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neulnelpLig – :
A curious musky liqueur. I don’t dislike it but it’s not really me. My skin really amps up the ambrette.
Thankfully the creamy muskiness does ease off a bit after 30 mins or so. The aromatic and wood notes thankfully now become evident. Now I like it more. There is something about it that definitely reminds me of a certain xerjoff scent.
The lavender and vetiver are in the background and stop it becoming too musky and creamy. It certainly needs the wee kick to prevent it becoming too cloying. You can tell its made of good materials. I guess it’s unisex but I find it leans a touch towards the feminine.
Good longevity and sillage.
THE RUSSIAN GANGSTER – :
Creamy liqueur.
Milky, sweet & smooth.
My friend calls it Barbie’s tears, because she finds it a too plastic-vanilla, yet expensive smell. Nevertheless of her opinion, which I find it very witty, for me Korrigan is very modern in structure (not inspiring nostalgia) and classy.
Anyway, (nice) vanilla, or ambrette in this case, is always better on boys. It gives us extra cuteness, especially with hints of leather & a little booze as in here.
Korrigan is relaxing as a sip of cream liqueur with one ice cube on a hot & easy afternoon.
Superb!
5/5
Ksyshaksy – :
9 – Powdery, caramel, tobacoo-y leather. Smells like waking up on a camping trip in Central Texas, minus the dew.
I don’t get the bandaid/playdoh impression, but do smell the juniper strongly and wonder if that’s it.
1 – Forgot to pay attention to this. Turned into a pleasant skin scent, no real evolution except for intensity.
It’s not something I’d wear for drama, but I can see it being a comfortable everyday scent. The price is completely reasonable, making Korrigan a woodsy, leathery, ambery gem. I thought it was super femme but sniffing again, I’d be into it if a dude around me was wearing this.
edit – however long later – I wear this sample all the time and have decided I needed a full bottle. Also, LOOK AT THAT BOTTLE. It’s awesome.
Nilallador – :
You’re a kitten, drinking sweet milk, snuggling up against your cat momma on the leather sofa, slowly purring your way to sleep. Korrigan by Lubin.
Cemipagma – :
My review is similar to Micavana. My first impression is that this is an amber/musk bomb. In the same wheelhouse as DHI but with tweaks. Looking at the notes you would think this is a heavy masculine scent but it’s the opposite. The leather is soft, more like suede. The boozy notes pretty much don’t exist on my skin. I have had it on for 6 hours and it’s detectable so I would say that sillage is moderate. An extreme version which amps up the the booziness would be a nice version I would think but this is not my thing.
vene4ka – :
Booze, leather and woods, what is not to love, right? So I added this one to my recent order of fragrance samples. Today is the day to give it a full wearing.
After a full wearing, I have to say that Korrigan opens as very soft, sweet and bit of a floral scent. Not bad, but not what I was expecting. A few hours in, I get a very creamy milk with hints of booze and leather. Unfortunately, Korrigan remain here for the life of the fragrance.
I really wish Korrigan had more booze and leather. I find Korrigan to be too creamy, sweet and floral for my tastes. This one is very much a feminine scent to my nose. I would love to smell this one on a woman, but it is not for me.
I had very high hopes for this one. Based on the notes it seemed to be right up my alley. But this is a pass for me. Lubin seems to have great quality scents, but so far it is NOT a house for me 🙁
garikmix – :
If I ever was to wear a fragrance out of sheer nostalgia or joy it would be Korrigan. Here the legend gathers booze (whisky, cognac), lavender, leather and musk. On top an ample Juniper note sets off the scene. Immediately a buttery shampoo accord paired with liquor dances in like a spinning delight in the thin air. At the center, a lavish lavender touch so fresh and uplifting compels the scent to radiate with rakish elegance. Finally, thanks to divine providence, sumptuous dry woods flesh out the path to grand manner. The notes become flamboyant players in their own stages supporting a fragrance that is at once smaller and larger from its parts. Sometimes from this fusion an image of perfect beauty will emerge like cypress trees whistling in the calm summer wind. Such a smell is so inexplicable and irreproducible that all the heart can do is suffer with gratitude. Korrigan was made for Lubin (a brand revealing great depth and integrity) by Thomas Fontaine in the height of his powers. It feels like a scent made by a hustler on the make, composing a heedless perfume. To me it is like a fragrance conjuring memories of memories working its magic with hypnotic fashion.
andriy1488 – :
Sexy, milky, erotic effluvium; delicately supple ambrette musky leather; smooth, fleshy plump agarwood funk.
