Caron Paris Yatagan Eau de Toilette Spray, 4.2 Fl Oz

Classico! 'The'-OG! Mmmm...Gotta love the castorium based scents of old! This one is a kinda warm, funky, pine scented urinal cake wrapped in wet slimy leather sorta sensual scent. Not for the faint of heart or for the super sensitive Millennial 'young guns' of today. This is masculine, manly, mucho-machismo cologne from the glory days of high octane, A.J. Foyt Formula One, Burt Reynolds in his birthday suit, slap you in the face, serious scents of the late 70's! Undeniably inner city. Chicago Southside? Sweaty breasted streetwalkers, strip bars, sticky, stinky, humid-sensual stank. Oriental, woody, dirty, dry, artemisial-musk, oakmossy, galbanum, patchouli, suede and castorium swirling about in the diesel fumes and smog of inner city back alley bars long after midnight. Yatagan is an aromatic, brooding, intriguing, intense, unforgiving, addictive M.O.A.B. of a cologne! No problems with projection or sillage here...Gold chains and pinky rings, large spread collars, wrist-cuff watches and pockets filled with damp wrinkled wads of cash. "Hey, I'm from Jersey, you from Jersey?""Yata, yata...Yatagan!"... Fogetta 'bout it! I undeniably and intensely LOVE this, earthy, Pine-Sol, timeless 'old school' banger! It's in the same category as RL Polo OG, Chanel Antaeus, Kouros, Aramis and the G.O.A.T., Balenciaga's Ho Hang Club! Viva Le Club de Ho Hang! Get this funk-a-liscious jolt juice if you've got your chest hairs braided and your low hanging huevos are sized muy grande! Trust me, you'll be kicking ferrel cats, bowlegged Chihuahuas and overly inflated, lopsided, 2 tooth tweak-walkers from your heels like Cristiano Ronaldo kicks opponents shins and pigskins!

This is an oldschool fragrance I used to steal from my uncle’s when I was younger!!! It’s a masculine piney smell, and it last all day long and all day strong!!! I just wish it was cheaper, because this has been around for a long time, but the price has gotten a little high!!!! Overall it’s still worth the money, but if it goes up any higher, I will have to tap out!!!!

My favorite

As the 5 stars says, I love it. I'm far from a scent expert, I don't know the intricacies of this note and that note, but dang this smells nice. It's a strong masculine scent, without being overpowering (when used in moderation, as all colognes and perfumes should be). It's a strong woodsy scent, think fresh cut pine or the lumber section of your hardware/ home improvement store. I wouldn't say it has citrus tones, more like juniper (think gin). Also a bit smokey: "incense," as a few people have described it. It's definitely a warm, fall/ winter scent, which works well for me because where I am there is often snow until late May/ early June, so I have an excuse to wear it frequently. To put it concisely: lumber is big where I live, and this smells like a day at lumber camp concentrated into a single spray, minus the sweat.

I want to place my sensibilities. I am a mid-30s professional man who enjoys a nice wardrobe - nice way to wallpaper the walls of the maze we run through in the rat race, I suppose. Anyway, I'm not a professional by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm also not an amateur. I have an embarrassing number of fragrances in my wardrobe, numbering in "several hundreds" although I haven't counted recently - somewhere north of 500 by my best estimation. I enjoy whatever smells great, without being snobby. I enjoy a $15 bottle of a nice synthetic like Fujiyama as well as a $300 bottle of Amouage (and I have all of them, all the Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier, several Le Labo, all of the Montales, all of the Creeds, all of the L'Artisan Parfumeurs, a variety of ouds, attars, and other pricey niche frags). I love a pleasant, silky floral that everyone can enjoy every bit as much as a complex, challenging and dense high-end fragrance that the layperson may find impossible to appreciate. My top-25 (alphabetical, not rank-order): Amouage Lyric Creed Green Irish Tweed Creed Erolfa Czech & Speake No 88 Dunhill Dunhill Man Ferrari Light Essence Ferrari Uomo Franck Olivier Black Touch Franck Olivier Sunrise Issey Miyake Issey Miyake pour Homme Kenzo Kenzo Pour Homme L'Artisan Parfumeur Passage d'Enfer L'Artisan Parfumeur Timbuktu L'Artisan Parfumeur Dzongkha Le Labo Rose 31 Le Labo Oud 27 Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier Route du Vetiver Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier Baime Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier Jardin du Nil Montale Aoud Forest Montale Aoud Safran Montale Black Aoud Montale Aoud Lime Polo Double Black Success de Paris Fujiyama pour Homme I love pleasant rich florals, aouds, fougeres, orientals. But I have eclectic taste in fragrances. The only type I really don't like are medicinal, artificial "wood" fragrances, the acerbic common "man" smell of the 70s office place. "Old Man" smells, like Halston, Old Spice. And, cloying, sticky-sweet catastrophes like Karen Low Xchange. A lot of background to say, "I like everything except sour-artificial-woody medicinal old man smell, or super-sappy-sweet teenage boy smell". Now to this Yatagan. Heard of it, read of it, everybody seems to know it / have it, but I couldn't quite be bothered to get it. But boy, I agree with the positive reviews. I must emphasize that this one was made in 1976 and I despise the typical 1970s medicinal, bitter artificial wood nonsense. But this one is actually good... something special. When I pulled the plastic wrap off, I smelled a humidor. Aging cigars in a cedar humidor. That was the smell on the box. But I sprayed it on and it does something VERY different. The top note is a dirty-fresh celery, a touch of cumin, the barest hint of sweet like a Canoe (it's not Canoe, I just mean, it's that kind of not-sweet sweet). The middle notes open up into a warm wood. I absolutely agree, it's the smell of some kind of pine, used for... a bow? An Ottoman chair? Infused with years of camp fire or incense smoke, just a warm wood with a hint of life lived, activity. It isn't a sharp, bitter wood - it's WOOD - wood, proper - the way you expect a cut piece of wood to smell. No it's not pine - it's a hardwood. The base note unfortunately loses that great dreamy warm living wood and goes more towards dried herbs, some sage, celery, and the wood maybe is more passive, more stale. It's not a fragrance everyone can enjoy. If I wore it to work, I'd apply it very lightly - more something for me to enjoy, not to project to the world. I don't know about longevity yet but it is complex and enjoyable, and more of a ride than you can get almost anywhere for this price range. And there are a great many L'Artisan Parfumeur, Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier, Amouage, etc. fragrances that are similarly not really "accessible" - they are delightful, even spectacular fragrances that you still wouldn't necessarily want to project on other people in the elevator. Not neutral, pleasant and generic like something from CK. It is challenging and should enjoy a place in your wardrobe accordingly. But, sure enough, it IS good! And, good, square in the middle of a category of frags I generally despise. "Designer" synthetic chypres from the 1970s. So, color me surprised. It's good. Enjoy!

Very nice. Like it

Es lo que pensaba que era.

It's doesn't last