Duel

Wow im really loving this one. Opens a little herbal but seconds later some citrus joins in to overpower the herbs. Into the heart im getting a lot of tea and some musk. Very fresh and uplifting. I just bought a bottle within minutes of sampling this one. That's a first for me! Edit: Got my bottle and gave myself a good spray. Same as before except into the drydown im getting a marvelous hay/dried grass with a background of tea. This gets better every time I smell it! I just hope I get better longevity out this one than others reported.

Green tea with lemon that at a first sniff feels simple, but when analyzed a bit, I can say that it's not just a straightforward lemon green tea. The notes are very well blended, it is transparent, fresh, elegant and very pretty. It’s a quiet scent, though addictive to me. Petitgrain and a faint leather accord in the background from the mate with a crystallized sugary note in the drydown. 8.5/10

i was quite interested to smell this perfume as few reviewers was comparing this perfume to other perfumes on the pages of the perfumes that i like. so today i tried it. the top note was mixture of things i didn't like, bitterness and a bit of things i didn't even cared about, so i neglect it. later on when it dried down, it gives the essence of a calming tea note, classy tea time, and fun lightly essence of tea tree. although it wasn't my type but it is quite interesting in away that im thinking to get it. this one also could be used as the summer love of freshness, and the clean beaches white silky sands. it's an inspirational love. now, this is the 2nd perfume that i liked from Annick Goutal after Ambre Fetish.

Annick Goutal Duel opens on me with a citrus green tea, and stays so afterwards. I'm not very familiar with maté, but the 'green tea' I perceive does have slightly bitter nuances. I can barely distinguish leather and iris, but they do provide a smooth base to Duel, instead of more conventional clean white musk. The sillage is of Duel is soft and the longevity is around 6 hours. I find Duel a very pleasant tea fragrance. It's quite natural and very unisex in feel. A versatile tea fragrance, but the performance could have been better.

Very good scent, A. Goutal as always with very natural essences , but the base notes in this fragance are very generic , smell and sense in many fragances, longevity good, sillage poor.