Y
Avery (2015)

Y is another unconvincing aromatic piece from the Avery collection. Unfortunately it seems people behind this emerging brand is straining themself in the aim to follow and reproduce the "mainstream", to re-propose (apparently or partially in disguise) the main current olfactory cliché out there. Sometimes they manage to create something vaguely interesting (think for instance at the piquant-aromatic aquatic experiment appointed by Avery R) while sometimes we can basically experience just a pale new sort of Fahrenheit 32 or One Million (think at Avery E for instance). Y introduces a "yet runned" (and really really woody-resinous) main accord of rose, saffron, aromatic patterns and resins-oudh which seems to be a new status for dozens of new perfumed experiments out there (for instance Dueto Parfums City Oud, several Mancera's, scents a la One Million or far superior accords a la Tiziana Terenzi Gold Rose Oudh). Anyway in here the woodiness is particularly deep, really cedary (pencil shavings like) and intense with a sort of pungent metallic vibe provided by coffee beans and the lily of the valley/geranium's co-work (with their sharply intense floral-botanic effect). It seems (just apparently I suppose) finally to get a sort of almost calonic undertone and the powerful woodiness is freshly aromatic (vaguely gassy) with several Bulgari Man Extreme-like's facets (just to give an idea despite the Bvlgari's one smells finally more light, aromatic and articulated. I would quote as well L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme Oceanic Expedition for its intensely synthetic acid woodiness). Unfortunately I don't get a great evolution, the aroma seems linear, pungent-woody-metallic-melancholic, vaguely ambery (woody-resinous) and mainstream. Actually I'm tending more and more to dislike these sort of synthetic gassy-pungent woody accords so this fragrance can't be for sure my cup of tea, anyway even if this is your genre I recommend you to test Y before buying it or anyway to stick to more satisfactory takes on the same theme.