 These are the best smelling colors that Abercrombie could have possibly made. Hey, what's up guys? It's Josh here today. I wanted to do kind of like a vintage classic review on this 1892 red and this Abercrombie and Fitch 1892 yellow. Now these were created during the famous Mike Jeffries era. Now, if you're not familiar with Abercrombie and Fitch, most of the people who like Abercrombie and Fitch liked things during the Mike Jeffries era, he left around 2014. These were created, I believe in 2011 and most of the time Abercrombie, they don't release a lot of different stuff at once, especially with fragrances, you know, they'll release one and that's kind of it. They'll try to make like a few really good fragrances with their own kind of DNAs. These, I don't know if they were trying to take over the colored game like, you know, like the polos or the lacrosse, any of these other companies that do the colored kind of smells. I don't really know. These were only sold at Abercrombie and they were only around for about a year. They had four different colors, red, yellow, green and blue. I have actually got samples of 1892 blue and 1892 green. Unfortunately, I cannot find them. There was this great guy on eBay who would sell you like one ounce samples all through all four of these. From what I remember about blue and green, I would say green might have been my favorite. Green was very, very likable. Same with blue. Blue was very, very likable. It's actually wasn't called blue. It was called 1892 Colbats. What you would expect from an Abercrombie blue style fragrance. I actually think of all the fragrances that the 1892 Colbats is probably the most similar to fragrances that we've smelled nowadays. So online they say that red has notes of bergamot, ivy, sage and sandalwood. To me what I smell with this red is a very similar style red to something like the Polo Reds, but 100% its own style smell, 100% its own style DNA. The Polo Reds were a little bit clubby, a little bit sweet, or actually very sweet. This one is a little bit more complex and a little more Abercrombie. I smell definitely cranberry. Now cranberry is what gives it its red smell. I do think that Polo Red and stuff, they use like cranberry and coffee to give that red style smell. So I definitely smell cranberry. It's definitely creamy. It almost reminds me a little bit of black excess, where it was kind of like red, spicy and creamy at the same time. There is a slight creamy element. And then also I'm actually not a big fan of peach, but I actually smell peach in the top notes. If you've ever smelled a fragrance that it doesn't smell lemony or citrusy, but it has like a lemon in the top note. A great example is the original fierce. The original fierce isn't a lemon fragrance. However, if you smell the classic vintage fiercest, it has a little bit of lemon in the top to kind of balance it out. This one actually has a little bit of, in my opinion, peach on the top. It's either like peach or apricot. It's very, very different and usually for some reason I don't really like peach, but I do like it in here. And then it is also soapy and spicy, soapy in a good way. This reminds me of just a 100% Abercrombie style guy, somebody who's really young, really fit, really clean cut, wearing a polo shirt, especially a red polo shirt. It's soapy in all the good ways. Yellow might be the most unique Abercrombie and Fitch fragrance that I've ever smelled. It is extremely hard to pin down. I've even seen somebody on Fragrantica. There's not that many people who have reviewed these, but I have seen somebody on Fragrantica saying that they've smelled this a bunch of times and they really just can't pin it down. And I 100% agree. I do think that because it is harder to pin down, it technically would be synthetic, but this fragrance is so, so, so likable. And I almost challenge anybody in the fragrance community to pick a bottle of this up. I think this one's about $40 online new, which is unbelievable. I highly recommend picking one of these up if you're interested just because this has been discontinued for 10 years and it's $40 to $45 online new, which is insane. If you want to get this one new, I think this is about $90. I almost challenge anybody to get this and tell me what you think about it because I just absolutely cannot pin down what this fragrance smells like online. I think that they say this has like a Cypress kind of a smell to it. I do smell something that could be interpreted as Cypress, but the main note that I get with this is melon. And I actually really, really do enjoy fragrances that include melon almost anytime that melon is included in the fragrance. It just smells better. A couple of fragrances that come to mind is the Fierce and Tense, the newer one I spilled a little bit of melon. And then also Abercrombie and Fitch, first instinct uses melon in a specific way. So I actually really, really do enjoy this one guys. It's very, very good, very hard to pin down, but just so Abercrombie. And then also I just want to say online, I was looking at Fragrantica when these would came out. And I don't know if they're missing a couple of fragrances, but the only male fragrances that have come out before these two fragrances are Woods, Fierce, Ezra Fitch, Cologne 41 and Colton. So technically this is all these were like the number six through 10 on Abercrombie's men's fragrances. So these were in the first 10 fragrances created by Mike Jeffery's four men and four Abercrombie. I felt that they come out with a lot of fragrances up until this point because I remember when they came out with these fragrances, I wanted to try them so much, but they were so expensive and I didn't know which ones to get. So these are one of their more original scents, although I kind of felt that these came later on. Let's jump into the pros of these fragrances. The pros is they have a very, very classic Abercrombie and Fitch vibe to them. And more of the new Abercrombie fragrances, what they do is in my opinion, they find some sort of popular DNA and they put a little Abercrombie tent on it. And although I do like that because it is very popular kind of smell and then it also gives you the Abercrombie kind of DNA that you're looking for. It just isn't nowhere near as impressive as something like this because these seem like Abercrombie had a specific vision in mind about what they wanted and they wanted to be different and it almost seems like Mike Jeffery's would meticulously smell these and wait to approve them because they are as Abercrombie as you could possibly get for being yellow and red. I'm not the biggest fan of fragrances based after colors, but I am a big fan of Abercrombie and these are literally like the perfect Abercrombie yellow and the perfect Abercrombie red in my opinion. They are extremely likable while being very, very different at the same time. Again, this one, this is probably