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Lackluster run-of-the-mill synthetic rose oud
Another “luxury” house putting out overpriced mostly crap perfumes. I’d even take Xerjoff and Boadicea the Overpriced over this because even they have a few decent perfumes worthy of a FB, if not overly priced FBs.
Of the brand’s lineup, of which I’ve sampled 21 (from their discovery set + now 2 samples of this one), this and two others stood out as the “best” to me. But let’s keep this in context of mediocrity.
Given the note listing, I was hoping for a decent oud/rose/frankincense to help me milk my bottle of FM’s The Night a few years longer. I did not find that here. It’s not a terrible scent but it’s far from great or worthy of wasting any money. Long story short, if a bottle were gifted to me I might wear it once a year or so, or maybe re-gift it to a friend who is not very much into perfumes and doesn’t know better.
I don’t want to waste too much more time here as I already have by sampling this house so I’ll cut to the chase. It’s mostly synthetic. They claim to use real oud so they probably use some. It’s not a lot. They’ve clearly bolstered it with some synthetic compounds to come across like there’s more. And the oud dies away anyway after about 2 hours leaving just an ambery rose mess.
These are the last words I’ll write about the house and the last thoughts I’ll give it.
Cheers!
Of the brand’s lineup, of which I’ve sampled 21 (from their discovery set + now 2 samples of this one), this and two others stood out as the “best” to me. But let’s keep this in context of mediocrity.
Given the note listing, I was hoping for a decent oud/rose/frankincense to help me milk my bottle of FM’s The Night a few years longer. I did not find that here. It’s not a terrible scent but it’s far from great or worthy of wasting any money. Long story short, if a bottle were gifted to me I might wear it once a year or so, or maybe re-gift it to a friend who is not very much into perfumes and doesn’t know better.
I don’t want to waste too much more time here as I already have by sampling this house so I’ll cut to the chase. It’s mostly synthetic. They claim to use real oud so they probably use some. It’s not a lot. They’ve clearly bolstered it with some synthetic compounds to come across like there’s more. And the oud dies away anyway after about 2 hours leaving just an ambery rose mess.
These are the last words I’ll write about the house and the last thoughts I’ll give it.
Cheers!
ScottMcArron
