Sebastian, what is the batchcode on your bottle? My theory is that Francis reformulated the fragrance 2 or 3 times. I found Baccarat to be very overwhelming in 2016-2017. Bought a bottle in 2018 (batchcode starting with 18) and it was subdued, no projection (people couldnt smell it) and I'd go noseblind after 40 minutes. I bought a bottle 1 year later (batchcode 19) and it is projecting a lot, my nose doesnt go blind (can smell it 12 hours) and it is a bit more sweet and the saffrone subdued (less medicinal).
Baccarat rouge is such a weird fragrance but it's so good. I love how it can seemingly disappear on my skin and come back an hour later. I also didn't like it at first
When my husband first smelled it, it immediately said "it smells like cat piss" and would not purchase it for me, and got me MFK Feminin Pluriel instead. I bought it for myself, and now he is in love and we both have our own bottle. Fragrance is tricky sometimes !! LOL
Hi, we have the same experience..... BR540 is interestingly weird... It took me 1 year to love & appreciate this fragrance... Now I really love it that I bought both 200ml EDP & 70ml Extrait. No other fragrance has done this kind of weird experience to me other than BR540. I think it's a masterpiece, trying it short term doesn't do justice, you have to let your nose learn.
I needed this. I’ve been looking for reasons to justify purchasing this fragrance 😩. I hated the initial spray but that dry down hours later is beautiful 😍
I had exactly the same experience. First of all i didn't understand the hype at all, it had a cotton candy smell on me, but now i started to appreciate it.
Hello, great respect for your work and knowledge! As a recent fragrance lover with not much experience, I have tried Baccarat Rouge 540 on a test strip and I was like " What!! I smell only alcohol with a hint of sugar." Next day I have tried it on the skin and same again. And I was like " Crazy youtubers and their nose" 😁 And few hours later a hint of Ambergris, and I was like "what. I am hallucinating" and the smell was with me the next day and I am now in love. 😁
I absolutely love the extrait version. When I first put my nose on it there was something sweet and seductive about it, but I felt that I couldn't possibly wear something that sweet smelling. It was definitely unisex, but I wasn't and my pride was getting in the way. I usually wear stuff like an aromatic pungent woodsy and citrusy notes (like Aventus) on my body, and as my guilty pleasure I wear BR450Ex under my hat. From the outside I have a masculine exterior, but when you get close and intimate I have a sweet candy interior.
Just got samples directly from MFK and I’ve just tried both of them. I can barely smell the EDP- getting a faint sweet mint toothpaste 1/2” from my arm but almost imperceptible. The Extrait is clearly stronger with similar notes. Dries to a skin scent in 10 minutes- a stronger slightly sweet mint toothpaste but no Almond, no Ambergris. I have 2 ml samples so maybe it will grow on me. I have a bottle of Grand Soir and it’s a champion that wafts glorious Amber to my nose all day long- amazing!
My first experience with BR540 was not favorable. I gave the bottle to my son. He came by about a year later and I smelled it on him and said "what are you wearing???" He said that bottle you gave me. I instantly went out and bought another bottle. Now I have a 200ml Bottle on the way and I went through 70ml in 2021. I absolutely adore it now!
I love this masterpiece and have from the beginning Ive never understood the bad press on this one thanks for your review & approach to this scent BIG fan of the house - Ive got 9 from them AMBERGRIS really grabs me JIM from MIAMI BEACH
When I first smelled this I thought it smelled like the dentists. Didn’t like it at all. Kept using the 20ml that I had and by the end of it I thought it was okay. Got myself some Ariana grande cloud and it was grew on me. Now I have br540 extrait and I LOVE IT. most frags don’t last on my skin but this one performs exceptionally well
I love Baccarat Rouge 540. I keep on looking for a scent that makes me feel the way this one make me feel but I haven't had any luck. I'm so in love with this fragrance...I wish I could find something similar.
Baccarat Rouge 540 is, without doubt, a Masterpiece!! My comment comes 2 years after You published this video, however, I did not know this fragrance before.
I just bought this and I’m still trying to figure it out. I think I like it but not sure I’m into the hype as of yet but I’m holding out lots of hope. Thank you for this video.
You and me both. Finally got a decant of BR540 and neither my wife nor I like it at all. After the incredible hype I expected something more, more interesting, more pleasant. It just fell flat. But for years I didn't like Tauer LDDM and last year I tried it again and maybe it was nose maturity but I totally fell in love with it and had to have a bottle. So will follow your lead and give BR a few more tries over time to see if anything changes. Have Zoologist Civet and animalics were notes that I couldn't stand at one time. Now I can't get enough of them. Same with dirty musks. It's amazing how our tastes change isn't it!
For me, BR540 still smells like sweet cotton candy wrapped up in latex 😅 But I had that experience with Tom Ford Black Orchid EDP and, most recently, Guerlain Encens Mythique (I'm absolutely in love with that fragrance! True masterpiece 😍) Great review, as always!
I had this experience with lots of fragrances some of which are Jicky and L’heure Bleue by Guerlain which was such a long journey, also quite relevant Grand Soir, I thought it was another cheap sweet smelling fragrance but then I was hooked. Moral of that, we have to be patient with everything we try and trying them on different circumstances until we make our mind.
