Bronze is a divisive beast: some find it a mesmerising, magical tobacco masterpiece, others a challenging, overly masculine hay-and-honey nightmare. If you like your scents dry, serious, and with a pronounced spicy-tobacco hit, you might just fall head over heels.

Truly Bronze follows Balmain Bronze's green-spice-tobacco-patchouli path, but simplifies the original's cedar-hay chypre texture into a more generic tobacco-woody accord, sacrificing some of the nuance and complexity that gives the designer version its identity.