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vdlmr – :
What a cool inspiration! I really liked this!
Peachy/woody/spicy notes combine to translate the idea of an old transistor radio in a Mumbai neighborhood. One made of sandalwood that is breaking down in the heat with outdated copper tubing. It took me awhile, but during the drydown I did get an olfactory glimpse of the decrepit radio, obviously romanticized and made pleasing with perfume alchemy.
This is an unusually hard scent to describe, and analyzing the notes didn’t help, except for the sandalwood which was excellent, and lasted all day, and peach which added a fresh breath of sweetness. The peach was also key to the coppery aroma bringing the radio to life. The accord had a faint aroma of heated workings, housed in wood. A great niche exemplar – for the creativity, for its uniqueness, for the exotic aroma drifting up from my skin all afternoon. Sillage soft but tenacious.
margosochi29 – :
A new favorite. The sandalwood veers cedar-y and then musky, but I dig it. The coconut is figgy and not sweet. It feminizes the scent somewhat, but it is still firmly unisex, if that’s important to you (it’s not to me and I think everyone should wear what they love regardless of marketing). It’s very strong at first and quiets down quickly. I thought it was too weak at first wear, but noticed that it clings to hair and clothing mightily. It smells like the description indicates. Luscious but dry and leaves an exotic trail. Very, very nice.
foxxel – :
I would like to see coconut disappear as a fragrance note in anything that isn’t conventionally beachy or tropical. It makes everything smell like it’s suspended in salted butter.
kurt – :
9 – I smell like a hipster! I mean, I dunno what a hipster is supposed to smell like, but if I had to pick, this would be it. A blast of cedar, pine(?), and sandalwood, with a really lovely, not-milky (maybe salty?) coconut. I’ve been avoiding all coconut notes because they turn unpleasantly musty on me, so we’ll see how this goes.
2 – It was a nice, if linear, cedar scent most of the day and now it’s gone. Good. Didn’t outstay it’s welcome. Coconut never turned skanky, which I appreciate.
Not for me but I wouldn’t hate it on someone else near me.
abesseAnterry – :
A modern evocative take on sandalwood, this light airy beauty combines a central note of sandalwood with notes of musk mallow, iris, boronia, balsam fir, and a slight hint of coconut to evoke a ‘spot on’ of many Mumbai apartment homes. This is probably as close to the smell of my mothers Mumbai apartment. It’s all the sandalwood incense burnt with the saltiness of the dampness left by the heavy monsoons. It is not for those wanting a straight sandalwood but more of an ambient sandalwood which is musky and somewhat musty. Light to moderate sillage and longevity and unisex. One of the cutest perfumes I have in my collection but it is a matter of individual taste and preference.
FLASHVETAL777 – :
Quite salty, slightly woody with hints of coconut. Animalic with doses of musk mellow, kind of coppery and feels like an rusty.
The calm down of this juice is quite impressive, as i can sense the coconut on woody natural plate, where the rusty effect disappears and the salty ones vanishes partially.
If there wasn’t any name on the bottle, i would have guessed that this fragrance belongs to “Mendittorosa”.
Toxic_Drug – :
Radio Bombay is one of a few new releases from the celebrated Brooklyn indie house D.S. & Durga, a sultry combination of coconut, cedar, sandalwood, and musk that makes for a nice unisex yea-round wearable fragrance.
The coconut note is the standout in this fragrance, as it often is in others, but I don’t get a ton out of this except for coconut and the woody notes.
Performance is a bit disappointing, as it never projects much from the start, and longevity is below average for a niche quality EDP.
Not an unpleasant fragrance at all—one I might wear from time to time if I had a bottle—but definitely a tough sell at the now-increased D.S. & Durga pricing of $175 for 50ml or $260 for 100ml
7 out of 10
Prorok – :
The notes list for this fragrance is so long it makes you think of yet another Bond no. 9 acrobatic creation for the luxury obsessed masses.
The real thing, instead, leaves me somewhat puzzled: apart from the initial, glorious two seconds of coconut blast, whose green freshness reminds me of Philosykos, the next stage is plain, synthetic cedar and not much else.
I see a lot of Byredo lesson here: cedar, a bit of dirt, a linear bottle with almost the exact typo.
I expect something better from a Bombay inspired fragrance.
Pass.