I bought this one because everyone was in love with it. I find it very acquatic and somehow mineralic. I don’t smell the sweetness. I don’t find it heavy or beasty. I don’t know. Maybe my nose is still blind here? For me it’s really an acquatic smell
I’m just smelling it in 2021. I loved it instantly but it’s so light. It would be awesome if it was much stronger but still kept that sensual mellow scent
Baccarat Rouge 540 by MFK is a molecule based perfume. You will not smell it on yourself, but everybody else will smell it. It's a very airy scent. If you'd spray it on your shirt and leave it in the wardrobe and come back to it a bit later, you can smell it.
Yes you are 100% correct I spray my pillow couldn't smell it when to sleep woke up in the morning and it was super beast mode it's like I just spray it
BR540 was not a love at first sniff for me. I actually thought it had a weird scent and I didn’t like it. Several months went by and i tried my sample again. It smelled amazing and it’s been my most complimented fragrance over the past year. The Extrait version smells even better IMO. The added bitter almond note really sets it apart from the EDP. I now own a bottle of both versions.
I can't believe it! The same thing happened to me with Baccarat Rouge! I found I needed to spray the oil and the fragrance to be able to smell it. It lasts on clothing beyond washing. I'd go to grab my shirt that I wore when I sampled Baccarat and I'd get a whiff. That's when I fell in love. So I don't own it yet but I'll buy it when the stores open again, providing I stay healthy. Stay safe!
Hi Sebastian, it wasn't love at first sniff for me either. I bought it based on its reviews and hype and I guess I was expecting something super complex, but later on I fell in love with BR 540 when I realized how much happiness it brings to me everytime I wear it. Indeed, it's undoubtedly a beast mode. Its projection and sillage is out of this world.
I love this frag. and my number 1 picked from the house of MFK, I have the extrait concentration and stays on my jacket for weeks. I also love the grand soir and Satin Oud. I blind bought a Creed Royal Mayfair last year and the first time I tried that fragrance I hated it too much because of the opening, and I put it at the back of my collection and I forgot about it. . A year later, I tried it again and I was blown away how beautiful the fragrance developed , IMHO Royal Mayfair is the most beautiful floral scent I'd ever smell . Actually I ranked Royal Mayfair above Aventus.
This is a fragrance I bought a 5ml sample of months ago..Just didn’t think spring-summer was appropriate for 540.. I received a sample from a seller as a Thank you..It was I who should thank him.. I sprayed this magnificent juice and instantly was in love..This in my opinion is my favorite Looking forward for cooler weather to wear it..Love at first try. Thank you
I wore it and it became marvelous, the very drydown to me became special, I wore it during a long heavy workday, and I experienced it all the way through,, finally voila, I've got this delicate white musky floral at the very end.. Unvelievable.
This gives me hope. I despise it atm and am already thinking about giving it away. Don’t know what the rave’s all about. Love the way you describe it; challenging which it actually is. Hopefully it’ll grow on me too.
I smelt and loved a clone of BR540 before experiencing the original and the clone had been spot on. My experience with a hate to like for a fragrance is CK Obsession Night for men. I couldn't stand it when I bought it a couple of years ago but now I find it quite smooth
I just ordered a sample from royalty scents and what I received was coloured water honestly. I don’t smell anything. I guess I’ll order from the house it self next time.
I have been saying this for 2 years, this is one of the best releases of the last 4/5 years. At first it would numb my nose too but after hours and hours I would get sniffs and it’s magical. Lots of compliments too. I love it so much that I bought the big bottle like you and the extrait and that one is also magical!!!
I adore this fragrance. I was given a sample to try, without being told what it was. Every time I wore it, I loved the scent, and I was stopped constantly by strangers asking what I was wearing and that It was amazing. It was a little weird having to explain that I had no idea what I had on. I was then gifted my own little bottle. It's so beautiful and smells amazing on my skin.
My experience with hate to love is with Islay scotch. When I was much younger I could not stand heavily "peated" scotch. Needless to say now, half of my liquor collection is Islay scotch. Correlation: over the years things changes and now, we can appreciate some things we just couldn't wrap our heads around years ago. My 2 pennies.... Excellent review as always.
Hi Sebastian Thanks yes I think we’ve all experienced this before it’s just weird and great how are tastes expand over time. Whenever I think I don’t like a certain frag group or note some creative perfumer changes my mind and I luv it!
I had to trace my route back to this video because i just got a bottle of Electimuss London Trajan. A minute after i spray it, I can’t smell anything. However, it seems to be coming to me in waves at different times of the day. I could even smell it the following morning.
literally watching this video as I'm going through the 180 turn on this scent-so ironic. I was at nordstrom the other day and this fragrance caught my nose. The floor was totally empty, no one in sight-after a few mins a lady associate appeared from the back and confirmed she was wearing it. The scent was just hanging around in the air like magic. about to order some edp and extrait decants to give this a proper revisit, I can't stop thinking about it haha.
I had the same experience with this fragrance and gradually I started to smell it on my friend and bought a full bottle later yet I am still a bit anosmic with the fragrance .
My friend wears the extrait version and I loved it on her but on my skin the extrait version was too sweet and heavy on the almond note but the EDP version has just as awesome longevity and Sillage but in my opinion more on the masculine side and less sweet. Side note if you’re on the fence about buying this and are judging by a test strip or smelling it on your wrist don’t trust that it’s not the initial spray it’s the magic that happens after you spray it as time goes on lol
I’ve had a similar experience with BR540. I love the opening and the actual idea of this fragrance (sweet opening to mossy dry down). I wore it generously on two occasions and it just disappears after the first 30 minutes of wearing. I am either nose blind to it but I cannot smell it after 30 minutes. I’m embarrassed to admit that I prefer the clones as they last longer on me!
