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sased20 – :
Holy cow who voted this stuff as soft? Lol The Mcelheney’s over at tobasco? Wow is this stuff loud! A spiced rose projection beast that lasts for days! This stuff is cocked locked & loaded with the perfect mix of oud, musk & roses… I love it but FOR MY WIFE! TOO FEMININE for me…
neftyanik25 – :
Good lord, this is a MONSTROUSLY loud burst of oud, high quality/concentration rose essence, and a fistful of spices (yes, cumin’s high up there)!
At first I recoiled; the fumes coming off the opening might make you feel like you inhaled a mix of rubbing alcohol and gasoline fumes. Give it a second (unless you’re into the pain and lightheadedness, your call) though and it really becomes an entracing, powerful oriental blend that you do not need to get your wrist close to your face to smell. For people like me (with very dry skin) who had projection/sillage issues, that’s a great feeling.
Rich, dark, woody rose, cumin/oud blend in its most intoxicating, bodily form, and a high quality (white?) musk beneath, stitching it all together. I’m so glad I didn’t run and scrub! My smoky eyed, devil-may-care sultry side is intrigued, and that’s the highest compliment she can pay.
Comparisons: Le Labo’s Rose 31, after playing some kind of kinky bedroom game involving gasoline &/or calligraphy ink.. and forgetting to put on deodorant beforehand.
kobra58 – :
This smells like pure heven , On my skin 12 hrs and going strong , On my clothing 9 days and still going strong . I love it , Peace
masmebel – :
Given that I find Monegal to be one of the worst contemporary fragrance lines on the market, I would have overlooked this if a friend hadn’t convinced me to give it a shot. This is a shrewd chypre with enough personality to stand out amongst similarly styled scents.
It opens mossy and rich with a musk that’s perched somewhere between dry and sweetly animalic. An anonymous rose spins the scent down traditional paths, but it’s the kind of rose that reads a tad soapy as well. So, you get this intriguing juxtaposition of dirty against clean—a move recently perfected in Bogue Profumo’s vastly superior MAAI. The effect here is that of a vintage chypre but with an added twist—completely unexpected from a line like Monegal.
Yet this is supposed to be an oud—and like most Westernized ouds, it smells nothing like oud. But it doesn’t even smell like westernized nagarmotha-oud, really. Hand in Hand (odd name), I’m assuming, is using the same new molecule that’s popping up in a number of scents and is responsible for more of a “subliminal oud” so as not to offend delicate sensibilities and whatnot. But the bottom line is that it works quite well in this composition as it steps out of the way and allows the other notes to do their thing.
Although the dry down is disappointing in that it becomes progressively soapy and bland, the scent is overall quite surprising and the opening is pretty special. I’d urge those of you who would ordinarily run from a Monegal release to stop and take a sniff of this one as, while it’s hardly reinventing the wheel in any meaningful way—nor is it even *that* good—it’s a step in the right direction.