Back at work today after being sick Monday night and yesterday. This is a great office fragrance, but could easily be a signature. Its citrus opening, signature amaretto style almond, and woody base is classy, elegant, and versatile. Good performance and decent projection. It’s unique, high quality, smooth, well blended, and elegant overall.

The trinity is finally complete, and in this post I’ll review Greenley and compare all three: Sedley, Castley and Greenley. Starting with Greenley, I love the opening. It’s green, juicy and fresh. The apple, bergamot and mandarin combo is common, but hard to dislike. It stays that way for a while, then I get oakmoss, petitgrain, cedar, violet and a musky rose, which I believe is Pomarose. I couldn’t pick up the cashmeran, either because it’s very well blended or my nose just missed it. As it dries down, the oakmoss remains and a woody sweetness appears, similar to Y EDP or TMW EDP, likely from amberwood. Again, I couldn’t detect the patchouli, or it was overshadowed by the moss. There’s a definite shampoo nuance. It smells very close to the Dove apple shampoo we get here in the UK, but of course much higher quality. Very youthful, very easy to wear, and very green, just like the bottle and name suggest. Performance is good. Around 6-8 hours with strong projection for the first two hours, but sillage is weak overall and it becomes a skin scent fairly quickly. It’s nice, but once again the performance and profile to price ratio doesn’t fully add up. I might try Aether Extrait, as I’ve heard nothing but good things about it being a great clone. Overall rating: 8.3/10. The profile makes up for the lack of performance compared to the other flankers. An easy, youthful summer freshie. The quality is there, and it smells a bit basic to me but it just works. Now for the comparison. I’ll rank them across different categories. Profile (ranked) 1. Greenley: herbal apple shampoo 2. Castley: luxury herbal ginger soap 3. Sedley: herbal Sprite/7UP soap Uniqueness 1. Castley 2. Sedley 3. Greenley Performance 1. Castley 2. Sedley and Greenley (tie) Overall ranking 1. Greenley (8.3/10) 2. Castley (8.2/10) 3. Sedley (7.8/10) None of the three are full bottle worthy for now especially at this price point but they could grow on me. That has happened far too many times to rule it out. Sillage is the biggest issue across all three, but otherwise they are very good scents. Next, I’ll compare them in high heat or outdoors. That could reveal something interesting, so stay tuned.