3 in 1 SODT – Testing samples….a new level !!

47m (edited) • SOTD 🍊

Hi everybody,

being in this brotherhood for a month opened my mind and above all my knowledge to a world of perfumes that I was not aware of, both niche and high-end.

The third edition of my 3 in 1 SOTD will describe my feelings about 3 fragrances highly considered by our community:

Tom Ford - Beau de Jour EDP

Parfums de Marly - Layton

Parfums de Marly – Percival

I expected to like Beau de Jour and Percival, quite fitting to my “comfort zone”, but wanted also to slowly step out of it and try something new, and therefore added Layton to the trilogy of decants.

I sprayed each sample twice in a day, on the wrists and on the side of the neck, and wrote down impressions and gave an evaluation at top, middle and base notes.

But let’s go to the 3 fragrances:

3 day’s ago it was the turn of Tom Ford - Beau de Jour EDP

Ok Guys, I had to sit down quickly…I thought to like it, but never I could have imagined something like that. I have several meters of Lavender in my garden, love it, but this opening is just overwhelming, strong and at the same time delicate, floral but never too sweet.

After some time, I recognized mint, for sure, all the other listed notes are still too difficult for me to recognize, sorry. Very good persistence, over 8h.

But this fragrance is not a question of single notes, it a wonderful blended mixture, elegant, masculine without being dominant, stylish, really gave me self-confidence. My votes for the 3 phases where one better than the other, easily a 9,5/10 altogether (my best vote so far was a 7,8/10).

It’s for sure my new Number 1 Fragrance 🥳 !!

2 day’s ago I went on discovering Parfums de Marly - Layton

After my experience with Beau de Jour, it could only have gotten worse, and it did get worse 😭.

Ready to get all your insults 😅, I now a lot of us love Layton !!

The opening: very very nice, still difficulties in recognizing apple, but the rest is clear. Fresh, Crispy, Aromatic…7,5/10

The Drydown: a lot of flowers coming out, jasmine I recognize for sure, quite sweet, nothing impressive. Medium persistence, or better said not strong enough in the drydown.

For sure it’s a high-end product, the overall mixture is blended very good, I feel like wearing something important, but in the end it’s not my type, overall I remain on 6,8/10

Yesterday was the turn of Parfums de Marly – Percival

Great Opening, surely better than Layton, get’s easily a 8,5/10, perhaps it was the apple (that I didn’t identify) that disturbed me in Layton, here there’s lots of different citrus notes fantastically mixed with some flowers.

Dry down not so fantastic, reminded me a lot of the Layton one, or perhaps a Abercrombie &Fitch First Instinct. Surely spicier than Layton and therefore a little bit better and more recognizable, less flat.

Overall something around 7,3/10, which remains one of my best votes (Beau de Jour was an exception)

For all of these fragrances I can easily say that it’s another level. The price is surely high, but probably once identified the ones you like more, it’s worth investing in a bottle or two. Thanks to all the brother for giving me the possibility to slowly learn this whole world of fantastic scents !!

That’s all for my second SOTD, I’m having a lot of fun testing all these new fragrances, so I can tell that soon you’ll get another hattrick !!

Ciao a Tutti from Italy

P.s. Guess what’s already in my shopping cart ? 😉

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3 in 1 SODT – Testing samples….a new level !!