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sanya11193 – :
I’ve just received my sample and I can tell you that this is something incredibly special. Usually a fragrance will bring up a memory. Smelling this brought up many at the same time and combined them all together! A full bottle will be on my shopping list!
Well done Rook, well done! Nadeem, you are superbly talented!
Trigun – :
Interesting. A violent pyroclastic opening. The gates of hell are ripped opened.
Once it settles then you start to pick out the incense, Myrhh and tobacco. The spices peek through along with the animalic notes. It is now a little warmer and resinous. A little ylang starts to surface and the fresh ginger and vetiver cuts through now stopping it becoming too heavy. It gradually becomes a spent firework that becomes warmer and more resinous with time as the ginger and vetiver wain.
This s the perfect scent for wearing on bonfire night. It has that cordite ambience. Its very unisex. I get good longevity and reasonable sillage.
KLYBOK – :
A diplomat dressed up as a punk rocker! Beneath a pouty, moody, smoky exterior this has a rather charming and refined woody-floral lurking beneath its studded leather jacket. I’m a billowing smoke fiend so never found the opening too much – for me, though certainly there in thick screens, it’s much more resinous/aromatic than the Beaufort range’s steely metallic gun smoke. Perfectly unisex for those who love a smouldering-incense-woods-tobacco thing, the animalics aren’t bitter or overwhelming and the violet and ylang give the odd flash of sweeter, fresher air in between. It’s very much in the Coze – Black Afgano – ELDO Rien sort of mood, absolutely loaded with punchy, dark, tough ingredients, though this is paradoxically much lighter and more transparent than any of those scents. At times it’s almost a heady floral, reminding me (really weirdly) of the bottom end of Zoologist’s Nightingale or Moth.
Those are a lot of heavy hitters for Rook to be sidling up to. And there’s the rub – for me, only, its performance doesn’t quite back up its attitude. Now depending on your needs, that might be a good thing (Black Afgano makes me heave, and though I love Coze it can be a choker, as can Rien.) This one does let you breathe, and after the first 10 minutes I doubt anyone could object to it. So is it really the bad boy it purports to be at first? Fades quite fast on me, though never unpleasantly, and becomes startlingly milder and more floral, almost soapy (?!?!) in one phase, and though every step of the journey is great, that’s kind of disorienting. I like it just fine, but want it to butch up a little and stay tougher, longer. Very decent value for money and an honest, creative, robust fragrance from a brave new house, though. Do give it a go if this sounds like your bag – I can see it making a lot of new friends.
seokanshd – :
This isn’t a new concept, but there’s no denying the skill of its maker or the quality of the ingredients.
The first hit is powerfully smokey – so much so that I think my nose was left reeling, and there was little else I could pick out other than smoke! That is a indictment of me and not the perfume, though.
Lovers of CdG, Beaufort London, Imaginary Authors and Rouge Bunny Rouge should definitely check this (and the other perfumes by Rook) out.
Perfume has excellent longevity and moderate sillage.
All the perfumes by this house are very competitively priced considering their quality and – especially – in comparison to their competition.
It’s well worth signing up to the Rook newsletter as there are regular special offers when purchasing directly from them online.
Koreps – :
dark, dry, tarry, leather-y.
not a new concept but I can smell quality ingredients.
lovers of Comme de Garcons, Black Afgano and likes will be pleased.
think it’s a good value for the price if you like the concept.
cinemaartist – :
Please give this one the chance to settle on your skin, first initial spray, is a very smokey incense, a little bit overpowering BUT ten minutes in, it softens and leaves a lovely smokey tobacco scent with a hint of vetiver. If you are into your incense frags. This is a must try! It’s blended very smoothly and is very pleasant on drydown. Look foward to trying the rest of my samples. 8/10