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julka68 – :
Each time I’ve worn Encens Mythique I think I should pen a review. And when I try and do it I feel I don’t have the sophistication or vocabulary to do it justice. So here’s my amateur attempt:
It’s F’ing gorgeous.
This is everything I love about perfume. A deep rose with incense, and I can taste the ocean. I realize that must be the ambergris accord, and it’s done so well. I love this blend. Maintains stellar stamina for several hours. For the price, it should.
This is one of the reasons Guerlain is my favorite commercial house. Sure their are duds in their lineup but they keep pushing forward, and then I discover this beautiful creation. I really need to stop falling in love with the expensive stuff, I can’t afford this bottle and it’s going to haunt me.
aivarsro – :
A solid like. A beautiful marine-rose entry. I think this shows how well Guerlain can be if they put their minds to something and turn out something modern and great.
I feel they are using a top notch Ambergris aromachemical. Real ambergris has a musky full warmth about it and here it reads a little thin. It marries well with the rest of the story. Very sophisticated.
Inzage – :
Um, wow.
I know I’m a Guerlain fangirl, but this is transcendent even for them.
There is a soft, cushiony aldehydic opening—aldehydes unlike any I’ve encountered—followed by a sumptuousness of rose, incense, and a note so completely enveloping and interesting it can only be genuine ambergris or a highly competent imposter of divine whale excrement. It straddles the line between powdery and oily in a masterful way.
I mean, really. I know I can get overly flowery, but this transcends gender and earthly bounds alike. Rose, ambergris and incense: land, sea and sky.
It makes me think of how incense was originally meant as a visual prayer, a vessel of our fondest hopes and desires trailing up to heaven in the hope it might please the deity who encounters it.
16 hours later one tiny sample spray is still wafting up rose, saffron, and deep, dreamy ambergris.
jmo507Negeltzex – :
Encens Mythique d’Orient is a hidden Guerlain gem. Having absolutely no real connection to the French luxury brand, the Middle Eastern collections occasionally get overlooked by those who prefer their Guerlain to come in the form of Liu or Meteorites. As a brand that has never, to the best of my knowledge, produced a scent that has garnered absolute hate, my hopes were high and… they were completely fullfilled. There is NOTHING I could think to change about this scent, for it is perfect in almost every single way. I hate to gush, but you rarely come across these types of scents in the Western world and the attention to detail in this beautiful scent is amazing
It is bold, spicy and balsamic. The first application will knock your socks off and it will slowly, but surely, dry down to a beautiful spicy ambregris and saffron base. The first five to thirty minutes are a blast of dense aldehydes, so dense you could knock yourself out, pink pepper and a bold rose. The rest is all about saffron, patchouli, vinegar and a beautiful ambregris imitation.
Guerlain can very rarely do wrong, it seems.
Mevro243JeomiWogkig – :
These are the most impressive reviews I’ve ever read on this site. With that said, I hate synthetic ambergris in large quantities, but always imagined I’d like the real thing. Here’s to exploration, because thanks to all your reviews, now I get to find out. I’ll be buying some samples of this, which are surprisingly well priced on eBay – cheaper by the ML in fact, than buying a full bottle! (After a $10 eBay coupon, I got 10x 1ml samples of this for only $15! Even before the coupon, that’s only $2.5/ml)Update: One spray, and INSTANTLY I saw what all the fuss was about! This is AMAZING! Dark and resinous and mineral and aquatic, all at the same time.
This isn’t abrasive or obnoxious like synthetic ambergris at all! This is everything you could ever ask for in terms of a journey for your nose and it’s one of the most intriguing scents I’ve experienced to date. This deserves more wearing and I’ll be back to review this scent more later!
zahar1972 – :
The first time I smelt this I knew I had hit the jackpot. Dense, rich, thick, opulent, otherworldly – buttery ambergris, rose & aldehydes. I believe the ingredient are really of the highest quality i.e. a big dose of rose absolute & real ambergris (what else could possibly smell like this!) I’ve sprayed this to write this review and I’m sniffing it every few moments like I sometimes chain sip a fine wine.