Coconutty undertones with woody hulls; soft booze that is as easy to down as a creamy spiced Frangelico cocktail; malted milk; horchata.
Korrigan is a deliciously mellow, smooth, brooding leather bordering on vinyl-like vegan leather, constructed with quality ingredients. Brilliant!
kulchadle – :
Evokes a comforting feeling in me. Starts off as a strong homemade bread pudding smell (the kind my dad makes with his own bread and rum), then develops into something between the above and play doh. It shifts depending on its context, like if you’re sweaty the play doh is stronger, but if you’re cool in clear air the boozy and sweet notes come out. Playful and approachable.
Note: applied before eating panda express, not the best idea, shoulda saved this for dessert
SChatwemO – :
Mmmm, delicious! I’ve always liked this. Not sure why I haven’t gotten around to buying a full bottle. Anyway, creamy, sweet leather. It’s more mellow than the notes let on. The top smells strongly of bandaids and antiseptic so be prepared for this. It won’t last long and the rest is creamy, mellow, almost milky. Even if you don’t like this perfume, you should try it for the bizarre opening smelling bandaid like to me and vinyl to others. I think it’s interesting when a scent changes so dramatically from top to base.
Wamearguert – :
I rec’d this sample from Lucky scent and it smells like Oud covered in Marshmallows and chocolate. Quite impressive however not for me. I am more of a refined beauty queen that doesn’t like to cut corners with her frags.
Piommamem – :
all i’ve got from this one are good mix of cognac,whiskey and cappuccino!!yes cappuccino. i dont know the perfumer what has done but smell exactly like cappuccino to me. last good but sillage i hope was better.i can’t love but i can’t hate either.if sillage was perfect maybe i buy fuel bottle but at this condition never.(because of price)6/10
راستش من تنها چیزی که از بوی این عطر دریافت کردم تلفیقه زیبایی از بوی ویسکی و کونیاک مانند با کاپوچینو بود. دقیقا بوی کافه شاپا رو میده. ماندگاریش عالیه ولی پخش بوش به هیچ عنوان رضایت بخش نیست برای من. با این قیمت اگه پخش بوش عالی بود حتما می خریدم ولی در این حالت اصلا ارزش خرید برای من نداره.
andrei81 – :
I get a good leathery cognac scent, but also very sweet chocolatey marshmallow notes. The florals are barely noticable apart from the sweetness they give. Nice scent.
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mymnClaibly – :
I want my house to smell like this
I want my car to smell like this
I want my pets to smell like this
and when I die,
y’all better make sure my coffin smells like this
hemtgenfacx – :
It has a combo with leather and whiskey(scotch drinker).
Woody,milky creamy with leather(lipstick smell).
I smell smoked vanilla same new car leather interior..
it’s very comforting and wearable,natural,organic
it’s a typical winter scent.
it’s a bit sweet,but not excessively so.
certainly it’s a beautiful and natural masterpiece.
Korrigan opens with coconutty smells.
Sillage is moderate,longevity is very long lasting.
For me the drydown contains too much iso-e-super.
Korrigan is a unisex perfume.
Korrigan is special!
Amazing!
thx Lubin.
kola85 – :
This is my favorite fragrance and it’s the fragrance that my family and friends would most associate me with. I think that when a fragrance turns you on to the point where you literally have to sit down in the store to hide your excitement (of course it happened the day i decided to wear basketball shorts) then it’s definitely a keeper. This makes me think of sex, if sex were creamy and boozey..i get this intense note of leather that has been soaked in whiskey and cognac and just lathered with vanilla and caramel. Sometimes I’ll get hints of wood but most of the time it’s just sweet and leathery. If you want something unique and sexy that sort of smells like baileys irish cream if it were in a room with leather walls and a few whips to play with- then give this a sniff. I dare you 😉
alexlukas – :
I don’t agree with Turin’s 5 star rating, but all of us should be aware of the fact that perfection is subjective.
