Disclaimer - I think my nose must be broken going by everyone else's reviews!
In the bottle this is exactly what I was hoping for. I smell a deep, slightly sweet and spicy smelly, the patchuli smells gorgeous and I couldnt wait to get it on.
Then it changes. Wet it smells pretty much as it did in the bottle, but after about a minute/ when it warms I start to get a slightly bitter waft coming from it that I cant describe.
Dry - after a while that bitterness turns into what I can only describe as gentlemans cologne. Strange. Behind it is a subtle softness, not vanilla, more earthy, but all sweetness has gone. I keep getting wafts of cologne and thiking ewww, whats that smell, sniffing my wrist and, oh, its me.
Now, yesterday I tried this and it was different, it was much more subtle and deeper on the dry down.
I think I need to try this again before I make a judgement