Re-reviewing the excellent Herod from Parfums de Marly. www.aaronterencehughes.co.uk Instagram - AaronTerenceHughes Music: Sleepdebt - I C U #FragranceReview
Herod is a masterpiece. So is your beard by the way. Thank you so much for letting us know in advance about changes from IFRA and forthcoming reformulations. I reckon it might be worth re-reviewing some of the most excellent fragrances that have been reformulated, and seeing which perfumers have done the most stellar job of rising to the challenge, perhaps even exceeding their own work. Thanks in advance!
I need to find a house that does not conform to everything that IFRA does. Like a lot of things, I think they started out with good intentions but, I think they go overboard a lot. I really dislike the idea of having a fragrance that I like reformulated and often diminished in potency but sold for the same price as the original that I actually liked. And, my research has yielded that the changes that they make are not always for very good convincing reasons.
@@philomelodia lol if you want to sell in Europe you have to follow IFRA. I always find it funny when people think people follow IFRA voluntarily. No they do it so they can sell globally.
Herod is such a gorgeous scent. Loveliest tobacco I’ve worn so far and as you said perfectly unisex. So glad I found your channel! The way you talk about scent makes me think of music in a way as if you’re describing a melody.
I really appreciate that you ask how the audience is doing before your videos, it is a very nice touch. I will be on the lookout for a bottle of your supernova, looks like it’s flying off the shelves at record speed.
Amazing that you're RE-DOING some of the old videoes with outstanding fragrances. Now that you love the house. Maybe a new Carlisle as well? You never did the original Layton either, one on that would be great!
This review made my day. Herod is one of my all-time favorites because it checks every single box. As a cigar and pipe smoker, this fragrance is right up my alley!
@@robusto7735 haha of course! That makes sense because Interlude 53 is what I am wearing today! And my last cigar I enjoyed was a hoyo de monterrey petit robusto just for the record :)
@@NpgSymboL Excellent choice!!!! I had a My Father's Cigar Connecticut Robusto last week! I picked up a tin of Cult Blood Red Moon pipe tobacco the other day (aromatic cherry) and my bottle of ATH Raw Cherry should be arriving today! Can't wait!
Absolutely love this one. Have similar vibe as Burberry London which I also like, but on steroids. Also has incense in it and way better quality. Absolutely killer for winter.
This is an amazing fragrance and you are an amazing fragrance reviewer. Absolutely the best. Love your honesty, knowledge and integrity. Keep up the good work.
Got a tester for this today, and i absolutely love it, its such a warm addictive scent, i will definitely ve buying a bottle, especially after this review
Idk why but you were hilarious the way you said your greeting in the beginning lol. Herod is my favorite from the line. Thanks for sharing your professional thoughts.
Spot on Aron!... always get comments from colleagues on this one. Chocolaty, Tobacco, sweet, smoky swirling around you. Lasts all day on my skin and worth the money. 👍🏼
Great review I love this one Aaron. I'd love to see your opinion on Memo Paris 'African Leather' and Penhaligon's 'Sohan' if you get the chance, they're right up your alley
I am interested to see your view on PDM Kalan, as it really portray the epitomy of love or hate fragrance, and a lot of youtube reviewers also bashing on it. I, myself really love Kalan and have received some real compliments from my close ones. However when I sprayed it directly on paper or on their skin, they despised it right away. Anyway, really enjoy your review as you always give your unique thoughts on every fragrance you brought to this channel.
You’re a great and very knowledgeable reviewer Aaron, I’m not sure if you have previously reviewed PDM Oajan or not but if you haven’t, I’d love to hear your views on it.
My favorite from that house and I love Layton and Perceval but this Herod is king for me. It constantly lifts or something on me and like radiates off my skin. I think it’s the incense that i pick up. I love it!!!
I got a 5ml tester of this and my first impression i watched along to your video Aaron. This is sophisticated flirting in a bottle, i can't get enough of it. I have my sisters wedding to attend to this weekend and i have found the scent to wear for the occasion.
Wow. Finally, A 10 out of 10 fragrance for Aaron. This is a landmark event! Thanks for all the education in the art of perfumery. Your review just bumped this up to number one in my list of fragrances to purchase/try next. Keep doing your thing🔥🔥I got the new Maverick as my first ATH fragrance and it is absolutely amazing. Can’t get enough of the juxtaposition of light and darkness in that fragrance. Stellar stuff 🔥🔥🔥
I totally agree that there are many brands that Are easy to like and easy to wear. However I also tend to wear mostly ATH fragrances. I can smell good, but I prefer to smell fabulous. I appreciate you Aaron. I admire your work.