Performance is top notch. 3 sprays on my chest and I can smell it strongly and constantly for the first 5 to 6 hours. 12-14+ hours there is still some sillage.
sastre1 – :
This is the scent I wear just for me. Airy and dreamy. Great longevity on skin. On clothing or my pillow it lasts for days, beautifully lingering… On my skin this is all bout ambergris, incense, and a light dusty rose. I normally don’t like rose frags, but here the rose is like a dusty rose incense. A little goes a long way, which makes it FB worthy to me. It is an unusual scent, so test first. It seems more of an experience than a perfume. Both feminine and masculine. I should probably finally wear it out around others!
lox683speagoessenda – :
A scent where each stage leaves you in awe. Beautiful development, beautiful blending, beautiful sillage. Unique and classy and exotic, but not for everyone. Well worth a sniff.
123asd123 – :
Like trabuquera below, Mythique d’Orient went very wrong on my skin. It certainly is a woody, resinous fragrance which usually is great for me, but with only a half-spray of a tester vial, I was overwhelmed by a powerhouse fragrance that never mellowed, nor did it play nice with my chemistry.
This fragrance has HUGE staying power, and seems like a big oud presence, to my nose. I might like this better on someone else, but I definitely recommend you try before you buy.
тамара55 – :
This perfume is astoundingly gorgeous. It’s complicated and the performance (for me) is excellent. I adore ambergris, and I can smell it very distinctly in this perfume. I highly recommend you snatch it up while it’s still available.
lenie – :
This starts AMAZING, well-balanced between feminine and masculine, gorgeous incense with rose, deep and glamorous. Unfortunately after 10 mins it starts to smell kind of old man-ish on me. 🙁
tff920InsuffBooni – :
A classical beast which does not compromise – either you love what it represents – an exquisite lesson in perfumery (aldehyde, chypre, floral-oriental, marine – it has it all, in abundance, thereby achieving to smell universal as well as individual) or you simply despise its glistening opulence as too much in every way. You need to love it, otherwise it’s not easy perfume to wear – demands dedication for the slow developmet, huge sillage and longevity.
My husband describes it as “awe-inspiring”.
To me it just smells miraculous, like a rare find coming from the depths of the ocean.
Burik1502 – :
Nice juice, slightly cloying after 2hrs with 4 sprays. Saffron, rose and moss intertwined together. Smooth dry down laced with ambergris. I like it, not a power house but more testing is warranted.
Scent – 7
silage – 5
Longevity – 4hrs then skin
Aleksandr2012 – :
Ha! Thank goodness! I was getting worried that I’d fallen in love with any and all Guerlain special editions and would end my life in debt to service a new addiction. Not with this one, though – in a paradoxical triumph for me, this goes *horrible*on my skin – just reeking of some sort of car air freshener. Might be the aldehydes, which are always on the edge of impossible with me, but this cloys and nauseates, for my taste. Weird. But what a relief. Don’t gamble (especially not at this price) on blind buying FBs of this – try before buying and if you can deal with it, enjoy!
koryt63 – :
Encens? Where?? While I love (and have) some of this and other Guerlain special series, this is my least favorite among them. The authentic ambergris really isn’t enough to warrant a mention of support or function to tamp down the cloying, sharp, and extremely dominate rose; more of a marketing ploy. If one is truly looking for an exotic, spicy desert rose experience without being beat over the head with thorny blooms, I strongly recommend a search-and-locate expedition for M. Micallef’s discontinued Red Sea… and Black Sea as well (though this one does not list rose, it’s sedately and unobtrusively there). Mythique doesn’t possess a lot of sillage (low/moderate), nor longevity (a couple of hours), the absence of both not justifying the expense.
alexcasperr – :
La prairie Life Threads Emerald reminded me of thi, also its much cheaper
boryan – :
Oh.
This is what real ambergris smells like. This perfume is an education in ingredients.
This fragrance is hard to explain and I can’t think of anything like it. It’s lovely, and it makes me think about Hindu temples and far-off places.
