Review of Aramis Eau de Toilette by aad de gids

this is a fantastic perfume. I am not in the habit of wearing gents' perfumes (I give them to my straight twinbrother). and this flacon he inadvertantly left. I did spritzed some men's colognes at sparse moments. for example Creeds Bois du Portugal and Royal Mayfair and Peau d'Espagne from Santa Maria Novella are great perfumes. the last one with civet, a note both my brother and me love. strangely he has the same taste qua perfume for the male ones, I have, for their female counterparts. so all the 1980's hookers of Poison, Giorgio, Obsession, Coco, Knowing, Gem, Nahéma I love. but this can be the explicative aspect of why I now sit in a clôche of Aramis and do not mind to be inside it. I have an old taste, started my 'perfume career' in 1974. so the in-your-face start of Aramis I am well known with and LOVE it. this EDT makes me think about Knowing, Youth Dew, l'Eau du Soir de Sisley. these are all, heavy on the oak-moss. when you see the note bar of Aramis, so dark, dark greens, dark browns, which is very comparable with the bar of Cabochard, Jolie Madame de Balmain, Ivoire de Balmain, Dusita's le Sillage Blanc and Piguet's Bandit. but why then weren't Bois du Portugal, Royal Mayfair and Peau d'Espagne not so tempting for me to go outdoor to my work. well the boundaries aren't so thick and Staasi like. but if it is totally masculin, it is more for my brother. it has to possess, (let's say) some femininity in it. but I don't know if Aramis truly has that. it is an ingenuous perfume with herbs, spices, resins, patchouli, oakmoss and orris. strangely I am not such connaisseur's perfume lover. so the gardenia, jasmine, orris and clover I was expected to pick out out of the dense smoky, mossy, woody underbelly I can not identify. but I learned they do play a strong role and enrich the outspoken accords. while in themselves they are also power accords. in each case, Aramis was a fantastic discovery and I have known it from the 1970s (1960s even) (I am from 1957) it is today the first time I ever tried it. lingering in some time I thought strongly about Knowing, Sisley's Eau du Soir, and I love oud-rose perfumes with which Aramis has in common the outerwordly projection and longitude. but it is also an interesting fougere. the coumarin aspect of Fougeres I smelled when biking to work and I came along just mown grasslands (with the wild herbs in them). density is what I love also. I will not going to wear gentlemen's scents anytime near, but if I have to pick some out, they are the aforementioned but in the first place Aramis.