Dry down arrives around the two-hour mark. The sweetness finally emerges, but it is a dark, brooding sweetness. Think and tonka bean rather than vanilla. There is a hefty dose of cedar and ambroxan here, but the perfumer was merciful enough to avoid the screechy, nose-blind ambroxan overload of Sauvage Elixir . Here, the woods are smooth, almost creamy.
Does it work? Yes, but not how you think. HDSex Appeal
It is intimate. It requires proximity. This isn't a "loud club" fragrance; this is a "back of the taxi" fragrance. Dry down arrives around the two-hour mark