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MalePersonalty – :
I cannot abide by the note at the beginning. It’s sour, medicinal, and hospital-like to my nose. After the sour mellows down, it still smells a bit like a hospital- but more like the convalescent home my grandmother was in back in the 90s. I don’t know how else to put it. Maybe this is the civet mixing with one of the woods?
I do smell rose, kind of a dusty dry rose. Ever dried out a bouquet? The scent of the dried rose? It’s like that. The “saffron” turned to lilies after about 30 minutes on me (calla & tiger lily- the inside of the lily- if you want to get nit picky). It strongly reminds me of funerals & when I worked at a local florist. The woods are there, but sharp.
After an hour or so, the woods mellowed a bit & blended together. But, something smells “unwashed” in a hobo way. Urine & other human fluids. The only thing I can figure is the civet note must be turning on me.
The hospital/convalescent/funeral home vibe never really goes away. It simply develops into a sad story. Dusty, dried forgotten rose bouquets, body odour, funeral lilies, lingering scent of human fluids, and the woods of caskets. I’ll give it’s an experience, but not a good one to me.
Looking at the other reviews, I am wondering if something went wrong with my bottle. It worked so nicely for everyone else. I’m so sorry I sound so mean in this. My skin really doesn’t work with this fragrance.
biba57 – :
I am not A.Mazed.
Although I love the brand’s name and the fragrance’s name, and the bottle, the scent itself felt quite underwhelming.
To start off, I can smell a fresh cut rose. Then more sweet rose. And even more. As it develops, it gets a tiny bit sweeter, balancing between the morning freshness and doughnut filling, never quite crossing the line.
I must say, this is a beautiful rose. Unfortunately on me, there is not much else, it mostly feels like a delicate rose soliflore. If there is any agarwood in it, then it hides on my skin all too well. I get no musk, no wood, no saffron.
It is a bright, delicious fragrance, but dos not deliver the expectations it promises. For me, this was very underwhelming.
_Kust_ – :
this is very rosy as expected, and i get something which seems to turn just a bit sour on my skin. after a few minutes i think i’m getting the oudh coming on stronger, but the rose really continues to dominate the scent. eventually this blooms into a woody, somewhat musky oudh-rose and the herbal/sourness thankfully disappears. the dry down is a musky rose that’s very very pretty.
puzanov.nikolai2112 – :
Wowza. This is the most decadent, deepest, truest, most interesting MOST VOLUPTUOUS Rose, oud, and saffron I’ve ever smelled. The oud is the strong medicinal type, which dominated the opening for at least a half hour. This is where I think they lose a lot of folks who had medicinal oud, but NOT ME! I hung on and I am so glad I did because I love the challenge of taking a good oud by the horns and hanging on to see where it takes me.
The rose is the huge, velvety, fluffy red Damascus rose, and the saffron makes it just a tad more interesting.
I have at least 4 really good Rose/Oud fragrances. KM Loukhoum Parfum du Soir, Jo Malone Velvet Rose and Oud, by Kilian Rose Oud, and Roja Dove, and I think this one is definitely in good company.
The KMPdS has an airy, candied quality, so it’s not as deep. The Jo Malone is lighter, like oud for beginners. The by Kilian is so deep it dominates like a dominatrix. This one dances on my skin. It’s slinky and sultry.
mihyil – :
I’m reading all these reviews and wishing I could find this fragrance!!!!! Does anyone know where I can buy it? HELP! 🙂
aspirin1234567 – :
I love this. I’m Indian and it smells like the incense “agarbhati” of my childhood. I picture curls of smoke in the shape of roses at the altar of the gods. Rose milk on marble, smoke milk on moonstone. It smells precious and holy. This is why I own it but can never really wear it. I hold poetry, dance and listen to poetry but I will not wear poetry out of respect for divinity.
FuetePunk – :
I ADORE this scent! It always made me feel very feminine and a little bit different than everyone else. Very special!!
lesjagudok – :
I was debating which perfume to put on this evening and was about to select one of the Nejma or Montale rose-oud perfumes, when I happened upon a couple of samples from The People of the Labyrinths. They were in a gauzy red drawstring bag indicating that their provenance was in all likelihood one of the smaller niche emporia (Luscious Cargo?), and I probably received them with an order last year.
