Bijan Men

Herbal balsamic incense supported by some honey, musk and florals. Smooth and well balanced. Sophisticated & elegant on the surface yet beneath this suit lies a frighteningly muscular backbone. This is Bijan. Bijan will run laps around your brand new Le Male flanker whilst bicep curling your mom in one hand and chain smoking unfiltered camels with the other. Bijan does what it wants. Bijan is cool, I recommend.

My bottle might have gone bad, it's an older bottle, but from a trusted seller. To me it smells like someone lit cowhides on fire and then put it out by peeing on it. I don't think that's how it's supposed to smell. I am a big lover of old school scents and this is the only one I dislike. Could anyone comment on this?

My bad for hating on you Bijan, you’re the perfect masculine oriental. Good for when I want something like Opium or Youth Dew but can’t deal with the sweetness

If you like Quorm, you’ll love this stuff. EXTREMELY masculine. Very rich. Can me cloying in even stress-free environments. An acquired taste.

I am BEYOND CINFUSED and am seeking advice/answers. So, I purchased a 1oz "b shaped" bottle nearly a year ago and it STILL smells pretty darned good and has good all-around performance. Then about a month ago I purchased the larger b ü

A fantastic hybrid of a chypre and fougere its strong long lasting especially with maceration it gets even better fresh but also substantial and has masculine grit.The type of man that wears this is the boss or on his way to be he also does not concern himself with modern redefinitions of masculinity

Bonfire smoke with spices n herbs. I like it but don’t love it

Lavender that immediately turns sour lemon and then into sage on the open, moving slightly more towards orange and rosemary pine at the tail end. Progressing to the middle I get carnation, sandalwood, green grass, and spicy jasmine (couldn't distinguish cinnamon nor clove). However, a couple minutes into dry down the clove picks up alongside slightly vinegary (benzoin or the honey?) vetiver; a couple minutes after that I could pick up some patchouli and leather.

(my batch was made in 2020, according to checkfresh) - this scent is In. Sane. I was alive when it came out, but I have no memory of anyone smelling like this in my youth. I did the smallest spritz inside my elbow, and it is reaching into my nose and behind my eyes. Soap or shaving cream. Cigarette AND cigar smoke. Mint gum. When I close my eyes I see the inside of an Elks lodge or Masons club. I would love to hug an elderly man wearing this. Can I possibly carry it off? I like assertive 1980s scents for women, but I may have bitten off more than I can chew here. Each time I unbend my arm a new wave of the scent rolls toward me. Now I am getting some fruit - smells like oranges. What a scent journey. This is my most complex scent by far. So many new visuals coming to mind every time I sniff it. Wooden boxes. Wood paneling. Smoke-tinged upholstery.

Very special and nothing sweet inside.

I need to sue the reviewer that said this smelled like N° 19 and Avignon. Absolutely not.

I am biased; it was worn by one of the best male singers of all time, Luis Miguel. Not only did it kiss the skin of so many true legends and celebrities, but it also represents an era that won't return. Men smelled masculine, the epitome of excess and glamour from the 80s and 90s. Vercace shirts, Ray-Bans, no socks, Miami Vice. Oh, Bijan, just to think of the Bijan yellow, unique, bespoke, created by Bijan Pakzad. Luxurious aesthetic from glorious times. The juice is complex, strong, potent, robust, but clean. Old school? Thank God, yes. Nuclear projection and duration.

I've worn this one quite a bit recently, both vintage and a bottle that is only several years old. The main difference I pick up is that the original was more honey-oriented, whereas the newer bottle seems to have stronger dry herb, especially rosemary. Both of course are strong and excellent.

Strange🤔... How is it that such world-famous and IC-ON-IC fragrance like Ralph Lauren's Polo has had such an AWFUL, weak, even off-putting reformulation, yet this lesser-known "Hidden Jem" fragrance which is Bijan pour Homme has still maintained a stellar, long-lasting, (close as you can get) to the OG reformulation.?! Bijan has to follow THE SAME IFRA Rules/Regulations/Standards as the current producers of Ralph Lauren fragrances do. So what happened? Why would they completely NEUTER such an iconic and beloved fragrance? There's obviously just No excuse! After experiencing how fantastic the current formuñation/dna for Bijan has been maintained, all those horrible, weak ass reformulations which have left me so disillusioned and honestly enraged just come rushing back to me. Anyhow, BRAVO Makers of Bijan! Still smells super-amazing and has great performance!

Revisiting this because, why not. Had a vintage bottle of this and it was one of my first, and favorite fragrances ever. Bijan is an astounding dusty incense, with a slightly sweet, floral, soft spicy twinge. It's a melting pot of so many different things that work so strangely well together. It's a church basement from your childhood where you went to Sunday school, but during mass, when no one's there. It's different from other incense perfumes I've smelled, and it's amazing at that. It's an incense dressed up in a million different spices and flowers, then lightly dipped in an oakmossy, vanilla honey. It projects like a bomb and lasts forever. Senselessreviews was right

Hot and pissy in a good sense. Aromatic fougere that wears like a chypre in a lot of ways. A confidence-boosting scent that requires confidence to wear in the first place. Bright, warm, and slightly challenging, but only in the best way. My bottle is nearly empty. I need another turban-wearing donut. Fortunately, it's more affordable than what most call a cheapie.

