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kondratenko84 – :
The opening of the oil version is quite strange… It kind of smells like the fruits are rotting, the smell is kind of foul… But I have ordered it in the summer and the way from Australia to Europe is quite long, maybe it got to hot and started to turn?
The ‘foulness’ steps back and so does the fruity tones, but they do not disappear. The rose as well as sandalwood and oud get noticable.
The sandalwood is a soft one, pleasant, not loud, a bit creamy but not as prominent as expected.
The oud is not the typical one you can smell in the many Western oud fragrances, it is rather sweet, not medical, not smokey, soft and balsamic.
Mark Evans said he used a natural oud oil in this composition. But there are tons of different essential oils and they have quite different smells. If there is real oud in it (a rather small amount in this case as even ‘cheap’ oud essential oils have their price), this may be the reason why it smells so unlike the usual agarwood notes in perfume.
I hope to meet someone who has a sample of this oil, so I can see if this opening is due the high temperatures during shipping or it is supposed to smell so.
Without the opening, the scent is quite nice.
Longevity is moderate on my skin, the bad thing is the low sillage. The oil version is a skin scent. I guess the spray version has better sillage (but because of shipping regulations, only Australians have the chance to test it).