Patrick Fragrances of Ireland for men

I came across this fragrance in an Irish shop, and bought it blind for the bottle. Boy, am I glad I did that. It is a classic woodsy fragrance that is greatly underrated.

The top of Patrick is a lemony fern accord that is fresh and invigorating. Natural and fresh, Patrick is not a typical citrus fragrance. However, the top is fairly short lived.

The middle notes of Patrick come quickly and are characterized by pine and oakmoss. Although I've never been to Ireland, this is what I would guess it smells like, and even if not, I don't care, because it is just a great smell. Incredibly natural, the middle smells truly like the outdoors, woodsy notes done very well. It is fresh buy also smokey and potent.

The base of Patrick takes the oakmoss, adds coumarin, and most importantly, musk. On me, the musk really shines in the dry down mixed with the wood notes. It is a soft, clean, musk mixed with smokey oakmoss.

The projection of Patrick is decent, and the longevity is pretty good. Neither one is a category leader, but neither is disappointing as well. This is a great scent from the fall all the way to the spring for me.

Overall a very good fragrance, well worth the good price.

I discovered Patrick at a local Irish festival. I found a big bottle for under $50 USD. Its hard to believe such a fragrance could debut at such a late hour in perfume time-1999. Indeed, Patrick would have been a best seller had it been 1975! It is a big and green as Paco Rabanne PH or Aramis.

It smells as green and fresh as a spring morning in Donegal. It opens with bright bergamot and lemon. Yes, we find exotic patcholi, vetiver, coumarin merging to create the "fern". Its seems very French. Then the uncanny Irishness evolves. The oakmoss merges with Irish peatmoss. It gets smokey, salty and incredibly rich. Did I mention GREEN? Indeed, the fougere seems to have its true heart in the green Celtic mist and Patrick is one of the best! Ihe base is a whisper of vanilla, leather, amber and cedar.

This is what the crock of gold smells like at the end of the rainbow! Its somewhat of an anomaly in todays "oakmoss free" market. Aquatic-sugar boys would shudder! Brilliant, nonetheless. Patrick is required in all "green mens" wardrobe, the new niche.

I love angular fougères. I've written that so many times on basenotes it feels like a mantra. If anyone is still producing encyclopedias in hard-bound book form (do they still exist?) the entry for fougère should have a scratch-and-sniff of Patrick. Others have described it better than I can, so I'll just say that it's remarkably concise yet expressive. It so perfectly captures the soapiness, that defining attribute of the best fougères. It is exuberant yet simple, soapy yet earthy. These dualities make it not just interesting, but conversational.

The coumarin/lavender/musk balance is flawless, but Patrick, for all its simplicity and directness makes me marvel at the slow sleight of hand that takes place. The hay-like, singing fougère moves from barbershop about 2 paces into the realm of the green chypre. Spectacular transition! The coumarin, initially so closely held to the lavender and musk, joins hands with the moss, and turns around to look at you with a laughing smile.

Another spectacular, underestimated fragrance I discovered in the "Unsung Treasures" forum at Basenotes. Sensationally inexpensive, potent, long-lasting and easy to wear as an everyday fragrance.

Fresh and clean, very classic . If you love Paco Rabanne Pour Homme, you will love Patrick; in fact , when I spray PRH on one hand and Patrick on the other hand, my nose is unable to smell any significant difference during the first hour....Both are great scents , in my top 10.

A conceptual (and affordable) niche fragrance from the Emerald Isle. I think Patrick's main problem is that very few people outside of Ireland understand what it's doing and where it's coming from.

Having spent years in Ireland, I'm familiar with its many smells. Driving through northwestern Irish countryside means inhaling an aromatic mixture of wet grass and hay, salty ozonic sea brine, and peat smoke. Peat is a compressed and degraded earth that is burned in fireplaces across Ireland. Donegal has many valleys of peat, with the trenches cut into the earth to reveal an ancient black decay, which is both pungently delightful and unforgettable once it's been smelled.

These green and earthy elements combine into a very common impression of Irish air, and that is what Patrick captures quite well. Everything is represented, from the freshness of the sea air, to the livestock-trodden greenness, to the sharpness of peat smoke. It's a very unique experience to smell the real thing and its representation in Patrick. It makes for a very interesting fern, and the citrus that tops the fragrance is a nice touch.

I recommend Patrick to any male over 25 who wants to smell fresh and green and avoid entering bath product territory in the process. This is yards better than this house's other megahit, Inis. Get it while it's still affordable and very much a small niche offering.

So this is how St Patrick got rid of all the snakes!
Sorry! I won't tell my mum or husband that I hate this because she bought it for him so he, naturally, has to wear it! Too harsh and detergenty for me - I like my man to smell less clean than this....

I LOVE this frag. It has a bright herbal green opening, that quickly gives way to a very round, very full-bodied wood base. There's nothing but class here. Great stuff.

Sillage is great, and longevity is decent.