Unfortunately, I have yet to try that one. Original Santal by Creed gets compared quite a bit to this fragrance. I'd recommend checking it out if you're looking for a fresh and clean scent to add to your arsenal. I think this has a wide appeal and can work for any age. Aside from work, I can't find all that many occasions in which I reach for this one. It's very clean, fruity, and inoffensive. The fragrance then dives head first into a creamy raspberry smell for the remainder of the fragrance. Individuel opens up with a spicy cinnamon note, with just a hint of lavender and fruit behind it. I'd give it 3/5, if the opening were better I'd probably give it a 4. Overall Mont Blanc Individuel is an alright fragrance with good performance but not an amazing scent. The performance is very good I get at least 6 hours of wear with arm length projection. This is a fragrance for a guy in his 20s to early 30s, not to say an older man can't wear it but it does seem more suited to younger men. It doesn't seem too sweet (like Joop! or 1 Million) but I imagine that if you over sprayed it, especially on warm day it may become cloying. The dry down of this fragrance is where it's at, it seems to lose a lot of the synthetic plasticky vibe and become more settled, sweet and powdery. As it settles more the scent becomes a powdery vanilla and raspberry. To me it is warm, slightly spicy at the beginning of the dry down, with chocolate, cinnamon and raspberry. But in the opening I do get a hint of the chocolate and as the scent dries down it starts to improve a lot. I'm not a big fan of the opening of Mont Blanc Individuel as it is very synthetic to my nose, synthetic in a very plasticky kind of way. A less bold, more mature version of Joop! Homme with the sweetness turned down a few notches. Then a few years later that playful adolescent has grown up and matured a bit, now what you have is Mont Blanc Individuel. To understand Mont Blanc Individuel think of Joop! Homme as a playful, brash adolescent.
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