If you want to feel confident - buy it, wear it.

One for the few old school fragrances that can be worn today and appealing a tone of notes and complexity.However ultimately this is a brilliant clean yet warm powdery ambery fougere hybrid chypre.I will say this is wearable year round due to the balance but i'd avoid in the hieght of summer.Also its extremely strong and projecting.Age wise this suits a man 35 plus who has a serious aura

@Gilbert… That strange… I basically had the reverse experience. My “donut” shaped larger 75ml bottle has more of that “old lady” smell… It isn’t bad or overpowering. But I pick it up… My small 1oz bottle… Masculine, spicy, vintage.. I like it more than my “donut” bottle. Don’t get me wrong… The “donut” bottle smells nice. But I do get just a hint of that… “old” smell. Which is not the best description… But we all kind of know what we mean. The dna is vintage / an 80s fragrance anyway you cut it… But my small bottle smells better and more masculine to me. Just wanted to mention… Great fragrance regardless of the bottle… for me anyway.

Second review. First time I tried this fragrance it was a disaster. Tried one of those 1oz. bottles that looks like a weird letter B, and the fragrance was hideous, smelled like and old lady, in a very bad way. Threw it out in the garbage. Reading so many good reviews, I decided to give it another go. This time I bought the 2.5 oz. in the iconic donut bottle. Wow! What a difference! It is a very different smell, masculine, spicy, sweet and very much agreeable. Doesn’t smell dated. Smells very elegant, very expensive. A masculine smell, but in a fancy way… delicate and not rough. Also it is very discreet and safe to wear. Don’t buy the weird 1 oz. bottle, as it is a very much different product or it has turned bad due to storage. I think the bad reviews owe this to this. Buy the donut one, you’ll not be disappointed.

I agree with @sniffer 65. “…oakmoss and styrax. Sharp, spicy, aromatic, bitter, floral, leathery and with light flashes of gasoline (in a good way).” My sample bottle is vintage. It’s quite strong. Reminiscent of 70’s earthy men’s cologne. Sharp to the nose. Big woods. A bit of hand soap. Patchouli when dry. Bold.

Barber, very interesting and exemplary, yet elevated as it leans toward a slightly musty candy note, while on the other hand warm due to the sweetness of honey or amber. It’s far from silly—there’s some tobacco, a hint of ashtray, evoking realms like Nr One or Marbert. It’s definitely better than Marbert. However, it lacks the aged green of Bogart, lacks citrus; it belongs to the family of slightly barber-like, slightly soiled honey scents. Still, it’s too sharp, too high-pitched, very musky, somewhat irritating because it’s quite intense.

@sylt He means "FragranceNet"

@sniffer 65 What is FN?

@sniffer 65 I went and grabbed a 1oz, but the batchcode 4218 reads as being made only 7 months ago on Checkfresh. Now I have to say that it does smell like it did almost 30 years ago, and the batch numbers do repeat every 10 years.. is that whats going on with my 1 oz bottle? If this is a new formation, Id be really shocked bc its smells of oakmoss, and like it did decades ago (AMAZING). Btw, thanks for the intel!

blind buy it. trust.

Psst, I'm going to let you in on a secret. FN is selling 1 oz bottles of the 2015 version this for around $7 each. These are the ones that still have lots of styrax and oakmoss. One of the best men's fragrances that I have ever tried. But FN also sells 2.5 oz bottles that were made in 2023, for a higher per-oz price. Having heard that this version was bad, I went onto Ebay to buy a "vintage" version, but it turned out to be a 2023 as well. Huge disappointment, very different fragrance. So I went back to FN and picked up three more bottles of the 2015. They are on clearance right now, so they won't last. Grab one while you can!

Big spice and incense, a lot of green incense. Sort of like Chanel No 19 layered over Avignon, sprinkled with clove and maybe a bit of nutmeg. Cost £6, lasts for ever, smells of authorship and decisiveness. I can’t comment on vintage, but reviewers I trust on Basenotes who have both say differences are minor, if at all. Certainly I’ve wasted a lot of money over the years listening to the Greek chorus of perfume bores prattling “Reformmlation! Neutered!” It’s boring and tiresome. This is a fantastic scent for lovers of incense, green and spice.

Never smelled the original Bijan, but the curent version by 5 star smells cheap. Not worth It. It starts with potential, i imediatly sense the association with other vintage fragrances like Gentleman and 12 by Couturier, yet this only stays like 5 minutes or so. It then turns, into this cheap aroma, that is just cloying. There are many fragrances that still kick in curent formulations, like Antaeus, Lapidus pour Homme, Lauder, Fahrenheit, Kouros, etc ...this one is a big miss, and even If i haven't smelled the original i bet It wasn't like this. It has performance though.

You will hear many reviews talking about reformulation. I just bought a 1 oz. bottle new, and when I ran the batch code, it identified it as a 2015 manufacture date. And it cost $6. While it is made by 5 Star, Dr. Afro and Avitron below make it clear that 5 Star has made a few variations of this, with the older ones (pre 2017 at least) being excellent and loaded with delicious oakmoss and styrax. Sharp, spicy, aromatic, bitter, floral, leathery and with light flashes of gasoline (in a good way). Bridges the gap between fougere and chypre better than any other fragrance I have tried. Not at all sweet, playful, modern or compliment-getting.