Filosofia Day Three for women and men

I was sitting on the back porch with my friends on the first evening of spring break in South Carolina. The weather was warmer than where we came from, but there still a very mild crispness to the air. Joking all together we talked about how we made it; the trip left the group chat. In celebration we lit up a dark cigar, the most wonderful smell of spices and dark chocolate smoldering mixes with the smell of the hazelnut and vanilla cocktails I made for all of us. Life is good.

This is a beautiful, dark, deep, opulent, and rich scent. It starts off with a spicy and slightly fresh peppery cardamom. If you love fiery and in your face cardamom like I do, you will love this opening like I already do. Almost immediately it calms down and mixes with this ashy, dry and woody tobacco and thick, rich, and warm vanilla hazelnut dip. It’s the same kind of vibe as tobacco vanilla but the focus is on the tobacco and not the vanilla. As it dries down the sweetness grows with the addition of dark chocolate, but still never overtaking the tobacco. This is really good stuff, and I can see this leaning a bit more confident/older to a lot of people, but I personally love this as a 20 year (as of writing this). Leans W/F but I think it can be worn during any night with a slight or greater chill in the air.

TLDR: Sexy and smooth tobacco heavy tobacco/vanilla fragrance with the added twists of hazelnut, cardamom, and dark chocolate. 8/10

Wonderful performance, but moderate projection.

Sampling Day Three Fragrances Filosofia, a semi-spicy, semi-sweet tobacco blend featuring black pepper, cardamom, cypriol, chocolate, hazelnut, and vanilla. It really blends both the spicier, intense elements with the more comforting gourmand notes in the dry down. It does not have a ton of evolution but is predicably a bit spicier and sharper in the opening while being sweeter and smoother in the dry down. The chocolate/vanilla blend is really nice, without too much of either, and perhaps the sharpness of the hazelnut dovetails nicely with the fading spices from the opening, but I do not get a distinct hazelnut note. Still, this is really cozy while also being sophisticated, and for me has a lot of versatility as a cold weather fragrance, perhaps stereotypically masculine-leaning, given that men’s scents have been very sweet in recent years, but effectively a unisex offering for anyone that likes tobacco.

As with other entries in the house, I’m impressed with the restraint and care here, as it’s not an over-the-top scent but rather something that I think is carefully blended, refined over many tries. I wouldn’t say it’s terribly unique or covers especially new ground, as there are many scents that fit in this category, but this is absolutely worth trying as I could easily see it being someone’s very favorite. It has that upside for me. I think so far, Ambar Dominicano and Bani are my favorites of the line, but this is third after those two.

Filosofia is extrait concentration and is priced at $235/135/40 for 100/50/10ml, roughly equivalent to the other offerings in the catalogue, and so sold via the house website. It performs quite well, fitting for a more cold-weather-leaning fragrance.

8 out of 10

Not unisex. Very manly. Very mature man (60+)
Im a woman and I love wearing swy intensely, Herod, oajan, pure havane, jazzclub. But this is too masculine for me.

I get a lot of tobacco, oud and cardamom. It’s a nice fragrance and a work of art I must say but not for me.

Unfortunately I don’t get vanilla or chocolate. It’s a little nutty but not much. Despite the main accords stated I don’t get any sweetness from this and either do the people I ask.

Edit:

After my bottle sat for a little while it definitely changed. I’m getting chocolate and vanilla which makes it more unisex.

I was excited to receive this in the mail after all the hype is getting...the first sniff literally reminded me of my dad. To my nose, this is a fragance my dad (who's in his 60s) would wear. I bought it thinking that if I don't like it, I would give it to my husband. But I honestly dont want my husband smelling like my dad. It gives me the vibes of a very mature, well put together, classy man. I bought it thinking it was unisex, but I do not consider this unisex as it is very manly.

my 1st thoughts were that this smelled like old le male but then I realized it smells more like a higher quality take on cuba gold which I believe is a dupe of le male. this is good, not great. overall performance is ok. 6 hrs longevity & soft to mild sillage/projection off of my skin. head over to my IG @smellmytaste2.0 for more fragrance content 🙏

Tried a sample and the first thing that came to mind is it reminded me of Carlisle by PDM which I prefer.

To my unseasoned nose, it smells like a darker, chocolatey Naxos. However, it's more smooth and lacks that freshness. It's equally gourmand (I get chocolate and something honey-like mostly) on top of an ashy yet soft tobacco. Hours later the drydown smells a bit like pencil shavings to me. 7/10, a like for me.

Beautiful opening 5 minutes and then…celery salt to my nose🤷♂️

This one was getting a lot of hype but I’m just not seeing it. It’s just ok. Hazelnut, chocolate, soft tobacco, slightly below average projection.

It's ok. Nothing special about this. A bit tobaco with synthetic leather nouances

I tested this from the sample set and I like it. On my skin the chocolate definitely pops quite a bit along with vanilla and hazelnut. This is pretty gourmand to my nose because of the sweetness. Second comes the tobacco and it’s very smooth and well blended. Sometimes, tobacco can become a bit sour and sharp to my nose but in Filosofia it’s very smooth. There is hardly any Oud that I can detect. Overall, this is a well balanced and blended fragrance. It leans a bit masculine but not that much (pretty unisex). Longevity seems above average and moderate silliage (no where close to Ambar Dominicano). Not sure why but performance seems a bit weak, I wish it was the scent was stronger. It’s not a love, but I need to give it more time.

Edit: the dry down is great!

After two full wears I give it 3.5 out of 5. It’s good but the performance is pretty bad on my skin.

It smells like smoky coconut almond joys with tobacco.
Also I'd say its masculine but a girl could def wear it if they wanted too cuz its decently sweet/ gourmandy

Somebody please review this.