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When you enter EssenceVitae and slowly click your way through the top perfumes named here, you will inevitably come across this English noble sled at some point... 7,8/10 at over 750 ratings! The MUST be able to do something! A quick glance at Idealo will make your chin drop to your chest: 100 ml of such a hammer scent for not even 30 quid? You MUST try it blind!!!!

But as Fleet Admiral Ackbar said, "IT'S A TRAP!" But let's see...

I was sooo close to ordering a bottle of it, but in view of my already full perfume cupboard and the somewhat annoyed look of my wife, whenever a new bottle arrived by mail, I decided to test a 5 ml filling. And that was definitely a good thing! Because the first tests revealed one thing above all: rum. A lot of rum. A lot of rum. From beginning to end.
In my youth I liked to drink Captain Morgan, mostly with coke, but when it wasn't on hand I also drank pure. It was okay then. I don't like the taste of rum any more, I like gin a lot better. But what I definitely don't want to do is smell around. And in a way that makes you feel like you're locked in storage on the Black Pearl, along with a year's supply of leaking barrels of Captain Morgan... For this reason, the sample was soon allowed to be shipped to someone else who also had the scent on his watch list.

Bentley for Men Intense is well made, absolutely voluminous with a mega sillage and durability and for this price really a snap! I would like to advise against a blind purchase at this point! Even if it is really cheap. At most one likes rum. Very much.

To all of you who have tested it and also found it to be a slaying experience, I would like to recommend the non-intense version "Bentley for Men". This one also smells of rum, but not as strong and is altogether much more balanced and suitable for everyday use.

Very well: Drink of pirates, yo ho!

Dua Fragrances. A company that specializes mainly in copying sometimes extremely high-priced fragrances and then selling them (now only high-priced). Some time ago I read here at EssenceVitae that this company started to produce "fragrance combinations" of successful fragrances. Bullshit! What's the point? This isn't gonna work! Or do you?!! Br />

On Black Friday, Dua Fragrances had an offer in which the discount often granted was increased once again. I was leafing through it when I came across "Poseidon's Invasion". Supposedly a mixture of "Aventus (Eau de Parfum)" and "Invasion Barbarians". Both scents I associate with something...

I was a very big Aventus fan for a long time. I sold a bottle with a gigantic batch, got annoyed about it a few months later, bought a bigger bottling which I exchanged because it was too fruity for me and now I have a bigger bottling with a (for me) beautiful batch again. I rarely use it. Too often I have smelled this scent, felt 1000 copies and found it not quite as good as the original. Had dozens of different batches under your nose. "that just smells like a lame batch to me...
At some point, I realized: Aventus and I are done. Two lovers who can see each other from time to time, still get along well, but for whom it is no longer enough to have a relationship. The relationship has been too intense... Still, every now and then you feel a longing for each other.

I liked "Invasion of the Barbarians" the first time. Not more, less. The sample of it emptied itself however nevertheless gradually, because with the time I preferred to win it. Not the perfumed initial part, but the well-balanced, well-groomed freshness that develops after 1-2 hours. I can't wear it all the time, but this feeling of being simply well-groomed and fragrant is always nice :-)

So now a combination of the two? I couldn't imagine. However, there are some perfumes here where I have meanwhile noticed that we have very similar fragrance interests. One of them praised the scent. Couldn't help but take the Black Friday offer...

The delivery is carried out as with my first order reliably after approx. 1.5 weeks. There were no more extra customs costs.
The box is plain black with some characters and looks pretty cheap to me. But I don't care. I'm not the type to leave my bottles in boxes anyway
The bottle is standardized by Dua Fragrances, only the labels of the fragrances differ. This is also quite bumbl to me, what counts is the "Juice" ;-)
And what can I expect there?

Directly after spraying the full disillusionment. Smells to me like an unsmoky Aventus batch, which is strongly influenced by pineapple and vanilla. Neat... A big bust. Where the hell's the barbarian?!
Within the first two hours the Aventus vibe is turned down a little and a cleanly dressed barbarian comes forward in triple steps very slowly. When it's there, the mMn most beautiful part of the fragrance comes: a subtle invasion Barbaric, cultivated freshness slightly underscored by the vanilla Aventus pineapple. Great, but not a failure!

And with that we unfortunately come to (m)one problem: In order to get this point clearly smelling, you have to apply some sprayers at the beginning. But then you have a very present Aventus and I personally feel uncomfortable with that. Another problem for me: To reach this stage, I have to deal with my "ex" Aventus for quite a long time. However, since I don't want to damage our relationship permanently (because we get along too well for that), "Poseidon's Invasion" probably won't become my new flame. It's a shame, but it's true.