Oddly enough, I can see the Old Spice comparison. It’s a good example of a gourmand fragrance that can still be wearable in a pedestrian sense buy a man.
Personally, I like it, but it’s not unique enough to be FBW.
PyCCkuu – :
“Whiskey is a slap on the back.”
No kidding!
Never was a statement proven more true than in this fragrance.
I’m feeling somewhat of a prude as I type this, my first negative review, but Korrigan is simply TOO much for me. *sigh*
It’s too woody, too smokey, too dark. It has too much oud, too much whiskey and far too much testosterone. There is eventually a subtle and sweet milkiness revealed, but it is too little and far too late.
I simply can not pull Korrigan off. A first for me.
Too bad 🙁
AnToNiO90533 – :
Smells like Old Spice, but a little fancier. Synthetic notes clobber anything interesting about this for me.
sialisale – :
Korrigan is a Luca Turin proved 5-star perfume, so I had expected too much and eventually disappointed. The pyramid looks fantastic and interesting seems can not go wrong, well blame my body chemistry or my nose then. To me it’s just a bottle of sugared milk, while what I expected was smoky whisky. Where’s the wine note and leather note?
To be fair it’s a well-done gourmand perfume with no weird synthetic feel, but nothing blown me away.
amur_FC – :
With a lack of affection for Korrigan, I am in the minority here. At first I smelled new car interior and a touch of band aids. After an hour it developed into a warm nutty & scotch accord. I think this may resonate with the scent memory of a scotch drinker, kind of like the rum in Idole does to me. Love Idole & Akkad, but this one is not for me. (female reviewer)
SheF47 – :
I smell smoked vanilla pods and vinyl, like the soft moulded plastic of a new Barbie doll’s head. This note is probably the ambrette and musk, as it’s also reminiscent of a lipstick smell.
This is soft, sweet and sensual and perfect for when you need a warm cosy vibe. It is aloof enough to be “fashion”, due to the vinyl type of note in it, so it never strays into “baked goods” territory. Fabulous.
tille – :
I got my sample and only tested it on paper. But as soon it settled down I thought ok I have sampled it before. I tried to remember,it was either santal majuscule by SL or Santal Blush by TM. If someone can test them I would appreciate the feedback because it is stuck in my mind.
Renanarma – :
I have been meaning to review this perfume for ages, but I kept putting it off because I find myself really struggling to describe it. It’s buttery and nutty (I actually looked for chestnut or roasted hazelnut in the notes and I still can’t believe neither are listed, maybe this effect comes from the interaction of vetiver and the other notes), initially wrapped in a thin layer of smoke that quickly dissipates. Rather than caramel, I smell the idea of caramel, if that makes sense. It’s a mix of milky-sweet and salty that isn’t caramel, but that is guaranteed to bring up caramel in the mind of anyone who smells this. That salty edge, by the way, is what makes this perfume truly special in my opinion: it helps it blend into my skin, to the point that it sometimes becomes hard to tell where my natural scent ends and where this perfume begins.
The leather takes a while to come out, but when it does, it gives this blend allure and poise – and it started unfolding exactly at the moment where I was beginning to tire of the sweetness of the opening and wanted something different to happen. I experienced a tiny moment of dread during the evolution of this perfume, when the mix of leather, sweetness and nuts started to give out a strange smell that reminded me of Play-Doh, but then, like clockwork, the cognac and whiskey kicked in and the Play-Doh smell immediately faded away. By that point, Korrigan managed the incredible feat of smelling both sexy as hell and really comfortable and natural – what it makes me think of is that annoyingly sexy person we all know who doesn’t even have to try, and who is probably sexy precisely because they don’t try. Korrigan, at that stage, is self-confident and down-to-earth without being obnoxious or boring. The animalic notes that come out as the perfume begins to fade accentuate the dirty, sexy characteristics of the perfume and create a scent that’s not entirely unlike the smell of warm, somewhat sweaty skin (but in the nicest possible way). Saffron made a quick apparition around the end, but to be perfectly honest, I might not have realised it was there had I not read the notes beforehand.
