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Rhye - Fall
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During my college, I used to wear Rochas
Man. Relaxed, fun and cheerful like my college days, Rochas was so appropriate.
After ten years I bought it again, and I recall it being more powdery and dirtier.
The current version seems cleaned up, but still possessing that naive charm.
Rochas is still a wonderful example of
gourmand fougere, patented by great perfumer Maurice Roucel. Like a proper
fougere, Rochas Man starts with clean, but soft lavender note, later found in
Roucel’s Hypnose Homme. Apparently, reformulation took away the fizzy top note
of bergamot. The lavender is followed by amazingly complement mocha coffee
note. What a perfect blend. A beautiful chimera of fougere lavender and
gourmand notes of coffee and cotton candy, replayed in Bond No. 9 New Haarlem. After
these main notes, I do sense a subtle fruity note raspberry and pink lily of
the valley note. There is also some cedar, like a backbone leading to wonderful
base consisted of affable vanilla and dark amber. Unfortunately the performances
of this fragrance are questionable, but I still prefer over more expensive New
Haarlem. Sweet, magnetic, attractive, fragile and celestial. A perfectly
intimate and introverted fragrance. Rochas always made brave, yet somehow
commercially unsuccessful fragrances. I always have been weak on commercial
losers, like I always preferred Wile E. Coyote over The Road Runner.
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Longevity / Projection
Average (around 6 hours) / Below average
Suggested wearing
Autumn during day or night
Alternatives
Bond No. 9 New Haarlem – more expensive Roucel’s
take on the same theme
Givenchy Play Intense – a cotton candy/mocha/amyris
combo
Thierry Mugler Pure Tonka – a nutty take
on sweet gourmand theme (IMO the best from Pure line)
Hypnose Homme – a fougere cousin of
Rochas Man
Pros
Cheerful and colorful
A great mocha/lavender gourmand
Subtle but suitable for introverted
contemporary dandy
A great value for money
Cons
Performance issues
For sweet tooth lovers only
Rating
7.5/10
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