Mandate Aftershave 100ml

Product Information

The scent notes consist of bergamot, and lavender, awakening the senses before revealing an intoxicating blend of fragrant spices and woody herbs including rosemary and clary sage.

I've been aware of this stuff for years but was reminded fairly recently when I saw the old Sacha Distel advert for it, kinda wish I'd been around in the 70's to smell the original but the Eden Classics version will have to do. The classic aftershave opens with a blend of bergamot, lavender, rosewood, rosemary and clary sage before melting into a spicey heart of geranium, clove, cinnamon and pine. If you love a Paco Rabanne style perfume, try this - it doesn't cost much and I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Middle notes of geranium, clove, cinnamon and pine followed by the base notes of cedar, oak moss, tonka, amber and musk.

Mandate is a masculine fragrance that combines the freshness of citrus with the warmth of wood and spices. The one note that jars for me from the outset and until it settles right down, is a sweaty unpleasant smell which I can only attribute to clary sage and I wasn't surprised to see it amongst the notes here. For example, some top note citrus scents smell stronger immediately upon application, while a lavender middle note may be sensed after some time from application as the top note evaporates.

It does have that musty chemical note that I think is the current cheap oakmoss substitute that I smell in recent Quorum and Polo Green reformulations but it is well tempered by other notes. Just watched Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood at the cinema which is set a good six or seven years before Mandate was released.The presentation is charmingly late 20th century - including a more than slightly "tacky" gold plastic lid on the 50ml version.