Description
“Once the most powerful state and the heart of ancient Ethiopia, Aksum, located along the southern coast of the Red Sea. Aksum was a centre of trade from Persia, Central Africa, India and Egypt also a meeting point of Judaism and Christianity which then become their major influence on the culture as well.
Aksum is challengingly raw, extremely animalic, feral, exotic, deep dark smoky and narcotic. Narrating this phenomenon city from their glorious days until the very last. Our Aksum formulated with native plants from African, Central Asia, South Asia and Mediterranean. Frankincense and Myrrh from Somalia. Galbanum and Beeswax from Iran. Taif rose from Saudi Arabia. Dragon Blood, Opoponax and hyrax stone from East Africa. Spices, Tuberose and Assam oud from India. Immortelle absolue and Hay absolue from Mediterranean coast. Capturing unique characteristic in daily life of the merchant, priest, royals or even ordinary folks. Interpreting the contrast between dried holy resins and the somber resins with animalic vibe from goat hair and Costus and precious resins which cost more than gold; oud oil from Assam India (rich, raw, wild), oud oil from Chanthaburi (caramelised, fruity, smoky) with the trace of Dahn Al Oud from Laos and a few other regions. The arousing mossy green liquid is extremely rich in texture and scent. The formula contain 5% of extremely high quality natural oud oil with more than 90% of natural absolue and resin. The concentration is 50% of perfume oil (considered pure parfum concentration).” – a note from the brand.
Aksum by Pryn Parfum is a Oriental fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Aksum was launched in 2017. The nose behind this fragrance is Prin Lomros. The fragrance features goat hair tincture, styrax, agarwood (oud), saffron, immortelle, asphalt, galbanum, jasmine sambac, hay, beeswax, tuberose, myrrh, olibanum, opoponax, taif rose, cumin, turmeric, nard himalayan (jatamansi) and costus.
rich94 – :
Wow. Just wow. This is the opposite of soap, and is dirty in such a sexy, animalic, fecal way. It doesn’t smell like shit, but there is a tinge of foul amongst a smoky, musky, herbaceous, and spicy blend. Made from very expensive ingredients (Imortelle absolute goes for $23 USD per 1 ml) it smells like a work of art. Balanced for what it is, and actually rather wearable compared to other animalic scents. 9.5/10
MonstR1586 – :
I guarantee this is a fragrance unlike any other you have smelled. The ingredients are unique and high quality. This a a fragrance you wear for yourself and not to please others. Steep price tag but you are getting what you paid for. Bravo Pryn!
loveskiss – :
I had high expectations on this fragrance, after reading some reviews here and somewhere else, by reading the pyramid list and how the composition has been created….
Well: Amouage Figment for men, with no development.
After 4 hours since I have sprayed nothing has changed on me.
Since first sniff I understood this wasn’t something I might have liked.
A lot of effort in searching for all those precious raw materials, in putting them together, blending them, trying to make something extraordinary that didn’t work at all on me.
Quality is top notch, no discussion, I am sorry, almost disappointed that I can’t help myself liking it ( my wallet is happy, though)
Edit on April 17: tried again, having 3 samples, and the Amouage effect isn’t here this time. I earlier wrote that the quality of ingredients is outstanding and I confirm this. The change comes from smelling a more “open” Fragrance. It kind of fooled me first time I have tried it. Or simply I wasn’t ready to having it speak to me. Complex stuff is hard to handle. I will never learn giving some fragrances a second try before making my idea out of it.
I still confirm it’s not for me, but I must admit this is a piece of art
tipon – :
Hmm.. Mild Animalic
I don’t smell oud and that’s why i see it animalic. It has goat smell, with myrrh, turmeric, styrax. & sweet opoponax. At first it hits with goat cheese smell and asphalt with bits of styrax, then goes the combination that i mentioned above.
At the back, i keep on detecting, olibanum, galbanum, & immortelle as later i begun to smell roses, saffron, and slight peony.
This is quite interesting with that salty myrrh, as IFF (If & Only If) there will be any oud then it’s almost hidden within the notes above as i can’t detect any!
It’s slightly sweet animalic, pleasant to be specific, well blended and not risky for those who seeks animalics, but it is quite a beast to the ones who aren’t familiar with animalics.
Special thanks to “rbalkris” for introducing me to this brand.
you418speagoessenda – :
I have to agree with rbalkris. Though I currently only have a 1ml decant (ordered more from their website), this is the perfume I have been looking for.
It takes me to the farm that my parents friends owned and it was such a treat to break from the crowded suburbs to visit, and often spend the weekends with the Joy family. That was their name, Joy.
Though they had no goats, they had hogs, tobacco, chickens, horses and fields of wonderful crops.
They kept a large area of compost to plow into the soil and John (the youngest boy, but 4 years my senior) and I would make up names and personalities for each hog.
Rita Joy loved flowers, and there were fragrant blooms of lovely color everywhere.
There was a large pile of wood for the stove and fireplace, straw, fresh turned earth pathways connecting the barns and supplies sheds.
It was the smell of earth, all mixed together, and in the dewy cool mornings, it had a sweetness like no smell I have ever known.
John was also my first boyhood crush.
He was very attractive, shy, witty and seemed to take a fancy to me.
That was a long time ago. The Joy seniors have passed away, and I dont know what happened to John, but as corny as it may sound, this perfume for me keeps them as alive as yesterday.
Oh, longevity and projection here is as expected, very good.
It may be expensive, but if this is the last bottle of perfume I buy, I will have one in my collection.
sgq786InsuffBooni – :
The opening of Aksum reminds me of Amouage’s Figment Man. Animalic (not as animalic as I expected from reading about it before online), herbal and earthy. To me this has a strong Fougere-feel to it, even a bit vintage-80s-Powerhouse. I personaly don’t get any of the Assam Oud (as I had hoped), yet. I had my first test wearing yesterday evening. From what I can tell from that and today, Aksum stays quite linear.
I might revise my review/analysis in a few hours. Overall, I think it is interesting and even quite wearable. I had expected something a bit different, less fougere, more animalic, oudy and balsamic.
EDIT: After around 3 hours there definitely has been some development:
The goat hair and oud slighty came out after around 2 hours, moving Aksum form herbal/fougere-animalic to pure animalic. After that, which is what I’m smelling now, it turns more frankincense, burned oud and resinous and reminds me quite a bit of Andy Tauer’s L’Air du Desert Marocain.
Very interesting development!
vova036 – :
My quest for the holy grail of animalic perfumes ends with the absolutely towering Aksum. Named after a region in the heart of ancient Ethiopia which I recently visited, this creation wonderfully captures the mystical aura of this very mysterious region which was once the cradle of a very prosperous civilization. The perfume is such a monolithic beast that it radiated through all the packaging that contained it. The ingredients in this sorcerer’s potion are a virtual who’s who of animalic perfume: goat hair tincture, styrax, agarwood (oud), saffron, immortelle, asphalt, galbanum, jasmine sambac, hay, beeswax, tuberose, myrrh, olibanum, opoponax, taif rose, cumin, turmeric, nard himalayan (jatamansi) and costus. Very very daring, and only for the most adventurous animalic perfume lovers out there. Gleefully overindulgent, pricey (because of the natural oud oil content) and right now only available outside of Thailand through the perfumer, this is an amazing and eccentric dark masterpiece – a no holds spared animalic that will probably only find a very few but dedicated fans in the world, who like their perfumes really dark and animalic. An overwhelming fragrance and bound to be one of my favorite perfumes ever. I better use it very prudently given the $520 price tag for a 50 ml bottle of this resinous dark sorcerer’s potion.