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Blakc_Shark – :
Simply one of the Best thx. & kudos;)
Clieguarili – :
Hello tobacco! I wasn’t expecting you but there you are!
This is predominantly a tobacco scent on me. The woods are there but they blend with each other and into the tobacco. The astringent/medicinal edge stays and there is a scent that really reminds me of mouth numbing medicine. Add in the sweet creamy vanilla and sandalwood and the result is amazingly mellow — hypnotic even.
After wearing it for three or four hours I started getting wafts of a rich meditative sandalwood. I would say it was incense-like, but it isn’t at all smokey. Just rich and beautiful. I still smell tobacco if I press my nose to my wrist but the sandalwood is dominate. I also occasionally get sweet Carmel notes. It stays like this for a long time. It’s been almost 12 hours and it’s still going strong. I am impressed.
vetalsw – :
The signature centerpiece from the beautiful Kemi line of Arabian inspired fragrances is this bold and dense oriental gourmand with strong animalic vibes. The perfume kicks off on a woody note with oud and cedar and moves into this dense animalic gourmand base which stays throughout the wear of the perfume. The notes I can clearly detect are caramel, civet, castoreum and gurjun balsam. As it begins drying off one can get hints of sandalwood and vanilla giving the drydown a powdery feel. Unisex, beautifully blended with moderate to strong sillage and very good longevity. There have been very few perfumes as bold and daring as this delectable gem. This is akin to biting into a very fine steak. Those of you who like modern aromatic fougeres will probably be repulsed but those of you who are unbridled sensualists will find much to enjoy in this erotic masterpiece. Astonishing and one of a kind gem!
promalp2006 – :
I get a while heap of almond from this, blended with lots of animalics. The listing of caramel and vanilla seems to be a diversion and an exercise in directed marketing.
Shookevox – :
While it is possible to criticize creativity and the cost versus what is delivered, the group responsible for Xerjoff understood from the beginning that whether for the better or for the worse serving different customers requires different lines and brands.In 2014 a new brand was created, Kemi, whose name and concept are inspired in the world of alchemy to propose, in my understanding, perfumes that are inspired by the beginnings and history of perfumery while delivering perfumes with the face of what the current consumer seeks.
It is not an easy task and I particularly did not believe that the perfumes of Kemi could be interesting given my personal experience with the brand Sospiro, also of Xerjoff and which personally seems to me a pretext of the brand to launch commercial perfumes at high prices. The Join the Club line was also a disappointing experience, with creations that did not look balanced and also sounded like expensive commercial formulations. Kemi, however, is a welcome surprise, a challenge to unite past and present in the same product.
The perfume that bears the name of the brand is already a good example of this and certainly the mixture of trends and perfumery moments is something with great chances of causing polarization. For me, it is a positive thing, with a creation that challenges you to look at the limits of what can be combined – which is in its essence related to alchemy itself. Kemi the perfume blends the trend of oud perfumes with the trend of gourmands perfumes to the ancestral aroma of the animalic and musk essences. It matches what I expect from a more expensive perfume: sophisticated aromatic layers worked on more than one level in a perfume that has a lot to say. The Kemi Oud is complex and refers (if not to) the most expensive absolutes of agarwood. It is combined with a complex gourmand aroma, a blend of vanilla, caramel, chocolate and red berries. It may seem like a mess but the oud acts to keep the gourmands from getting too sweet and the gourmands grinding to soften the bestial side of the oud. As the perfume evolves it is possible to notice the more animalic civet nuances, a woody and resinous scent and a more classic base of musks that gives a more vintage aura to the composition. Launching something of this kind is risky and a brand that has already dared to do something like that and getting out of the comfort zone is already worthy of being praised.
ekimovl – :
this is xerjoff casamorati lira + oud + little skank.
Sanji – :
I can sense that cheeky desire of a charming guy, well… he is the kind of fairy tale prince with a twisted mind somehow! His sleazy desires are covered by his day prestige, as no one knows about his adventures but his multiple partners.
Doses of caramel and vanilla to give the impressions of innocence and delicacy just to hide the naughty doses of that charming fairy tale prince’s kinks. He never lies if anybody asks but he twists the answers to make you believe that you got what you were looking for!
Quite an enchanting potion to be specific and i thought that would be the smell of “Ethereal” by Boadicea the victorious but it’s not.
It’s more of a caramel sweet vanilla sandalwood with tiny hints of animalic notes (thank GOD it’s not musk … phew) and these animalics are mostly the oud cause i can sense dust later on and kind of a “metallic woods”!??? like waters runs within an old pipes in a forest hut!!? Oh.. WTH am i sniffing!
