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Goblin.Slavik – :
The top notes are strong with this one.
A truly unusual scent, and I recommend you read the review below mine, although my take is a little different. I wore this close to a dozen times and kept reviewing the note pyramid to identify what I was smelling. I saw what I thought were caramel cubes in the top notes, which confused me. Then I actually hovered over the image and saw that it’s something called Asafoetida, described as somewhere between an onion and a leek. And although that sounds awful, it’s not at all. It’s likely what keeps this fragrance from falling into the usual resinous pitfalls of being too sweet or too intense and predictable. It’s got this strange herbal vibe that keeps everything else in check.
This fragrance evolves a lot over many hours, but the through line is beeswax. You smell the waxiness in the herbal top notes, and you smell it in the soft animatic end. When it’s left on your clothes, the resinous notes linger. I bought this and Nankun Kodō and it was money well spent. Nankun is all about smoky happiness for me, while this one is more of an intellectual exercise.
Houporalo – :
As this fragrance is a composition first worked out for Reve Narcotique, I nevertheless tried my very hardest to disregard RN when approaching Resine Precieux, and simply address this fragrance as it appears to me with little to no preconceptions. This fragrance does a lot of things for me, and in no way falls under the trap that a lot of resin oriented fragrances do of being either overtly vanillic and sweet or a relenting force of darkness through and through; don’t get me wrong, there are elements of vanillic sweetness here, and it certainly can be dark and smoky, but it isn’t centrally defined by either – for more often than not, they feel to be elements working on different levels of this fragrance, and as such never feel over-blended, but instead an impossibly large landscape, a stroll through which will entice and warm your soul with its own internal majesty.
To me this fragrance starts off smoky, warm, sweet, thick and syrupy, but also light and spicy. There’s a wonderfully spicy note that pairs with the styrax from some unseen lower level – traveling on the wind with a dense woody frankincense and a strong cinnamon/vanillic tolu balsam while cumin tinged vanilla, tonka and tobacco swirl in a primordial stew in a crater in the ground right before your eyes. The ground at parts grips your shoes as you walk, coated with a crystallized honey, and off in the distance you can hear the calls and grunts of animals whose musk (mostly civet and castoreum) you catch trails of every once in a while as you venture forth.
The vanillic qualities throughout this fragrance are quite interesting and lean woody and dark, and seem to occur in between transitions from warm or honeyed facets to the more smokey or musky notes – throughout the fragrance there is a habitual woody quality that seems to permeate a lot of the variations on note combinations that come across your way traversing this wild environment, which seems to be usually fairly dense, but sweet and soft on the nose, as if roughing up the edges which the vanilla seems to have been smoothing over, to create a natural finish – the animallic qualities do a similar thing whereupon there is a living pulse generating fresh wafts of air, carrying with them notes that you thought had vanished altogether.
The honey is of interest here as well, as it is a note which shifts back and forth from being that, almost burnt, almost crystalized note, adding dimensions to the warm, ambered and woody elements, but it also shifts into beeswax territory as well, and draws on the civet, castoreum, hyrax and occasionally even the ambergris to add a chewy and musky air to the already more ‘dangerous’ elements to this fragrance. The tobacco is a note which carries for a longer duration through this fragrance than I thought it would, and similarly adds a chewy quality throughout that grabs hold of other notes procuring a similar quality, and takes you on a ‘taste test’ of all the various resins and animallic notes surrounding you, providing for you a natural encyclopedia of the new terrain you’re traversing. The tonka is similarly chewy, but also joins with the honey to add a waxy quality to a few of the more resinous ingredients as well.
Overall this fragrance to me is a wonderful study of a lot what more resinous ‘orientals’ can do by really creating a foreign and exotic landscape of scent – which to me has always been one of the most delightful things fragrance can do, and indeed orientals have always been aimed at the creation of this ‘exotic’ aroma, but more often than not a lot of the ‘orientals’ that wind up hitting the market play things safe and synthetic, whereas here a lot of real animallics, precious resins (haha,) and tender spices have been used to transcend how one-dimensional a lot of these fragrances can get, and challenges the user to allow themselves to go on a journey with it, and one that never goes so far as to create anything unpleasant or outside of the ideas refracted in every element of this gorgeous oil!
8.5/10
YT: Jess AndWesH
yuradm – :
The smell doesn’t worth the price PERIOD
marijakat555 – :
RESINE PRECIEUX is very resinous and balsamic with vanilla-tonka and frankincense and an animalic touch coming from black ambergris and civet. Tobacco is also very present and Indian spices (cumin). It is a yummy dark spicy amber on my skin. Rich, opulent, delicious. Sometimes I have the impression it has coffee but there isn’t. A cozy composition, perfect to stay home on a cold day reading a book !!
If you like layering you can try with Lutens’ Miel de Bois or Arabie! 😀