Description
“Freshness with depth. A confident approach. Bursts of fresh pineapple with the natural aromatic of fern leaves.vBacked with the substance of fine leather and English oak. A statement of confidence.”
Top Note – Pineapple for an unusual burst of freshness and character.
Heart Note – Fearn leaves and sichuan pepper make the scent warm and natural.
Base Note – A blend of leather and English woods yield confidence and depth in the base.
Handcrafted in England with real flowers, fruit and spices. Kingswood was created by Julie Massé, Perfumer, and Dom De Vetta, Founder.
Available in 100 ml Parfum.
Kings Wood was launched in 2018. The nose behind this fragrance is Julie Masse.
Feeri – :
I don’t really understand the reviews below. I think there is a problem in the perfume world where people have started to think wood=”one or two specific molecules which are used pretty much everywhere” (for those who want to know which ones, it’s probably norlimbanol).
This is a good variation on the fruity woody thing that people like wearing these days. The pineapple is very present in the opening, and then subsumes into an oak note, very reminiscent of sawdust. It doesn’t smell like cedar which is THE wood you’ll smell everywhere.
I find this more interesting than the Jo Malone oak series.
Longevity is very good (still getting whiffs in the morning from my chest spray 10h before). Can’t vouch for projection but it’s probably close as soon as the pineapple disappears.
den44 – :
I have never and I repeat never smelled such a terrible fragrance. (Wait a second, I recall another strong negative reaction to Zoologist Bat, read my review on that one but this ranks up there.) This gets a 1/10 only because I’m sure there are worse fragrances on the market. After sampling this, the first thing that came to mind was: WTF is this? Someone urinating on a fruit scented urinal puck OR a dirty wet urine soaked diaper with the scent of a fruit cup lingering in the back ground. These were my first thoughts. At first, I thought I had mixed scents on my skin with another fragrance, surely this cannot smell this bad….but when I sampled the next day, the same thing urine + fruit. Terrible. Where’s the wood??? Zero wood. There isn’t anything else here: “fruity and pungent/freshly peed on urinal puck. I’m wondering if the perfumer was suffering from a sinus infection while making this scent?
metiskka – :
I totally agree with the comment below. I have also noticed that smell of urine. It smells mature and something that a person using Kouros would wear. This is not the refreshing compliment getter fragrance that I was looking for.
kolob8625 – :
I love Shay and Blue. So buying this as a big bottle was a no brainer… I loved the marketing hype especially on Luckyscent.
Today, out of hundreds of blind buys – this is the one that got me…
It starts with a very real lifelike sweet Pineapple (not at all sour) – like you’ve chopped one in half, then shortly there after the fern appears and remains in the back ground.
After 5 minutes the wood/s appear with leather and this is where its a hint of things to come.
10 – 15 minutes in it starts to feel a bit powdery – and here with the slight freshness from the now virtually undetectable pineapple it basically reminds me of stale urinated underwear like when I was caring for my father with dementia (god bless his soul). A very unpleasant smell. Tried it three times after washing. It was better with just a light spray but it was basically then barely noticeable.
Its saving grace are two fold – 1) It has poor projection so hopefully no one can smell it 2) Rinsing with water removed the darker aspects leaving it smelling like an unremarkable weak cologne (for an EDP no less).
Sorry – one of the rare occasions where I can’t see a polite positive.
I’m now burnt by Shay and Blue and seriously can’t help wonder how they thought this was passable. Surely there must be something wrong.
Great marketing and concept – very very very poorly executed… shame one you S & B… the marketing says “a statement of confidence” – yep you need to be confident to wear this alright…