@@faizso it last 12hours +. You go nose blind really quick with this fragrance but you'll realize people around you still smell it even after 10hours (projection is huge)
@@faizso not that ik of,sorry! the extrait smells similar and i enjoy it more bc i could actually smell it on myself for longer than 5min😂 you could shower to reset your nose as well!
I recently purchased Thameen Patiala and was surprised to find that it smells so much like BR540!! I have since watched a reviewer who described Patiala as a ‘feminine ‘ version of BR. It is beautiful. And also less $$.
I just had the same experience, used to hate br540 with passion, it was my most hated scent that I could sniff anywhere, now suddenly I just saw the light and I am in love...weird!
It happened to me with Amouage Epic. I hated it for a couple of days, but I kept wearing it, then after about two weeks, I started to love it, now the smell still stuck in my mind after a year of finishing that bottle.
Personally this isn't for me , I can't get past the association I have that it reminds me of crushed glass lollys and I smell juvenile when I wear it. Glad so many enjoy it and have found something they love.🙏
This stuff is great, not incredible like most say. I think it smells even better in the air. So I spray my 2 year old, once on the back of her shirt. She runs around causing mayhem and I enjoy her company even more 😂
This happened to me with Renier Kisses Rain. Lola Scents said it comforting and she loved it and the notes were intriguing. I got it and couldn’t return it back to a foreign country. I tried it again a year later and I was oh! Now I get it! Thanks Sabastian.
My nose plays tricks on me as well . I didn’t like this one @ first either & it happened one day when I wore another 13 by accident from a sample & Now I do love both after years of rejection . I find it really fascinating when that happens . Great review !
I still don't get this fragrance. Every time I'm in Neiman's I spray this on me and I still can't fall in love with it. My nose just smells old school bandaids and burnt sugar crystals. Maybe it's just my body chemistry🤷🏽♀️
Yes, I had the hate toward Dior Fahrenheit at first and for a year or so. A friend gave me a used bottle because she had thrown out her bf, but wanted me to have what she said was the best fragrance ever. This was around 1999, and I thought it smelled like something that shouldn't ever be in a human nose. After a year or so, I kept going back to smelling it and realized that it might be the best fragrance I had ever smelled.
I own a bunch of bottles and BR540 is a 10/10. BR540 layered with Aventus is 11/10! Only fragrance I didn't like that I ended up changing my mind on so far has been Aqua Amara by Bvlgari .
I don't hate Molecule 04, but (similar to your initial experience) I can't smell it. I can smell Molecule 01 just fine and love it. I'm hoping eventually my nose will begin to pick it up. I've mixed Molecule 01 and 04 together as you did in a previous video and I agree with you that it produced a nice aroma.
I bought the sample and it was love at first sniff! I had to buy the 6.8 too. I sprayed it on before going to bed and made my husband hug me so he could smell it too! Lol 😂
I didn’t like it at first sniff and didn’t think it was worth the money but then I got home and could smell it on my shirt after I had taken it off and every time I walked by it, it was addicting. I ordered the Extrait version.
I had the same experience with Terre d'hermes but I wasn't a fan of vetiver until I smelled Dior's Vetiver then I started to like vetiver and then fell in love with Terre d'hermes
I thought I was only one... Everyone was going bonkers over this and I was like eeehhh its alright. Came back to it a year later and now I'm like where this smell come from ...
Lol. Too funny. That's exactly the way I described my initial introduction to this fragrance when I smelled it for the first time. Old school band aids and a hospital. Probably because I work in one of the medical professions🤷🏽♀️
Maybe not as extreme as you, but similar. I love Oud Satin Mood, but BR540 never really did it for me. 6 months later, I tried the sample I have again, and really love it. It smells the same as I remember, objectively, but this time I really like it.
Great fragrance! My most complimented in my collection! People don’t just say you smell good they say omg what are you wearing and they write it down! People at work ask me to make them samples! You do go nose blind to it though but trust me people will smell you all day even though you can’t!
@@Jetleedu13 I’d say the edp is more versatile and has that burnt sugar cotton candy vibe but is still unisex and the extrait has more of an almond feel to it..I think I prefer the edp as it’s great and the price is much cheaper
So I was gifted a bottle a few days ago and something told me to go get a sample before I opened it and today I did aware and sprayed it on each wrist on one wrist it was more citrusy and cedar and on the other side it smelled like cotton candy now both sides dried down about seven hours later and they both smell masculine sort of speak up more like Cedarwood and definitely not what I expected I think I will play around with the sample a little bit more before I commit to opening the large bottle definitely not what I was expecting from all the hype on TH-cam
YES! This is happening to me right now. I’m in the “it smells like Raid bug spray” phase. But the notes listed never helped me figure out why. Then today I looked at the notes mentioned on Lucky Scent’s description of it! Voila! It lists Moroccan rosemary and Sicilian mandarin in the notes! That sounds like that orange oil-grease remover and hand cleaner that mechanics use, the only thing that works to get mechanical grease off hands! Those are notes that are used in that industrial product, but that doesn’t have to mean that perfume is only that. That strong association did ruin it for me at first though! Fragrance Notes from Lucky Scent: Moroccan rosemary, Sicilian mandarin, Jamaican Amyris, Florentine Iris, Brazilian Tonka bean absolute, modern woods
I love it! I tried this on at Neiman Marcus yesterday at about 5:30pm. Got home, took a shower that night, put lotion on this morning, washed my hands many times today, and I can STILL smell it on my hand where I sampled it. That alone makes me want to go ahead and take that leap of faith and purchase it lol.
