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ssv1977 – :
FREAKED OUT!
FIRSTLY, AWESOME SCENT!
Secondly, after purchasing this on reviews elsewhere I was astonished to read here so many reviews summing up my thoughts. I’m trying to purchase Norne and I was going to compare this to Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles.
The note table is for once very appropriate however is as often the case most reviews here are apt in capturing the emotive simple feel – i.e yes it smells like a campfire. burnt needles etc etc. Yes there is cedar, resin etc… I get some of the urinic tinges, the pine forest etc etc but its more than this…
Yes, its vaguely like SL FeA though this is rougher, sharper and brighter and to me and feel more like only two layers – a bright powerful fresh pine on top and an earthy complicated rich base as opposed to SL FeA which is smoother, more rounded, more syrupy, bolder in the middle and a stronger scent bubble. I can’t speak for Norne yet but I intend soon…
When it is like this it puts this perfume into a category like Parfum De Marlys Galloway or to a degree Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles (which is the most forgiving) – where it is challenging and confrontational to a degree for but just verges on wearable. Every one I have offered a sniff to has never been negative – just either a raised eyebrow, pout and a “cool, interesting” or a “wow, never smelled that before, where do I get it?”.
The negative reviews here I think are unfair, this has typical Profumum Roma construction – huge concentration of oils and reeks of amazing quality. ABSOLUTELY ridiculous longevity. The Pine which is super strong is easy to miss even though its projecting as it is like menthol or slightly even in the vain of vaseline or camphor even – you will easily suffer olfactory fade until you refresh yourself with a movement or waft or reset your senses.
There in lies for me the beauty – the mid and base notes are blended together and are closer to a skin scent but they are so delicious I can’t help but draw my nose close to smell and decipher. Its this simple in fact two dimensional layer that has me hooked. My bottle came with a refillable roll on – I keep it a work and when sometimes my perfume of the day has faded mid afternoon I put this on – it freshens me up – its like cocaine – can’t stop putting nose to arm to get the amazing depth.
To put a different spin on the description (as opposed to the technical notes), at first I though of smelling a freshly prepared simmering pot of say, a thick soup or sauce of fresh not too sweet tomato, nutmeg, clove, bay leaves, paprika perfectly blended (as your mid and base) with wooden perforated chopping board on top with fresh mint leaves on top it and you breath in the steam whilst your sucking on a menthol lolly. I’m reminded of this first more than a pine forest with a campfire.
I agree with some that the leather is hard to detect for me and this is somewhat herbal though as I’ve described its almost more of a vegetative organic feel to me.
If you’d like to try a left of field scent for the first time this would be my second recommendation after Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles (as Ive already reviewed) not because its somewhat similar but because it just makes you wonder how something unconventianal smells so good. Its worthy having it sit on the shelf together – make no mistake they are different enough to justify both. This is fresher – works for summer and SL FeA is boozier, warmer for winter.
Sounds like Slumberhouse Norne may also make the perfect trifecta 😉
Snowfall – :
When a sample of a scent “for men” happens to fall into my hands, I often pass it on without bothering to test it properly, since my own tastes tend more towards the true unisex and sometimes classically feminine sides of the spectrum – if I detect even the slightest hint of a “macho” vibe, I’m out. I made an exception for this one because the list of notes is so promising, and I’m glad I did: I agree with some other reviewers on this page that Arso smells so natural, so much like a campfire in a piney part of the woods, that it can’t be seen as anything else than unisex. It’s not entirely my thing, though, it’s too smoky for that, and there’s also a rather agressive sweetness to the resinous notes that I don’t find entirely enjoyable – maybe that’s where it’s a little too masculine for my own taste after all. Overall, I still like Arso very much, though, and I’m glad I got to test it: it was like escaping into the forest on this dull fall day in the office.
izerli92 – :
Love this stuff, one of the best from this outstanding house.
ovo_okt – :
So i completed the Holy Trinity in my collection of Norne, Fille En Ainguilles and ARSO.