I believe you will get this if your nose got too close to the area that you sprayed this fragrance on (skin of course) but if you got far away, you will sniff the right balance of what have been mentioned above plus a tiny bit of cinnamon.
I only wish that they have made 50ml of this fragrance as well cause 100 ml is just too much.
romanTic90 – :
Beautiful Fragrance. The development on skin is astounding. The art of perfumery at its finest.
Borderland – :
wonderful potion…we really love this sweet animalic oriental perfume…
pavel123 – :
I gotta say it’s rather un pleasant to me! I get Civet, Castoreum and Oud mixed with a liquid runny maple / caramel… it has tones of urine / diarrhoea, very “barn yard”
and animalic… This is NOT for the faint of heart. I would say there is a good chance you will offend people in the street wearing this, even if you love it yourself. It’s going to get bad reactions from people around you at some point… it’s not safe, at all.
It has a strong liquid diarrhoea vibe to it, mixed with a candy sweetness and a caramel note – Imagine a kid having a huge explosive diarrhoea all over the walls inside a candy store filled with strawberry candies and caramels = exactly how this smells. The sweetness is very artificial smelling like children’s candy, Haribo and hard boiled sweets mixed with caramel and poo.
I don’t often write bad reviews, but this is quite disgusting.
After two hours, the bad smells disappear, and it comes out into an almost powdery Vanilla with a little caramel and Sandalwood… at which point, it’s nice.. but there’s no way I can get through the first two hours, to enjoy the dry down. The cardboard box smell in the dry down referenced bellow.. is dry powdery vanilla mixed with cedar and sandalwood.. very close to something like Memoirs of a Trespasser by Imaginary Authors, smells like the dusty old pages of a book.
dawnatony – :
What an exhilarating blast of oud and juicy cedar (if cedar can be juicy), in this jaw-dropping opening! I can almost smelled pine or fir balsam notes (that immediately made me feel that closer to the holidays), only to be softened by the caramel that was NOT too sweet but was a bit salty. I can’t stop sniffing my arm and I want more of it so badly!
The scent has now settled and to my excitement has become more animalic, which must be the notes of castoreum and civet, but the civet is very shy, hiding under caramel and vanilla. At this stage the potion is a unique mix of oud that actually has its presence throughout all the stages, with sandalwood and gurjan balsam, a note that I’m not very familiar with but it must be the one that gives this scent the slightly bitter nuttiness.
Kemi Kemi is unisex. Most definitely one of the most unique fragrances that I have ever smelled. Kemi Kemi is not sweet or gourmand, even with the caramel as a main player. Its longevity (on my weird skin) is less than the other Kemi’s, only about 4 hrs, with a low to moderate sillage. I find myself craving more and more of it, and I’m extremely satisfied that I have another gorgeous perfume and bottle to add to my Kemi collection.
adverty – :
After seeing the notes on Kemi I knew I had to try it. It looks delicious. So I ordered a small sample to try on my skin. I will admit to being a bid giddy when the sample arrived. The very next day I gave it a full wearing.
I will start by saying that Kemi is a VERY unique and well blended fragrance.
Kemi opens with a medicinal chocolate vibe on my skin. Kind of like baking a rich chocolate cake with couch drops in it. It Quickly turns into a chocolaty tobacco type scent.
When I was a very young boy, my grandfather lived with us. He used to love to chew tobacco and he always had chocolate candy bars in his room. The opening phase of Kemi reminds me of the scent in my grandfather’s room.
So far I am really liking this fragrance!
As kemi evolves, a slightly sweet caramel and vanilla appear, accompanied by woody and animalisitc notes. more castoreum that civet. The chocolaty tobacco recede. About 4 hours in Kemi is a caramel and castoreum scent, with slight woody vanilla.
Up until this point I was impressed with Kemi.
About 6 hours in Kemi changes from a deliciously unique scent into… a cardboard box?? Yes, really.. a cardboard box… and stays there for the rest of the life of the fragrance. A very disappointing ending.
I had really high hopes for Kemi, and the first 4 to 6 hours are amazing on my skin. But I cannot justify those prices to smell like a cardboard box during dry down or to reapply every 4 hours. So I will have to pass on this one.
Bottom line: If you like unique scent you should try a sample of this one. Hopefully you wont get the cardboard box phase on your skin.
yurikcaz – :
seriously, smells like blending sh…t
ssv106speagoessenda – :
unique but not my type caramel and castorium dominant.
6.5/10
killer2942 – :
Not a fan. Something like Xerjoff Al Khatt mixed with caramel.
fafimmaks – :
For me it is one of the best fragrances.
scent: 10+/10
longevity: 10/10
sillage: 9/10
SmellParfum – :
This Stuff is On Fire like Mariah;-)