Diesel
Diesel
85 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bergamot and orange slash across the skin with immediate brightness, but the heliotrope immediately undercuts this freshness with a creamy, almost biscuity sweetness that feels thoroughly synthetic. Within moments, you're not in crisp citrus territory—you're somewhere altogether stranger and more powder-dusted.
The spice coalition emerges with surprising force: cardamom, coriander, and clove create a warm, slightly peppery envelope that transforms the fragrance into something almost gourmand. Lily of the valley and violet attempt to inject green, herbal refinement, but the aniseed base note already bleeding through gives everything a faintly licorice-tinged character that's both intriguing and slightly unsettling.
What remains is a musk-and-tonka sweetness anchored by oakmoss and vetiver, creating an almost soapy, grandmotherly drydown that's more comfortable than captivating. The spice settles into a warm background hum, and the synthetic quality becomes even more pronounced as projection fades—a faint, powdery sweetness that clings close to the skin rather than projecting outward.
Plus Plus Masculine arrives as a peculiar time capsule—a fragrance that seems caught between the clean, angular aesthetics of late-90s minimalism and an almost baroque appetite for spice. What initially announces itself as a citrus-led composition quickly reveals something far more complicated: a synthetic sweetness that doesn't apologise for itself, threading bergamot and orange through an unexpected heliotrope that lends an almost powdery, creamy undertone from the very first spray.
This is fundamentally a spice-forward fragrance masquerading as a fresh one. The cardamom and coriander in the heart don't whisper—they assert themselves with a peppery insistence that wrestles against lily of the valley's delicate greenness. There's a peculiar tension here: violet and jasmine attempt softness, but the aniseed lurking in the base gives the entire composition a fennel-like, slightly medicinal character that prevents it from ever becoming truly elegant. Instead, it becomes fascinating in its awkwardness.
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