That said, this one might not be your cuppa tea – it’s exotic in a way that not everyone will like. Definitely worth tracking down a sample.
wilopfort – :
One of the most gorgeous marvels of modern perfumery, this total stunner from Guerlain is amazing because it creates the mystique of Hindu temple incense without including frankincense at all. Rather master perfumer Thierry Wasser blends moss, saffron, rose, ambergris and musk with aldehydes to render a spot on evocation of the rather sweeter incense laden smells in temples with the heavy floral garlands and fruit offerings. Sweet, bright, glowing, and lovingly lingering and evolving on your skin, this is a perfume to treasure and fall in love every time you revisit it. Moderate in sillage and long lasting this is also perfectly unisex and projects wonderfully. Bravo!
tony95 – :
Oh, my, my, my! This is the long, lost love I have only recently met. What do I mean by that? I don’t know…I’m just head-over-heels, madly in love with this one. The ambergris touches something deep in my brain. I’m going to quit trying to describe my love for this but let me tell you; as expensive as it is, I had to find a way to purchase a (discount-priced) back-up bottle within a week of receiving the (discount-priced) first….which I bought within a week of trying it for the first time! Thank you, N*tin* for occasional discount sales and especially LoriAlyse83 for the many samples you have sent me!
saxa235 – :
Update: Well this one has transformed. I retested and instead of incense I got a rich, sort of oudy tinged rose. It’s actually quite subtle. On me it’s soft, alluring and gentle. It hangs on forever, but not strongly. Instead I keep getting wiffs of a slightly spicy rose with incense throughout the day.
I bought a bottle on sale from Notino. I won’t wear this when I want STRONG perfume, but when I want an elegant, grown up fragrance.
Original: Dang. Dang. Dang. 🙁 My incense amping skin strikes again.
I got a sample of this because the notes are right up my alley. But on my skin it’s just dry incense. 🙁 No rose, no ambergris, nothing. I just get a dry sort of church incense. Don’t get me wrong, I like incense, and have some incense scents but I was hoping that finally a rose and incense perfume would balance well on me. The search continues.
If you struggle with incense at all definitely test this before purchase.
Tayri – :
This was love at first sniff! I love incense based fragrances and this one is an expertly crafted scent. And of course very expensive. I wish I could find anything to match it that wasn’t $400 a bottle. Most incense fragrances end with a sickening sweet note on the dry down. This is just smokey, woody incense all the way down and, to me, is the perfect “encens”. I knew it was good when my son, who typically complains about fragrances, said “You smell really good” when he snuggled up next to me.
anatoliu53 – :
This perfume explains literally the meaning of perfume’s notes:
A musky touch first spray .After two hours, the ambergris will knock your nose’s door and say hello with lovely scent exploring the deepest part of your nose . Later, within five hours the bueaty of perfume will satnd and sings for you a very sensational song from the arabian dessert combine with woody blended with complex notes your nose will rather enjoy the smell than try to discover that beautiful and magical of that note.
Personally, I recommend this for winter or spring not autumn or summer
Note: if you’re not a fan of amber or musk i would prefer to spray on your hand or shirts and after two hours your heart will sing ” it has been long day without my friend ” then, you will scream singing while you walking to that store ” i came like a wrecking ball”
Thank you for your reading ❤️
5healthinsurancev – :
Scent
I have tried many so-called aquatic fragrances in the hope that they would genuinely remind me of the sea. Not one came close. If anything, they remind me of artificial melon flavour. The ambergris in Encens Mythique is the dark saltiness I was craving. This is no pool party for clean-cut poster children, this is the real deal, meditative and complex, as if standing on the rocky shore of a northern sea at dusk. Expect leviathans.
The ambergris really comes out in the second half of the fragrance; at the beginning, the main scent is a luminous rose. After a few hours, the tentacles of the ambergris begin to lace around and finally overwhelm it.
There is a rare and inedible sweetness at the heart of every phase of this fragrance which saves it from being a Lovecraftian horror, and transforms the experience to one of beauty and elegance. The tone is one of mystery and majesty.Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries- stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
– Herman Melville, Moby-DickPerformance
Unlike other perfumes, Encens Mythique does not open with a blast, especially if you use the splash bottle option (which I highly recommend). Instead, the strength of what you smell on first sniff is about what you will get for the next 1-3 hours, after which it will soften a little and carry on tirelessly for another 6+.
