what's up guys so today i have an ulta box here ulta beauty from ultabeauty.com
ulta.com this is not a sponsored video i just ordered from them because they had
brand new fragrances from 2021 that i shared with you on previous videos which i do every month with
you guys talking about up and coming releases these were fragrances that i was really looking
forward to checking out i was able to order them now it's gonna be time for the first impression
pause the video now let me know which fragrances you think are in this box and continue carry on so
you guys can check out the fragrances and check out my first impression on these guys let's go
welcome back to another video ulta beauty box right here we're gonna check out these
three brand new releases these are all designers by the way and these were fragrances again that i
shared with you on fragrance news or new releases upcoming releases that i do for you guys every
month so let's see what we got this time around so we have let me take the box out of the way
we have the new polo cologne intense 2021 release we have none other than bad boy le parfum
again this year is another one of those years that we're seeing a lot of parfums, le parfums and
cologne intense releases from most designer brands and last but not least this one here i've heard
a lot of great things about this fragrance in europe and it's going to be ives saint laurent Y le parfum
now if you guys follow this channel you know i'm not a huge fan of the y collection i think they're
good fragrances perhaps the Y edp the better one if you already own dior sauvage, bleu de chanel
or dylan bleu it's going to be in those same kind of veins of blue fragrances
perhaps with the heavier ambroxan i think it's okay but it's nothing that i really
gravitate towards wearing myself but this one here i have high hopes for so let's start here from
left to right i'm going to leave this one here for last just because i'm a huge fan of the original
polo so i'll leave this one here for last let's crack this one open and see what we get from
the bad boy le parfum which by the way guys let me know in the comments do you guys
like caroline herrera fragrances? i think over the past few years we haven't really seen anything
amazing from carolina herrera i think when we think about the brand going back
to the original ch man which was great but now has been completely changed and toned down it just
doesn't last long but it's a beautiful fragrance or ch man prive which is one that got a little
hype here or a lot of hype here i should say but also has been reformulated and from what i understand
perhaps even discontinued anyway let's talk about this one here so the difference between this one
here and the one that came out last year is that the actual bottle is going to be a little bit of
a satin finish as you can see here the sprayer is going to sit up top here very similar to
the one last year the same shape and i actually went with the 50ml instead of the 100ml just
because i didn't know if it was going to be great so for all of these i went with a smaller size
um let's take it for a test drive and see what we get out of le parfum bad boy here we have a
scentxplore tester strip sprays are actually very strong on this
the smell is actually pretty good but it's going to be one of those fragrances that you guys
if you have a large collection if you like fragrances that have tonka beans cinnamon vanilla
and ambroxan that's what you're gonna get here in fact i'm not even getting the cocoa
vibe that i got with the original which was really nice but i wish it was more amplified
i think bad boy the original if it had a stronger cocoa vibe maybe a dark patchouli at the
base would have been a great fragrance but it was really lackluster and this one here
i don't think it's going to be that great in fact it reminds me a lot of
right now it's starting to transition a little bit it's actually fresher than i thought it
would be it's reminding me very very much so of paco rabanne invictus aqua from 2016.
very similar to that fragrance which is not a bad thing but again
fruity ambroxan tonka vanilla kind of a vibe similar to paco rabanne invictus aqua so
let's see what the performance is going to be i'll actually wear this a few times and see
if it's worth you know purchasing a bottle perhaps i'll come back with a full review you guys know
the drill let me know in the comments if you guys want to see a full review on any of these
just vote give me a like and i'll come back with the full review now let's get this
one out of the way here the le parfum from yves saint laurent now the Y collection is widely loved here
in the fragrance community it's hyped by a lot of fragrance reviewers it makes a lot of top lists
i'm not going to knock it saying it's a bad fragrance i mean ysl does produce quality
fragrances the box here is going to be dark with the embellishments in silver really nice
but very similar to all the other y fragrances it's got the y here in the metal plate
throughout the actual glass of the bottle is a dark glass the cap has the ysl insignia
at the top it's a dark cap let's check out the sprayers very good i always say that ysl
armani and dior have the best sprayers in the game. Let's take it for a test drive guys
okay just from the first impression standpoint
here i do like this one more than i like le parfum bad boy
has a very predominant orange or mandarin oranges citrus up top i do get some dark components that
will come to play very soon perhaps there's some vetiver in here which i like maybe some patchouli
there's definitely some spiciness going on but i definitely get a very predominant orange
mandarin oranges citruses up top again just like le parfum bad boy i'm thinking this one here
could have been a little darker you know if i'm thinking le parfum the darkest you know
the noir edition or whatever i'm thinking darker components perhaps heavier
notes in the fragrance perhaps like a boozy note or a tobacco note and i'm not getting
any of that in either one of these fragrances no cocoa no vanilla on this one, there is vanilla
on bad boy but no vanilla on this one i'll look at the notes in a second and talk more about it
but from first impression standpoint i'm liking the Y more than i'm liking bad boy slightly
i think this could be great for spring and summer up ahead and fall i don't think it's heavy enough
for the winter time but let's get this one out of the way here cologne intense polo from ralph lauren
i absolutely love the original you guys know how much i talk about it especially if it's a cosmai
edition of polo from ralph lauren which is the original one very pungent tobacco leather type
of a fragrance, this one here is following suit to the original it's got the dark box here with
silver embellishments as opposed to the lighter this is like a hunter green i think the original