A little background on country and climate :-I live in a hot & humid climes of India where average temps hover in mid 40 degrees Cel or 105-108 F during the day time. Everyone sweats big time irrespective of skin types or chemistry. Having said this; this is my personal opinion after having applied all 3 perfumes for testing on skin.
NORNE beats everyone handsdown in terms of longevity. Sillage is not much after first hour. Its dense, thick and has tons of depth and richness and roundness to its notes. It stays as a nice skin scent retaining its depth for the duration of its longevity.
FeA : I love this one !!! Its Norne plus all the fruity sweet jammy notes. Just delicious !! Sadly it doesnt just perform and dies out quicker than you know!! If only it had the heavy longevity of Norne…i wud happily pay whatever price! Tho it lacks the depth & opulence of notes of Norne, it still has the same family vibe. Like cousin brothers !
ARSO : Despite all the hoo-ha about Arso containing 46% oil concentration etc, this just is a limp distant thrice removed cousin who has fallen from grace. The smell is weak, airy, thin and neither performs or even pretends to ! What a waste of good top dollar! Maybe I have the other two to compare it to so its a letdown in that sense. On its own. it does share the similar vibe of Norne but vastly weakened and diluted. Almost a neutered version. I do get the leathery accord in the drydown. Pine and Cedar is quite prominent in the beginning, then Pine takes a back seat while Cedar marches in full glory till it slowly gives way to a light creamy incensy leather as a skin scent. Won’t be buying another bottle again !
Митяй – :
Arso is one of Profumum Romas most beloved fragrances and rightly so. An uber masculine blend of only three ingredients: pine resin, incense and leather this is a rugged natural beauty that defines strength, quietness and a reassured masculinity. Profumum keep their scents pretty linear with high quality natural ingredients and this one stays true to their style. This has been addressed before but I want to reassure you that with the addition of a beautiful leather note this is different from other pine based scents: Norne (which has cypress), Fille en Aiguilles (which has fruits and spices) and Woodcut (which has burnt caramel). This one is the most masculine leaning of them all. It is pricey but seems worth it. Moderate to strong sillage / projection and tremendous longevity. Beautiful blending and exudes a quiet, reassured masculine warmth all around you. Enjoy!
RIKS – :
So many evocative and enticing reviews. I wont go into notes description, since so many have done it vividly and with such precision. But, Arso, for me is a big love. I have already fell for Slumberhouse’s Norne, so I had to try Profumum’s Arso.
Both share similarities but end up going in different directions. As an opening, the burned wood reference is quite accurate and reminds me of Naomi Goodsir’s Bois d’Ascèse or CDG’s Black. But there stops the comparison for what will come next is entirely different. Conifers are not just ordinary woods. They bring elements of duality: warmth vs bright, penetrating & sharp green herbal, medicinal freshness, almost cold. Arso keeps that mixture of smoky conifer & camphoraceous smell in the dry down. Here, Incense as in burned conifer woods. Arso is quite dry. Norne’s dry down becomes more about conifer’s sap or resins providing a dark green, sweet & sirupy impression.
Which to choose? Both are magnificent in their own way. Both reproduces reality with such precision it is almost unbelievable.
Arso is not the most easy fragrance to wear. It is an experience in nature. But if, like me, you love pine, spruce, fir, incense… try this beautiful creation and… dream of those beautiful cold and snowy winter!
Rebeicca485 – :
This is a hard review for me. First off, I can’t say I hate this fragrance, because I don’t. What I can say is that for someone who LOVES woodsy fragrances, this is just TOO woodsy for me. This literally smells like you are trying to pick out Christmas trees in one of those tents. It’s VERY piney and spruce like, reminds me of walking through a damp cold forest and you can smell the fresh wood and coniferous trees all around you. That is exactly what this smells like to me. It’s not a bad fragrance at all, I just don’t want to smell like I sprayed myself with Christmas air-freshener. This would make an excellent room fragrance though, I could easily see myself spraying this in my bedroom as I have a very industrial/distressed wood theme going on in my room and this would fit that theme very well.
Gotta pass on this one.
