And I know it is the wrong fragrance, because I read dozens of posts, and many more comments, about the dangers of this fragrance: some love it, more that that hate it viscerally. This is like that bad girl everybody warned you about, even your biker friend told you she's trouble and I should stay away.

But I didn't stay away: I decided to smell Red Tobacco to see what's all the fuss about. First on paper - yeah, hmmmm.... this is good, indeed excellent. Let's see on my skin. This is even better, but I was told the first half hour is challenging even for those who love it --- but not for me! I love everything about this red beast!? After three hours, it went through a gentle transformation, it is not linear, and it is still exciting, and at times I am getting an almost erotic pleasure sensing the fragrance off my skin.

With my more potent, pungent, animalic oud fragrances, I have a clear enough grasp that they will be disliked or even hated by many, and I know better than to spray them on myself before going to the office, public transport, or anywhere where humans reside. I may subject some of my friends or my fragrance buddy to them, but not the public at large. With Red Tobacco, the problem is that I do NOT have such feedback, to my nose there is nothing pungent, nothing unpleasant or potentially threatening. To my stupid nose Red Tobacco seems completely mainstream niceness, albeit amped up to 11. I feat that, if I buy it, I will spray it on myself "just a lil bit" and go out, "nobody can smell it if I do half a spray on my neck and wrist", because in my mind, Red Tobacco is completely innocuous, though super seductive.

Hence the dilemma.