled great (and I’m sure you still do!)
@@WaftsfromTheLoft I do, Thanks to my bottle of Wafts from the loft Eau de Parfum !
I love the smell of old spice, it's a shame it's not as good as it used to be.
And I'm lucky to own a near full bottle of gucci envy...what a lovely fragrance
Ooh, enjoy that bottle!
The Waft from The Loft is now on my wish list, very nice picks I love to wear female Gucci Envy a la Chanel 19 but soapy probably like more clean, Im waiting for your review of Habit Rouge L Instinct, nice video as always
Yes, we went into the Covent Garden Guerlain boutique and they didn’t seem to know anything about it! Itching to try it!
I need classic Guerlain in my life!
Yes, you do. Essential items for any fragrance enthusiast
I loved Gucci Envy. Would Floris Santal be a good purchase for me?
Yes. It’s not exactly the same, I would even describe it as ‘very close’, but if you like Envy you will certainly enjoy Santal
Michel Almairac, the nose behind Parle Moi de Parfum has made ‘Papyrus Oud’, which is closest to his Gucci Pour Homme.
I want to see Joe play the organ
Agreed! I’ve been lucky enough to see a pipe organ played up close, and it’s mind bending to behold, and some people may never have had the pleasure.
Stop talking about Joe’s organ
Loving the video guys..and I’m only half way through!! 😀👍🏼
Wonderful video! I'd love to hear your thoughts about the house of Floris.
Yes, It's a house we should focus on a little more
Great picks 👌 unfortunately most of them are now discontinued! Shame! Why Guerlain did discontinued Mouchoir de Monsieur👎 Cheerio🥂
I think they had to make way for another 10 flankers of Le Petite Robe Noir
@@WaftsfromTheLoft absolutely😉 it's a mad ,mad, mad world! Brands are going nuts! Thanks🙏👍
lets go new video
Love your chanel
Thanks!
Exceptional fragrances.
Thanks!
My god Jo , we share something in common 1975 first ever fragrance I tried was Aramis I was 7 years old , my brother bought it & kept on spraying it on me , he ended up hiding it from me, after that fell in love with Aramis 900 still to this day in my opinion both are classics 😉👍
Yes, they certainly are!
I’m liking before even watching the video 😂
Ha! Thanks!
Great video! Question - has Timbuktu been reformulated, i.e. is the latest version as good? Thanks!
Yes it has been reformulated, and the black bottle stuff is a shadow of the gold top bottle stuff
A-Mazing fragrances gentlemen. I had the same Polo beginnings. While everyone was wearing Tommy, Boss #6 and others, I was up to my neck in green fougeres, leathers and spicy ambers. No wonder all the girls were swooning. 😆
hahaha, awesome!
Sorry to say but bentley absolute is like a rough sketch compared to the masterpiece that is Gucci PH 1. It’s missing the deft touch of cumin that gives it that slight sweaty carnal vibe that never quite goes to b.o. like cumin often does. Jo i also agree about Gucci PH 2 a really really beautiful fragrance & for me has been the bench mark for all tea fragrances.
It’s the same perfumer, but I think he probably did a cheaper version for Bentley, then did a revamped version of Gucci ph1 in the form of Papyrus Oud for his own line.
@@WaftsfromTheLoft ahh yes i remember hearing about papyrus oud i will have to check that one out 👍
I was just thinking…”man it would suck if Jo just dropped that Ottoman Empire II on camera” which led me to think; have either of you, Dan or Jo, ever dropped/smashed a bottle?
Ha! Thankfully, no!
Bought Kouros recently and nowhere near as good as it was nearly 30 years ago when I first smelled it 😔
Yes, it’s a sad shell of its former self
As i see many similarities and your pointed my attention to a Sex Appeal that i really like maybe you like some of my favs as well 😃
- Irreverent
- Black Gemstone
- 1725 Casanova
✌️🙂 Have a great one
I’ve not tried Irreverent, but the other two are great!
Guys ....it's time to go for either WFTL extrait version or something new
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@@WaftsfromTheLoft The Waft from the Loft extrait
Interesting hearing you associate scents with your fathers. I wonder if the children of collectors like us won’t be able to make any firm linkages with us since we’re spraying multiple different, and new, perfumes every day…
Yes, that is a very interesting thought. I get my son to smell everything. His favourite is rochas femme
@@WaftsfromTheLoft My little 2.5 yr old comes snuffling like a truffle pig when I get out my sample case. I think he mostly exhales onto them, but we have a good time. Who knows which, if any, of my collection he’ll associate with me.
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