I asked my wife what this smelled like to her and she said that Black original chapstick from when we were kids.

Rather than the smokiness complementing the sweetness or vice versa it feels like the two scents are in an all out battle for attention and its overwhelming to me. This is something Calvin Klein would make as a CK One Shock flanker, only CK One Shock is better (both quickly arrive at the same generic dry down smell though). On skin it projects really well with that similar Pure Havane feel for about 3 hours then it becomes a skin scent for another 2 hours.Insurrection Wild is a pleasantly sweet cherry/honey top that dries down into a light, warm vanillic tobacco. No cherry is listed, the main accords are tobacco, honey, vanilla, sweet and spicy notes, tonka beans, cacao and woody notes.

Top notes are a bright sweetness - some get cherry - I mostly get honey - let's just say a sweet pipe tobacco that goes into a heart of spicy sweet tobacco, and eventually becomes a sweet/spicy skin scent enveloped in a rich tonka vanilla veil. I doused myself with three more full sprays and still nothing, which makes me wonder if I bought a counterfeit. Upon reviewing my current collection, I've come to realise that I must be a fan of tobacco fragrances.At first spray I hated it with a passion, it was too strong, too masculine (I’m female), I was so confused as to why people would suggest it’s unisex.

But that's not what tobacco fragrances are really about to me, but more so how the heavy, sour, pungent smell of tobacco is balanced by other accords to make it pleasant and seductive, and Insurrection II Wild does a great job of it. Best in its drydown, where it gets stronger and has good longevity as a skin scent, giving a warm tobacco/chocolate/cherry/woods vibe. This is affordable, bottle is sleek and looks way more expensive than it is, and the scent is a great blend of sweetness and tobacco. It's a very unusual scent, with spices that remind me of mint, cocoa, like, Cypress, ginger, cinnamon.This is how it differs from other tobacco vanilla scents on the market which are sweet and oftentimes more feminine and “round”. I like it more than PH, because it miss patchouli note and that A* DNA which it may turn some of you off. Keep in mind the other Insurrection offerings don't come close in regards to performance; this one stands alone. While testing this one I did 6 sprays of Insurrection II Wild on my arms and 1 spray of Vintage Thierry Mugler Pure Havane and within 5 minutes I could barely detect Insurrection II WIld. I wear this to recreate childhood memories of smelling the pouch tobacco when my grandpa or dad would smoke their pipes.

I attributed this effect to the herbal and green tobacco note along with the earthy and bitter patchouli note. The scent experience was accompanied by the woody essence of birch, which supported the other scent components excellently. Once they were aged to his liking, he'd take them down, twist them, and he'd have small pieces he'd keep on himself for his chew. Down points: It does start of a little too sweet, for my taste, but that’s just me, however I’m sure others may love it. A tobacco/vanilla-prominent fragrance, a story we have seen many times, but there are others in this genre that blow this away.I'm not into clones and this would be the first because I love Pure Havane and I'm looking for a cheaper alternative I can use at home to enjoy. First off, after owning this and Havane for two/ two and a half years I can say something mind-numbingly obvious: they are both great and smell fabulous.