I may need to try it again because I didn't like it when I tried it, and I still don't like it so much when I smell it on others. I love Grand Soir though! Thanks for the review.
Terre d'hermes was that fragrance for me,I hated it at first but a year and a half later I smelled it and was head over heels lol that was back in 2013.. great video Sebastian
I love this fragrance..but I dont smell it long ..I wish I could smell it like others say had to wash it off..I have fragrances that yes I can still smell on clothes days later..frustrating that that is not the case with this..especially being price is high
The original Dior homme did that to me. First try & I got that lipstick opening like a punch to the face. Tried it again a year later( from thhe same sample) & the lipstick note wasn't as pronounced allowing me to get more of the iris/ chocolate. I had changed my diet & lost 20 pounds since the retesting so that might have changed my skin chemistry or the juice just needed to settle. Same thing with Havan by Terry Muggler
Same experience with BR540. Got a decant & could not understand the hype. Last fall, caught a whiff on a scarf I wore days earlier and that was it. I was a goner. Mugler Angel is another one. Loathed it for years. Now I freaking love it. Thank you so much for your reviews. When you post, makes my day! ❤️
It was love at first sniff for me! I got a sample of Another 13 yesterday and I did notice similarities. I really did not like TF Soleil Blanc for the longest time and now it’s one I’ve been wearing a lot this summer.
I had to learn to like and then love this one. On paper it smells sweet, but on me it smells very different but good different. Except when it smells medicinal. 😀
I bought the red bottle as soon as it came to the NM by me. I loved it. Live at first sniff. Can’t wear it much even tho I love it because 70% of people in nj try to at least spray it in store and smell like it. Waiting for the hype to go down
wow!!! great review and story Sebastian!!! I don't own BC540, but it's a clear winner for me too! Exceptional scent! One similar case I've got - I've always thought Dior Homme Parfum is nothing more than a flanker of Dior Homme Intense 2011 and I always passed it away. What a mistake!!!!! I've asked myself the same thing - what happened to me? Why I don't have it???? I'm sure many of us have the same story.... Baccarat Rouge 540 is amazing scent and it could be a niche legend.
I hated Jo Malone's Wood Sage & Sea Salt. But now it's my go to scent whenever I need to go out for errands or any other short outings. I choose it due to its short longevity but the smell is so good. On another note I don't like ADG Profumo. And I still don't like it. I wear it from time to time to see if my mind changes. Still not loving it haha.
I need to try this one again because I didn’t like it on my first sniff either. Maybe the sample was old? At some point I’ll give it another sniff. For me, I hated Shalimar the first time I smelled it and now I really like and appreciate it.
Tobacco Vanille. I've had a sample of it for probably 3 or 4 years. Would go back to it and smell it every now and then, but just didn't like it or get the hype. When I finally WORE IT this winter (for the 1st time) I really enjoyed it. Felt rich and classy. Fitting for the holiday season. I don't like Baccarat Rouge. Maybe I'll come around to it by 2030 lol.
Sebastian, I have just posted a first impression video on this fragrance. While I felt instant appreciation and respect for Baccarat Rouge 540, I also found it really unsettling. The metallic accord in it disturbed me and conjured up memories of not-so-pleasant moments. However, I really hope I fall in love with it, and that I’ll be able to associate it with good memories. 😊
I really love your reviews Sebastian! if you were a fragrance, you'd be both calming and uplifting. Appreciate the knowledge you share. I sampled 540 this afternoon: sexy!
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Sebastian, what is the batchcode on your bottle? My theory is that Francis reformulated the fragrance 2 or 3 times. I found Baccarat to be very overwhelming in 2016-2017. Bought a bottle in 2018 (batchcode starting with 18) and it was subdued, no projection (people couldnt smell it) and I'd go noseblind after 40 minutes. I bought a bottle 1 year later (batchcode 19) and it is projecting a lot, my nose doesnt go blind (can smell it 12 hours) and it is a bit more sweet and the saffrone subdued (less medicinal).
Baccarat rouge is such a weird fragrance but it's so good. I love how it can seemingly disappear on my skin and come back an hour later. I also didn't like it at first
Its kinda scary how it does that. Masterpiece honestly
@@SPACEDOUT19 not scary, all " molecule " based frags behaves just like that, Molecule01 is a perfect example
When my husband first smelled it, it immediately said "it smells like cat piss" and would not purchase it for me, and got me MFK Feminin Pluriel instead. I bought it for myself, and now he is in love and we both have our own bottle. Fragrance is tricky sometimes !! LOL
Baccarat Rouge is on my top 3 favorite fragrances Ever!
What are the other 2 ?
Corrado Pisani br 539 and br 541
Guilty of hating it initially too. It’s a beautiful, unique scent. Doesn’t get me too excited but I appreciate it for what it is. Thank you Sebastian.
Hi, we have the same experience..... BR540 is interestingly weird... It took me 1 year to love & appreciate this fragrance... Now I really love it that I bought both 200ml EDP & 70ml Extrait. No other fragrance has done this kind of weird experience to me other than BR540. I think it's a masterpiece, trying it short term doesn't do justice, you have to let your nose learn.
How long did it take you to learn and appreciate it fully ?
I needed this. I’ve been looking for reasons to justify purchasing this fragrance 😩. I hated the initial spray but that dry down hours later is beautiful 😍
I hope you already bought it. This is amazing...
I totally agree that dry down is very pleasant.
I had exactly the same experience. First of all i didn't understand the hype at all, it had a cotton candy smell on me, but now i started to appreciate it.
