I just received a bottle of UDV, and color me mystified by what I see on this page.

I get a slightly sickly cotton candy and an acrid note of burning rubber. And that’s it. A few hours in, it’s dried down to… still exactly the same.

It reminds me very much of A*Men, which had a similar but even more pronounced tire-fire-near-the-midway attack and not much else, yet which other people seem to incomprehensibly adore. At least this is not as offensively sweet-yet-acrid as that, it’s not awful so much as just not my style, which I guess is impressive for a bottle of juice that cost less than I paid for a sandwich for lunch today.

But none of what I see in the note pyramid or in any of these reviews seems similar to what I’m smelling in any way. I just don’t get it. Maybe it’s my body chemistry or something.

(Update… second wearing, three months later:

Opening not as bad as I remembered. Medicinal, but not necessarily in a bad way. Candy, yes, but not cloying, more herbal, like an herbal lozenge.

20 minutes later: oh, yeah, there’s that burning rubber smell. Why do people make colognes that smell like this?)