I haven’t smelled the original but this is a good perfume. It’s hard to describe why but the name is very fitting. This gives me a strong metallic type of smell/ taste in my mouth when I spray it on BUT, weirdly enough, it also has a very strong vanilla scent. Best way I can describe is is very soapy, metallic, vanilla

This is supposed to be a dupe for Tom Ford Metallique? I got a lot more vanilla from that, a fluffy vanilla tempered by ozone with heliotrope and hawthorn wispy delicate floral notes and a tinge of a metallic note.

I get no vanilla from Powdery Hawthorn. In the opening, it smells like that odd gritty pink toothpaste the dentist uses in professional cleanings. I can almost hear the motor whirr! Then the wispy florals come in, fizzy aldehydes, and balsam over pencil shavings. This sounds like I’m describing something I dislike, but I find this really comforting. Maybe it reminds me of getting a half day of school to go to an uneventful dentist visit that I didn’t have to pay for. This is not comparable to Tom Ford Metallique, but it’s one I reach for frequently.