Aaron, would you consider making a short video about lilial and how it was used in perfumery and what it means that it will be forbidden to use starting from 1st of march? like an informational video from an expert like you!
Wonderful review! The older review of Herod I also liked a lot actually. I don't think it lasts that long, in the sense that after a few hours it seems way way nano-close to the skin. Granted maybe others will still perceive it in the air, even if not the wearer.
Personally the best from PDM. I wish to see you make a review for Psychedelic Love by Initio Parfums since you love Heliotrope and love to hear what you think about it.
Hi Aaron, loved this review. I just recently fell in love with Tobacco Vanille. and i heard that this Herod is similar to TV. Gonna have to try Herod now after your video. :) Also, can you advise how long can we keep fragrances? Does it expire/spoil if we store it opened/unopened in a cool place? Many thanks Aaron.
Herod is wonderful! I layered it with, The Triumph of Bacchus, the Argos masterpiece, and....OMG....lasted all day! Either fragrance by itself is amazing!
Was once a masterpiece and the best PDM has ever created, but I'd love to see you review a new bottle and discuss why it's now a 3 hour skin scent and how you feel about PDM ripping it's customers off instead of just discontinuing it if it's the best they can do now.
Great review Aaron, I've just ordered a decant of this based on your review. Love your fragrances too ! I've recently purchased Raw cherry which I think is superb and has so much depth to it.. love it 😀. Looking forward to Guapo coming out in April, love the sample I got with my purchase.
Great honest review. I was thinking about getting this but would like to know what time of year/day this would work best. Would that be something you could put in your videos?
Out of 35 frags in my collection that have tobacco as either a noticeable note at one point, or the dominant note throughout, Herod is my favorite. That does not slight the others, it simply recognizes the brilliance of this fragrance. It is my second favorite date night frag, second only to TF Noir Extreme.
In my opinion, Carlisle is even better, but they both share the same PdM-DNA. I would be interested in your thoughts on Kalan which is a very polarizing PdM fragrance.
I love this scent, but latest version is soo low on performance that it really doesn't justify the price and niche category. I've tested Herod few times in the official PdM reseller shop, and it last arround 1-2h with very low projection. On the paper maybe 1 hour.
I also love Herod, but instead of finding it modern, I actually feel it's like a throwback. It reminds me of what a high roller in 60's Los Vegas would be wearing while beautiful ladies stand by his side. A sophisticated gentleman who was a "man's man". It just smells great!
@isobel64 no masculine man is going to want his girl to be smelling like tobacco and musk. Herod is not unisex, I can assure you of that. This isn't Calvin Klein One with the fruity undertones...
I would looove to hear your thoughts on PDM Akaster as it's described as a rose and agarwood (oud) fragrance. It would be interesting getting your two cents on it for sure. Cheers,
It took me a while but I kept thinking, gosh, Aaron look so familiar…. then it hit me! Aaron looks like William Baldwin! The second youngest of the handsome Baldwin brothers!! I hope it’s taken has a compliment!
oh god, the mighty Herod... i love it so much, i stocked up like 200ml vintage batch, the newer ones lack of the spicy nuance that the old ones definitely have, it was really a love for first sniff! ♥
Hey Aaron, would you try out Sicilian Leather by Memo Paris? I just got it and I would really like to know your opinion about it. I would send you a sample but I'm not from UK. :(
your passion and knowledge for fragrance is infectious. you deserve all your success
Herod is my favorite scent - it’s the first niche scent I ever bought. I fell in love with it instantly. I love PDM.
Same!!
My first Niche too. Fell in love with first sniff.
Herod is a masterpiece. So is your beard by the way. Thank you so much for letting us know in advance about changes from IFRA and forthcoming reformulations. I reckon it might be worth re-reviewing some of the most excellent fragrances that have been reformulated, and seeing which perfumers have done the most stellar job of rising to the challenge, perhaps even exceeding their own work. Thanks in advance!
I need to find a house that does not conform to everything that IFRA does. Like a lot of things, I think they started out with good intentions but, I think they go overboard a lot. I really dislike the idea of having a fragrance that I like reformulated and often diminished in potency but sold for the same price as the original that I actually liked. And, my research has yielded that the changes that they make are not always for very good convincing reasons.
@@philomelodia lol if you want to sell in Europe you have to follow IFRA. I always find it funny when people think people follow IFRA voluntarily. No they do it so they can sell globally.
