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L’Homme Idéal Cool

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 citrus and herbs, over dry wood and sweetness underneath. It turns over the day rather than fading. It carries more dry wood than the rest of the catalogue.

The pyramid

top 0–15 min
Mint · Bergamot · Orange · Anise
heart 1–3 hr
Almond · Neroli
base 3 hr +
Ambroxan · Vetiver · Patchouli
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 308 / 102
Guerlain L’Homme Idéal Cologne elsewhere 170 / 111
Guerlain L'Homme Idéal Cologne Forte elsewhere 141 / 19
Guerlain L’Homme Idéal Sport elsewhere 82 / 44
Guerlain L’Homme Idéal Platine Privé elsewhere 27 / 31
Xerjoff Torino21 elsewhere 5 / 6
Guerlain Guerlain Homme Eau de Parfum (2016) elsewhere 84 / 73
Guerlain Guerlain Homme elsewhere 38 / 44
Kenzo Kenzo Homme Sport Extreme elsewhere 13 / 9
Eisenberg Eau Fraiche Homme elsewhere 9 / 7
Theodoros Kalotinis Sea God elsewhere 9 / 11
Avon Green Fougère elsewhere 8 / 4
Jean Paul Gaultier Le Mâle Eau Fraîche André Edition elsewhere 8 / 9
Lush Dirty elsewhere 6 / 5
Zara Lush Vetiver elsewhere 6 / 6
Nilafar du Nil Amasis Bleu elsewhere 4 / 1
Zoologist Perfumes Seahorse elsewhere 4 / 6
Victorinox Swiss Army Swiss Army elsewhere 4 / 5
Epicò Eremo elsewhere 3 / 3
Avatim Seleto Ocean elsewhere 3 / 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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