The woods and juniper are very soft, almost indetectable, but they stay in the background for the whole duration of this perfume’s evolution, and their austerity and dryness work as a perfect counterpoint to what would otherwise be a rather cloying (and frankly, pretty boring) cocktail of notes. The juniper, in particular, brings an interesting tinge of herbal bitterness that I had never smelt in that kind of perfume before, but the association just makes so much sense to me now. In fact, this whole perfume could be summed up as such: it plays on the obvious to create something entirely unexpected. I strongly urge anyone to whom the notes appeal, even vaguely, to give this a try. It’s utterly worth it.
JONI555 – :
Just received this beauty, what a treat! My initial reaction was “This is CHRISTMAS”, this is what I’ll wear this holiday season.
Very comforting and warm, with lovely hints of saffron and juniper. A typical winter scent. All the different notes come together in a very pleasant way, sweet, but not excessively so. There’s a gourmand feel to it, but the whisky and cognac balances it all out so it doesn’t become syroupy or sticky. Gingerbread and fudge come to mind.
As it progresses, because of its subtle lavender note, it turns into a very “clean” fragrance, stylish and sophisticated. Definitely one for the festive season! Highly recommended for anyone into well rounded boozy scents!
And I must comment on the bottle. In my opinion the best looking bottle on my shelf, solid and oozing high end perfumerie!
7/10
gepsod – :
LOVE this baby!
Despite the list of sophisticated official notes, I smell a natural, organic, comforting perfume that is evocative and personal.
A perfume stripped of consumerism and brings you right back to the primal joy of being.
SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK, warm rice pudding…
It is sweet in the most organic, non-artificial way. It is starchy, velvety and smooth.
Such a beautiful and natural masterpiece. Something that i cannot get enough of.
Yarunka – :
Korrigan is one of the nuttiest perfumes I have encountered to date. It starts out coconutty. I wasn’t sure if I was smelling coconut or the creaminess that I associate with perfumes containing sandalwood. The coconutty quality soon mellows into something more like a soft nut, such as chestnuts or acorns (it turns out to be beech nut). Combined with smooth black leather, herbs, and a sweet liquor of some kind, Korrigan smells decadent.
The heart consists of a luscious milky-boozy accord that reminds me of buttered rum with a splash of cream.
Lubin describes Korrigan as “Caramel Wood Liqueur,” and that is surely how it smells, summed up in three words.
glafira0712 – :
Korrigan opens with saffrony boozy notes, a bit sweet, then juniper berry notes quickly tone down the sweetness. I smell ambrette and still the boozy notes too. There is a tiny little bit of lavender in there too, giving a bit of depth. I also smell a bit of caramel. Drydown is woody and boozy sweetness on an iso-e-super base.
Sillage is moderate, longevity is long lasting to very long lasting.
Quite good, but unfortunately it gives me a headache. Love the boozy opening but the drydown contains too much iso-e-super for my taste. Pretty, just not my thing.
matstro – :
I really love this one and can only agree with the reviewers before me, it’s unique, warm and inviting and yet assertive. However, after half an hour it seems to tone down to a mere whisper, not entirely sure why. I’ll admit that I’m probably a bit lazy to spray perfume every other hour…no matter how awesome it may be.
fmt196speagoessenda – :
Sorry to be gauche, but Korrigan makes me horny like no other fragrance ever has. It’s got this feminine/masculine mix that makes me feel like the wolf from a Tex Avery cartoon, all whistling and drooling, with hearts for eyes. Korrigan would suit a young Clint Eastwood, perhaps…
After 15 minutes of an oak barrel-y, boozy, “new luxury car leather interior”-y, KNOCKOUT opening (intense, intimidating and curious, but still, so sexy!) it mellows into a lovely composition. I detect whisky (the fumes that hover in your nose after you sip and exhale), soft leather and milky caramel with some sturdy woods supporting the lot. This gets better and better as it mellows, my goodness.
