Bentley For Men Eau de Toilette

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I can see myself wearing this any time from spring to autumn, day or night, except on hot summer days. The original, and often forgotten to it's Intense flanker, especially with Youtube reviewers, but make no mistake this is just as equally impressive as the Intense version. As El Caballo Blanco below mentions, the Intense version is amped up on incense (and spices and is a bit rougher around the edges). The middle of this fragrance is definitely smoother than the opening and lays out a nice warm, semi-sweet tobacco and leather with honey combination. This might bump Bvlgari Man in Black to 2nd place for my top winter fragrance (MIB has the prominent pipe tobacco, where Bentley FM has the rum note).

As for the best aftershave smell, the decision is too singular for anyone else to make, but the likes of Creed, TOM FORD and Montblanc have been satisfying the needs of fragrance mavens across the globe for decades. Has the ambroxany vibe that reminds a little of Dylan Blue but its not that blue to be considered close to it; this is more of a dressed up formal distant cousin that has never met the other.

However, the projection is bad, people have to be really close to you to smell it but I wear it for myself, I love this scent more than the intense version, which is too mature and strong for a young man like me. Anyway, although I suppose a woman could pull this off--I don't like to be sexist about that anyway--I do think it's conventionally masculine, though not in a brash way. The initial impression (mostly due to the violet, I imagine) is one of a clean-laundry airiness, with perhaps a less obvious dewy aspect.

So while it's not a terrible scent, there is a lot better out there, and it falls short of Bentley expectations. Bentley Intense is quite linear, swells up like Pandora's Box, gets gradually quieter and in the end even cosy, the scent has something of warm alcohol. Then, when the violet kicks in more, it's a mix of (again) Gentleman only with a touch od Fahrenheit.They are all very pure in their approach, inexpensive and high quality so they work amazingly for this purpose.

So I did compare them side-by-side (one on each arm), as well as compare the notes listed here on Fragrantica. However, this doesn't last all that long, and the dry-down becomes rather chemical again, very artificial smelling. I miss the smokey incense and the overall performance/concentration of the EDP is definitely worth it. To me it mostly smells like walking through a meadow on a bright, breezy early summer's morning, before the dew has fully lifted, perhaps when there's been rain and the earth is moist, just far enough downwind of that candy factory in town for it to be impossible to tell whether that obvious violet smell is an artificial one from there.Having own both versions, Bentley for men is definitely sweeter and much more wearable than its intense counterpart. The two are strikingly similar the main difference being the Intense is darker and deeper with the added incense. The cognac is more present in the opening, but transitions into this slightly cinnamon, benzoin, and woody drydown that's amazing. This is one of the few fragrances from my "Violet" period that has survived all of the changes in my fragrance preferences through the years. It smells pretty unique to me and I'm fairly sure I'd be able to pick this out of a crowd, even with my nose.