Meet Matt.

Matt is one of my good guy friends. We met at Red & Yellow and both studied copywriting. I’m a lucky girl in that I have quite a few really lovely ‘male friends’. The kind who offer good ‘guy perspective’ advice and know you far too well to ever want to fiddle with you when you pass out drunk in their lap. Matt was my V-day ‘date’ the other day as my boyfriend was out of town. He was the only other non-pathethic cat-riddled single who didn’t have plans plus the balls to help me hit up a sushi bar on the one day when kak service is a given. 

If you’re looking for love and are partial to a bit o’ ginger awesomeness you should know that Matt would be a good bet. My girlfriends I are particularly impressed with his ability to buy super-thoughtful gifts.

To give you an idea let me tell you how he totally made Karisa’s day a few years back… Karis Piss is one of ten thousand million children so, growing up, she didn’t have a lot of toys to play with. Instead she had to make do with super fun ‘organic’ toys like sticks and rocks… All she ever wanted, however, was a My Little Pony and eventually she did get one, but at an age where it was kind of embarrassing. (I always feel bad when I hear all this ‘cos I was a disgustingly spoiled child and got pretty much whatever I wanted including just about every bloody My Little Pony Hasbro ever made, but I know you’ll find this hard to imagine, what with my totally down to earth, non-divaliscious personality and all..)

Anyhoo, upon hearing about K’s pony dramz, Matt decided to surprise her on her birthday a few years back with a brand new My Little Pony! Adorable, right? It still stands pride of place today in her bed room…

Anyway, I’m rambling here… what I actually want to talk to you about is Yardley’s new cologne, Legacy Honour.

It’s a fresh woody fragrance with cardamom and mint top notes. The heat is a herbaceous blend of tarragon, thyme and lavender that rests on a base of tonka bean (vanilla), moss, cedar and patchouli.

I was given a bottle the other day and thought I’d review it by spritzing it on the most readily available males and this is how I came to douse Matt with it. For the record he didn’t like it and thought it was ‘too pungent’.

Merrily, Legacy Honour fared much, much better with the next two boys…

This is Renzo, an old friend from Port Elizabeth who I met up with the other day after not having seen for a good ten or so years.

Renzo didn’t think it was too strong at all and while admitting that he probably wouldn’t wear it, thought it was ‘soft and clean-smelling and almost a bit soapy like a body wash’.

My last test monkey, celeb blogger Clayton Morar, thought it was ‘fab’.

Clay declared it ‘a nice, light, easy to wear “every day” floral’. He was so taken with it, in fact, that I gave him the bottle and he was thrilled. ‘I’m not a perfume snob at all, I’ll totally wear this’, he said.

In all, perfume’s a very personal thing and one man’s fave is another’s poison… so if you’re looking for a new scent, be it for a man in your life or you happen to be a bloke yourself, give Yardley Legacy Honour a sniff when it hits the shelves next month. It might just up your street.

X x x