My husband smelled it on my wrist and was like, “Put it on me! I wanna try this one!” It smelled like coconut scented mineral oil on him pretty soon after the initial opening, but he loved it because it reminded him of what people slathered on their skin before sun tanning back in the 70’s. So crazy. What a great scent.
philipinez – :
Opens up with a nice blast of leather and expensive scotch (some people say band-aids, but think peat-smoked Islay scotch).
This is quickly overtaken by a rich, salty, creamy, boozy caramel all on top of a fine smelling wood. The lavender escapes me until well into the dry-down.
The only downside? It makes all of your other perfumes a lot less desirable, cheers Lubin!
gospugg – :
Love this FIVE STAR review from Luca Turin. As you know, fives come around very rarely.
“Like some sedentary merchant at the receiving end of the Silk Road watching the caravans unpack, the perfume critic has to sift through hundreds of gewgaws of mixed provenance looking for treasure. Very occasionally it feels as if a new, previously unknown region has been opened to trade, whose existence is only revealed through a handful of mysterious but clearly related artifacts, and the odd tall tale.
Korrigan is the fourth fragrance that I feel must come from some landlocked mountain kingdom, by turns pious and festive; a Shangri-La where the Council of State is by tradition made up of French perfumers in their early fifties: Mark Buxton, Bertrand Duchaufour, Annick Ménardo and now Thomas Fontaine. The first we heard of this place of legend is via Comme des Garçons 2 [1999] and Timbuktu [2004], followed by Le Labo’s Patchouli 24 [2006]. What they all have in common is an atmosphere at once austere and mouthwatering, somewhere between incense and gingerbread, the product of a bakery staffed by seraphs.
The idea itself is not completely new: witness Chanel’s magnificent Bois des Iles and Guerlain’s slightly messier but still delicious Vol de Nuit. What is new, however, is the mood of starry-night clarity that modern materials and structures make possible. Korrigan is perhaps the most edible of the lot and may be a bit too sweet and buttery for some. I, for one, fell in love with it instantly when I smelled it for the first time at Luckyscent in Los Angeles. The sales attendant gave me the smelling strip with a look that dared me not to find it wonderful. No need to threaten me, young lady. Lubin, once great then forgotten, has risen from its ashes of late. This, I feel, is its finest fragrance to date and a classic for the ages.”
Great job Lubin!
lmoibnvmeed – :
Looking at the notes, I can’t understand how I’m not liking this. I definitely get all the top notes clearly…spicy and bracing and a good opening! But as the spiciness softens, the drydown becomes milky and woody in a way that reminds me of my experiences with all the heavily milky sandalwood fragrances that my chemistry (and stomach) can’t handle. I know there isn’t any sandalwood in here, but what I’m smelling on my skin reminds me of its milky woody aspects. I also definitely get the caramel wood vibe from this, as mentioned by Boudyrun, but it’s somehow not enjoyable to me, which was totally unexpected, especially considering the soft, cozy, warm base notes.
troulfurf – :
I found Korrigan when I was looking for a substitute for Bond No. 9’s brooklyn. I loved the juniper and leather hints in Bond but wanted something a tiny bit more unusual. After going to MiN I was given samples of Heeley’s Cuir Pleine Fleure, Keiko Mecheri’s Cuir Cordoba, and Lubin’s Gin Fizz.
Pleine Fleure was too heavy on the patchouli for my taste, while Cuir Cordoba devolved into something like baby powder. Gin Fizz is nice and bubbly but dissipated almost instantly.
Korrigan, though… Korrigan is special. The opening is atrocious. It reminds me of burning tires and the smell of… well, diarrhea. Those twenty minutes of acrid are almost impossible to get through… but then Korrigan turns into something that is, quite frankly, stunning. Warm, leather, wood, salty caramel without being too saccharine and with just the slightest hint of smokiness.
I spray it on after I shower at night so that I can spare the general public that opening hell. By the time I wake up it is perfectly mellowed. It has excellent longevity and decent sillage. After about six hours of wear you can still smell it about half a foot off the skin. Amazing,
Jimbo – :
I did not care for Korrigan the very first time I spritzed this. But this one made me love him.