They butchered Herod and should have just discontinued it.
You genuinely have the best reviews! Keep up the great work 🔥
Great review!! Love the physical "moving hands" description as well.
Your reviews are beyond excellent Aaron! Thank you so much for your thorough honest reviews with a personal subjective opinion! Much love from Canada.
Great review Aaron! ❤️ I also really love PDM! My current favorite is Delina La Rosee. Thank you for explaining how their musk accords work in Herod!
Herod is such a gorgeous scent. Loveliest tobacco I’ve worn so far and as you said perfectly unisex. So glad I found your channel! The way you talk about scent makes me think of music in a way as if you’re describing a melody.
I really appreciate that you ask how the audience is doing before your videos, it is a very nice touch. I will be on the lookout for a bottle of your supernova, looks like it’s flying off the shelves at record speed.
Great re-review! Can't wait for you to breakdown PDM's Kalan. Thank you for intelligent content. I've learned a lot.
Amazing that you're RE-DOING some of the old videoes with outstanding fragrances. Now that you love the house. Maybe a new Carlisle as well? You never did the original Layton either, one on that would be great!
Thank you for this fantastic review, it has me really wanting to sample this. Your videos are intoxicating to watch!
It was my first niche fragrance i bought back in 2018 and it's still one of my favourites. I'm happy that you've approved my opinion :)
This review made my day. Herod is one of my all-time favorites because it checks every single box. As a cigar and pipe smoker, this fragrance is right up my alley!
It is by far the best smelling fragrance I know
I’m not sure what it was but i know I recently read a review of yours on fragrantica. I remember it and your name because i also enjoy a good cigar
@@NpgSymboL Amouage Interlude 53! Yes! "Robusto" is a cigar size. Cigars are my other vice outside of fragrances!
@@robusto7735 haha of course! That makes sense because Interlude 53 is what I am wearing today!
And my last cigar I enjoyed was a hoyo de monterrey petit robusto just for the record :)
@@NpgSymboL Excellent choice!!!! I had a My Father's Cigar Connecticut Robusto last week! I picked up a tin of Cult Blood Red Moon pipe tobacco the other day (aromatic cherry) and my bottle of ATH Raw Cherry should be arriving today! Can't wait!
My god, it's so good to see you back!!
Great review as always, Aaron! Love the house of PDM!!!
Glad I took your advice once again. Wonderful fragrance...easily my favorite from the house.
Bought Herod off the back of your video - it’s my absolute favourite scent. Wishes it lasted longer but it’s so so amazing
Absolutely love this one. Have similar vibe as Burberry London which I also like, but on steroids. Also has incense in it and way better quality.
Absolutely killer for winter.
This is an amazing fragrance and you are an amazing fragrance reviewer. Absolutely the best. Love your honesty, knowledge and integrity.
Keep up the good work.
Got a tester for this today, and i absolutely love it, its such a warm addictive scent, i will definitely ve buying a bottle, especially after this review
Nice review Arron!
I immediately get cinnamon, tobacco, aged vanilla, and musk for the notes that first hit my nose.
Idk why but you were hilarious the way you said your greeting in the beginning lol. Herod is my favorite from the line. Thanks for sharing your professional thoughts.
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I ❤️ Herod too Aaron! Keep up the great reviews!
Spot on Aron!... always get comments from colleagues on this one. Chocolaty, Tobacco, sweet, smoky swirling around you. Lasts all day on my skin and worth the money. 👍🏼
Great review I love this one Aaron. I'd love to see your opinion on Memo Paris 'African Leather' and Penhaligon's 'Sohan' if you get the chance, they're right up your alley
Great review, Aaron!
I am interested to see your view on PDM Kalan, as it really portray the epitomy of love or hate fragrance, and a lot of youtube reviewers also bashing on it.
I, myself really love Kalan and have received some real compliments from my close ones. However when I sprayed it directly on paper or on their skin, they despised it right away.
Anyway, really enjoy your review as you always give your unique thoughts on every fragrance you brought to this channel.
You’re a great and very knowledgeable reviewer Aaron, I’m not sure if you have previously reviewed PDM Oajan or not but if you haven’t, I’d love to hear your views on it.
This is my favorite Parfums de Marly and the only one I own at this point. Great Review!
My favorite from that house and I love Layton and Perceval but this Herod is king for me. It constantly lifts or something on me and like radiates off my skin. I think it’s the incense that i pick up. I love it!!!
