Let’s review a highly rated dupe of Armani Code Absolu from the house of Fragrance World, Harmony Code Absolute. A sexy vanilla perfume for confident men.
Harmony Code Absolute has made the rounds here on Youtube as a solid dupe for the allegedly discontinued Armani Code Absolu and here are my thoughts after 2 years of owning a bottle.
On my skin, it opens sweet, green, aromatic and herbal with loads of warm spicy vanilla. This instantly reminds me of my dupe for Jean Paul Gaultier’s Le Male Le Parfum.
When you sniff it up close, it does come off somewhat mentholated and creamy with some astringent chocolatey woods accord.
One hour later, the perfume comes off sweet, green, woody, aromatic and vanillic in the air.
Three hours later, the scent profile turns into sweet, powdery musk and amber mixed with aromatic woody vanilla.
By the time, the scent hits the 6th hour mark, a very soft non animalic leather plus sweet tobacco pipe accord kicks in.
One would most likely miss these two accords as they are quite subtle….at least on my skin.
The final drydown is basically musky alive woods….alive in the sense that the woods smell a bit green.
Out of the box, performance for this sucked but 2 years later I’m getting up to 3hrs of projection and a longevity on skin of over 12hrs easily.
Some say this gets cloying in the heat but I don’t have that issue at all.
It’s simply the perfect Confident Gentlemanly Vanilla.
I’ll see you guys in my next video. Ciao.
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