At first it is a slightly salty vanilla ashtray, with balled up band-aids in it. Soon a subtle sweetness comes through, and the combination makes you want to come back for more.
The longevity is very good, and it gets better over the hours of wear. Korrigan is unisex, leaning toward masculine.
I don’t understand why the Lubin site does not list vanilla as a note. Fragrantica refers to it as an Oriental Vanilla, which is spot on to me…
meridos – :
The opening to “Korrigan” is a strange mix between whiskey, band aids and something that reminds me of a burning pot. It’s sharp, bitter, slightly salty and not very pleasant.
However, gradually, as the alcohol and juniper burn off, “Korrigan” gives way to its sweet heart notes and warm woody base. It’s a soft, nutty, mellow sweetness that reminds me very much of traditional French nougat, the kind that you buy cut into slabs with pieces of almonds and pistachios inside. A dry, powdery lavender and hints of leather in the base provide a dark, sultry feel that balances out the more feminine heart and make it more unisex.
It’s very unique and the more I smell it, the more I like it.
Dido163 – :
Nice warm feeling cognac and whiskey creating a very soft vanilla vibe. Reminds me a lot of Cereus 14.
serioghin – :
Oh boy! The first sniff made me think “Wow! Kind of Bois Farine on steroids!”
Then… Minutes later settles down! And goes on for hours…
For me is all about ambrette, whiskey and wood notes!
Very very WEIRD fragrance! And I’m a fan of weirdness… But here… I don’t know!
Not for me! But I do respect the originality!
Good fragrance.
PredaTor93 – :
This has done something QUITE unfortunate on my skin. I get cigarette ash, old uncleaned heating vent on full blast (one with a dirty filter) and stagnant moldy dishwater. I didn’t know such a thing could exist!
Markus – :
Wow, this is another LUBIN I’m falling in love with. As usual with this brand, the quality of the product is paramount, it’s quite expensive, but it’s worth it.
The KORRIGAN-AKKAD-GALAAD triptych is a great success, in my opinion. Before I tried KORRIGAN I thought that AKKAD must be the best of them, because it’s a masterpiece, it’s just flawless, perfect! However, KORRIGAN is just as amazing as the amber-resin goodness of AKKAD is, but its character is different.
KORRIGAN starts with a fresh aromatic blast of juniper, and right after that starts the magic. Something creamy, like Irish cream liqueur, kicks in, and it is not just sweet and milky, it also has a salty, gourmet edge, like slightly salty caramel, or like your own clean skin when you are inhaling the fresh and salty sea air, and a glass of White Russian is in your hand.
I guess the salty feel is here due to the ambrette. It all might sound strange (salty??), but in reality it smells so natural and appealing, and refined.
The leather note is very delicate in KORRIGAN, as well as oud (feels like a touch of smokiness).
This is probably the most unusual gourmand I have ever tried, it’s difficult to describe. I think it’s unisex, almost definitely.
zhenya999999 – :
Top notes: carousel, unrestrained laughter, 1000 colorfull ballons fly up in the air
Middle notes: walk with your head in cotton-candy clouds
Base notes: a dreamy smile when you remember your last visit to your private Paradise…
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When I first sampled Korrigan it almost made me laugh out laud, luckyly I managed to restrain myself and grinned like a madman instead – to an obvious satisfaction of the SA in Jovoy. For me this is a pure essence of joie de vivre in a bottle. Of course, I took it out for a walk on my wrist – made my half a day in Paris really splendid.
For me this is worth every penny you spend on it, the quality of Lubin is unmistakable.
kaban65536 – :
ok, I was suuprised by this. I was expecting a powerhouse carmel like the alien flanker minus that jasmine of course, but instead it’s a soft creamy, somewhat feminine fresh , herbal perfume that is reminiscent of old fashion perfumes, but oddly enough should be perfectly fine for men.