the most unique fragrance that I've ever smelled from Abercrombie and Fitch. The only note that I could pick up from it is Melon. Somebody said on Fragrantica that the yellow reminds him of in a very exotic kind of soap. I could kind of see that. It's a very clean vibe. It's just so, so different but likable at the same time. I got to say that I really appreciate for how outside the box these are, but how likable they are at the same time. The cons is the projection. Now, I do not know if these were stored properly. These are 10-year-old fragrances, so if these have been sitting in someone's garage in the heat, I don't know. This one is definitely a lot lighter projection than the red. The red I actually bought used. I forget how much came with it when I first bought it, but I think it was about halfway. The yellow I've had the entire time, so I've actually sprayed all of that. But it also seems like this one wasn't stored as well as this one. It's hard to describe. The red is definitely more full, but there's just something about it to where I feel like it's been in the sun or I feel like it's not as strong as it would be right outside the box. But again, I bought the red used. I'm kind of on the fence of whether I like or dislike these fragrances because I love what Abercrombie does, especially the classic Abercrombie and Fitch fragrances. These were created under that. I do think that they are around as good as some of the best Abercrombie and Fitch fragrances as you could get. But at the same time, it was just kind of weird when Abercrombie has five men's fragrances and then all of a sudden they come out with four right at the same time. And I kind of think that people didn't even know how to take that. I've talked to people who have purchased these back in the day and that's how people actually say that they thought it was one smell and it just came in different colors. People who buy Abercrombie, I don't really think of them as buying like tons and tons of fragrances. If they made one single release, it probably would have been maybe better than these. But at the same time, I really, really do enjoy these and it would be nice to see them pop in, you know, like the Legacy collection with Abercrombie would be nice to see those popped in. It would be nice to get some access to these. I do think something like woods or like fierce or like cold and is a little bit more well rounded. And if you could think of the best fragrances ever, they don't usually have a color next to them like Baccarat Rouge 540. It's not called like cloud or see-through. You know, Dior Savage isn't called orange, you know, fierce isn't called like platinum, whatever, you know what I mean? So most of the time, I like a fragrance that has its own character, not just red, blue, you know what I mean? But at the same time that being said, I know I'm kind of contradicting myself, these are the best smelling colors that Abercrombie could have possibly made. And I do like the time period that they were created because, you know, the closer that Mike Jeffery's got to being out, I do think that that it was already going downhill a little bit by then. So this was 2011. So, so good. I would give both of them the smell rating of an eight to an 8.5. I do think they are very, very good. And just because they are that unique and they do a lot of extra stuff that I haven't really smelled before, I'm kind of on the fence between an eight and 8.5. They are very good. Likeability, I would go with yellow is probably a nine and red probably an 8.5. Abercrombie is extremely likable, but there's just something I think a little bit more easy to like on this one. This one is a lot lighter as well. So I do think that lighter scents usually are a little bit easier to like, although I do think this is fantastic. And anybody who likes red style fragrances or wears a lot of red will greatly enjoy this. And it's actually sad that we can't see this compared against the other reds in the fragrance game because I actually really, really do like this. Abercrombie is my kind of style and I would probably prefer this to the other reds. And then longevity and projection. Again, these are 10 year old fragrances that could not have, that maybe were not stored correctly. So red, I would give longevity and projection of about a 6.5. Now again, I do feel like the normal version of this that was kept up in a good condition. I don't know if this was kept in a bad condition, but I feel like that this was red was kept in a good condition. It might bump up to about a seven to a 7.5 because it is more full and I kind of have a feeling that it got weaker somehow. And then yellow, I'm going to have to be honest. I'm going to have to give this one a five. And I don't know if this is the kind of smell that it is or if it has been sitting in a garage for a couple of years. But yellow is very, very, very light, extremely light. Yellow is, it's such a weird fragrance because I don't really know any other colors of yellow. I don't know anybody who, oh, I want to wear a yellow. Yellow is my favorite color or I want a yellow fragrance. Usually when it goes to colors or fragrances, it's black, blue or yellow. Abercrombie came out with the blue as in Colbats. And I don't know if you know classic Abercrombie and Fitch, but I do. And classic Abercrombie and Fitch, they would not wear any black at all. So that makes sense why there isn't an A and F black. Anyways, guys, this whole collection is very, very good. If I end up getting the blue and the green and samples again, I will test them again. But let me know what you thought of these fragrances. I really like the idea of these. I almost would have been interested to see if Abercrombie would sell these in a group. If you bought a whole yellow set, you get the yellow. Or you bought a whole red set, you get the red. Or they were to have these in one ounce bottles and save for a hundred dollars. You get a one ounce of each one. I just think that the way that Abercrombie sells in markets, it was difficult for them to maximize all four of these fragrances. But I just absolutely enjoyed this blast from the past. So anyways, guys, thank you guys so much for watching the video. Thank you guys so so much. You guys are the best. Let me know what Abercrombie fragrances I should review next. Let me know what fragrances you want me to review next. And let me know if you tried A and F 1892, the colors, because I'm actually really enjoying this blast from the past. But anyways, guys, thank you guys so so much for watching the video, guys. You guys are the best. We're on the road of 50,000 subscribers and I couldn't do it without any of you guys' help. I'm having a great day out here. Hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace or somebody online said that they kind of this kind of smells like a like somebody said on for a grand circuit that the yellow smells like an