Gotham Neil Morris for women and men

Spicy rose at the beginning. When it dries down, it projects some amber on my skin, kind of spicy amber, which is very beautiful. I can't detect much woody note here. For me,
It's great for winter.
It's worth saving up for, and
It makes me keep sniffing my wrist.
That's all I can ask from one perfume

I really like it, but I have to wait to see if it likes me :)

Right from the first spritz I fell in love with this! It’s sweet and fresh and woody in a truly unique sort of way. It’s like citrus and sugar and freshly cut, sappy pine with just a touch of root beer. To me, this doesn’t smell like a menacing city, especially not one as dark as Gotham, home of Batman. Instead, it smells like a sunny day at a small sawmill in the middle of green fields and living forests. The myrtle provides a strong, camphorous note. It’s evocative, but in a happy way, not a sinister one. It dries down into a beautiful amber scent. Gotham is yet another FB-worthy fragrance from Neil Morris.

The opening reminds me of Ysatis for some reason, but I try to avoid top notes anyway, so it's not that much of an issue to me. The drydown is a great "dirty" vanilla. It's more of a blended fragrance, so don't expect to detect a bunch of notes clearly. In some ways, it reminds me of my vintage Tabu, but that one is not leathery like this one. The animalic note here does not have the softness of civet yet it's not as harsh or astringent as castoreum, so I guess that is the ambergris, perhaps combined with leather. For me, it's not up there with the great fragrances of the 1980s, since it lacks complexity and note separation, but it's natural smelling and interesting, while providing a pleasant olfactory experience for a long time (with reasonable projection/"sillage"). If you don't like fragrances that have a "musty or "old lady" quality, don't bother to even sample this one.

I don't get any black pepper in the opening, nor yuzu either. Some of the base notes are more prominent at the beginning, IMO, such as the labdanum, leather, and although it is not listed, musk. It is indeed a dark, sombre perfume and therefore perhaps best suited to wearing in winter, and good on either a man or a woman. I like this very much for when I am in the mood for a serious perfume. Good staying power, too.

I love this, the black pepper opening really tickles your nose, then it darkens and deepens with a fabulous long lasting dry down. this would be equally good on a man or a woman.

Gotham is sexy man in a bottle. Very leathery and rich. Overall very complex.

Starts nicely vintage with a black pepper kick and sense of formal aldehydic floral, but ends with that unfortunate medicated foot powder scent I sometimes get with vintage types. Too bad. Well blended, deeply layered and intriguing before that unfortunate final.

Gotham is the first that i ever tried of neil morris huge collection and i find it extremely intelligent.I bought a full bottle but i feel that i have to the right mood to wear it. Sometimes is magical but sometimes it feels stuffy and menacing. Still puzzling stuff.It starts as a green almost pine-y but sweet citrus and gradually becames one of the most dark gothic ( fantastic name by the way) roses i've ever smelled!Musky and with a spoon of salt.To die for!Aw it dies a strong leather note emerges, very sturdy and rough.This scent is not easy to wear but is at least truly unforgetable

I strongly suspect that Gotham is the illegitimate child of L'Artisan´s Dzing! and Tauer`s L'Air du Desert Marocain. It is strong so you better spray in the air and walk trough... It starts off very leathery, dark and with some citrus. After a while it become more and more flowery, but also musky in a very animalic way... I can also smell some resin in it. This is a perfume to put on when you are about to visit a hard rock-or some strange fetish-club... or when you wish you did, but didn´t dare to...

If you have problem with strong and a bit tacky perfumes, you should stay away from this one I guess...