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hib432speagoessenda – :
Golden Moka is pretty but also a let down for me. I expected more coffee (there is none to my nose at first), I expected more incense (there is none to my nose), I expected dark and loud…and got a citrus-green with little projection and surprisingly low longevity. I have to be point blank nose to skin, to really smell it well. Not a good first impression.
This perfume must have severe bottle dismorphia because the gorgeous blood red glass and always high quality hinged leatherette coffin suggests an olfactory experience in accordance with the presentation that just flat out fails to deliver.
It reaches the drydown swiftly on my skin leaving a strangely tangy coffee reminiscent of Mancera’s coffee note in the far distant background ala Aoud Café. But mostly a generic green with hints of clean amber and the lingering gasps of citrus. If you really think about it, the clean soft oud is there but if I smelled this blind I’d never guess.
Xerjoff has done all of these ingredients (except the coffee as I am aware) with more deftness and competence in their other perfumes and having lived with my bottle for a few days, I am grateful that it is the least expensive Xerjoff line fragrance, because it smells like it and performs like it. Most of that meager (by Xerjoff standrds) $200 USD (approx) cost seems to be in the packaging.
Scent: 4/10 while it is a pleasant citrus, it is still just a citrus and not even as well done as several of their other offerings. Generic really.
Projection: 1/10 none that I can detect but I caught a whiff *once* while wearing it around my neck so I cant say “none”.
Sillage: 0/10 definitely not. What a shame.
Longevity: 3/10 it lives on my skin for about three hours of any real use and that’s it. Really.
Would I buy another bottle: For the bottle. The juice is secondary to me and appears to have also been considered thusly by Xerjoff as well. Absolute disaster.