Mecjp058Bessinepome – :
I agree with the comparisons to Fille en Aiguilles but Arso has no dried figs or spiced fruitcake. It is 3 parts:
1. Evergreen Evergreen Evergreen, bordering on the scent of the tree-shaped air freshner people hang on their rear view mirror.
2. Smokey burning wood and frankincense.
3. A mild ambery sweetness that shellacs and unifies the two facets above making the whole experience palatable and comforting.
I’m sure more sensitive noses will experience more than these three notes but to me that is Arso in a nutshell and I love it. It’s simple and gives the pleasure of pines and smoke without muddling everything together in a complicated way that often results in a men’s cologne cliche’.
cever – :
File Under: Reversal of Fortune
Yet another review saying “this wasn’t at all what I was expecting, but wowzers it’s good”. Either I’ve gone anosmic or this was named in error: I get hardly any smoke at all, maybe the odd waft from a distant church brazier, where I expected this to be hugely camp-fire-y, ashy, Christmas tree on fire, etc. I was also braced for something way too butch for most women to wear, metaphorically covered in edgy tattoos and dressed in a lumberjack shirt. Right out there on the frontier of being wearable for me.
On first spray it even *feels* thick with real resin – your wrist stays sticky and shiny where it’s been sprayed for ages, leading me to expect an absolute monster of timber and petrol notes. But no. Instead it’s just the warmest, most enveloping woody incense ever, with an astonishingly smooth gentle mix in the centre, so harmonious it’s almost sweet without being sugary in any way (perhaps it’s the resin, so mellow and huggable here it feels almost like amber without the headache) and dressed in haute couture tailoring. (Not a leather jacket, though – I don’t consciously get leather either, but maybe it is discreetly helping knit that gorgeous centre together.)
Lasts like a champion on my (female) skin and doesn’t suddenly morph like a werewolf into something savagely feral once night falls- just gets gentler and sweeter than ever, and clings on tenaciously without cloying. Call me a tree hugger but I’d happily hitch my wagon to this one.
Comparisons: the only thing this really shares with Fille en Aiguilles (another great forest love) is for me the initial pineyness; Arso is mellow gold with absolutely none of the FeA’s deep-red stewed fruit and syrup. Much closer IMHO to the dry, high, Saharan airy feel of Wazamba. Which is fine by me. It’s a cracker.
mitia58 – :
Just tried this at Portland, Oregon’s little shop Fumerie Perfumerie. I instantly fell in love with it. BUT
am I the only one thinks that this smells like your hamster cage? CEDAR CEDAR AND CEDAR. That is all I smell and I love it. I dont get the pine? Living in Oregon I do know something about trees.
Deaths_head – :
“Evocative”
Profumum Roma amazes me with every creation, and it ranks up there with Amouage and Xerjoff for me. Each fragrance takes you on a journey and Arso isn’t an exception.
Consider a journey around Christmas time to the middle of the woods to meet with close relatives in a wooden cottage. Happy times are awaiting. Good food, love, warmth, relaxing music, fireplace, red wine, and gifts.
It is cold, not blistering, and grounds are covered by snow. The sky is mostly clear with stars shining but with a few scattered clouds.
You are fully equipped for the journey. There is no apparent threats or moments of scare. No starvation, no attacks by wildlife, accidents, or freezing. Just a long walk in the middle of the woods and through several hills.
After a long journey and going through hills and valleys, the cottage finally becomes visible from the middle of the trees once you reach the top of the last hill. Adults are creating a camp fire of pine woods. Smoke and fire can be seen and laughs can be heard from distance.
As you get closer to the cottage, you can smell the burning smokey pine trees. People come forward and greet you.
You enter the cottage and warm yourself by the fireplace. Your better half dressed in beautiful and colorful Christmas clothes approaches you to give you a snug hug followed by a kiss. She cozies up with you until you warm up from your journey.
After having a good meal, you go out by the well established fire to enjoy the shining stars, the company of your better half, and the warmth of the camp fire indulged by smoky burning pine tree.
Arso depicts the most natural form of burning pine trees in cold weather. It is extremely dark, deep, and rich. It has to be one of the best combos of woody smoky fragrances.
