This sounds interesting......would you say it's "floral" and would it hold up during night time outside events?
My sense is that the Tonka Bean/Sandalwood be what you most smell at the end of a long day. The real danger note here, imo, is the "seaweed absolute". Cause some marine/salt water type chemicals are prone to giving folks headaches.
I wouldn't expect the Jasmine and Geranium to last long.
The weirdest thing about "notes" and "accords" is that the actual chemicals in these mixtures are
rarely some boiled down and concentrated natural material - which would be hundreds if not thousands of different compounds. Instead it's usually 1 big note in the mix of something natural, and that big note is the one that comes out of a lab. It's kind of like things that smell like almonds also smell like cherries. There's one? aroma chemical that's the same between the 2 things, but that's the one that gets used for both. Guerlain's
L'Homme Ideal is described as Cherry but also Almonds.
But depending on the perfume (and your nose) all of the different notes should persist, just at different intensities.
On the real, my sense is that a lot of fragrances boil down to a relative handful of long lasting aromas - amber, sandalwood, oud, cade oil, birch, etc - because a lot of the top and middle notes, by chemistry - just disappear in the first couple hours..
In my opinion, the best fragrances start good, change to something good in the mid, and end up great after a long day...and then disappear as opposed stick with you to the point you need to scrub it off. Those are 10/10's.
I have a hard time thinking of one off rip, but I can tell you about a few that really change up to my nose.
God Awful
Armaf Club de Nuit Intense Man (which we talked about above) - Smells like a house cleaner for like 30 minutes to an hour, but ends up smelling similar to the thing that it's cloning.
Givenchy Gentleman Reserve Privee - which definitely has a "whisky" steez that flips into an Iris scent. I've gone back and forth on whether I think it does change as much as I think it does, and 2nd, whether I like it..
But most of the time I'd say a good fragrance is one that smells the same, but smells good 6-8 hours plus. It's linear, with little change ups. (or little change ups per my own nose, which I will admit isn't "fragrance reviewer" level)
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