il_tonny July 25, 2024

If you like those 4 perfumes blended together, this is an excellent hybrid that sometimes leans more toward Aventus, other times Elysium, and occasionally Hacivat. With so many declared notes, it’s hard to appreciate them all at once; after several applications, it almost always leads to complete olfactory fatigue. Performance has been inconsistent: at first, it barely lasted two hours, neither I nor others could detect it even up close, so I thought it was a defective batch and almost threw it away. But I left it aside, and one day while cleaning dust off my bottles, I sprayed it again and felt it was much stronger. I gave it another chance, and what a surprise: at work, people kept asking what perfume I was wearing because I left a noticeable and extensive trail. Another time, before even entering a house, they told me they knew it was me because I smelled like perfume, even though I hadn’t entered yet. This makes sense: I remember it was out of stock at DUA, and then overnight they had over 100 bottles available; it was a freshly made batch, the same one in my bottle. With about 5 sprays, it works great—it stays deeply embedded on clothes, projects strongly on skin for the first 8 hours (very intense for the first two), then drops from 2 to 4 hours but remains potent. In heat, it activates more, though it lasts a bit less. Note: this shows that DUA fragrances, even though they’ve been reformulated due to complaints about how intense they were, need time to settle to reach their peak performance.

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il_tonny July 25, 2024

If you like those 4 perfumes blended together, this is an excellent hybrid that sometimes leans more toward Aventus, other times Elysium, and occasionally Hacivat. With so many declared notes, it’s hard to appreciate them all at once; after several applications, it almost always leads to complete olfactory fatigue. Performance has been inconsistent: at first, it barely lasted two hours, neither I nor others could detect it even up close, so I thought it was a defective batch and almost threw it away. But I left it aside, and one day while cleaning dust off my bottles, I sprayed it again and felt it was much stronger. I gave it another chance, and what a surprise: at work, people kept asking what perfume I was wearing because I left a noticeable and extensive trail. Another time, before even entering a house, they told me they knew it was me because I smelled like perfume, even though I hadn’t entered yet. This makes sense: I remember it was out of stock at DUA, and then overnight they had over 100 bottles available; it was a freshly made batch, the same one in my bottle. With about 5 sprays, it works great—it stays deeply embedded on clothes, projects strongly on skin for the first 8 hours (very intense for the first two), then drops from 2 to 4 hours but remains potent. In heat, it activates more, though it lasts a bit less. Note: this shows that DUA fragrances, even though they’ve been reformulated due to complaints about how intense they were, need time to settle to reach their peak performance.

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