 Abercrombie and Fitch Batch 46 fragrance review. Hey, what's up guys? It's Josh here. Today I want to do a little review on this Abercrombie and Fitch Batch 46. Now, I think I got this fragrance like probably in my first five Abercrombie purchases. I don't know if you guys have been following my channel, but I really like Abercrombie fragrances. They used to be so much better back in the day. When I first started this channel got into fear so I just started buying their whole line. Abercrombie at the time would come out with the new fragrance every couple months so I ended up having tons of fragrances. I would do reviews on all the fragrances and because the fragrances were just kind of so so and on top of that they weren't as popular as other designers. I just really wasn't getting the views and people didn't really care about them so there was a point a few years ago where I got rid of all the fragrances that I didn't really like that much and only kept the absolute best. Batch 46 was one of those that I actually kept. I really wish they still offered this one. It is probably one of the most masculine fragrances that I've ever smelled from ANF. The notes that they list on Fragrantica are Musk, Black Amber, and Cedar. In my opinion what this fragrance smells like is a musky barbershop style scent. I do think that it is somewhat similar to Abercrombie and Fitch Woods. There was a lot of hearsay that this was a copy of Rule 925 signature fragrance and if you guys do not know about that around the late 2000s they decided to open up Rule 925 which is basically like Abercrombie and Fitch but much more expensive. There was a lot of hearsay that Rule 925 was kind of like a retouched up version of Abercrombie and Fitch Woods and I think they had something called R7 and R7 was supposed to be similar to Ezra Fitch which makes sense because I really really like Abercrombie and Fitch Woods. I really really like Ezra Fitch. For Abercrombie those were the most mature fragrances that they have. It kind of makes sense that they took away Woods and they took away Ezra Fitch and then retuned them up and basically sold them to Rule 925. Now I have not smelled the Rule 925. It is something that I've been very very interested in because I really like Abercrombie and Fitch fragrances. I've bought discontinued Abercrombie and Fitch fragrances and Rule 925 is essentially like Abercrombie and Fitch but way way better and then they have their signature fragrance so it's like man I already like Abercrombie. This is a more expensive version of Abercrombie and I like signature scents like scents that are right down the middle so I would absolutely love getting my hands on Rule 925 but I would think that it's going to be very very similar to this fragrance. I don't want to spend a few hundred dollars on it just to get the comparison but I could totally see this being Rule 925 signature scent. Some situations this is good for. I would say this is okay for the gym. It is a little bit too strong in my opinion. It's got a little bit of a musky barbershop style vibe so just for the gym it's probably not the best although it's okay. The date I would say this is okay for like a daytime date fragrance. That's about as far as it's gonna go though. I think this is a good fragrance for work not the best thing ever but I think it's overall pretty good. This is just an everyday hot weather style fragrance right down the middle. I can't really say too much things about. It doesn't really excel in any one specific area but if you just had to toss this on and head out the door I feel like it hits a lot of situations. Alright guys let's jump into the pros of this fragrance. The pros is that it is very unique. I've smelled a lot of barbershop fragrances. I've smelled a lot of A&F style fragrances and this fragrance is pretty unique. It's kind of hard to put your finger on. It has like a little bit of a tiny bit of sweetness in the background but overall you would say this is 100% not a sweet fragrance. It has like a barbershop style vibe. It's hard to describe but it's very full and masculine and kind of borders being like too strong and in your face with being somewhat likable in its own way and then I also enjoy how masculine it is. In my opinion this is about 75 to 80% A&F woods. Woods and Ezra Fitch were probably the most masculine typical gentleman style fragrances that Abercrombie had so I just really like how masculine this is. It's even more masculine than a lot of their other offerings. And then another pro is that it has a very very very good projection. I did remember it being a little bit of a higher projector but after I've smelled a bunch of niche fragrances it is just very very very good. Like you could probably cut the projection of this by 10 or 20% and most people would still think it has good enough projection. If I were to go over the cons you know I really can't think of too many. It did kind of make me a little bit sad that a few years ago I was watching I think it's the guy who does stay fresh productions and he was doing like a top five fragrances that I got rid of and he ended up getting rid of Batch 46 which is pretty sad because I would think that most fragrance reviewers if they had a chance to get this at a reasonable price I think a lot of people would appreciate this. If I were to give some reasons why I think someone would get rid of this it isn't the most likable fragrance that I've ever smelled. There is a little bit of a rough in your face not as likable quality as it could be but I really like this fragrance for what it does. I like how masculine it is. I just pretty much like it all but if I had to put a con it's probably not the most likable but I really can't think of anything else besides it's probably not going to be good for winter either. I just don't really have too too many bad things to say about this one. I actually really wish they kept it in the line maybe rebranded it because for being such a legendary strong fragrance like I think that this is it's weird that it has such a simple presentation and no real character to it but if I were to give it a smell rating I'd give it a solid 8.5 mainly because I really haven't smelled this exact DNA in too many other places I'm going to give it 8.5. Likeability I'm going to give this a 7.5 it's not really not likable but at the same time it's not the most likable thing it's not something that you just put on and everyone's going to love it's not something you just put on and you know for a date things like that. I just think it's right down the middle of 7.5 and then longevity of projection I'm going to give this an 8 to an 8.5 this has a very very very good projection overall I think batch 46 is a good fragrance I think you can find on ebay for about a hundred dollars again it's supposed to copy the rule 925 signature apparently but from everything that I've looked up about rule 925 the way they describe it it's almost like they're describing this fragrance and this fragrance has enough in its DNA that I could see somebody making this like a really expensive fragrance and a really like a signature fragrance for the store it has that style vibe but anyways guys let me know if you tried batch 46 let me know if you tried rule 925 signature let me know about all that down below I love diving into the classic rule and Abercrombie lure because it was so so good back in the day but anyways guys we're on the road of 50,000 subscribers and I could not do without any of you guys so hope you guys are the best having a great day out here hopefully having a great day at home see you all in the next video peace I've smelled a lot of barbershop fragrances I've smelled a lot of a and f style fragrances and this fragrance is pretty unique