The longevity and performance is beast mode like any other Profumum Roma fragrance. No more than 2-3 sprays please because it is capable of filling a ballroom.
I spilled some by mistake in my car’s glove compartment. I could still smell it months after.
Arso may not be playful or sensual like rose fragrances, but it can be romantic if it is applied properly.
It is best to be worn in colder months. Thank you Profumum Roma for this wonderful creation.
10/10.
alexhahter – :
Arso is an original and great proposal of Profumun Roma.
The fragrance starts with a sweet touch bordering the gourmand to the purest traditional pastry style (this beginning reminds me a lot of the filling of some cakes made with “almond”, walnut, anise and sugar). After this sweet phase, the fragrance begins to smoke by the incense and becomes more and more woody by the pine and sure that by the balsamic fir that also carries, and the birch wood that contributes the hue leather, vegetal leather and nothing Animal, that here, with all this lot gives the sensation is the one of a chimney that burns resinous wood in a night of cold winter.
The fragrance becomes darker but the feel is warm, cozy and floats around you like a smoky mist with that almond dotted with lilac flower and narcissus background by the terpineol-resins effect that never disappears on this olfactory path.
The drying is much more resinous and incensed, rubbing the church, spiritual and Zen effect on tiptoe. It is soothing, peaceful and reflective. The resin notes are powerful, opulent, but they are not heavy, they are rather like a cloud floating along the incense.
Arso I love it, it is an almost monolithic fragrance, of modern, abstract, complex, suggestive, well-made and calming-home-like.
Excellent durability, good projection without being exaggerated and exceptional qualities.
Rating: 9.1
pasha50 – :
The longevity on this is unbelievable. I put it on around 5PM and the next morning at 8 the scent remained on my wrists/arms. One of the best.
aliscuper – :
Wxmath ya mate gotta love pine and incest 🙂
bermut74 – :
Not as beastly as others from this fragrance house, but outstanding nonetheless. Could be worn at office/daytime due to lower sillage. Pine and incest come together in a wonderful combination. I’d grade it an A- only because I prefer more sillage. Longevity is outstanding, as usual from this house.
garikkk14 – :
Going to go all cliche here, so please forgive me. This is an example of the power of perfumery. When a fragrance tells a story or evokes a general feeling then you know its legit! This is the case with Arso. I will not go into the notes. All I will say is this perfume is a cold, bracing walk in the woods at dawn. This smokey coniferous work of art plays the part of an olfactory hammer, smashing away the landscape around you and taking you to that majestic forest or the victory you might be celebrating from another life. Arso like its’ name burns into your memory and imagination! Highly recommended!!!!
exis75 – :
there are a lot of similar to cape heartache – Imaginary Authors !! very !! about 90%
velzedushko – :
Short review
Probably the best and most natural pine-centric scent I’ve smelled, but thats a very limited number. It is like cracking some bark off and sniffing a tree.
slavayer – :
“Slight smoky and woody… a cedar forest on a cool winter morning.”
Arso is a 2011 fragrance from Profumum Roma, an Italian niche fragrance house. The house is best known arguably for two particular fragrances: Ambra Aurea and Fumidus. Both are lauded by many people, and prominent fragrance blogger Kafkaesque has claimed the former to be the golden standard for amber fragrances and the latter to be a must-sniff for whiskey-smoky fragrance lovers.
Unlike Ambra Aurea or Fumidus, Arso is a very light and airy fragrance. That would be a surprise to most people, including myself, who would expect a heavy fragrance instead judging purely from the notes on Fragrantica. On my skin, the cedar note is especially conspicuous and strongly reminds of Creed’s Royal Oud. Cedar is a quirky woody note to me as it is one that is uniquely light, unlike most other woody notes (except for sandalwood).
I also get some hints of pine and incense. However, for the incense it’s not the typically charred, super-smoky kind. It’s very light and even faintly sweet. Unlike the Fragrantica note pyramid, I do not get any resin or leather notes in Arso at all.