For some reason this was love at first sniff for me, especially the Extrait! It’s my biggest compliment getter 😍
Hello, great respect for your work and knowledge! As a recent fragrance lover with not much experience, I have tried Baccarat Rouge 540 on a test strip and I was like " What!! I smell only alcohol with a hint of sugar." Next day I have tried it on the skin and same again. And I was like " Crazy youtubers and their nose" 😁 And few hours later a hint of Ambergris, and I was like "what. I am hallucinating" and the smell was with me the next day and I am now in love. 😁
I absolutely love the extrait version. When I first put my nose on it there was something sweet and seductive about it, but I felt that I couldn't possibly wear something that sweet smelling. It was definitely unisex, but I wasn't and my pride was getting in the way. I usually wear stuff like an aromatic pungent woodsy and citrusy notes (like Aventus) on my body, and as my guilty pleasure I wear BR450Ex under my hat. From the outside I have a masculine exterior, but when you get close and intimate I have a sweet candy interior.
Can you tell me which one is better?
The EDP or the Extrait?
Just got samples directly from MFK and I’ve just tried both of them.
I can barely smell the EDP- getting a faint sweet mint toothpaste 1/2” from my arm but almost imperceptible.
The Extrait is clearly stronger with similar notes. Dries to a skin scent in 10 minutes- a stronger slightly sweet mint toothpaste but no Almond, no Ambergris.
I have 2 ml samples so maybe it will grow on me.
I have a bottle of Grand Soir and it’s a champion that wafts glorious Amber to my nose all day long- amazing!
This fragrance was LOVE at first sniff for me, I layer it with everything as well as wearing it alone. Obsessed with this one!
My first experience with BR540 was not favorable. I gave the bottle to my son. He came by about a year later and I smelled it on him and said "what are you wearing???" He said that bottle you gave me. I instantly went out and bought another bottle. Now I have a 200ml Bottle on the way and I went through 70ml in 2021. I absolutely adore it now!
I love this masterpiece and have from the beginning Ive never understood the bad press on this one thanks for your review & approach to this scent BIG fan of the house - Ive got 9 from them AMBERGRIS really grabs me JIM from MIAMI BEACH
Yes it happened to me too…I even requested to return it. I gave it another try before returning it….I’m keeping it now…I so understand
When I first smelled this I thought it smelled like the dentists. Didn’t like it at all. Kept using the 20ml that I had and by the end of it I thought it was okay. Got myself some Ariana grande cloud and it was grew on me. Now I have br540 extrait and I LOVE IT. most frags don’t last on my skin but this one performs exceptionally well
I love Baccarat Rouge 540. I keep on looking for a scent that makes me feel the way this one make me feel but I haven't had any luck. I'm so in love with this fragrance...I wish I could find something similar.
Baccarat Rouge 540 is, without doubt, a Masterpiece!! My comment comes 2 years after You published this video, however, I did not know this fragrance before.
I just bought this and I’m still trying to figure it out. I think I like it but not sure I’m into the hype as of yet but I’m holding out lots of hope. Thank you for this video.
You and me both. Finally got a decant of BR540 and neither my wife nor I like it at all. After the incredible hype I expected something more, more interesting, more pleasant. It just fell flat. But for years I didn't like Tauer LDDM and last year I tried it again and maybe it was nose maturity but I totally fell in love with it and had to have a bottle. So will follow your lead and give BR a few more tries over time to see if anything changes. Have Zoologist Civet and animalics were notes that I couldn't stand at one time. Now I can't get enough of them. Same with dirty musks. It's amazing how our tastes change isn't it!
For me, BR540 still smells like sweet cotton candy wrapped up in latex 😅
But I had that experience with Tom Ford Black Orchid EDP and, most recently, Guerlain Encens Mythique (I'm absolutely in love with that fragrance! True masterpiece 😍)
Great review, as always!
This is the best description I’ve ever read please start to review too
I had this experience with lots of fragrances some of which are Jicky and L’heure Bleue by Guerlain which was such a long journey, also quite relevant Grand Soir, I thought it was another cheap sweet smelling fragrance but then I was hooked.
Moral of that, we have to be patient with everything we try and trying them on different circumstances until we make our mind.
I was actually going through this dilemma the last few days with baccarat rouge 540 i hated it last year but now for sime reason i am hooked on it
I bought this one because everyone was in love with it. I find it very acquatic and somehow mineralic. I don’t smell the sweetness. I don’t find it heavy or beasty. I don’t know. Maybe my nose is still blind here? For me it’s really an acquatic smell
Definitely your nose lol but it's molecule based so will react differently for sure more so that EDTs and EDPs of other Houses.
I’m just smelling it in 2021. I loved it instantly but it’s so light. It would be awesome if it was much stronger but still kept that sensual mellow scent
Baccarat Rouge 540 by MFK is a molecule based perfume. You will not smell it on yourself, but everybody else will smell it. It's a very airy scent. If you'd spray it on your shirt and leave it in the wardrobe and come back to it a bit later, you can smell it.
Yes you are 100% correct I spray my pillow couldn't smell it when to sleep woke up in the morning and it was super beast mode it's like I just spray it
BR540 was not a love at first sniff for me. I actually thought it had a weird scent and I didn’t like it. Several months went by and i tried my sample again. It smelled amazing and it’s been my most complimented fragrance over the past year. The Extrait version smells even better IMO. The added bitter almond note really sets it apart from the EDP. I now own a bottle of both versions.
