Comments on: Bandit by Robert Piguet ~ fragrance review

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:18:27 +0000

Congrats

By: gentiana

gentiana — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:50:48 +0000

Whoahaaaaaa! I just got my bottle of Bandit!
Smelled true danger on paperstripe, smelled wonderful on my wrist. Once… Twice… What the heck, I deserve it (I thought) … So I “slaughtered” my holiday money for it.
. Worths every drop! It is ME in a way that not many people believe I can be… Not even myself…

By: Marise

Marise — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:40:02 +0000

Just a bit late in reply this…

I came into a huge bottle of Fracas for Men and it was divine. Everything I love about Fracas but so much less precious.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:30:00 +0000

Yes, many perfumers did, and many perfumers got their start working for the companies that made the bases.

By: Gamble

Gamble — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:16:34 +0000

In Perfumes: The Guide, I read that the original creator of Bandit, Germaine Cellier (sp?), used bases – building blocks of scent pre-mixed by the manufacturer – instead of constructing the perfume note by note with discrete substances. Those bases aren’t used today – but according to the guide, those bases mark the difference between the smell of vintage era Bandit and today’s, or 1997′s…
But man alive! When I first smelled it, I had to have it… It smelled like scratchy, spicy agressive almost-flowers…and the scratchiness, I now think, could be called sweaty…The sillage was livid…wearing it was like chaperoning a panther to a kid’s birthday party …I gave it back to the jungle…lol.

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:57:10 +0000

For something more brutal, one of the Montale leather oudhs would do the trick, but don’t know about the fizzy part.

By: www.mybeautyblog.de

www.mybeautyblog.de — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:05:40 +0000

Oh, it took me far too long to get my hands on this. Yeah, it is brutal. It is sexy. It has oomph, and it is a statement, and aboslutely wearable.

It is a pity the leather turns sweaty on me, and then the brutality is gone. What a pity!
It coud be more bitter and fizzy for my taste – is there something that comes in your mind? I actually look for something “brutal”. Feminine I have yet a lot, I need a weapon for my office.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:01:34 +0000

I have tried EdP & Parfum — but not from the same time period (have vintage parfum & new edp, in other words). So would be afraid to answer except to say that the EdP is darned good!

By: Absolute Scentualist

Absolute Scentualist — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:51:04 +0000

Thank you, Robin. I figured it was likely the one for women, but wanted to be sure before I bought some. Do you notice a dramatic difference between the concentrations? I gravitate toward parfum, but if the EDP is just as good, my wallet will be happy, as will The CEO.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:24:16 +0000

No, there was actually a Bandit for men, although not sure if they make it anymore or not, and at any rate I don’t think it was made by the same company that currently produces the Piguet fragrances. Unless you got your sample by some odd means, I’d guess it’s the women’s.