Since it does not open with a direct slap to the nose, many people seem to panic. That accounts for the the weak juice reviews you read here, which I can say from my experience are nonsense. People can convince themselves of anything when it comes to the realm of fragrance.
I bought EMDO from a brick-and-mortar store in Canada. It is one of the few perfumes I get compliments on. It does not really radiate at one steady rate, but arrives at the nose of oneself and others in ethereal drifts. This is another characteristic which I deem excellent which likely throws others into a panic. When wearing EMDO, accept the ebb and flow; trust that in a few moments, your rose and ambergris will return to you of their own free will.Overall
Gorgeous, high-quality, long-lasting. Nothing like it.
Edit: I love this more and more. The downside (or upside, from a Marie Kondo perspective) is that most of the other fragrances I have (and the vast majority of what I sample) just do not measure up anymore. The new bar any fragrance must meet for me is: is it worth NOT wearing EMDO for a day?
1986310 – :
If I woudnt have the Double Vanille this would be my signature. Absolute Love …. masterpiece…
Lovestro – :
Unbelievably changing scent: A saffron start with a trace of gently powdered new spice.
Later the spice remained, the saffron receded a bit, and is slowly replaced with amber and the petals of the dark red roses. The smell is dense. Reminds a bit Epic and Lyric from Amouage. Brilliant intensity.
hfg868elipseskism – :
One of the most intriguing, beautiful, sensual and masterful perfumes in recent memory. It’s less of a perfume than it is a mental vacation.
An aromatic frankincense, with its authentic citrusy-sharpness, leavened delicately with another aromatic (menthol? eucalyptus? camphor?) descends into a lush, erotic rose, dusted with saffron.
All the while that hypnotic, authentic, salty, melancholy ambergris just transports you to a hidden, primeval beach in the Middle East. Better wear your Burqa! I know of no other fragrance which employs ambergris to this lavish extent. If there IS an olfactory aphrodesiac, ambergris is IT.
A post-er above says it smells like man-parts. No, dahling, that’s SL MKK you’re thinking of; Um…. I’d say it’s lady-parts I am smelling here, spicy, tigery, oceanic and musky: this perfume is probably the ultimate boudoir/lovemaking fragrance I can imagine. At the risk of being crude, I think EMdO, in far drydown, smells like the most expensive, hard-to-get p****y on the planet.
Very expensive, as we know, and increasingly hard to locate, ENCENS MYTHIQUE is an incredible Arabic dreamscape. A modern masterpiece.
vovan759 – :
This is almost identical to Lyric by Amouage with the animalic note. It’s certainly interesting but I wouldn’t buy a bottle. Maybe it would work better with a man’s chemistry. The quality of this though, is second to none.
airat-80 – :
When first applied it’s a pretty saffron-rose but in less than a minute aldehydes kick in and there would be an aldehyde-rose combo with a hint of pink pepper powder on your skin for about 10 minutes or so.next stage is ambergris-rose’s era blended with incense ofcourse(not burning incense)ambergris becomes stronger and steals first role from rose.a combination of ambergris,rose,incense and woods is what lasts for hours with you.very good longevity,more than moderate sillage
It has an animalic vibe which translates as sexy to many people but it’s not dirty thanks to aldehydes.it’s a mature scent,a quality scent which screams being niche-like and exquisite and not everyone’s cup of tea
Definitely not my cup of tea too as I hate ambergris and incense
It’s bottle and packaging is amazing though
qtq691JeomiWogkig – :
This is the feminine counterpart to Ambre Eternel (also by Thierry Wasser), where real (no doubt at all about this) ambergris is counterbalanced by aldehydes and a warm and soft incense rather than enforced by leather and coriander in AE, and a powerful rose plays a lot stronger floral note than the discrete ylang ylang and orange blossom in AE, while the woody notes are similar.
Longevity is impressive in both, but sillage is weaker in Encens Mythic than in Ambre Eternel.