I can't believe it! The same thing happened to me with Baccarat Rouge! I found I needed to spray the oil and the fragrance to be able to smell it. It lasts on clothing beyond washing. I'd go to grab my shirt that I wore when I sampled Baccarat and I'd get a whiff. That's when I fell in love. So I don't own it yet but I'll buy it when the stores open again, providing I stay healthy. Stay safe!
Hi Sebastian, it wasn't love at first sniff for me either. I bought it based on its reviews and hype and I guess I was expecting something super complex, but later on I fell in love with BR 540 when I realized how much happiness it brings to me everytime I wear it. Indeed, it's undoubtedly a beast mode. Its projection and sillage is out of this world.
I love this frag. and my number 1 picked from the house of MFK, I have the extrait concentration and stays on my jacket for weeks. I also love the grand soir and Satin Oud. I blind bought a Creed Royal Mayfair last year and the first time I tried that fragrance I hated it too much because of the opening, and I put it at the back of my collection and I forgot about it. . A year later, I tried it again and I was blown away how beautiful the fragrance developed , IMHO Royal Mayfair is the most beautiful floral scent I'd ever smell . Actually I ranked Royal Mayfair above Aventus.
This is a fragrance I bought a 5ml sample of months ago..Just didn’t think spring-summer was appropriate for 540.. I received a sample from a seller as a Thank you..It was I who should thank him.. I sprayed this magnificent juice and instantly was in love..This in my opinion is my favorite
Looking forward for cooler weather to wear it..Love at first try. Thank you
I wore it and it became marvelous, the very drydown to me became special, I wore it during a long heavy workday, and I experienced it all the way through,, finally voila, I've got this delicate white musky floral at the very end.. Unvelievable.
This gives me hope. I despise it atm and am already thinking about giving it away. Don’t know what the rave’s all about. Love the way you describe it; challenging which it actually is. Hopefully it’ll grow on me too.
I smelt and loved a clone of BR540 before experiencing the original and the clone had been spot on. My experience with a hate to like for a fragrance is CK Obsession Night for men. I couldn't stand it when I bought it a couple of years ago but now I find it quite smooth
I just ordered a sample from royalty scents and what I received was coloured water honestly. I don’t smell anything. I guess I’ll order from the house it self next time.
I have been saying this for 2 years, this is one of the best releases of the last 4/5 years. At first it would numb my nose too but after hours and hours I would get sniffs and it’s magical. Lots of compliments too. I love it so much that I bought the big bottle like you and the extrait and that one is also magical!!!
I adore this fragrance. I was given a sample to try, without being told what it was. Every time I wore it, I loved the scent, and I was stopped constantly by strangers asking what I was wearing and that It was amazing. It was a little weird having to explain that I had no idea what I had on. I was then gifted my own little bottle. It's so beautiful and smells amazing on my skin.
My experience with hate to love is with Islay scotch. When I was much younger I could not stand heavily "peated" scotch. Needless to say now, half of my liquor collection is Islay scotch. Correlation: over the years things changes and now, we can appreciate some things we just couldn't wrap our heads around years ago. My 2 pennies.... Excellent review as always.
This is by far my favorite fragrance. It’s just classy and intoxicating. The one fragrance I hated at 1st Initio Oud for Greatness, but now I love it.
Oud for greatness is my favorite perfume ! I just ordered BR 540 and I hope is not redundant... do you find the Mfk more feminine? Thanks
BR540 is one of my favorite fragrances of all time!! I do sometimes go nose-blind to it so I layer it alongside TF Lost Cherry and it is DELICIOUS 😋
Hillorie Swartz so you go nose blind to it too? I can’t smell it.
so u smell delicious hunh? lemme find out 😏 lol
Layer it with the extrait version 😂
Hi Sebastian Thanks yes I think we’ve all experienced this before it’s just weird and great how are tastes expand over time. Whenever I think I don’t like a certain frag group or note some creative perfumer changes my mind and I luv it!
I had to trace my route back to this video because i just got a bottle of Electimuss London Trajan. A minute after i spray it, I can’t smell anything. However, it seems to be coming to me in waves at different times of the day. I could even smell it the following morning.
du bist mir so symphatisch danke für die coolen videos !
Absolutely true .. it’s kinda grower scent which is still a pass for me ... but lovers really loves it... it happened for me with amouage jubilation
literally watching this video as I'm going through the 180 turn on this scent-so ironic. I was at nordstrom the other day and this fragrance caught my nose. The floor was totally empty, no one in sight-after a few mins a lady associate appeared from the back and confirmed she was wearing it. The scent was just hanging around in the air like magic. about to order some edp and extrait decants to give this a proper revisit, I can't stop thinking about it haha.
I had the same experience with this fragrance and gradually I started to smell it on my friend and bought a full bottle later yet I am still a bit anosmic with the fragrance .
My friend wears the extrait version and I loved it on her but on my skin the extrait version was too sweet and heavy on the almond note but the EDP version has just as awesome longevity and Sillage but in my opinion more on the masculine side and less sweet. Side note if you’re on the fence about buying this and are judging by a test strip or smelling it on your wrist don’t trust that it’s not the initial spray it’s the magic that happens after you spray it as time goes on lol
I’ve had a similar experience with BR540. I love the opening and the actual idea of this fragrance (sweet opening to mossy dry down). I wore it generously on two occasions and it just disappears after the first 30 minutes of wearing. I am either nose blind to it but I cannot smell it after 30 minutes. I’m embarrassed to admit that I prefer the clones as they last longer on me!
Same thing happened to me. I love the scent. But it wont last!!! So disappointed. What clones are u wearing? I heard Dua’s version projects well.
