A divisive beast mode scent that splits opinion down the middle. Some hail it as a superior BR540, a sweet, warm, and highly addictive sillage monster. Others find it an overpoweringly synthetic mess, headache-inducing, and lacking any nuance.

Love at First Scent follows Mancera Instant Crush's saffron-ginger-rose-jasmine structure closely and lands most of its key notes, but it drops the oakmoss that gives the original its mossy backbone, so the sandalwood-vanilla-musk base ends up softer and less grounded than Instant Crush's genuinely powerhouse drydown.