The precious ingredient here is ambergris, an ambergris of outstanding quality we also find in AE. Both frags are absolute masterpieces though very different in the end.
kulibin – :
Picture yourself sitting across from an impeccably dressed woman. She comes from money. Old money. She’s highly educated, exudes sophistication, and a cool but proud demeanour permeates any environment she finds herself in. Her gaze is confidant and slightly intimidating, but yet when she laughs the room brightens, and all heads turn. You can’t believe you’re in the company of this individual, and yet she sits before you, warmly engaging, and on occasion she flirtatiously places her hand on yours as she laughs at one of your anecdotes.
Picture that, and you get a hint of what Encens Mythique offers. This is high class in a bottle. Achingly beautiful!
There is absolutely no point in me breaking it down note by note, other than to tip my hat to what is (in my humble opinion) such an adept and masterful execution of ambergris. The salty animalic nature is there, but nestled amidst the other constituents with such impeccable balance.
Perfection!
Лир – :
At first it reminded me of something smelled at beauty parlors, and then incense. Pungent incense like copal. It stayed dark and resinous, maybe with hints of saffron and other listed notes but always staying in that dark resinous vein.
don.dworydkin – :
I won’t bore you with a repeat description…but this is my second signature scent, ever. It is absolutely exquisite. I purchased it while living in the middle east and worry based on what I’v read here that if I purchase in the US, it won’t be the same (but the price will!). I assumed I would purchase the Rose Nacree when I entered the shop. But I was drawn again and again to this! I saved my pennies and walked in one day & purchased shortly before leaving for home. Zero regret except that I didn’t purchase a second bottle. It’s super sexy and animalistic…but also a bit refined and elegant. Everyone notices when I wear it! And it lasts for DAYS! I find myself wearing it sparingly, which is such a shame. Moreover, I like perfume mostly for myself and my own enjoyment, so it really annoys me that I’m saving it now! First, you should check this out. Second, if you are considering it, although it’s such a personal decision & subjective…just know that I think it’s worth every penny!
vellev – :
a beautiful homage to Nahema….the original Nahema….the one I remember smelling in 1980 10/10
ult1matum – :
This feels very fresh when first sprayed on, it’s like you have soaked rose petals in water left it for a while and then sprayed it on your skin. It’s not overwhelming as the incense quickly follows which smells like white musk and then I can pick up the ambergris. The ambergris smells slightly sweet and salty.
The scent is very ethereal and feels watery on the skin as you have a light shimmering effect of light rose, incense and ambergris. It smells very plush and is so well balanced, no note feels bold or overwhelming. Everything is light and airy, imagine a breeze coming your way with a sweet, salty rose just caressing your senses.
After a while you can pick up other notes within the mystical like breeze of a scent like saffron and Patchouli. All this is tightly weaved in a ethereal fashion smelling very classy and plush, you could imagine a Arabian princess wearing this.
A very beautiful fragrance and worthy of praise.
ijm902Bessinepome – :
Sheer and airy, like the Seventh Veil. Lingering like a soft kiss from a favorite lover.
Encens Mythique D’Orient, so subtle and beguiling. Mostly for me, it is about the Ambergris. Something of the Sea is very apparent in EMdO. A gentle salt, like skin that has just recently come out of the water.
Everything about this fragrance is refined. The incense, saffron, rose, and my nemesis… patchouli. So very delicate and beautiful. Sparkling, really.
Long-lasting and haunting. More for women, in my opinion, but a certain kind of man would be very enticing wearing this wonderful Guerlain.
