Hundred Silent Ways X

Really beautiful fragrance and I definitely prefer it to the original - it's sweet and fresh and floral, but you can still absolutely smell the leather undertones. The longevity on this on a sample strip is super super long, although I can't comment on how it lasts on clothes/ skin. I would imagine it would last the same way on clothes. The projection is good but not overwhelming. I think this is really lovely especially for spring and could definitely be worn in either warm or cool weather, and would also be inoffensive for the office. The tuberose keeps it sweet and fresh enough to smell 'clean' despite the leather note, although I don't pick up the orange. I don't think I would buy a bottle (purely because I typically gravitate towards gourmands) but I still really really like this!

This is a masterpiece fragrance that takes you through a whole journey. Off initial spray imagine you are laying in a bed of white florals including tuberose and jasmine while eating a fresh, ripe, juicy peach. Then after a couple minutes you start to sip on a creamy iris and vanilla smoothie. It then evolves into a leathery creamy peach concoction. After a couple hours the projection is still going strong and then a smooth earthy patchouli comes into the picture. The sillage and performance is very long lasting and it never stops evolving throughout the wear. This is a masterpiece and gets a 10/10 in my books. Definitely recommend I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t like it.

To me this is a super elegant, classy, feminine scent. Very easy to wear, timeless (but would not call it dated, and this aspect is important to me!), just plain expensive smelling. If leather scares you, don't be aftlraid. It is not prominent at all. However, the entire composition of Hundred Silent Ways X is more complex, elevated, more special and simply just better that the regular Hundred Silent Ways (while it is an opposite story with Ani X... ). The old HSW is nice, elegant but it falls basic when compared to HSW X. Don't get me wrong, they are very similar, and I personally find owning both to be redundant, unless you specifically love similar scents/such profile

I've been searching for a substitute for Penhaligon's Iris Prima for YEARS and finally I found it. This fragrance has more or less everything I love and they work together so well. It is expensive, but I had to buy it. I went to a store today, and I actually tried this first on my husbands arm saying it would suit him, but then after a while I bought it. It cost even more than on their website, but I just fell so hard for this. I tried both the original and this version, both were lovely, but this has more of that lovely leather accord. It's floral, sweet and suede. Lovely. It reminds me also of Chloes nomade jasmin version which I also like very much.

This has a stunning opening: juicy, syrupy and sweet. The peach is quite prominent, as are the white florals. This lasts 30-60 minute and then (on me at least) it skips straight to the base notes: a surprisingly dark, rich, borderline animalic leather. I would have liked the middle notes to develop more but it feels a bit of a Jekyll/Hyde perfume - either sweet and feminine or dark and masculine. That being said, I don’t dislike it and it’s clearly niche quality. Longevity and projection are good but not “beast mode” as I would have expected from the X range.