@@faizso it last 12hours +. You go nose blind really quick with this fragrance but you'll realize people around you still smell it even after 10hours (projection is huge)
Totoro yeah true. Is there any other way to heal my nose blind? Or to make me NOT nose blind to this scent? I really like it tho
@@faizso not that ik of,sorry! the extrait smells similar and i enjoy it more bc i could actually smell it on myself for longer than 5min😂 you could shower to reset your nose as well!
I had that experience with TF Orchid Soleil. Hated it, but now I love it.
I recently purchased Thameen Patiala and was surprised to find that it smells so much like BR540!! I have since watched a reviewer who described Patiala as a ‘feminine ‘ version of BR. It is beautiful. And also less $$.
I remember smelling it in UK/France and it certainly reminded me of it as well. Good point! :)
I just had the same experience, used to hate br540 with passion, it was my most hated scent that I could sniff anywhere, now suddenly I just saw the light and I am in love...weird!
It happened to me with Amouage Epic. I hated it for a couple of days, but I kept wearing it, then after about two weeks, I started to love it, now the smell still stuck in my mind after a year of finishing that bottle.
Personally this isn't for me , I can't get past the association I have that it reminds me of crushed glass lollys and I smell juvenile when I wear it.
Glad so many enjoy it and have found something they love.🙏
Smells tooth paste for me :(
Oui j’ai eu la même expérience avec Bois d’Argent de Dior. On est un peu déstabilisé quand cela arrive ☺️.
This stuff is great, not incredible like most say. I think it smells even better in the air. So I spray my 2 year old, once on the back of her shirt. She runs around causing mayhem and I enjoy her company even more 😂
This happened to me with Renier Kisses Rain. Lola Scents said it comforting and she loved it and the notes were intriguing. I got it and couldn’t return it back to a foreign country. I tried it again a year later and I was oh! Now I get it! Thanks Sabastian.
My nose plays tricks on me as well . I didn’t like this one @ first either & it happened one day when I wore another 13 by accident from a sample & Now I do love both after years of rejection . I find it really fascinating when that happens . Great review !
Yess, I also hated BCR540 and now am in love with the Extrait. Also the same happened to me with Kilian GGBE and Dior Hypnotic Poison EDP
The same exact thing happened to me with BR540. First I hated it and after a few weeks I am addicted to it!!!!!
I still don't get this fragrance. Every time I'm in Neiman's I spray this on me and I still can't fall in love with it. My nose just smells old school bandaids and burnt sugar crystals. Maybe it's just my body chemistry🤷🏽♀️
Yes, I had the hate toward Dior Fahrenheit at first and for a year or so. A friend gave me a used bottle because she had thrown out her bf, but wanted me to have what she said was the best fragrance ever. This was around 1999, and I thought it smelled like something that shouldn't ever be in a human nose. After a year or so, I kept going back to smelling it and realized that it might be the best fragrance I had ever smelled.
I own a bunch of bottles and BR540 is a 10/10. BR540 layered with Aventus is 11/10! Only fragrance I didn't like that I ended up changing my mind on so far has been Aqua Amara by Bvlgari
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I don't hate Molecule 04, but (similar to your initial experience) I can't smell it. I can smell Molecule 01 just fine and love it. I'm hoping eventually my nose will begin to pick it up. I've mixed Molecule 01 and 04 together as you did in a previous video and I agree with you that it produced a nice aroma.
I bought the sample and it was love at first sniff! I had to buy the 6.8 too. I sprayed it on before going to bed and made my husband hug me so he could smell it too! Lol 😂
Same for me! I love A.13 and that’s why I love BR 540 for me it’s a stronger version of A.13.
I didn’t like it at first sniff and didn’t think it was worth the money but then I got home and could smell it on my shirt after I had taken it off and every time I walked by it, it was addicting. I ordered the Extrait version.
This is interesting one. Not sure I love it but I do appreciate it.
I had the same experience with Terre d'hermes but I wasn't a fan of vetiver until I smelled Dior's Vetiver then I started to like vetiver and then fell in love with Terre d'hermes
Makes sense.
I thought I was only one... Everyone was going bonkers over this and I was like eeehhh its alright. Came back to it a year later and now I'm like where this smell come from ...
Exactly!! This is what I wanted to see! Great to see you put out a video on this topic. Perfumes that surprised you.
Happened to me with A*Men. You never forget your first. Tuscan Leather was the second.
Had a sample of this and enjoyed it. I like the EDP better than the extrait. Both are nice. Enjoyed the review ✌🏻
I get a lot of hospital and brown band-aid from this. Maybe it will grow on me..
Lol. Too funny. That's exactly the way I described my initial introduction to this fragrance when I smelled it for the first time. Old school band aids and a hospital. Probably because I work in one of the medical professions🤷🏽♀️
Maybe not as extreme as you, but similar. I love Oud Satin Mood, but BR540 never really did it for me. 6 months later, I tried the sample I have again, and really love it. It smells the same as I remember, objectively, but this time I really like it.