I got a 5ml tester of this and my first impression i watched along to your video Aaron. This is sophisticated flirting in a bottle, i can't get enough of it. I have my sisters wedding to attend to this weekend and i have found the scent to wear for the occasion.
Very good review, love your critique on fragrances good or bad even tho you have eviscerated a few of my favourites lol
Going to check this out, thanks Aaron.
Wow. Finally, A 10 out of 10 fragrance for Aaron. This is a landmark event! Thanks for all the education in the art of perfumery. Your review just bumped this up to number one in my list of fragrances to purchase/try next. Keep doing your thing🔥🔥I got the new Maverick as my first ATH fragrance and it is absolutely amazing. Can’t get enough of the juxtaposition of light and darkness in that fragrance. Stellar stuff 🔥🔥🔥
He also gave a 10 to Side Effect and Armani Code Absolu ;)
@@xiaomiredmi1866 interesting. I have watched over 20 of his reviews but I haven’t seen those 2. I think he also really liked Dior Homme Intense
@@xiaomiredmi1866 Side Effect is a 100/10💜✨
He also gave a 10 to Dior Homme Intense. He even said he would not change anything in it.
Xerjoff Naxos got a 10
Hi Aaron,
I was waiting to see your thoughts on my favorite frangrance :).
Herod is an absolute love for me. It's just the right amount of sweetness, spice, tobacco, incense. I just wish it lasted longer.
So glad you love this too. It's my signature scent; best of PDM
Aaron Very nice Review. I’ll see if I can Order a Sample 🍀🙏🤨
The dry down on this is my favorite part, possibly the most addicting vanilla I’ve ever smelt in fragrance
The nose behind Herod made my signature scent Divine Vanille by Essential Parfums! I love them both.
I totally agree that there are many brands that Are easy to like and easy to wear. However I also tend to wear mostly ATH fragrances. I can smell good, but I prefer to smell fabulous. I appreciate you Aaron. I admire your work.
Thats so amazing to hear. Thank you 🦄
Aaron, would you consider making a short video about lilial and how it was used in perfumery and what it means that it will be forbidden to use starting from 1st of march? like an informational video from an expert like you!
Wonderful review! The older review of Herod I also liked a lot actually. I don't think it lasts that long, in the sense that after a few hours it seems way way nano-close to the skin. Granted maybe others will still perceive it in the air, even if not the wearer.
Love your reviews.
I absolutely love this one too Aaron one of my favorites from Parfums de marly
Hi Josh🦄🦄🦄🦄
Personally the best from PDM. I wish to see you make a review for Psychedelic Love by Initio Parfums since you love Heliotrope and love to hear what you think about it.
It‘s the same for me - if I wouldn‘t always wear your scents this would also be my signature scent. But I‘m ATH addicted! 😉
thats amazing to hear. Thank you 🦄
Great review. Can you please please please do Layton next, its my signature and favourite fragrance.
I feel like you've probably cast like 6 spells without even knowing it with all of those arm movements.
Love your reviews!
I remember falling in love with this, it was the most id ever spent on a fragrance years ago
Hi Aaron, loved this review. I just recently fell in love with Tobacco Vanille. and i heard that this Herod is similar to TV. Gonna have to try Herod now after your video. :) Also, can you advise how long can we keep fragrances? Does it expire/spoil if we store it opened/unopened in a cool place? Many thanks Aaron.
Herod is wonderful! I layered it with, The Triumph of Bacchus, the Argos masterpiece, and....OMG....lasted all day!
Either fragrance by itself is amazing!
I love Herod. Something in the recent formulations just doesn't work for me though. I hope it gets sorted out
Was once a masterpiece and the best PDM has ever created, but I'd love to see you review a new bottle and discuss why it's now a 3 hour skin scent and how you feel about PDM ripping it's customers off instead of just discontinuing it if it's the best they can do now.
Buy clones instead
You’re right Aaron. Clean white musks are the best. I think Parfums de Marly and Mancera use them the best.
After this review I started to appreciate the effort all fragrance reviewer do at explaining a scent.
Man the quality you put in your video is so crazy. I agree, Herod in my opinion is the best pdm, Herod,Layton,greenly, Percival,carsile
Great review! Want to try Herod. This is going to sound like a daft request but could u review Myrrh & sweet Tonka sometime?
Aaron, what do you think of Carlisle vs TF Noir extreme? I really like noir extreme but Carlisle has something more...
Great review, as always 👌 🦄
Otro oaohhhhhh. Excelente revisión.
Great review Aaron, I've just ordered a decant of this based on your review.
