MARC-ANTOINE BARROIS Ganymede Eau de Parfum

Incredible.

I'm not a perfume expert - I only have a few niche bottles - but this one just stays with you.

Otherworldly is the only way I can describe it. Starts off floral and then goes 'minerally' after an hour. Still detectable 12 hours later, albeit as a soft skin scent.

This is the only perfume I've had that made a woman track me down in Tesco and ask me what I'm wearing, writing it down in her phone so 'she could have her boyfriend smell like it.'

I decided to do something stupid and ordered a 100ml bottle of this completely blind, thinking the reviews gave me a good idea of what it smells like.

Well yes and no, it's absolutely as bizarre as everyone says, but no words could do it justice. It's a massive cloud of WTF.

It's an airy, ozonic thing not unlike a new car's smell, only richer, sweeter and deeper. It's very light but it has MASSIVE projection. It's not just a clean scent, it's downright sterile.
Scratch that, this must be what a brand new luxury alien spaceship smells like, but it's not austere, it has a warmth in the base that actually reminds me of tea of all things. It's like a holographic projection of a warm blanket.
It's wonderfully weird and intoxicating. The aliens know their sh*t.

I may be stupid but I'm definitely happy with my purchase. This is beyond incredible.

Performance is also completely off the charts.

Everyone keeps saying Ganymede is futuristic, but in the year 3000, peoplekind will no longer need to apply a fragrance to smell like metal and plastic.

My signature fragrance. Love at first sniff.
This is the first fragrance which feels like it is a part of me. Ganymede is the classical men's fragrance brought to 2020.
Ganymede opens up with mandarin, mineral, violet and "airy" notes. After 10 minutes the mandarin starts to flee and the saffron steps forward.
I know there is no official leather note in here, but I definitely smell beautiful leather from the first spray till Ganymede vanishes. In other words: The leather note is in my opinion the main player of this fragrance. But it is a different leather scent, nothing I've ever smelled.

The performance is also incredible. Ganymede doesn't push out like eg. Interlude Man, rather it always lingers in the air. Once you don't smell it for two hours, but then you'll get a whaft of it later in the day.

Ganymede is suitable for every occasion, T-shirt to suit, spring, summer, autumn and winter - fun fact: It is the only "leather" fragrance I know of, which one can wear in the summer heat (lightly used).

What wonders me the most: I'm in this hobby for years and years and never received a compliment, never. With this though I received many, maaaaany - men love it, women love it. My classmate and coworkers bagged me to decant a few ml so they can wear it. I never experienced something like that.

All in all it is the perfect fragrance, it is "my" fragrance.

You know that scene at the end of Pulp Fiction when Jules finally opens the suitcase and reveals the glowing golden something inside?

It's a bottle of Ganymede.

This may very well be the best thing I've ever smelled. It's so smooth, balanced, blended, intoxicating. I don't know if I've ever wanted a FB of something so badly. I want to smell like this forever.