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MaksimR – :
Maybe I got a bad batch, maybe this reacts catastrophically with my skin – but on me this was a rare miss from Olympic Orchids. It’s a house I am a passionate fan of – 80% of their stuff slays me, 10% I just like a lot, and then there are the misfires… which can go really seriously wrong, but usually I can see what they’re trying to do. So this might be a mastic mishap, but on me this has an unpleasantly old, wet-wool, lanolin kind of smell at the start, which mellows down to a frankly nasty stale-sweat stage for an hour or so … and only then calms down to a gentle woody spicy. It’s just wrong – waxy, old-cumins, dusty cinnamon ..and something like anise sneaking in, with unwelcome effect? Yeah, I think I just got a bad sample on this one. I hope.
karat82 – :
Wow! This is one potent resin and woods party at the start. Finally it eases off a touch and I can just about make out the citrus and apricot. In the first 5 minutes or so I found it too much. I’m in a 29 degree room and it’s calmed down quickly. It’s a case of it just keeps getting better.
It’s VERY dry, woody with a little fruit, alcohol and citrus at the back. There is almost a nuttiness. It smells like autumn in an exotic far and distant magical city. A silver platter full of ripe apricots. A land of heat, dust, mosques and magic.
It also reminds me of 4160 Tuesdays masterpiece Eau my Soul.
The sillage was nuclear at first but it has calmed down to moderate relatively quickly. The more I wear it the more I love it. No surprise the longevity is very good. It’s gone on the want list.
vitugan – :
In short: a tree sap and myrrh scent.
The opening is very heavy on the mastic, personally I enjoy it more a couple of hours into the drydown where I actually get a hint of fruit in the shape of citrus and apricot as well. The cognac is lost on me.
If you’re a fan of mastic fragrances, such as Sisley’s Eau d’Ikar you should check this out. If not, definitely try before you buy.
vale3ntina – :
I get a beautiful citron, a mildly fruity apricot skin note and what smells like pine sap in the opening. Then the resins and woods appear – mostly palo santo, mastic, olibanum and styrax. The resins are light and uplifting, not smoky, chewy or dense. I agree with the earlier poster who thought she smelled myrtle – the citron and woods do combine to smell a bit like lemon myrtle at points. With the accompanying soft fruity note and the lemony piney notes (which last well into the mid of the scent), this is a unique woody incense that reminds me of yellow morning light. Clear and calming. It does seem to fit the idea of a protective talisman scent. I would say that the dominant note is palo santo wood, though it is well blended with the supporting notes. There is a slight touch of something almost sweat like that comes from the resins I think – it reminds me of that slight scent in woodsmoke and makes the composition more realistic for me. Hamsa went immediately to my want list – though the scents are not that similar, I’ve been needing a pine-sap and resin replacement for my Diptyque L’Eau Trois. This is a very natural scent, so lovers of more smoky or perfumey incense scents may not like it.
uniko – :
There is a very green note here — maybe pine or myrtle — that latches onto the citron and makes it linger. Before I looked up the notes I was sure this was a green forest scent.
Palo santo is clearly detectable although it may get lost among the other resins if I wasn’t familiar with it and looking for it. The agarwood may be part of the greeness, it it definitely woody but doesn’t scream oud, more aromatic woody.
This is a scent that reminds you that resin is tree sap. I smelled like it all day and it was wonderful.
I’m not getting any apricot or cognac
evo_vi_rs – :
This scent is beautiful and atmospheric, moving back and forth between the slight sweetness of the palo santo and the bitterness of the resins. The citrus is more noticeable in the drydown, as well as the sandalwood. I can’t really detect the cognac, it gets lost among the other ingredients. As beautiful as this is, I think I would prefer to use this to scent my home rather than myself.