Galloway

So this is an updated review to my previous one from a couple years ago. I am not sure what changed, whether it’s my nose or whether PDM reformulated this, but Galloway is simply a beautiful clean scent, easily ranking as one of their best for me now and quite possibly the brand’s most underrated offering. Definitely flying under the radar compared to hype beasts like Layton. Anyway I just got a newer bottle of this in today, not sure what compelled me to blind buy it (the tester I tried at Nordstrom a while ago had almost a hot soldering iron accord going on), but damn am I glad I did with this one! If you like classy and clean office scents with a mature (but NOT old) vibe, then just get your nose on this! It really smells like the bottle looks, or like a stack of freshly milled white printing paper with a beautiful and refined orange blossom as the main note. I feel the iris is there just to give the whole thing a slightly “dry” feel and not so much to be smelled. If Parfums de Marly made luxury hotel bar soap I would expect it to smell like Galloway. This is just so elegant and I am head over heels in love with this scent and hope it stays in production because it is the perfect daytime office or casual wear fragrance literally any time of the year but leaning towards warmer weather. This might become my favorite next to Percival (the musks used in these two are very similar if not the same). I am so glad that I gave this one another chance and all I can really say is that Galloway simply deserves more love and attention 🤍

This is the PDM fragrance in my collection that I like the least from a notes point of view. But it's also the most present of them all. I think that sillage is the closest measurement to what I mean by 'present'. What I do when comparing fragrances either from the same house/collection, of from the same scent group, is that I spray two, three and sometimes even four fragrances on my skin (not the same spot obviously) and there is always one that will cover the smell of all the others. And I don't mean heavy stingy smells, but simply smells that excite the senses. That's the kind of fragrance that will turn heads (and noses). That's what Galloway does!

I'm lucky enough to have this as a sample, and my judgement on it is more out of line than at least what the note votes are. Out of the gate, I get a blast of pepper, with a slight hint of orange. I don't directly smell musk, but I can feel it smoothing out the edges of the pepper. It's a very sophisticated scent, almost what I would imagine the stereotypical C-Suite employee to smell like on a day to day. I haven't had a chance to test it in weather outside of winter because of where I live, but by summer I should have a full bottle and be able to follow up on how it changes with warmer climate and what the longevity is.

This one is special, I’ve tried two times first time with a little 3ml decant, then i got it in a 15ml one, availability in my country for this fragance is kind of limited and way overpriced. For the fair price like a reliable discounter is a no brainer, huge compliment getter and a very masculine, clean and musky fragance great for every day use but definitely not for cold weather it just doesn’t keep up, for me projection was pretty good for the first couple of ours an then it starts to tone down but progressively if that makes sense, longevity is amazing for me 10+ hours easy

Galloway is so clean, simple, classy and still interesting enough. Perfect for office and work, nice for dress up situation. It reminds me some boss in office in clean white shirt with smile on his face... Citrus, spices and musk combo. But is not juicy and it is not too musky. I dont like musk heavy scents. Here we have very soft musk superb blended with other components. Orange blossom is also not loud it is not blossom centric scent like MYSLF e.g. Longevity here is about 5 hours. 8/10.