Because of its airiness and versatility, this is a great fragrance for daily office wear. It’s also unisex and good for anyone who favors light-woody fragrances. And I certainly recommend this over Royal Oud; it’s more affordable, has better longevity and thoroughly pleasant.
laurynas73 – :
Arso is a very linear fragrance, there is no top/middle/base developing here as the composition is very smoky and woody.
To me it smells exactly like a Christmas-tree set on fire. Good warming scent for the winter, very original in the artistic way, but definitely not a sensual or date scent.
Very good longevity and pretty heavy sillage.
Pappan – :
Excellent and very unusual fragrance. I get very little projection with excellent longevity, which for this type of fragrance would be necessary.
This smells like my grandmother’s house.
Coal ash, resinous balsamic incense, charred pine needles. It reminds me of the little cones of incense I would get from Germany & Austria as a child to make the smoke come from the little toy cabins.
I love it but I would probably never use or purchase more than 30ml.
omen747 – :
Scent – pine resin & smoke.
Season/Time of Day – I prefer to use this one in the colder months, day or night.
Projection – I did get noticed, I didn’t get a compliment.
Longevity – I get 12hrs consistently.
unlompume – :
This is a delightful church-y incense, it plays in the same smelly space as Piguet’s Casbah and CdG’s Avignon, though it’s more of a skin scent than Casbah and much warmer than Avignon.
Arso starts off a little disjointed and metallic. As it warms up on skin, the components deepen and fuse into a resinous smokiness. But then there’s the leather, and it’s like the best bad boy cliche that ever happened. You know it’s not a good idea, but…
AlexNV1984 – :
Arso, hmmmm, this parfum from Profumum Roma is a puzzle. Yes Arso means “burnt” in Italian. But Arso also sounds like Arse as the British pronounce it. Arso also sounds like asshole if you say it fast. I wonder if Profumum Roma was showing a sense of humor when they were formulating this scent? Because all of the above apply. Arso does smell burnt, it also smells piney and there’s some incense and resin (pine sap?) in there too. At first Arso is a very dry smelling burnt wood, with pine and lots of cedar. Leather is listed in the ingredients, but it’s not heavy. At first there is that heavy wood smoke scent, then that dries down to the cedar, a lot of cedar. Then comes the ass part of Arso. It’s like a musky, animalic, body scent, that play’s against all the other ingredients and stays that way for hours (the leather?). It’s wood, smoke, pine and body odor. It’s clean and skanky at the same time. That’s what I get from Arso. As I said, this parfum is a puzzle, and if you think about it, it’s genius. This is a beautiful, sexy and interesting fragrance.
DjoNig – :
This fragrance is so evocative. I feel the Magic in a winter evening, talking in front of a fireplace…listening story about the woods and the fairy. Waiting for Christmas days. For me, it is a waming hug and cuddles in front a fire..
La magia delle sere invernali davanti il camino. Parlando e ascoltando storie di fate. E’ l’attesa dei giorni natalizi… Il calore di un abbraccio… le coccole di fronte a un fuoco.
atasgr – :
I was looking for a fragrance that reminds me the winter evening in front the fire place, telling and listening wonderful stories, waiting Christmas time. I found it! Arso is unique!Profumum Roma it’s a really fine italian art.
Zmeelov – :
Its simple, if you remember as kids you would sharpen your pencils and all those shaving that are left behind if you ever got a whiff of those well this is what is in Arso very heavy dose of cedar then toss in there some fresh pine resins and light that on fire and you get this fragrance sounds basic? well, it is but in the winter time this is truly a beauty.potent also so be careful with the sprays.
npuexaJlu – :
Ideal Person: Ned Stark, before King’s Landing (Game Of Thrones)
Ideal Place: Alone, or nearly alone, in an old growth forest, making preparations for a hard winter. The sun has just set, you’ve sparked a fire and, apart from the darkness outside of your little halo of light and warmth, there’s nothing causing you trepidation. You are sure you’re going to survive the coming cold.
General Associations: Green and smoke. Hard, outdoor labor done by one accustomed to it. Old fashioned, stoic masculinity with a healthy dose of the laconic loner. Any woodland mythology that isn’t childish and contains an element of terror and a classic hero.