“Why not?” I thought, throwing caution to the wind and donning A.MAZE, about which I knew absolutely nothing, but which turned out to be none other than a saffron-oud-rose!
Big rose was my first pleasant surprise: high-quality, natural-smelling voluptous rose–taif, I guess they say. Then I noticed what seemed like oud, and I started to wonder whether it might be saffron instead. In fact, it’s both. Well, I think that I’ve said enough now to make it clear that this is not an earth-shatteringly revolutionary or original composition. There seem to be dozens of these saffron-rose-oud perfumes out there, all vying for our affection, and this one I must say smells quite good. The standards should be high though, I can say having now espied the prices at their website…
Until tonight, I had absolutely no idea that The People of the Labyrinths was a fashion label. Oh well, they have a very nice saffron-oud-rose perfume, as well. Right up there with Montale and Nejma. No one needs to be making anymore of this type of perfume, but if they’re going to, they’d better make it good, if it’s going to be able to compete, and The People of the Labyrinths has succeeded in creating a perfume which is not an embarrassment to their name. That is a distinction unfortunately not shared by all designers these days–whether of haute or basse couture…
Roobiaboggini – :
Turkish Delight comes to my mind. My small vial , I think, does not let me discover this perfume in full. I would need a bigger spray to create that cloud, and feel all ingredients show themselves. I have put this vial in my handmade leather purse, to gift to my friend who is in the very middle of painful divorce, to cheer her up. She breathed it in, and said, Oh, this is so nice…it’s like attar…or some aromatic oil…I was surprised as I did not sense so much depth…Not until I have reached for my purse the next time…Leather kept a trail of mysterious aroma, gentle, but on spicy oily base…Nice. Happy I have please my friend though.
sanua – :
This is so interesting . like a sweet rose with a serten dryness. i guess it is the Taif Rose that makes this . almost like a Rose water turkish delight kind off rosy feal , but not as sweet.
it is all about the rose on my skin. clean beautiful ,lingers on skin for a long long time ,
i like it alot
bot211speagoessenda – :
I love this scent! Intense, dry rose scent, with some spice. Not a big, flowery in-your-face rose, but a more secret and intimate one. Very long lasting. Want it so bad, but it is hard to come by and very expensive to import to my country.
alex.k.rus – :
I have been a Luctor et Emergo fan for a while now, loving the sour-cherry opening and the intense dry-down. It works well on my skin, although it is a tough scent to wear for many. So A.Maze was definitely a “must try” for me.
I haven’t been disappointed. First, I adore rose scents – not the soli-fleurs so much, but those intricately blended scents that open up into a rose afterglow. And that, precisely, is what A.Maze does.
The opening is a very strong spice scent – the saffron that captures the essence of Moorish history and the bazaars of Morocco. It is so intense at first that only after a few moments do you sense the rose taif slowly engulfing and blending with the saffron. As that transformation takes place, the initial spice becomes almost sweet – a kind of rich, gourmand sweetness – as though you have passed by the open window of a kitchen where some exotic rosy concoction is simmering.
Last, but not least, there is in the drie-down and sillage, a green-toned, musky, damp-forest note beneath the lingering rose taif. It is a very long-lasting scent – a signature of POL – and one that repays the patience of the wearer with an unusually layered rose.
If you’re looking for a big, bold rose scent, I’m not sure this is the scent that would do it for you. It is exotic and subtle, and the saffron is a scent that is not easy to wear. But patience is the key word here: A.Maze is exactly like its name: a long, twisting journey that doubles back on itself and only with time will reveal its heart.
Blabebasy – :
A very lively and interesting combination of saffron and taif rose ,traditional middle eastern combo that starts a little loud but settles down in a musky ,slightly salty jammy rose and fades in a nice fuzzy woody background. Definitely a good one, but i prefer in the same style Ormond Jayne’s Taif!