Saw this earlier today: Based on recent user reports and reviews, it appears The Parfums (theparfums.com) has been removed from the Shop app. Customer Complaints & Issues: The removal follows numerous customer complaints, with many accusing the store of acting as a "bot-run" or "scam" operation, with fake or missing inventory. Long Delays: Customers frequently reported waiting months for items, with some orders taking over 14 weeks to arrive or never arriving at all. "Ghost" Inventory: Reports suggest the company sells items they do not actually have in stock, only ordering them after a purchase is made. Communication Failures: Many customers reported that emails to the company bounced or went unanswered. Consumers who placed orders and did not receive their items have reported needing to file for a chargeback through their credit card company or bank. On the bright side, that bottle of Outlands that you ordered 6 months ago is only 3 months away from being shipped. 😉

Testing out a sample I received last weekend. This Parfum is a new release. It's a flanker to Coach Platinum as a bolder modern take. It opens with lavender, mandarin orange, and apple. The heart adds warmth with rum absolute, orange blossom, and moss. The dry-down includes ambroxan and cedarwood, giving it a creamy, slightly powdery and metallic profile thats not overly sweet or gourmand. It’s fresh, aromatic, and smooth. Versatile for everyday/casual wear, date-night or office safe. Longevity was around 8 hours. As a parfum, it performs decently but isn't room filling. Projection/sillage is average and not overpowering, which would make it good for daily use across seasons. It smells very similar to Ralphs Club New York. It's not unique but very wearable and mass appealing. It’s one of Coach's better releases and could be a must own down the line when it reaches discounters. Already owning RC NY, this would be redundant for me. If I didn’t own that, I would have to seriously compare them side by side to make my decision, and price could definitely be a factor.

Before you read this review, go look at the notes for this bad boy. I've attached them as a handy picture to this post. Don't worry, I'll wait. Back? Great. Now.... what in the BLUE HECK is that about?! It's fair to say that I came into this one with a sceptical bent. Generally, I like to smell like, well, THINGS. Y'know, fruits, or leathers, or flowers, or nuts, or ANYTHING really. I can extend that out to smelling of stuff like memories or situations, I guess, but THIS? How can I smell like something if I have no idea what it is? Can I really smell like a mismatched set of Scrabble tiles? Aside from Amber, I had little hope for recognition and excitement here. Okay, so I know Ambroxan; Sauvage is a powerhouse popular smell, after all. But ISO-E-Super is an accelerant to me, and everything that concetrates on it smells like a fragrance just waiting for the bloody smells to be added at a later date. And the others? Variations on a theme, and that theme is "confusion". So it came as a shock, when I sprayed this on, that I really liked it. It has a fizzy woody vibe from the get go, which smells resounding, and while it's synthetic it's also much deeper that I anticipated. It's a masculine scent, to me, and it's strangely fresh for a woody offering, but it's absolutely interesting and delicious and cool. As a starter, it absolutely fulfills the brief. Unfortunately, as the notes and the conceit displays, we don't move on to a main course or dessert. The nice opener scent? It becomes the nice middling scent. Eventually it becomes a nice endgame scent, albeit a little more intimate than before. Then it says its goodbyes and sashays away. It's a pleasant smell. But it's one note, copy pasted. For the price, I expect a little... modulation. Interestingly, I feel it does a fine job of conjuring up the essence of its musical pairing. The playlist takes a trot down the chemical boulevard of Acid House, with its synthetic edge and rattlecan repetition. After two hours of the music and only about three changes of pace or tone, I was screaming for something more nuanced, something different. Sure, I liked the song about the robots, but that's it. This smell? The olfactory version of a song about robots. Nice in isolation, but ultimately unfulfilling over time.