My only issue is that there is a slight b.o. smell to this, sort of in the way that fidji does, but this one is much lighter and as it reaches the final drydown , it’s gone
Very Classy, but sorry, not much caramel. I do like this one, ALOT
Pro100slava – :
Korrigan is a restrained yet well designed take on the now popular gourmand-ish boozy-ambery combo. Opens with a whiskey-caramel accord to then evolve into a creamy-ambery-woody drydown which shows a pretty good balance. Lavender provides slightly aromatic undertones while a subtle leather note serves as a nice refinement.
I’m not particularly fond of these type of fragrances but Korrigan could make a good option for those who appreciate a more “sophisticated” take on a popular theme. If you like L’Instant Pour Homme, Van Cleef Midnight In Paris and sweetish balmy fragrances, give this a chance. Beautiful bottle.
Rating: 7/10
xlx4umaxlx – :
its a natural perfume.. as soon as i sprayed it i was taken back to my grandmother.. and all the wedding and the preparations that take place for the bride before the actual wedding day.. it smells like something called ‘delka” which is a mud like mask.. they make out of perfumed dough and use ambers ..musks ..and sandalwood to exfoliate the entire body with.. for months before the wedding..
its so smokey.. so earthy.. so pure.. so diffrent than anything you will ever smell.. or have ever smelled..its a deep.. dark.. mysterious.. sensuale..it acts as an afrodisiac..it smells resinous.. and almost as having bakhour not incense.. it also has a bit of sandalwood.. musks.. whisky.. cognac.. and saffron.. mellow the whole composition ..its a strange..unique.. magnificent.. medley of accords out of this urbn world.. its a perfume from nature ..and its so rare..pure.. and the amberette ..and oudah(so faint) and vetiver with the juniper breze.. make it all dance..
ok its not an easy sent to accept..its an aqwired smell..its a perfume if you learn to appreciate you will not be able to go back.. to your normal perfumes it might change your entire world.. and how you perceive perfumery ..or atleast just give it a try to see what other cultures call perfumes..
perfume ratting 4.8 out 5
botlle ratting 4.8 out 5
my personl liking ratting 4.4 out 5
PiratGT – :
So didn’t work on me. Sticky, sour wood and a sweat note. I couldn’t get this off fast enough. Most Lubins work nicely with my chemistry, but this was a disaster.
Oran – :
Upon donning Lubin KORRIGAN for the very first time (from an unsolicited sample which I received from a niche emporium along with an order), my immediate reaction was: “Weird.” It struck me as a not entirely harmonious mixture of sweet lavender and leather. I thought, in fact, that the sweetness was imparted by vanilla, and since lavender-vanilla is not my favorite combination (not am amateur of Caron POUR UN HOMME…), I was not optimistic about this at all. However, within minutes, my reservations had dissolved, as the perfume evolved into a gorgeous and perfectly balanced only slightly sweet leather drydown, and the leather smelled smooth and supple, not at all oily.
I am quite picky about lavender in perfumes, and many leather notes do not please me. These are matters of taste, of course, but to me lavender often seems strident and harsh, and black leather notes can be unpleasantly heavy and intense. I suppose that whips and chains and iron maidens are not really my kind of thing. I appreciate lighter leather notes, but the ones which smell like an oiled saddle do not appeal to me at all.
No such problem in the case of KORRIGAN, which smells rather like a new pair of gloves. Only a faint trace of the sweetness–apparently imparted by a cognac note?–remains by the drydown, so this composition ends up conjuring in my mind memories of the scent of Buenos Aires, where fine leather shops are interspersed with bakeries offering alfajores and empanadas.
KORRIGAN occupies the same general olfactory neighborhood as Van Cleef & Arpels MIDNIGHT IN PARIS. However, I believe that the quality of the leather note is higher in this case, although I confess that when I donned MIDNIGHT IN PARIS to compare the two, I seemed to have warmed up to the latter, too. This gently sweetened leather must be an acquired taste…
Deroxjqecw – :
Received my sample from lucky scents and I can not stop smelling my wrist. I need this! Sweet with out being sweet starts out smoky and dries down to a rich milky creamy. The inspiration was caramel wood. Yes I get that. Yum. A must have for me. Wow