Wear time is over 12 hours and sillage remains steady, but at its loudest for the first 4 hours. The very "b-side" nature of the stuff, in the conventional (for the brand) way it combines its elements, is part of why I like it, but just shrug as I smell it. The base is the aforementioned tobacco and that raspberry leather, wrapped in cashmeran like MFK's Baccarat Rouge 540 (2014) and some woody amber things which include patchouli-derived clearwood among them. The opening reminds me a tad of Initio Oud for Greatness (2018) and it may have been lifted for that scent later on, with some peppery saffron mix and lavender that introduces the main rum accord laced with cinnamon in the heart. The biggest note of difference here is Side Effect drops the synth oud of Carlisle in favor of that frambinone-powered "raspberry leather" note in the base, mixed with heady tobacco boozy spices, then edged off with vanilla. If this is a recycled unused formula, it was probably not "wow" enough to be used as Carlisle. Like with Carlisle, I'd pick this one up for a steep discount and quite like it, but for the MSRP it commends, better than Side Effect can be found. Side Effect is another "smells expensive" decadent luxury niche shindig just like Carlisle, that uses heady woody and tobacco notes with some boozy fruitiness and florals to build out a sort of forced redolence that surprisingly works, but isn't nearly as expensive as it tries to smell, despite the price tag. I won't expand much on this because my review for Carlisle was also fairly to the point (there isn't much to say really), and you know upon first sniff where this is going. Initio Side Effect (2016) really just feels like an unused formula for Parfums de Marley Carlisle (2015), with a left turn taken where a right turn was taken in the latter, and being as both houses fall under the same ownership, this is very plausible.
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