I absolutely love this scent. While I feel forced to say that it’s basically masculine, a woman with a certain can-do attitude could model this baby with aplomb. There is nothing boozy or foody about it, which couldn’t please me more (I tend to dislike fragrances that remind me of mundane humanity by incorporating notes that drag one’s thoughts toward eating or drinking; unless done with an EXTREMELY avant-garde approach, I can invariably pass those by). This is pure tree sap and smoke, swaddled in leather, and it just keeps working through an eight hour day. It’s a hero that won’t quit until the job is done and is in no way cynical about his role or his task. You gotta respect that.
atom88 – :
I don’t get burnt Christmas trees as other reviewers have mentioned, but I do get a pine forest with some freshly cut timber and a small campfire in the vicinity. This is a woody incense accord that is strong but not overbearing, expertly blended, and surprisingly pleasant — not a dark, foreboding black forest, but one with long shafts of sunlight slicing through tall pine trees onto a shaded forest floor strewn with dry needles.
I can understand the comparisons to Interlude Man, but Arso replaces the oregano with pine resin and comes off a bit less oily, drier and fresher. It is not sweet like Lutens’ concoctions and leans decidedly masculine, and it is not a smoke bomb like Goodsir’s Bois d’Ascese. I absolutely love Profumum Roma’s incense accord, which is on par with Amouage’s: smoky, persistent and contemplative without becoming churchy.
I think it’s a genius blend and wish I found it sooner. The challenge is deciding when to wear it, not because it is off-putting or beasty, but because it smells exactly like my forest description. I consider it more of a personal fragrance. Also, it would be nice if they made a 50 ml size (a little goes a long way). Projection is powerful for the first couple of hours but it lightens up.
I score it a 10/10 and think it’s worth the price when compared to competitive niche offerings. It’s one of the best fragrances I own.
щдщдщд – :
Profumum Roma’s Arso accomplishes the great feat of mixing some great cold weather notes of resin, pine, cedar, incense, and leather, and somehow coming off a bit sweet in the process. I love the mix of notes on paper and they end up being harmonious on skin, as well. The leather is comparatively subdued, as I get mostly pine, incense, and resins, but this certainly still feels like a partly leather fragrance somewhere in the mix.
I regard it as almost halfway between the sweeter Imaginary Authors Cape Heartache and the sharper D.S. & Durga Bowmakers, though it leans closer to the former, just without its noteworthy strawberry sweetness. Still, there’s something about Arso that’s sweet, and I assume it to be the resins. One notable YouTube reviewer said it wasn’t sweet at all, but on my skin, it’s very sweet—perhaps not all-out gourmand sweet, but certainly sweet enough to be called a sweet fragrance, though of course experiences vary.
I believe Arso is depicted as unisex but I regard it as masculine-leaning , though I could imagine some women liking it. Performance is very strong, high projection and well above average longevity. I’m not sure I’d necessarily buy this one given that I own the two similar fragrances I cited above, and Arso is the highest priced of them of them all, at $250 for 100ml, but it’s certainly something to consider in the future. A great fragrance, especially for cold weather.
9 out of 10
rycar otchayaniya – :
Interestingly, the opening of this reminded me of what I was hoping a lot of cedar heavy fragrances would smell like. This could be someone’s Holy Grail for a pencil shaving fragrance.
sergyn2011 – :
I’ve jvst pvrchased a bottle of this jvice. It has a lot of common with Olibanvm from the same hovse. Olibanvm is fresher, with the orange blossom to make it less harsh. Olibanvm feels like a fvneral, becavse of the orange blossom and incense. Arso has some smoke and pine. I feel festive, like drinking Glühwein in a chvrch. Very comfortable. I don’t think ladies will compliment me on this scent bvt I don’t care becavse I’m gay. Sorry ladies!
