Intense Aroma Exploding

Intense Aroma Exploding opens with a warm, slightly bready caraway-and-spice flash before black pepper and a touch of lavender give it an aromatic edge. The heart of the scent, just like Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Extreme, is its sweet tobacco-and-vanilla core - rich, gourmand and comforting. Perfume Parlour's version captures that addictive spicy-sweet signature that made the original a cold-weather favourite. Against the real Extreme, though, it reads simpler and skin-closer - the tobacco less rich, the spice less fiery, and projection more reserved where the original is a genuine powerhouse that throws strongly for hours. Longevity is moderate rather than the all-day endurance of the real thing. A cosy, affordable spicy-tobacco-vanilla for autumn and winter wear.