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Sorry to take so long again, now that exams are over, it's full-time work.
Saks Fifth Ave and Nieman Marcus.
There are none around here, either. I've never seen any of those.
Since you want mysterious, I'm going to recommend what I like to call "Weird shit." This means that most people never heard of the fragrance houses. This means that many of them are unisex, because there are only so many things you can do while keeping it exclusively masculine. This means that I have to copy and past a lot of the names to avoid misspelling them. This means you have to try it twice before you make a judgment and smell it often throughout the drydown process to know what it's really like. Most importantly, this means you should really order samples before you buy a full bottle.

a few by L'Artisan Parfumeur

Voleur de Roses: A plum sliced open on a plate next to a fresh, deep-blood-red rose placed delicately in a glass of fine Cabernet Sauvignon wine on top of an oak table after a light spring rain in the French countryside. The condensation of classic noir romance into a fragrance.

Tea for Two: The scent of a stroll through a Middle Eastern street market in a movie (real life has too many flies and too much camel dung cinnamon and clove from the spice racks, a pot of honey in the distance, wisps of fresh oriental tea from inside a mystic's tent, racks of fresh tobacco leaves drying in the afternoon sun and smoke in the distance. Screams "mysterious."

Fou d'Absinthe: Not as strong of an an artemesia note as you'd imagine, but otherwise pretty much what you'd expect from something based on spiced absinth. This is what Vincent can Gogh would wear if he were alive today.


now to Strange Invisible Perfumes:

Atlantic: The only distinctly masculine fragrance offered by SIP, imagine the warm sea breeze coming in over the beach and through the woods on every island or coast in the world where you'd want to go on vacation, and more, all at once. You close your eyes and drift from Australia to Jamaica to England to Ireland to Florida to India, then open them to find that you hadn't moved, just sprayed on your cologne. Lavender, sandalwood, rum, peppermint, lime, and benzoin (think Vanilla, but not.)

L'Invisible: the essence of the word "exotic." Floral, but balanced with lemon. They say that it is the embodiment of the French word "sentir," which means both to smell and feel.

Black Rosette: back to the movies, this time you're in a Far East tea house with a fireplace burning, roses along the walls, and a hint of leather whose source you can't quite pinpoint.
I don't like Drakkar because it smells cheap to me and evokes the mental image of a guy with slicked back hair and gold chains cruising around central New Jersey in his IROC-Z.

Latitue and Longitude isn't bad, but isn't anything that special. I prefer things that are out of the ordinary, try new things, and stretch the imagination, not just something that was made because its ingredients happen to smell good together. A decent fragrance makes you smell good, a great one makes you feel good.

You'd probably be a good candidate for M7 by Yves Saint Laurent, but first I want you to try YSL's live Jazz. It's casual enough for every day, smells cool and fresh, and if it doesn't draw compliments, then I'm a monkey's uncle.
Glad you liked it, but I cringe to think how much you paid retail, the proper thing to do in department stores is to say you have to think about it and pay half price online.
I love Realm's skin and hair care products, but when I tried their men's fragrance I literally had to touch my nose to my wrist to smell it, only to discover that it smelled exactly like Skin So Soft lotion.
Hooray, I'm useful (/Zoidberg)
I maintain my position that both Curve and Davidoff Cool Water are lower-quality ripoffs of GIT, made with synthetics and without the masterful blending. GIT smells more high-class.