Imitation Man

@MrMrBrian As well as Bracken and Beloved! :(

To me this is mainly a screechy, neon, androgynous rose. There’s something very synthetic about it, but not in a cheap way, almost in an intentional, artistic, futuristic way I like it though, it’s well executed and is kind of addictive.

I sometimes get Dior Homme vibes from this but with a different arrival. Soft and safe smell indeed and quite different with other Amouage range before. A rare creation to me. No more deep dark mysterious incensey smell of all i have , 30 in my collection. A totally different take. Nice bottle, nice smell but not significantly unique that much. But as collector i want it to be on my shelf. I found that the Woman version is more strange but unique. Still not everyone's taste i guess. I praise Amouage to be different this time.

So I was in a perfumery this weekend and thought I'll check the ones of Amouage I still didn't try. Most of the few ones that were left on my list to check out I didn't like and I left Imitation as the last one. Why? I've seen it for a really nice price before, and it says something, I've seen the dislike button here, and the rose in the notes. While I like it, I can't stand Lyric Man with that rose shower gel and I was afraid this is going to be the same not to mention the violet flower which sometimes smells like a toilet cleaning product (I love it when it doesn't, and violet leaves is my fav note ever). Then I remembered hey - Portrayal Man doesn't get many good reviews and I absolutely love it, maybe my taste is a niche of a niche simply. I spray on a blotter and put it closer to my nose. That's when it hit me. I don't know Aaron Terrence Hughes' work because it's not really worth it to pay all the taxes on shipping (fkin Brexit) but the first thing that popped into my mind upon smelling Imitation is the phrase 'Hard Candy'. The producer mentions that this composition is 'neon' and it couldn't be closer to the truth. It smells of neon and neon colored hard candy. It opens up first and foremost bright, very strong, and with the notes on the very different ends of multiple spectrums. It smells of colors, vivid and strong, and very different colors. The smell is very natural and the concentration of the oil high as it glistens on my hand with a fat/oily thick layer. It does smell of all the colors of the bottle, even more. It's neon yellow with that bright, zesty, acidic citron which - surprisingly, I can still feel in the base 6+h still on my skin. It's purple with that violet - a flower, not leaves this time. There's orris but it never gets full on earth, powder, or iris. Don't get me wrong, it is powdery, but as much as everything else - and that everything else is very different, making it so incoherent, yet so fitting each other. It's red, and at the same time green with that Turkish rose. It's red like a rose while not smelling feminine or like a candle and it's lime/cucumber-like green as TR sometimes can be. It says leather, and to be honest - maybe it's here, but it's not a lather fragrance to me. I don't think of a leather jacket. There is castoreum in the base but while Epic is full of it to my nose, having a sour piss note, here it does what it historically did - supports, strengthens, and prolongs the floral aspects. I can't wrap my head around this - it is so yellow, so red, so purple, so violet, and it's all in a thick, strong, aromatic, floral, but mostly candy way. It doesn't smell of sweets, it's not sweet, it's just... Hard Candy. And Neon. It's alive, it's on a high, it's in the mood, having it's time. It B L O W S my mind. I get the dislike bar - not everyone is going to love it. You need balls to wear it, you need not to give a F. And while you need balls - it's a unisex. I can imagine my wife wearing it, too. It is not office safe, and it's great for the whole year maybe except the 20+ summer. It lasts 8+h and projects strong for at least 5. Im kind of surprised they don't mention the natural oak moss extract which it has - because it says so in the INCI. It's important, and it's of value to me, yet they don't even mention it as a note. Strange. Nevertheless - I can imagine this being a hit niche bestseller if it wasn't released by Amouage. If any hip brand released it with a marketing campaign full of lasers, neons, a rave in a basement-level dark club with lots of people having the time of their lives on ecstasy. I can hear The Prodigy playing in the background. I'm fing hyped right now smelling this fragrance and writing this post for you people. I'm euphoric, my chest is about to burst out with flames, I'm jumping in my seat. IT'S AN OMEN, IT'S AN OMEN THE WRITING ON THE WALL

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