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4 reviews
A fantastic, very sweet, praline, rose, and fine mossy fragrance
Montale Sensual Instinct EDP opens with a strong projection of very sweet, milk-chocolate, and floral notes. The opening is intense, projecting, delectable, fresh, elegant, gourmand, and very pleasant. The praline and rose are the most noticeable accords; the praline is a sweet, dense, milk-chocolate-dessert-like note, delicious, and inviting. The rose is also noticeable, this note is closer to the scent of pink roses as opposed to red or white that would be stronger and softer respectively. The rose note isn’t pungent but prominent. The oakmoss is behind the praline and rose, it is a mildly bitter and spice note, it works as sharpening and projecting accord, it intensifies the notes, making them crisp and bright. The oakmoss in this fragrance is very refined, it feels elegant and high-quality. The coffee beans are also a noticeable accord, this note seat behind the praline, roses, and oakmoss, its mission is to support and enhance the fragrance, but it isn’t prominent. The amber and cedar are the softest of all notes, just a whiff in the background, the amber adds a resinous sweet touch that makes the fragrance feel slightly denser. The fragrance is relatively linear, all featured notes come up once the fragrance is applied and continue into the dry down. Once Montale Sensual Instinct EDP has reached its full dry down, it can be summarized as a strong projection, very sweet, praline, rose, and mossy fragrance with coffee and ambery accords. The fragrance feels bold, casual, comforting, commanding, cozy, creamy, delectable, delicious, dense, elegant, energizing, exotic, more feminine than masculine, floral, fresh, heavy, high-quality, imposing, intense, intimate, invigorating, inviting, long-lasting, mature, slightly milky, modern, mildly bitter/mossy, nicely-blended, natural, resinous, refined, rich, seductive, very sweet, versatile, zesty and very pleasant.
CATEGORY: Oriental Vanilla (2019 Pierre Montale).
BATCH REVIEWED: 2020 (#G0465 100386-87).
WOW RATING: 10/10. A high-quality, intense, and delicious fragrance.
DISLIKE RATING: 3/10. The fragrance is very sweet, the rose note is noticeable (evocative of pink roses).
UNIQUENESS: 10/10. The notes are relatively common, but the resulting scent is unique.
MASS APPEAL: 8/10. This is a fragrance that most people will enjoy.
PROJECTION: 7/10. Strong, 7 feet and over around the wearer.
SILLAGE: 10/10. Outstanding, 10 feet and beyond behind the wearer.
APPLICATION: 2-4 atomizations.
LONGEVITY: 10/10. 10 hours and beyond, it projects for 4 hours.
SEASONS: Winter, spring, fall, colder days, daytime, nighttime, and climate-controlled environments.
OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, casual, holidays, vacations, romantic, dating, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance.
VERSATILITY: 8/10. The fragrance is ideal for any occasion and any time of the year except summer.
GENDER: Unisex but leaned to the feminine side because of the rose note. The rose in this fragrance is evocative of pink roses, a floral accord, sweet but not as bold as the scent of red roses. The oakmoss and coffee beans notes, counterbalance its feminine nature making it more appealing to male wearers.
AGES: 25 and above.
RECOMMENDATION: Montale Sensual Instinct EDP can be found for about $100. Those that enjoy intense and projecting gourmand, rose and high-quality mossy fragrance, will find in this fragrance nothing less than fantastic. This is great to have.
BLIND-BUY: No, sample it first.
SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. Alt Fragrances Crystal Intense No 32 is a clone of MFK Baccarat Rough 540 Extrait; Alt Fragrances Crystal No 23 is a clone of MFK Baccarat Rouge 540 EDP; Dua Fragrances Casino Royale Nights is a clone of MFK Baccarat Rough 540 Extrait; MFK Baccarat Rouge 540 EDP is a very sweet, resinous, woody, floral, and musky; MFK Baccarat Rough 540 Extrait is a sweet ambery, almond, musky, woody, and spicy fragrance; AllSaints Sunset Riot is a very sweet, amber, orange blossom, and pink pepper fragrance; Bond No 9 Greenwich Village EDP is a fantastic, very sweet gourmand vanilla, praline, musk, ambroxan, white floral peony, water lily, jasmine, and litchi fragrance.
SUMMARY: a strong projection, very sweet, praline, rose, and mossy fragrance with coffee and ambery accords. The fragrance feels bold, casual, comforting, commanding, cozy, creamy, delectable, delicious, dense, elegant, energizing, exotic, more feminine than masculine, floral, fresh, heavy, high-quality, imposing, intense, intimate, invigorating, inviting, long-lasting, mature, slightly milky, modern, mildly bitter/mossy, nicely-blended, natural, resinous, refined, rich, seductive, very sweet, versatile, zesty and very pleasant.Read full review...
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Love it sooooooo much !!!
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To Sweet
It is an nice fragrance but a little to feminine for the male.
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MontaleSensual Instinct
Beautiful fragrance. Great value
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