Today I wore two fragrances. Woke up early and was in an office environment, so even though it was cool, I chose to wear my favorite PDM Freshie.. That would be Galloway. Although I love Greenley and it does have more longevity, I like the scent profile of Galloway better. It reminds me of driving through central Florida I the spring. With the pervasive scent of orange blossom just everywhere and delicious as well as impossible to avoid. The black pepper and musk blend with this accord beautifully. To me, this is about as good as it gets for a spring and summer fragrance. Moving on, as I'm wearing a fragrance just for me while being home after noon, I wanted to smell Blessed Baraja on my skin. I absolutely love this one. It projects wonderfully off my skin and leaves a pretty animalic, dirty, musky scent on me after a few hours (which I love!), even though it's a little bit funky. I feel like this is one of Initio's most underrated fragrances. Do you have any opinions on these fragrances?

Could this be the “fragrance haul” of the Century? Not because of the number of fragrances, but for the price! So about 2 weeks ago a guy at work said “man you always smell good!” What would you recommend for me? I only have Acqua Di Gio and D&G Light Blue but I want some more. So of course I told him about fragrance discounters and he asked me to some to his cart that I would recommend. I added 5 and he bought 3. He bought Creed Silver Mountain Water, JPG Le Beau Le Parfum and Paco Rabanne 1 Million. I was trying to think of mass appeal and ease him into niche with the Creed. So this guy comes in today and says “man I don’t really like any of them, since you like them would you want to buy them off of me?” I asked what he was looking to get out of them and I was stunned by his answer. He said to give him $80 and come pick them up. So I said you want $80 each or $80 for all of them? $80 for all of them! That is absolutely insane to me and I gave him the $80 before he had a chance to change his mind! 😁 this has to be the best buy ive ever ran across!

Ok. So I now have a travel spray of each of these. ( Two intense by mistake.) And I decided to do a side by side.. Neither will be a full bottle but, but I can kinda see the appeal. The intense is synthetic, but more photorealistic on the tobacco and actually smells a Little more like an ashtray off the Rio than the OG. The OG is much more synthetic overall and stays that way ( also a little bit sweeter ) where the intense version gets a nice, rich, smoky feel afterwards instead of the sweetness from the OG. It's a bit more balanced and less offensive off the rip, bit I'm glad I didn't purchase a full bottle of either lol. Do you have any experience with these fragrances?