Vents Ardents En Voyage Perfumes for women and men

If you look for lots of good fun in a scent then ventes ardents is for you.
Where should i start? Boozy rhum? Tones of heliotrope in a boyish perfume? Or in the magnificent dry down of smoky wood and polished mahogany furniture in the austere bedroom of the captain. Unique and evocative.

I absolutely LOVE Vents Ardents! It's my perfect dream of a tropical scent, with no cliches like coconut or "suntan oil" but still giving a vivid picture of lush tropical abundance. It may be intended as a masculine but I adore it and I intend to wear it a lot when the weather is reliably warmer. It's luxuriantly sensual and sexy too, which helps! This is no of the best niche introductions of the year and it goes right to the top of my list of tropical style scents.

Ok..here goes.

This is one of those perfumes that completley changes through it's stages of wet, drying, dry!

The wet stage I can only describe as..Tropical Smoke.
Imagine the smell of sitting by a fire on a beach and drinking malibu.
It's so smoky it almost smells like leather if that makes sense. It's like masculine malibu. Not boozy though, it's very dry smelling.

The wood is really strong too adding to the dryness of this scent, the description of this perfume is very true to it's name.
I think there is an element of Vetiver in here..but it's not listed.

Now, my body chemistry always amps sweet things like Tonka, vanilla and amber so... the drier stages turn so sweeeet, the masculine edge is dissapearing and the sweet elements are coming forward. Oh Tonka how I love thee. The vanilla is showing it's face and the wood is softening and so is the smokiness.
It's more of a sweet florally scent now but still holds onto that masculine element.

That eventually fades to leave a trail of sweetened tropical juice with a breath of flowers.

:)

Today is my 27th anniversary. I was wearing Grey Flannel the day we were married. It is still one of my favorite EDTs to this day. My wife loves it too. When I wear it, we are always taken back to that time in our lives when were young and life was easy and free. I also put Gray Flannel on when I want to feel good. Fragrance is like that. It can bring you back to those fond memories, and put a smile to your face. My wife and I are still very much in love, and Grey Flannel is still the fragrance that takes us back to our beginning. So here's to Grey Flannel and to love!

Another fragrance that I think sounds amazing. I like that there's creamy fruit and vanilla beans to give it a sweet smell, but I love how the tobacco and rum to incorporated into the fragrance to give it some "sultry-ness". This is definitely a fragrance that I would love to try. It sounds unique.