Love your fragrances too !
I've recently purchased Raw cherry which I think is superb and has so much depth to it.. love it 😀.
Looking forward to Guapo coming out in April, love the sample I got with my purchase.
beautiful new setup
Aaron: I love it! ❤️
I need to try this…
This is 12 yr old fragrance and still gets positive good reviews. Just bought 1.7oz. I can’t go wrong with fragrance because goes well in fall/winter.
Bought herod based of the OG review fuckin love it one of my favorites
Phenomenal Review. 😳
Great honest review. I was thinking about getting this but would like to know what time of year/day this would work best. Would that be something you could put in your videos?
The french crop and beard looks amazing my man.
was my second niche scent i bought and i really love it :)
Out of 35 frags in my collection that have tobacco as either a noticeable note at one point, or the dominant note throughout, Herod is my favorite. That does not slight the others, it simply recognizes the brilliance of this fragrance. It is my second favorite date night frag, second only to TF Noir Extreme.
In my opinion, Carlisle is even better, but they both share the same PdM-DNA. I would be interested in your thoughts on Kalan which is a very polarizing PdM fragrance.
Herod is my favorite from the line! I just purchased Kalan and it has a divided fan base but I love it!
Kalan fan here!
Will you be Re-reviewing Nasomotto Pardon? Think the original was a lot of people’s favourite. Would be good to see an updated version 😊.
Very Nice Aaron!
I love this scent, but latest version is soo low on performance that it really doesn't justify the price and niche category. I've tested Herod few times in the official PdM reseller shop, and it last arround 1-2h with very low projection. On the paper maybe 1 hour.
good stuff as always! any chance you would review layton and molecule 01 soon?
Love the audio
Hello Aaron wonderful review as always, would you mind letting me know which alcohol content your bottle is? 81% or 78%? Please and thank you 💜🦄
I also love Herod, but instead of finding it modern, I actually feel it's like a throwback. It reminds me of what a high roller in 60's Los Vegas would be wearing while beautiful ladies stand by his side. A sophisticated gentleman who was a "man's man". It just smells great!
You sold it to me with that comment. I really have to stop this addiction of reviews and comments, it's costing me a fortune haha.
@@markburgess8603 me too!
@@markburgess8603 *Us
It's too unisex for this idea. Your idea sounds more like Pegasus Exclusif or Caryle
@isobel64 no masculine man is going to want his girl to be smelling like tobacco and musk. Herod is not unisex, I can assure you of that. This isn't Calvin Klein One with the fruity undertones...
Herod is just an unbelievable fragrance. Simply wonderful.
Aaron Terence Hughes is the Bob Ross of the perfume world, a wonderful , incredibly competent person. 🤩🤩🤩
Hands down my fav scent . Perfection
I cant wait they doing a Herod Exclusif with more woody notes like Layton Exclusif.
Got a 10ml of this and it was absolutely love at first scent. I fell In love with Layton the same way lol but this imo is better.
I’m with you Aaron! I wear Herod when I don’t wear Luna!
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Great review, your opinion on Kalan matters..
I would looove to hear your thoughts on PDM Akaster as it's described as a rose and agarwood (oud) fragrance. It would be interesting getting your two cents on it for sure.
Cheers,
Bought this from this review really suprised how close it is to Naxos but I love it
I love it myself man you got me hooked on it
Excellent review!
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Great review Aaron !!! I love this, unfortunately it is pretty light in me … best wishes from Mexico.
I love Mexico ❤️ 🇲🇽
@@AaronTerenceHughes glad to hear that my friend. You are one of my favorite reviewers.
Hi Aaron, great video! Would you re review Musc Ravageur again?
Sound on point!! Even greater vid
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Very nice Reviewing 😌 yess I love this also very much I smell Cherrytobacco 😍
It took me a while but I kept thinking, gosh, Aaron look so familiar…. then it hit me! Aaron looks like William Baldwin! The second youngest of the handsome Baldwin brothers!! I hope it’s taken has a compliment!
oh god, the mighty Herod... i love it so much, i stocked up like 200ml vintage batch, the newer ones lack of the spicy nuance that the old ones definitely have, it was really a love for first sniff! ♥
Iv'e had this for awhile, reminds me of a warm apple pie at first. Just so cosy.
Love ❤️ your sweat top - out of this world 🌎!
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Hey Aaron, would you try out Sicilian Leather by Memo Paris? I just got it and I would really like to know your opinion about it. I would send you a sample but I'm not from UK. :(