Chicago High Eau de Parfum By Vilhelm Parfumerie

Wow! I am blown away with this one! I fell in love with Vilhelm Perfumerie after trying several of their masterpieces.
So let’s talk about Chicago High…By the way my home city ;)
It’s all about 1920s, retro chic and speakeasy atmosphere….
It opens up boozy, sparkling and accompanied with juicy pineapple and zesty bergamot surrounded by honey and tobacco smoke…..
I close my eyes and the scent transports me into this elite secret bar in downtown of Chicago, where all the classiest and influential people gather to celebrate life with a fine drink and a smooth cigar and enjoy some jazz hits of that time…
As time goes on citrusy and fruity notes tame down and I get even more tobacco which now is accompanied by leather and a little bit of amber and even less patchouli…
Performance is beast on me…10+ hours and projects enough for others to notice
To say I am obsessed with this scent is understatement
I have never experienced anything even close to this..
It’s a must if you are into heavy night time slightly masculine scents…

This perfume is old memories in a bottle, Is very bold and strong yet so gracious and beautiful. The opening is loud and stunning, I imagine this opening smells like the entrance of one of those jazz clubs from the 50's, with lots of ladies and gentlemans leaving their fur coats at the coat check, while the doors open and close and the champagne and booze is all in the air but the wood from the place is so warm that exudes that spicy note up there too. then you get the tobacco and honey, is so well balanced and mix that you feel like you are reading a book and eating cookies close to the fire with your lovely grandpa who is smoking his tobacco pipe, when it settles you get a more bitter tobacco but once in a while the champagne comes and goes with the sweet of the pineapple. I really like how this fragrance dries, is very leathery very ambery and with a back of vanilla that I really like, I can see a man or woman wearing this to a very elegant date night or just to a romantic dinner. Sample it first, tobacco scents tends to be a hit or miss so I suggest u to try it first!

Incredible. Champagne, tobacco, and rich, thick honey. A regal booze-heavy fragrance. Longevity and performance on me for this was phenomenal as well.

Got a sample in the mail today and it's just so weird. Doesn't have the whole aesthetic of the brand at all and is smelling somewhat dusty. Can't associate it with anything specific but it's just in the middle of fruity-woody-leathery categories. I get tons of sparkly tobacco and fruity patchouli on the skin.

Update: Ok, after wearing down my sample I finally got it. It's still very different from the rest, very abstract scent. My favorites are poets of berlin and mango skin. These two are literally edible. Chicago high is more about the atmosphere. It's all about the entering old entertainment building. A theater, cabaret or something like that. Where people used to party and walls have absorbed that smell of cigars and old wooden floor is always well polished. It's growing on me. Winter-fall. Sillage is very good.

What a unique fragrance. Very heavy on the booze, but sweet honey at the same time. I haven't smelled anything like this before. There is a small similarity between this and Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille, but I may like this one more. A bit more complex.