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After an amazing weekend in the city with my wife shopping. We went to buy some fragrances (Shocker) 😜. While we may or may not have gone a little overboard which we are prone to do we had an amazing time! All of this to be said, we have been making relationships with some sales people and when we were discussing our collection and what we were about to add. The manager came out and presented us with this Armani/Prive Lacquered display box!! They said these are very hard to get and that they have only had 1 or 2 come in, but they knew we were the right people to have it. They gave it to us for free! Not something I had expected or even knew existed. This is one of those things that keeps me buying from an actual store with an actual person. Even though I may be able to get a "deal" somewhere else. I prefer the relationships. Now I Just have to put my bottles in. I have 2 open spaces to fill. But probably not for long!! 🤣

Today's my 2nd Full day wearing this new fragrance to me. I will give you my take on yesterday's full day wear. Yesterday was 1/2 to 3/4 day in my office then off to NYC for sometime with my best friend and his daughter. So this scent got a mix of indoor office and outdoor cold weather. The scent started off really nice and a bit of a beast, but then the dry down which is soft and sweet. Throughout my time in the office, after a couple of hours I could still smell all the wonderful goodness (vanilla, Amber & Powder). But I had to go "look" for it. Not a simple matter of moving an arm randomly or walking. It was firmly on the skin without the big projection of earlier. When I went home to head into the city, I chose to reapply just 1 or 2 spays, nothing crazy and everything came back to life again but not full beast mode. But still very pleasent. I'm not usually one who wants to reapply, but am learning that some scents just require it or a scent switch for a different time of day. Since this is a new scent to me and I want to go through all the paces (as I see them) I am still a TOTAL novice and am learning a lot from the group here, so this is where my perspective comes in. When I got home after 10pm. The scent was almost gone. I still wonder how much the temp fluctuations in shipping matter to the overall performance and whether after it sitting in my home for a few weeks will some of this change for the better or worse? Either way still a solid buy in my mind and happy I have it. Today is day 2.5 and I'll wear it all day and evening. So I'll check back in with everyone tomorrow. If anyone else has a "Checklist" of how you put a new scent to you through its paces I'd love to hear from you all.

I received this bottle yesterday and was not disappointed on my test sniff! After I went home I decided to give this its first run as a Bedtime scent. The interesting thing for me when I did that is I immediately was reminded of YSL L'Homme EDP. In a good was as I love that fragrance as well. It was a light test with only 1 spray on my chest maybe a touch got on my pajama shirt and 1 spray to walk through. The longevity was great. Woke up this morning and the scent was still there, not overpowering, but you didn't have to hunt for it either. The Vanilla and Sweet come out of the gate hard with the amber and powder right on its heals. I don't get a lot of spice from this at all, but we will see how it goes. I'm wearing it for a full day today as well. I'll be in the office and then to the city for plenty of outside time so it will be interesting to see how it does in that environment. I am also curious to see how the scent may change as the bottle rests for a few weeks in my collection because of the temp swings in shipping? Not sure if that is a "Thing" but it makes sense in my head. Even though its early, I am glad I bought this upon everyones advice. Hope you all have a great day!!