L'Aventure opens with a bright citrus that (to be perfectly honest) comes off a bit cheap and lower quality. My bottle of Aventus (6yrs old) is slightly more fruity, but doesn't perform anywhere near this beast. The projection is about arm length but creates a nice scent bubble, and the longevity is very good on skin and on clothes (almost a day on skin and several days on clothes). It's such a soft presentation, but doesn't instantly become a skin scent like Accendis Lucevera or Aubusson Plush Leather, the weaksaucest Aventus-y fragrances in my collection. Now if you want to wring your hands about possible reformulations, batch differences, yadda yadda, be my guest.

com, and made my SOTD as of 12/10/18, so far I have this L'Adventure, CDNIM atm as similar to the Aventus DNA. After 30 minutes or so though the glue note is gone and it smells almost exactly the same as Aventus. This is a solid alternative to Aventus and much better than Mont Blanc explorer imo especially in the dry down. It has the most beautiful opening of all the Aventus-y fragrances I own, including Montblanc Explorer.The initial blast of this smoky-resinous elemi (not to mention the slightly metallic freshness from the bergamot too! I had such a great experience I tried other middle eastern brands such as Rasasi, Lattafa and Armaf to name a few. The only compliment i got is when i got in a car after spraying 2 times is “who sprayed dettol “ , overall solid performance but not my taste .

If I were to guess, they were trying to clone Aventus batches that try to balance the fruit and smoke. I tried comparing CDNIM, Supremacy Silver and all the Poseidons to my 19U11 and every one of them missed the mark in some way.However I must say neither does a good job conveying the original fragrance and I cant for the life of me understand how people can say they cant smell the difference. The fragrance in the affected batch is still the original product of Al Haramain Perfumes and maintains the same quality and potency. That slight smokiness will intensify once the bergamot fades into the background and the lemon and elemi mimic pineapple. The scent brought me back to the original Black XS by Paco Rabanne when it was a monster how strong it was.

This is almost indistinguishable including the birch smokiness and with out the harsh citric opening of CDNIM. The atomizer sits low on the bottle and releases the fragrance in a wide cone, which ends up spraying the edge of the bottle.Comparing to Creed Aventus 2023 batch staring from F___ i have this same situation but overall Aventus is worse performing scent. So, if you're comparing a 2023 bottle of Aventus to this stuff, still not close to my nose, with more than a few notes missing. That's because each of us have our own chemistry with a fragrance and why half the stuff that smells good on other people don't smell good on me.