Great fragrance! My most complimented in my collection! People don’t just say you smell good they say omg what are you wearing and they write it down! People at work ask me to make them samples! You do go nose blind to it though but trust me people will smell you all day even though you can’t!
are you talking about the EDP or the extrait? thank you
@@Jetleedu13 the edp it’s lighter and more airy and projects more while the extrait is great it’s thicker and sits closer to the skin
@@JoeSmith-ge8bz I hesitate so much between the two
@@Jetleedu13 I’d say the edp is more versatile and has that burnt sugar cotton candy vibe but is still unisex and the extrait has more of an almond feel to it..I think I prefer the edp as it’s great and the price is much cheaper
So I was gifted a bottle a few days ago and something told me to go get a sample before I opened it and today I did aware and sprayed it on each wrist on one wrist it was more citrusy and cedar and on the other side it smelled like cotton candy now both sides dried down about seven hours later and they both smell masculine sort of speak up more like Cedarwood and definitely not what I expected I think I will play around with the sample a little bit more before I commit to opening the large bottle definitely not what I was expecting from all the hype on TH-cam
Interesting.... you just described my experience with this fragrance
YES! This is happening to me right now. I’m in the “it smells like Raid bug spray” phase.
But the notes listed never helped me figure out why. Then today I looked at the notes mentioned on Lucky Scent’s description of it! Voila! It lists Moroccan rosemary and
Sicilian mandarin in the notes! That sounds like that orange oil-grease remover and hand cleaner that mechanics use, the only thing that works to get mechanical grease off hands! Those are notes that are used in that industrial product, but that doesn’t have to mean that perfume is only that. That strong association did ruin it for me at first though!
Fragrance Notes from Lucky Scent:
Moroccan rosemary,
Sicilian mandarin,
Jamaican Amyris,
Florentine Iris,
Brazilian Tonka bean absolute, modern woods
I love it! I tried this on at Neiman Marcus yesterday at about 5:30pm. Got home, took a shower that night, put lotion on this morning, washed my hands many times today, and I can STILL smell it on my hand where I sampled it. That alone makes me want to go ahead and take that leap of faith and purchase it lol.
My most beloved fragrance.. ❤️❤️❤️
I may need to try it again because I didn't like it when I tried it, and I still don't like it so much when I smell it on others. I love Grand Soir though! Thanks for the review.
I Had a similar experience with Spicebomb when it first came out. Now it’s one of my favourites
Terre d'hermes was that fragrance for me,I hated it at first but a year and a half later I smelled it and was head over heels lol that was back in 2013.. great video Sebastian
I love this fragrance..but I dont smell it long ..I wish I could smell it like others say had to wash it off..I have fragrances that yes I can still smell on clothes days later..frustrating that that is not the case with this..especially being price is high
The original Dior homme did that to me. First try & I got that lipstick opening like a punch to the face. Tried it again a year later( from thhe same sample) & the lipstick note wasn't as pronounced allowing me to get more of the iris/ chocolate. I had changed my diet & lost 20 pounds since the retesting so that might have changed my skin chemistry or the juice just needed to settle. Same thing with Havan by Terry Muggler
I've experienced this one exactly like you. Pure magic
Same experience with BR540. Got a decant & could not understand the hype. Last fall, caught a whiff on a scarf I wore days earlier and that was it. I was a goner. Mugler Angel is another one. Loathed it for years. Now I freaking love it. Thank you so much for your reviews. When you post, makes my day! ❤️
It was love at first sniff for me! I got a sample of Another 13 yesterday and I did notice similarities. I really did not like TF Soleil Blanc for the longest time and now it’s one I’ve been wearing a lot this summer.
I had to learn to like and then love this one. On paper it smells sweet, but on me it smells very different but good different. Except when it smells medicinal. 😀
I bought the red bottle as soon as it came to the NM by me. I loved it. Live at first sniff. Can’t wear it much even tho I love it because 70% of people in nj try to at least spray it in store and smell like it. Waiting for the hype to go down
I have the extrait de parfum version and im loving it even my hubby loves it on me, it's my signature scent actually and i can wear it all year round
wow!!! great review and story Sebastian!!!
I don't own BC540, but it's a clear winner for me too! Exceptional scent!
One similar case I've got - I've always thought Dior Homme Parfum is nothing more than a flanker of Dior Homme Intense 2011 and I always passed it away. What a mistake!!!!! I've asked myself the same thing - what happened to me? Why I don't have it????
I'm sure many of us have the same story....
Baccarat Rouge 540 is amazing scent and it could be a niche legend.
I hated Jo Malone's Wood Sage & Sea Salt. But now it's my go to scent whenever I need to go out for errands or any other short outings. I choose it due to its short longevity but the smell is so good. On another note I don't like ADG Profumo. And I still don't like it. I wear it from time to time to see if my mind changes. Still not loving it haha.
I need to try this one again because I didn’t like it on my first sniff either. Maybe the sample was old? At some point I’ll give it another sniff. For me, I hated Shalimar the first time I smelled it and now I really like and appreciate it.
Yes when I first started getting into fragrances I really dislike Terre de Hermes and artisan pure. Now love them.
Tobacco Vanille.
I've had a sample of it for probably 3 or 4 years. Would go back to it and smell it every now and then, but just didn't like it or get the hype.
When I finally WORE IT this winter (for the 1st time) I really enjoyed it. Felt rich and classy. Fitting for the holiday season.
I don't like Baccarat Rouge. Maybe I'll come around to it by 2030 lol.
Sebastian, I have just posted a first impression video on this fragrance. While I felt instant appreciation and respect for Baccarat Rouge 540, I also found it really unsettling. The metallic accord in it disturbed me and conjured up memories of not-so-pleasant moments.
However, I really hope I fall in love with it, and that I’ll be able to associate it with good memories. 😊
I really love your reviews Sebastian! if you were a fragrance, you'd be both calming and uplifting. Appreciate the knowledge you share. I sampled 540 this afternoon: sexy!
This is a LOVELY fragrance. The ambergris and Iris powder are top quality.