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SHETOCHKAYUKKA – :
The opening is love at first sniff, the pine is not a typical pine note, and the dry down to the middle notes feels like the perfect balance. Then it starts to crystalize to the base notes, leading to oak moss patchouli and leather, and yet somehow the incense is prominent in all three stages.
When I find something like this, it reminds me why I love fragrance. This smells like the perfumes we all wish were not discontinued and yet modern.
FriendAlex – :
Retro masculine labeled scent.
Huge doses of oakmoss, leather, galbanum, olibanum, and smoke. The colder the smoker it gets with balanced doses of geranium, & pine. I can’t detect no tea, or mint.
This is smokey, and incensy with huge pine tree. Great and well balanced.
lev2486 – :
This is the stuff! Pine, oakmoss, leather – and it lasts. (I don’t get any mint from it.) Retro and masculine. But… I didn’t buy it. $160/bottle at the Scent Bar in L.A. I’m kind of done with expensive scents, to be honest. But this is a good one!
piskamaster – :
After reading Jodi Battershell’s review on here, I was very intrigued to try this one. Luckily I found it at Scent Bar in Los Angeles.
Considering that there are so many niche fragrances these days that are forgettable, this is not the case here.
While other reviewers said they smelled smoky incense, I beg to differ, I never smelled incense that is smoky in perfumery unless you are burning it. Usually incense in perfumery is that dry smell of resin, and smoke comes either from cade, birch tar or natural vetiver. The only smoke that I get here I think comes from natural vetiver.
Anyway, I enjoyed this fragrance, and I think it is unusual in a good way. I find Fumabat to be the perfect balance between dry and sweet, sometimes I can’t even tell if it’s dry or sweet. In the beginning, it is loud but pleasant, with smooth pine and green notes. And then carnation shows up as the perfect bridge between the opening green notes leading to the incense, oakmoss and vetiver. I find it to have completely different chemistry in the skin compared to the spray on the paper strip, and it takes time to reveal itself, longer then I anticipated. Once you smell it, you want to go back for more.
skorpion22 – :
The great George Benson put a song out called “Masquearde” with the first verse as followed: ARE WE REALLY HAPPY HERE WITH THIS LONELY GAME WE PLAY? LOOKING FOR WORDS TO SAY..SEARCHING BUT NOT FINDING, UNDERSTANDING ANYWAY WE’RE LOST IN A MASQUEARDE..and that about sums this fragrance up to a tee! This will give you the illusion that something special is about to happen only to be let down easy, but as mention no smoke and definitely no fire. It’s does manager to stay somewhat outsides one’s comfort zone if your looking for a starter kit into a less then smoke filled room! I can’t say that its a competitor with such smoke house fragrances as Slumber House’s Norne or Dasein’s Winter Nights but its still somewhat a big deal!
Kucherowatikhonina – :
this is the best leather group perfume I have ever tried.
foma107 – :
The beginning bursts with everything you see, most notably pine (with a bit of inkiness), then it fades away leaving smoky leather, dry spicy herbs (carnation & galbanum), and some minty facet—This stage is strangely addicting; I wouldn’t say it smells “nice” in the traditional sense, but I keep coming back for more! Slowly, it turns more and more bitter (oakmoss), almost amplifying the smokiness & spicy-minty herbaceousness along, at which point it becomes, not quite nauseating or obnoxious, but slightly “bothersome.” Eventually, that “popular indie quality” fades and a still-bitter (but smooth) leather prevails with a hint of olibanum.
It was good & interesting, then it was okay.
dorall – :
Tis the season for miscreant fragrances. When I see black liquid, I see dare…and I often make it my business to run through dares. On a moonlit night, I apply Fumabat on my skin in hopes to ascend to higher heights and/or werewolf mutation as a consolation. Surprisingly, this is not a threatening composition and can be worn anywhere. This is practical enough to be considered an autobiography of one’s life. This is a perfect Frankenstein consisting of chromosomes from Clive Christian L and Sombre Negra. Usually, niche tend to cater to both sides. Couteau de Poche drew their line in the sand and went the masculine route…the unapologetically masculine route. Interestingly, this is less smoky than advertised. I was expecting train smoke. This is laced with more than one sooty ingredient therefore, the chagrin is appropriate. Absent ingredients include the likes of leather, patchouli and mint. On display is a good percentage of vetiver akin to tree bark that should intrigue most. No one note is cumbersome; even keeled is the theme here.
*IN DEEP THOUGHT* Only if my skin could’ve captured that spine-chilling smell from the bottle.
This is a minor victory for the villainous fragrance group proving Fumabat to be more eleemosynary than essential. To all my black liquid enthusiast, don’t play it safe…stay dangerous!