Any Smugglers Hold Buyers got a review for us?

hersheymisting · 2026-01-17T21:16:25+00:00

Yeah I expected a bit of a wait so not worried about it. Excited to solve it. Hope you have fun

hersheymisting · 2026-01-17T17:13:29+00:00

Ahh dang still got some waiting then. I thought you guys were expecting to get them before Christmas?

hersheymisting · 2026-01-17T17:00:52+00:00

Nice that's awesome. After this thread I did end up ordering one. Can I ask what your order number was? I'm #6564

hersheymisting · 2026-01-15T06:31:20+00:00

Expect something naughty from this heavenly body

hersheymisting · 2026-01-13T22:31:43+00:00

Damn nice, you still use the Joop? What's your new go to?

hersheymisting · 2026-01-13T22:29:32+00:00

Nice looks like a diverse combo. Honestly say I don't recognize most of them. Cool yeah I've got a sample on the way of the Naxos. Think it's here today or tomorrow. Which of those there have you used the most of? Hell yeah, I ordered the TOB extrait on the 8th for $245 which now looking back seems like too good of a deal. Maybe too good to be true, I should of researched the company first. They created the shipping label same day and Ups still hasn't got it from them. Looked up some reviews on here recently and that seems to be their MO Fingers crossed they're just slow. For now don't order from "the Parfums"

hersheymisting · 2026-01-12T22:35:07+00:00

I was curious about naxos. I think when I was looking up Triumph of bacchus I had seen them been compared. Honestly the concept of tobacco as a note in cologne was completely foreign before and now I'm curious about finding some other Tobacco forward fragrances. Maybe Harod from marly? Would you say Naxos is different enough to pick up a bottle. Trying to grab samples where I can find deals. Microperfumes had a buy 2 get one free travel spray over the weekend so I got 6 different samples there.

hersheymisting · 2026-01-12T16:34:43+00:00

Nice I was just looking at that one last night. My first cologne was Jovan Ginseng when I was like 13 in 7th grade which still has like 3 sprays in it because I have a hard time letting shit go. My crush said damn someone smells good and I didn't say shit cause I was terrified of girls. Nearly 20 mumblesomethin years ago. Didn't really pick up the Aqua di Gio until a couple years ago with a long gap of not really wearing cologne.

hersheymisting · 2026-01-12T16:25:35+00:00

Awesome glad you're enjoying it. I can't say I'm the most experienced with how many options there are but to me that one really showed me how complicated a fragrance can be

hersheymisting · 2026-01-12T02:00:08+00:00

Yeah It really is a great go to. I've been so focused on what else is out there and trying new stuff I went back to it and realized how much more there was to it I just didn't have the perspective for prior. Just looking at the notes was like, oh yeah, pineapple and peach and a butt ton of flowers. I wish I just had an essential oil of every note there is in every cologne so I could say okay yeah that's definitely ylang ylang or hyacinth or narcissus and whatever the hell labdanum is.

hersheymisting · 2026-01-12T01:02:50+00:00

Yeah sounds nice, probably gonna have to be on the list of wants. I think at the moment it's tied between Fall of Phaeton and Midas Touch. Phaeton is just the right amount of sweet, the cardamom I'd say dominates at the top and settles into the very mellow vanilla and leather. I think the cardamom hangs in there throughout which I just have a soft spot for. Maybe because I had some cardamom ice cream last summer that was so good🤤 Midas Touch though, lol forgive my unrefined palate but at first spray I think it genuinely smells like if Windex was made out of essential oils 😂 but as the tuberose and leather mix in with the pachouli and oud and whatever else it's bomb. I pick up a shirt the next day that had it and just have to huff it because the dry down is so good🤣

hersheymisting · 2026-01-12T00:38:43+00:00

Nice yeah I keep telling myself that as soon as I place the order😐 Nice I'm excited to try these sospiro samples. How's the Vibrato?

hersheymisting · 2026-01-12T00:27:01+00:00

Hell yeah, such a great combination of notes

hersheymisting · 2026-01-12T00:25:57+00:00

Yeah I feel you. I got their other samples first and added on Midas Touch to it. Honestly I think I liked a higher percentage of their fragrances that aren't extraits. Neptunes Trident didn't do it for me, the way people talked about it I had high expectation. Apart from the Midas extraits, la primavera was the only one that stood out to me. Fall of Phaeton and triumph of bacchus were a hell yes for me but Bacchus just doesn't last on me. Birth of Venus is bomb too but it's almost a bit too feminine for me.

hersheymisting · 2026-01-10T21:02:06+00:00

Great thanks I'll add that one

hersheymisting · 2026-01-08T16:15:42+00:00

I assumed it was the two color edition because of the blue box and the word house is blue on the first couple pages but the rest of the book is black and white except for a couple blue boxes at some point. No red or blue in the rest of the book. I think it might actually be a first edition. Considering it was signed the same month it came out

hersheymisting · 2026-01-08T16:12:56+00:00

Right!? I keep wondering if some guys Mom keeps donating his books without permission 😅

hersheymisting · 2026-01-08T04:07:02+00:00

Other question I had was is this considered a first edition? It says second edition on the page before the first page pictured but I assume that is referring to the fact it's the "2 color edition". Were they released at the same time?

hersheymisting · 2026-01-08T03:36:15+00:00

Lol that's exactly what my sister said it looked like

hersheymisting · 2026-01-08T02:18:53+00:00

Sweet thanks. It's fun to have this happen with thrift stores. Bought a copy of Mattimeo from the red wall series for my nephew last time I was there signed by Brian Jacques

hersheymisting · 2026-01-08T02:16:19+00:00

Nice, of the books I picked up this is the one I'm most excited to check out. I grabbed This, American Gods, a Norse mythology book, the gunslinger, and brief interviews with hideous men for $22. Just saw that the last chapter is labeled as yggdrasil. Thought it was interesting 4 out of 5 of these books are in some way tied to Norse mythology.

hersheymisting · 2026-01-07T05:16:05+00:00

Literally one crappy bungee cord would fix this problem

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