Iskander Parfum d`Empire for women and men

very wearable and very good
the best citrus i could find
i am going to buy one

I think this is the best one of Parfum d'Empire fragrances. It's a lovely chypre with citrussy and spicy notes. And it lasts for hours on my skin.

I would describe this as mossy cedar. It does open with a lot of lemon, but settles to a woody green scent. Seems to me like a pleasant yet pretty basic chypre designed for men - so much so that I suspect I would be able to find something similar and cheaper at the local chemist's. Still, a pleasant and even evocative summer scent.

Light airy lemon fragrance. The initial phase reminds a of Bourbon French Perfume's "Eau de Cologne" but smoother and a bit sweeter and lacking EDC's dry and loud punch of pure lemon. Supposedly BFP's "Eau de Cologne" was Napoleon's favorite scent. It seems Napoleon and I don't share the same taste. The sillage is very low. As it settles it's gets flatter and warmer and then it practically disappears altogether.

5 out of 10.

I am of an age where I can clearly remember the delight of Goya Aqua Manda on my mother's dressing table, and missing it as much as I do, I thought I had got it nailed when this fruity coriander number turned up. Sadly, not to be, as it contains some real sledgehammer ingredients which spark off a hellish migraine within minutes of application. *sigh* what I wouldnt give for Aqua Manda's return, in it's delicious seventies packaging too.

Not a great one. Boring scent, sorry...


6,5/10

Dificult to know what to say, as the scent notes just don't work for me, that basically means anything that smells a bit dirty, off or fecal. Now that gets rid of a great many high end scents such as No. 88 by Czech and Speake, and this really a function of the nose smelling it. We're all different. Iskander has a dirty note in the grapefruit to my nose and this note really irritates me.
Every nose is different so don't take this review too seriously.

I read somewhere that this scent was trying to capture the essence of Greece. Indeed, when I put it on I did get flash backs from the movie 'Mama Mia', with it's I-dare-You-Not-To-Fall-In-Love-With-Me greek scenery. I learned from other reviews that this can be a weak scent, so I used a heavy hand when applying hte tester. i then went out for drive about the bay area.
I was very happy to spend the day with this fragrance. Whenever a breeze would kick up I'd get a sniff of the sensous, luscious notes in this perfume. I know this has an amber/musk base, which can be heavy, but I definitely feel this works on a warmer day wiht a gentle breeze. the citrus doesn't stand out much, to me, but the middle notes are wonderful. Highly recommend sampling this fragrance. Going on 7 hours now and I can still smell it.