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dima_i_Yulya – :
Carnival D’Havana is a complex fragrance ready to send you on a dizzying trip with multi-faceted qualities bursting from every seam. It starts off incredibly musky with a heavy dose of tobacco and mango (which more often than not smells like apricot – or some hybrid of the two) as well as some elements of the Castoreum (the sweeter/vanillic musk) which pair with the smutty and heady white floral notes coming from the awe-inspiring tuberose at play here. Here the tuberose might pull some tricks from its bag which you haven’t experienced before (which is perhaps due in part to the array of notes behind the tuberose, which rarely join her in such a chorus) the tuberose uses its heady quality as a narcotic of sorts, sending you stumbling through your late night foray into the wild celebration taking place before your very eyes.
The cade seems to here be adding a ‘dark’ feeling to the rum to create a boozy effect behind the incredibly syrupy mango, which dance atop a fusion of cedar and Guaiac Wood. Occasionally one can smell the styrax peeking through as if the woods and cade fade off into a leather that trails off for miles.
I can also say that, as the fragrance grows, and the tobacco gets louder, it feels as though the incense and leathery effect (from the cade? The Styrax? Both?) seem to grow as well, although never losing sight of the sweet and chewy qualities which permeated the entirety of the first half of the fragrance.
I would describe the experience as such: booze, styrax, dry and worn leather (cade), apricot, chewy as all hell tobacco, smoky incense, all of which seems to be emanating from a group of very warm bodies, as if at a music festival whereupon this is the combination of dense, thick, chewy smells in a chorus of ecstatic communion.
There are in fact a lot of musky, animalic, smoky, leathery notes hanging out throughout the fragrance – musk, tobacco, cade, and styrax among the most evident radiating throughout the totality, but in fact there are habitual sweet and boozy notes which seem to jump forth from the musky haze at different times throughout the duration of this fragrance.
It cools down eventually to a creamier, more thoroughly woody, musky tobacco oriented fragrance, and becomes a lot more about refined class than a wild and vibrant festival of sweet, smoky human activity. As I caught in my earlier notes: the woodiness seems to grow as well, and there seems to be a hard to catch trade off in the creamy-sweet quality with fruit and rum somehow gets partially supplanted by the sandalwood, and it becomes more pronounced as the Guaiac Wood becomes more prominent within the honeyed and waxy-oily character while teaming up with the incense to produce a smoky, ever so slightly rubbery aroma. The resins and animalic notes at this point still continue to produce this wonderfully vague musky/sweet affect that always seems to appear first, and then produce an aftereffect of tobacco, as if the two are interconnected.
Truly an adventure if any fragrance could actually exemplify such a notion
9/10
YT: Jess AndWesH
marijakat555 – :
“Havana is a mistress of pleasure, the lush and opulent goddess of delights.” Cabaret Quarterly, 1956.
The heavy cigar and rum accords with a touch of mango accent transport me to my imaginary Havana having fun in the carnival, salsa dancing with Compositor Confundido in the background.
kolobokSV – :
Best ever real cuban expensive cigar smell in oil. Unbeatable!!!! Masterpiece!!!
zero_zero – :
Best ever real cuban expensive cigar smell in oil. Unbeatable!!!! Masterpiece!!!
axosseskefs1969 – :
Soft smokey mango, mango with the sweetness turned way down. Would never have imagined that I would like a mango perfume, as “fruity” usually means excessively sweet.
Flowers are whispering very quietly with the beaver in the background, the whole experience soft, warm, comforting and at the same time interesting. I find that very rare in perfumery.
I don’t understand what the previous reviewer means about performance, all SP:s I’ve tried last at least 12h.
This is my absolute favorite from the 25 or so samples I have tried from SP and the only fb so far.
They all are extremely high quality perfumes with the very best ingredients, but this one really speaks to me and doesn’t remind me of anything else.
I am drawn to perfumes with high quality natural ingredients and I would say that SP in on the same level as Anna Zworykina (my most favorite perfumer) when it comes to me being able to smell that quality. The main difference is that SP’s compositions usually are more classic, traditional and AZ’s come from an unusual, romantic place that I’ve never encountered in perfumery before (or after). Highly recommend exploring both of them!
wrcwfnkvi5e – :
Fantastic
Sultan is really talented
It’s out of This world
already placed order
al hamdulilah
kiparis – :
Intense, unsweetend nag champa-incense with fresh tobacco. I would say that i got a few “wiffs” of guava in there somewhere, but no mango.
sheriff1962 – :
Opens like buttery cigars with bitter gases! Smells like an old furniture shop with paraffin heaters. After a few minutes turning waxy and vegetal. Turns sweet after 20 mins or so. It’s really good……unusual. The DRYDOWN is stunning….hard to describe. Like perfumed earth. 5 stars for this one! It’s almost an Iris, floral, gorgeous, deep and boozey with sweet toboacco. Amazing!!