![]() ![]() Woody rich tobacco scents aren't really hard to find these days, and Parfums de Marly Carlisle is the more interesting of the two sister entries from this pair of conjoint houses, so if I was to spring full price for either of them, it would be the Parfums de Marly. That said, I would wear this if I had access to it without breaking the piggy bank, so the bottom line here is I like it. Everyone else a little more fatigued by these $300+ exercises of what is essentially just designer perfumery on steroids will go "oh, another one" and move along, which is about where I am with the brand too. Side Effect smells "very Initio" in the sense it recycles familiar compounds this house seems to love (tons of patchouli, coumarin, woody ambers finessed into synth oud or sandalwood, vanilla), so house fans should feel right at home here. I think Side Effect leans just a tad more masculine than feminine but anyone could really pull this off due to the sweet edge of the scent. Best use is romantically, in the evening, or during colder months of the year. Wear time is over 12 hours and sillage remains steady, but at its loudest for the first 4 hours. The very "b-side" nature of the stuff, in the conventional (for the brand) way it combines its elements, is part of why I like it, but just shrug as I smell it. The base is the aforementioned tobacco and that raspberry leather, wrapped in cashmeran like MFK's Baccarat Rouge 540 (2014) and some woody amber things which include patchouli-derived clearwood among them. The opening reminds me a tad of Initio Oud for Greatness (2018) and it may have been lifted for that scent later on, with some peppery saffron mix and lavender that introduces the main rum accord laced with cinnamon in the heart. The biggest note of difference here is Side Effect drops the synth oud of Carlisle in favor of that frambinone-powered "raspberry leather" note in the base, mixed with heady tobacco boozy spices, then edged off with vanilla. If this is a recycled unused formula, it was probably not "wow" enough to be used as Carlisle. Like with Carlisle, I'd pick this one up for a steep discount and quite like it, but for the MSRP it commends, better than Side Effect can be found. Side Effect is another "smells expensive" decadent luxury niche shindig just like Carlisle, that uses heady woody and tobacco notes with some boozy fruitiness and florals to build out a sort of forced redolence that surprisingly works, but isn't nearly as expensive as it tries to smell, despite the price tag. I won't expand much on this because my review for Carlisle was also fairly to the point (there isn't much to say really), and you know upon first sniff where this is going. Initio Side Effect (2016) really just feels like an unused formula for Parfums de Marley Carlisle (2015), with a left turn taken where a right turn was taken in the latter, and being as both houses fall under the same ownership, this is very plausible. But for my personal tastes I find in too sugary sweet and feminine. And I'm talking about the current version on the shelves not some mythical vintage formulation.Īll in all I can see why people love this, it is gorgeous especially in the drydown. ![]() But make no mistake it has a very pervasive scent that will always be with you for a long time. Now the projection and sillage is very good for the first few hours then it reigns itself in to within a arms length. And if you get this on your clothes you will be smelling it on them for days. This scent lasts a very long time on my skin, 12 hours plus. At this stage the scent smells like a sugary cherry jasmine scent with the vanilla holding centre stage. Out of this mix you can start to get hints of oud, vanilla and saffron, but it's the boozy cherry that is the star of the show.Įventually the cherry fragrance recedes and a beautiful vanilla takes it's place in the drivers seat with hints of oud and again saffron. A thick boozy sugary syrupy cherry fragrance is what I get in the opening and this stays like this for a very good while. ![]()
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