Review (3/5): Overwhelmingly Dole
Order delivery was fine. My review of the fragrance on Basenotes:
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Hi. Newbie here, and I thank this august membership for your expertise!
I have learned a lot.
Anyway, I do not claim to have an advanced olfactory system but, other than the "late powder" I have been reading so much about here, I did not experience a lot of what others have mentioned.
My 1 Million Lucky arrived today. I got a 100 mil. bottle on Amazon for 60 bucks and could not resist the bargain. Have been looking for an Aventus substitute (nothing qualifies as a true clone, I've found) and this fragrance came highly recommended.
First blast was just that - an almost overwhelming gale of The Pineapple Express. Wow! Felt like I was swimming in a piña colada without the colada. Aventus has a decent (and MUCH subtler) pineapple note at first but that calms down very quickly into sublime, complex underthemes. From the pineapple, things got even more sugary and I was reminded of these little candies, Smarties, that I used to eat as a kid. It was a nice sense memory but not terribly masculine. Then, for a moment, the pineapple morphed into what I can only describe rotten pineapple: you know, as if the pineapple rind you threw away yesterday came jumping out of the trash and started pursuing you menacingly around your home?
Not pretty.
3 hours hence, the fragrance has calmed down considerably and, while the pineapple is still there, there's also some remaining candy and, as aforementioned, a LOT of powder.
So, to recap: Robust pineapple-infused nuclear detonation settles into nostalgic children's candy, decays (half-life?) into pineapple corpse, which, blessédly, gives way to a fairly nice pineapplecandypowder.
This strikes me as a unisex scent, though I've not seen that mentioned anywhere. Perhaps I'll spray some on one of my girlfriends and see what happens?!
6.5/10