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L'Homme Idéal Extrême

What it is made of, at the heart of a wearing — and the colour this page is tinted with. Wider means more of it.

Leads fruit and warm spice, over leather underneath. It narrows as the day goes on. It carries more leather than the rest of the catalogue.

The pyramid

top 0–15 min
Almond · Pink Pepper · Bergamot
heart 1–3 hr
Plum · Cinnamon · Heliotrope
base 3 hr +
Tobacco · Leather · Patchouli · Cedar
Consensus needs more than one owner. Right now no one has this linked, so there is nothing to agree or disagree about yet.

What is it chasing?

No original is recorded for this entry. Two kinds of evidence, and they disagree in useful ways.
Closest, as Akin sees it
Ranked by what the crowd says resembles what, with the measured accords breaking ties — falling back to the note pyramid where neither has anything to say. Right about half the time, and the column says which of the three answered.
What people say it reminds them of
Agree and disagree counts. Here is this site’s own owners voting; elsewhere is a tally read from another site.
Guerlain L’Homme Idéal elsewhere 222 / 50
Guerlain L'Homme Idéal L'Intense elsewhere 94 / 129
Paco Rabanne 1 Million Privé elsewhere 66 / 119
Armaf Hunter Killer Man elsewhere 26 / 26
Tom Ford Plum Japonais elsewhere 12 / 13
Initio Parfums Privés Side Effect elsewhere 9 / 15
Tom Ford Cherry Smoke elsewhere 7 / 8
Fragrance World Supreme L'homme Extreme elsewhere 120 / 25
Armaf Radical Brown elsewhere 35 / 53
Montale Infinity elsewhere 27 / 48
Natura Essencial Mirra elsewhere 8 / 12
Chambre52 Tobacco Memories elsewhere 8 / 12
Avon Absolute By Elite Gentleman elsewhere 5 / 6
L'Orchestre Parfum Ambre Cello elsewhere 3 / 3
The Merchant of Venice Arabesque elsewhere 3 / 3
Superz. Morocco elsewhere 3 / 3
Scentologia Sil.lage. elsewhere 2 / 1
Obvious Floridita's Night elsewhere 1 / 0

Compared with

Each of these reads the two side by side, hour by hour: what they share, what only one of them carries, and what people who have smelled both say about it.

On the scent map

Nearest to it at the heart of a wearing, and what put each one there.
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Not yours yet

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