Wear time stops at only 4 hours and sillage goes out to lunch about half-way through it. Ginger and some woody aromachemicals move into a base of ambrox and clean musks, something pretty new in 2009 for sure. Majoram round this up, and a bit of dry medicinal lavandin brings the masculine clean into the heart.
Here, we have a nice juicy clementine orange and tangelo fruit medley crossed with neroli, achieved for cost with a number of synthetics at least for the neroli if not the orange.
JOHN VARVATOS ARTISAN FRAMES LICENSE
Rodrigo Flores-Roux was still very much unofficial house perfumer during this period of Varvatos production, on something of a permanent loan from Givaudan to Varvatos while they were under Shiseido distribution, something that ended sometime after EA Fragrances picked up the license and began abusing it with over-researched and marketing-driven garbage (see the JV x NJ line). I sorta call this the "4711 effect", and it's something I like to avoid outside a traditional cologne. That said, I think this is at least competent for a discount price, even if you'll end up draining the 4.2 oz bottles a lot faster than you might suspect with needed reapplication throughout the day. I'm personally not the biggest fan of this house and I have tried many, including flankers of this before finally getting around to the original itself, so I had a bit of familiarity and tempered expectations going in. The scent is rather short-lived and weak by the performance standards of most modern "cologne bros" but such is the case with most of the Varvatos house to begin with, since Varvatos doesn't like strong fragrances and prefers them to be more of a second-skin. Artisan by John Varvatos (2009) is a staple and surprisingly non-aquatic fresh fragrance that kicked off the long-legged line of the same name, with a now-iconic wicker wrap around the standard Varvatos bottle.
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