polo has a lighter green with the embellishments in gold the bottle here very similar again darker
green with silver or chrome embellishments rather than the gold that you get with the original not
looking at the notes again i'm going to go fresh just try these fragrances on the paper here
pretty good sprayer you can control depending on how hard you push on the actual atomizer
it's nice but
no this is nice you know what i'm getting the vibe of the original but it's very light it's
like you took the original dna from polo ralph lauren and you made it into like an aquatic
floral citrus type of a fragrance you really tame down the leather and the tobacco really in
the background and you forward the citrus components some floral components it does
have the vibe of the original but a lot more toned down a lot more citrus and floral like i said it's
like a floral citrus version of polo green quite nice i think it's very fitting to the time of the
year right now perfect for spring in the summer time dressier occasions before i get into like
when and how and all that stuff obviously i can't give you performance because i haven't tried these
on skin but let me look at the notes from each one of these fragrances real quickly and share
with you guys starting with le parfum here from carolina herrera all right looking at the
note breakdown here for le parfum bad boy from caroline herrera it talks about this
cannabis note and as the tester strip is trying to dry down
i am really getting that cannabis note it is more of a green cannabis as opposed to maybe like a
smoky cannabis note i think akro has a fragrance actually called smoke which i do own uh perhaps
i'll wear it you know in the winter time and share with you you know more as the weather gets
colder you know later this year but this one here has that cannabis note more of a green cannabis
it's more of a dry scent and i thought because it was a le parfum a little darker i thought that
this was going to continue to keep that cacao note which they totally took it out there's grapefruit
here that's why i was associating this with paco rabanne invictus aqua there's a heavy grapefruit
which is now starting to tone down a little bit black pepper leather and vetiver i think it's
a good fragrance not great but the way i would describe this real simple it's like a paco rabanne
invictus aqua with that green cannabis undertone and perhaps a little leather and vetiver undertone
that's about it again i have to wear on skin to really get a full-fledged you know performance
and all that stuff compliments but from a first impression standpoint it is good not as good
as i thought i wish they had maybe paired up the cannabis note with the chocolate with the cacao
i think this would have been a more intriguing perhaps more unique kind of a fragrance now
let's look at the notes on the y le parfum all right the notes on y le parfum we're talking
green apple aldehydes grapefruit and ginger up top it is very fruity very spicy up front
very alluring it's got that really almost chanel allure homme sport eau extreme without
the mint up top and then in the middle you have sage lavender geranium so i can see some herbal
components not so much a barbershop feel but like a sweet lavender
herbal kind of a green nuance that will creep in as the fragrance develops and
at the base like i said the tonka alabanum cedar and patchouli so definitely woody green
but nothing to brag home about to be honest with you guys it's a good scent but
i was expecting more but then again i'm not a huge fan of the y line anyway it's not a
fragrance line that i wear much there's a lot other fragrances from ives saint laurent that i do
enjoy i think this is more of a jovial youthful playful safe kind of a fragrance something that
you could wear oh by the way this one here i think it's good for maybe just from a first impression
guys remember i haven't worn this but i think it's good for maybe like nightwear maybe dates
uh it's gonna have a very like character about it no questions this is gonna be the more mature
one that i'll talk in just a second but this one will be great for the office great for nightwear
great for date as well but all both these fragrances are definitely
more youthful more jovial anybody will enjoy this because there's nothing here that you
you're not going to enjoy they're just those kind of fragrances those are mass appealing
designer fragrances of today and last but not least let me look at the notes in polo green
by the way all fragrances here are going to be eau de parfum concentration even though this one's
called cologne intense it's also an edp it's called cologne intense eau de parfum so
go figure you know it's like a marketing thing that they did here but again the blast here the
initial blast it's going to be very juicy almost fruity mouth-watering i do get a lot of citruses
the notes here we're talking basil spearmint and grapefruit so again fruity grapefruit up
top i don't really get the minty vibe here it is there but it's almost like an aquatic tinge
not so much of a minty like refreshing vibe it's more of an aquatic grapefruit that i'm getting
clary sage violet leaf and thyme so there is a herbal component you know that you would expect
patchouli ambroxan and vetiver so this is a fragrance that i've really had high hopes for
and i do like it i think like i said in the beginning it is very similar to the original
meaning it's a lighter much much lighter version if you never tried the original you're not going to
know what you're missing so i think you're going to like this and it's even catering to perhaps
a new generation of people that wear fragrances but if you're somebody in your mid 30s
or 40s or even older and you are familiar with the original this is going to be very very faint
and very light if you like something heavier and darker this is not going to be it in fact none of
these will be it these are lighter you know very likable uh you know kind of fragrance very mass
appealing kind of fragrances but then anyway you know overall here i like these fragrances
i'm happy that i picked them up to share with you guys but i'm not overwhelmingly
satisfied with any of these fragrances they're not like mind-blowing to me like when i do an unboxing
for you guys and i say well this is fire you know like when i talk to you guys about hugo boss
oud saffron which really blew my mind so when it's something that really blows my mind and i'm
really like enamored with the fragrance you guys will see because it's gonna come through
these are nice but nothing here that i'm gonna probably be featuring like an upcoming top video
or anything like that but those are my thoughts on the first impression i can wear them and perhaps
change my mind but as of right now those are my initial impressions for these three
fragrances that i just shared with you guys i did purchase them you know retail at ulta beauty
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