alukard-fandorin – :
كثيرة هي العطور و كثيرة هي النوتات و كثيرة هي الدور و بين هذا و ذاك نبقى نحن من نتأرجح بين كل ما ذكرت و يبقى الملل العدو الأكبر لنا ما يجعلنا دائما نبحث عن الجديد و الغوص في بحر هذا العالم الكبير الذي ليس له حدود وصلتني بعض العينات لعطور بعضها امتلكها و بعضها لأول مرة أجربها و من بينها عينة لعطر غيرلاني من مجموعة صحاري الشرق و بالضبط بخور الشرق الاوسطوري encens mythique d’orient جلست في البهو بعد وجبة الغداء و اعددت فنجان قهوى اخدت العينة رشيت منها على ورق التستر ما هذا العطر ما هذه الافتتاحية المتفجرة ملأت المكان بشكل غريب و بسرعة فائقة انتظرت هدوء هذا الوحش الذي اكتسح المكان و بعد لحظات هدأ الوحش و أصبح ناعما زهريا مع الزعفران بعبيره الاخاد مع حضور قوي للعنبر بشكل بخوري أقل ما يمكن وصفه بالراااااااااااائع كثيرة هي العطور التي نسمع عنها بالفخمة هذا العطر سيغير مفاهيم الفخامة عندك نوتة العنبر في أحلى صورها طبيعية بشكل لا يصدق جودة المكونات على أعلى مستوى من النقاء العطر يستقر على قاعدة بخورية غاية في الجمال تلازمه طول الوقت كم كنت خائفا أن تتلاشى مع الوقت لكنها لحسن الحظ بقيت ملازمة للعطر طول مراحله العطر إذا وضعه آدم سينضم للامراء الذين عاشوا في القصور في الماضي لما يحمل العطر من فخامة يحيطك بها من كل الجوانب و يعطيك احساس بالسيطرة على المكان و لمن من هم حولك و إذا تعطرت به حواء كن على يقين أن آدم لن يقاوم هذا السحر الفاتن و سيهيم عشقا فيها بسبب عطرها الذي لا يقاوم و الذي لا يمكن أن تضعه إلا البرانسيسات أو الأميرات في عهد السلطان سليمان هكذا عشت اللحظات مع هذا العطر الذي أقل ما يمكن القول عنه السحر و الفخامة في احلى صورها ارفع القبعة لغيرلان هكذا يوظف العنبر و الا فلا لأن الكثير فشل في توظيفه و يبقى الزعفران هو كلمة السر في جمال و سحر العطور عملها طوم فورد في خلطه مع العود و هاهي جيرلان تعملها مع العنبر إلى لقاء آخر مع عطر آخر مودتي
plombirka – :
A fragrance friend gifted me with a Guerlain carded sample. I promptly fell in love so deeply, I bought more samples and haven’t worn anything else for more than a month. I am NOT a perfume monogamist. The boozy, narcotic opening of rose, saffron aldehydes, and patchouli made my eyes roll to the back of my head. Heart and base of olibanum, ambergris, oakmoss, vetiver… OMFG. Never smelt anything like it! M. Wasser is brilliant. He composed a modern yet traditional French fantasy of an Oriental seraglio, a silk-draped, jeweled setting for sensuous women and men.
Sadly, I’ve had miserable luck finding a bottle that matches the brilliant, almost narcotic quality of my samples’ top notes. I have bought and returned two bottles from reputable sources, including Saks online. And I smelled a tester in-store when I returned that bottle. All bottles contained the same weak juice that blasts you for 5 minutes with alcohol before displaying a pale, weak showing of neroli, oakmoss, and cedar. The bottles’ batch codes were February 2016. The Guerlain card samples were manufactured June 2012.
This is such a puzzle and disappointment, I e-mailed Guerlain to help solve it. This cannot be the same juice sold in the Middle East.
pavlik 1z – :
A generous fragrantician sent me a sample of this around the holidays of last year; I had no idea what to make of it at first because it was so different from my favorites up until that point. I tried it anyway, and after a couple days, every time I smelled Encens Mythique on myself, I heard angels singing.
That sample was gone too soon, but I recently obtained another sample; this time the angels are singing with an orchestra behind them.
On my skin, it’s an airy green rose with just the right amount of smoke. It definitely has a classic feel to it, but every note is so well-blended that it’s never loud; it’s hypnotic.
Now, if only I could afford a full bottle.
EDIT: In a moment of weakness over the Summer, I bought a full bottle and don’t regret it.
Punk_13 – :
this opens up with a floral airyness. i guess it’s rose though it’s not immediately reading as rose to me, but definitely floral. i get something a bit sweet and almost fruity but i have no idea what it is. this begins to smell like freshly shampooed hair to me. i think the standout notes on my skin are rose, ambergris and aldehydes. this is a very light and airy fragrance. i do not get much woodiness though there is a bit of soft spiciness from the pink pepper.