How to use: even if this juice is expensive, it is better to use more sprays (4-5) but from a certain distance. Don’t try to use less sprays (only 1 or 2) by holding the sprayer too close to your skin. The smell will be awkward. When I spray close to my skin on a single on a single spot, it just makes me want to puke. But from a distance with more sprays, it is divine. This perfume is very special: you will be able to smell it but it is not a sillage monster. My friends have to come close to notice it. You will be able to smell the burnt note, that one that can make you gag, but your friends won’t. One of my friend thought I was wearing Fou d’Absinthe, go figure…
Evga-007 – :
Burnt christmas tree, that’s what this smells like.
dima_ant76 – :
Aggressive Musky Pencil Shavings
Oh, just, such an utter disappointment. I’ll put that right out there. I thought I would LOVE this perfume, a leather-resin-pine-incense perfume? That is so up my alley. I got a 10 ml decant of the juice and tested it many times, and each time it didn’t do too much on my skin. Yesterday I decided that I was really going to wear it, on clean skin, with several good sprays, like I would a perfume in my normal rotation.
First–we opened up with a lot of pencil shavings. Very strong pencil shavings note with a muddled little pine note. As the perfume wore I detected maybe a hint of leather, and musk. That’s all it did. It was just awful. Actually it was very tenacious lasting power of 8+ hours, smelling mostly of pencil shavings, musk, and a hint of pine.
Arso reminds me a bit of Tam Dao (but Tam Dao, despite also having a pencil note, does a lot more on my skin) and the mentioned Fille Aigulles (which opens up as a nice wooded pine forest on my skin but ultimately peters out and doesn’t do much either.) But the bottom line–I expect a hell of a lot more from a perfume that costs $240 a bottle than some musk, pencils, and a hint of pine.
So, so, so disappointing. I’m irritated that I bought even 10 ml of this stuff.
kopee4ka90 – :
Smells like a tree stump, leaking sap, suffused with smoke from last night’s camp fire.
It’s interesting, evocative….but not something that I would want to smell like.
lmn714elipseskism – :
Last year i had to cut down a young tree with a mini chainsaw, it took forever and the chainsaw was struggling and smelled like it was going to die. This fragrance smells just like being 6 inches away from the chainsaw and that tree stump!!
did smell nice, but don’t want to smell like it.
urcha-55 – :
8 hours later and every note is very detectable. Mainly the woody, smoky notes on a nice leather base. The pine is present but does not overwhelm. I myself am not a big pine lover but blended with woods and smoke this is magical. Very masculine but not overdone like powerhouse scents of yesteryear. A bit on the pricy side but besides that is a perfect blend!
Эвелина4 – :
One word for this Fragrance EXQUISITE.Nothing else needs to be said ,Try it and you will see why 😉
Lena Khalepa – :
Arso smells nothing like Fille en Aiguilles to me. The latter has a gingerbread thing happening at first, before developing over time into pine trees growing in the heat. Arso starts off like pencil shavings in a really good way: cedar. Burned cedar. Olibanum then moves forward, but the smokey cedar aspect persists. Excellent longevity and sillage.
centikxxx – :
I’ve never been partial to pine fragrances on my skin at least, they are hit and miss with me, but this is off the rails crazy good on me! The resins are blended in a superb fashion. Extremely masculine in my eyes. Lasts all day. Projection is very good.
8.5/10
yuj126bedyWelty – :
One of the few scents of the House to have a personal, intense, burning and pleasantly attractive. Try it.
igorunkul85 – :
This is indeed, “good poop”.
In fact, I love it. I was worried it would be too much; the name means burnt, the endless reviews saying it smells like a Christmas tree on fire.
I got none of this really. I did try Fumidus at the same time and that really does smell of burned material, in fact, it smells just like a campfire that has been put out by rain – too much.
But not Arso, it’s far more subtle yet still bold.
The most dominant smell for me was pencil sharpenings – it’s lovely. I guess that is cyprus wood, very, very moreish!
It’s quite a simple conposition so I might combine it with something more risky for a night out, like a Roja Dove but alone, it’s warm, welcoming, cosy and comforting, but all in a very modern, stylish way.
Great, great scent.
efforEnelve – :
the cousin of Interlude man from Amouage burnt resins but no frankincense..if you like the smell of napalm in the morning go for it!