6th Floor Forever

This release is just perfect ! Perfect for a night out in the cold weather 😍

My dry cleaner asked what the smell on my coat was. My dentist receptionist said I smelled nice while I was checking in. These are the quiet victories of wearing a genuinely good fragrance. Chuffed.

There's a warmth buried underneath the complexity that feels like coming home. Hard to describe but impossible to ignore. I find myself reaching for this on days when I want to feel grounded.

Creative industries event, everyone trying to look and smell interesting. I was the only one who got asked twice about their fragrance. 6th Floor Forever is memorable in a crowd of people trying to be memorable.

The first note, the heart, the dry-down. Each phase is different and equally interesting. It tells a whole story from morning to night. I genuinely look forward to wearing it and discovering where it goes each time.

I tried to describe it to a friend and gave up after two minutes. You just have to smell it. It has a character all its own. Some fragrances smell like variations on a theme. This is the theme itself.

Sprayed it on before a quiet evening in with a good book and suddenly the mundane felt special. That's the power of a really good fragrance. Even a night in can feel significant.

Dramatic statement but I stand by it. There's something artistic and slightly brooding about 6th Floor Forever. Wore it to an art gallery opening and felt completely at home. The whole crowd seemed to approve.

6th Floor Forever has this quality of memory about it. Every time I wear it I feel like I'm trying to remember something just out of reach. Beautiful and slightly melancholic in the best possible way.

He's a man who knows his fragrances. When he sniffed my wrist and just said 'serious' I knew I'd made a good purchase. He asked where he could get it and I directed him straight to Insider Parfums.

Read some reviews saying it was too intense. Those people clearly want something more mainstream. For those of us who want depth and personality from a fragrance this is absolutely perfect.

Not inspired by anything apparently, just its own thing. And what a thing. Rich, a bit dark, quite complex. My friend who knows fragrances said he'd never smelled anything quite like it. I'll take that.

That tells you everything. I've never done that before with any fragrance. But the idea of running out of 6th Floor Forever genuinely concerned me enough to get a backup. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Thought from the name it might be something urban and sharp. Instead it's this deep, atmospheric, almost cinematic thing. Pleasantly surprised is an understatement. This is proper quality fragrance making.

Not everyone's going to get this one and that's part of the appeal. It's not trying to please everyone. It's trying to please people with a particular kind of taste. I happen to have that taste. Very pleased.

I've spent significantly more on fragrances that didn't hold a candle to this. The value for money is almost offensive to other brands. 6th Floor Forever is one of the finest fragrances I own, full stop.

There's a fine line between dark and oppressive. 6th Floor Forever walks that line perfectly. It's present and assertive without being aggressive. The kind of scent that commands respect rather than demands attention.

The first spray is intense in a fascinating way. Then it opens up and shows you something more nuanced underneath. I kept sniffing my wrist for the first hour. Couldn't stop noticing something new each time.

She noticed this one immediately. Said it smelled 'like a story'. I asked what story and she said she wasn't sure but she wanted to know how it ended. Can't ask for a better description than that.

Some frags peak early and fade badly. 6th Floor Forever gets better as the day goes on. By the afternoon there's this incredibly smooth, deep warmth coming off my skin. Absolutely worth the wait.

Morning wear is very different from evening wear and both are excellent. That kind of range across the lifecycle of a fragrance is genuinely rare. Insider Parfums should be proud of this one.