Mikelvaegt – :
Wow, I so didn’t get teh experience most of these reviewers did. Maybe my sample was off, but this went on my skin as screaming melted plastic. Straight out of the vial it smelled like acidic chemicals, but I was hoping for better once it was on the skin. Over time, it softened a lot, but to a over-powdery, antique scent commonly (and unkindly) called ‘little old lady’. Nasty. I scrubbed twice and couldn’t get it to go away, so points for being well made. I wanted so much to love this.
dm_sh_off – :
A spicy smoky Oriental fragrance of sheer beauty. Every little touch is the right touch: saffron, incense, rose, patchouli, ambergris vetiver and woods. This is like a sultana, a sultan’s wife, whose aromatic scent leaves a trail behind her. She seduces with her every pore. The incense note stands out and it’s smoky sexy and alluring. The saffron and rose is beautifully paired. They sit on a base of woods and ambergris. This could almost pass for a Creed fragrance. It’s an evening perfume because it’s very strong and formal. Nothing casual or subtle about it. It’s aromatic, just a little bit sweet with that rose but mainly an incense perfume. It’s decadent and dark and beautiful. If you like scents like Portrait of a Lady by Frederic Malle or Decadence by Marc Jacobs you’ll love this one. It’s got everything but annoying fruit. It’s smoky florals and musk. Simply divine, divine divine.
Szasi – :
Encens Mythique D’Orient is Thierry Wasser at his most sexual.
For indeed, it is not the mere collection of exotic notes one has come to expect from creations with a Middle Eastern theme. You may be led in that direction by glancing over its note breakdown, and you would be forgiven for it.
Encens Mythique D’Orient Itself would forgive you for it.
It is also not a scent for naive amateurs to offer their vulgar noses in the hopes of putting to the test their ability to identify individual notes. Many have tried, all have failed. A few, it is said, have died trying. They will be forgiven for it.
Encens Mythique D’Orient Itself will forgive them for it.
Nay, this chef-d’œuvre is much more than that. You see, Encens Mythique D’Orient isn’t a perfume in the traditional or conventional sense. It is not a boring creation whose notes all stand idly in line like inmates preparing for a head count, or disciplined children before being led into the classroom that will shatter their hopes and dreams.
Instead, Encens Mythique D’Orient’s notes blend together like the bodies of an intoxicated young couple making love for the first time. However, we as the puny smellers of this Beast are not the witnesses of any normal love-making; no. God forbid Encens Mythique D’Orient ever be compared to such a mundane act. We are witnessing a couple whose coital embrace is as old as the Universe. And just when we think we have finally understood Encens Mythique D’Orient, cracked Its code, just as the tiny slit into the Beast’s world we have been peering through expands ever so slightly, we realize how wrong we were.
And Encens Mythique D’Orient overwhelms us again. We were not forgiven. For only then do we realize that we are not looking at a couple. How simple of us to ever think so… In spite of our inability to fathom the very thought, Encens Mythique D’Orient reveals a World in which all members of the Human Race have been copulating with each other since Creation itself.
Simultaneously.
And finally, as we begin to question our very existence, as our worldview collapses, we realize that we too are part of the Universal Orgy that is Encens Mythique D’Orient’s blend of notes.
So yeah, worth the price.
Wargas – :
I don’t have any fragrance notes to add that aren’t already listed here. I do want to add this this is my absolute favorite fragrance and I get compliments every single time I wear it. Every single time. My one question/concern is that I bought mine when I was living in Kuwait. I saved my money for a long time and then bought it before I left the country. But it’s made with real ambergris and my understanding was that perfumes made with ambergris couldn’t be sold in the US. I’ve since seen it for sale in NYC, but I have yet to check it out to see if it’s the same, or if they use a synthetic ambergris. I’ll write back once I check it out! Meanwhile, if you are considering purchasing this exquisite scent and are wondering if it’s worth the high cost: yes, yes it is. Even if it turns out not to match with your body chemistry, you would be able to sell it for very close what you paid!
ukachka – :
To me, it’s so similar the opening peach blast of Mitsouko, but instead of fading into salty spices it stays that way. Very pretty, but not different enough from Mits for me to buy.
sourseGattame – :
A lovely fragrance but on me its just a softer version of Amouage Fate Woman which thankfully I already own. It sort of has the same fizzy quality which I will attri