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ZIDAN13 – :
This perfume is so very lovely. It manages to be both spicy and subtly sweet. The orange, peppercorn, and cardamom meld to create a heavenly experience. Not only is it lovely it is NATURAL. I get an aromatherapy lift with every whiff of my wrist. I love most every product I sample from this line.
ya_krevedko_O – :
hummm.. very good… i liked this one from the first sniff. it has that shy orange dropped in cardamom rum. neroli and oak are quite sharp and obvious. but the pepper note makes a nose itching effect! so far no vanilla there but as it calms down the vanilla rises a bit. the rose as well comes up after few minutes, and i guess the salty note is supposed to be the seashells. no leather and no rice notes as well as the Heliotrope. i can still sense the stamp of Providence in here. a nice fragrance
finish war – :
Spicy boozey deliciousness. I live right near this perfumery and they produce some lovely scents, this one is so warm and cozy and marvelous. I bought a .3 oz spray but I’ll almost certainly be back for more.
vseovisockom – :
Samarinda is a well balanced, well done perfume with interesting notes. That being said, it is definitely not to my taste. It opens with a very bitter boozey, incense forward medicinal smell, followed by very strong notes of saltwater seashells with that “something died here” scent that seashells give off while they are recently removed from the ocean. A bitter birch tar leather note weaves in and out and never leaves the fragrance. In the final drydown, some warmth and a nice balance of all the notes emerges. The coffee and oak and a few snippets of florals, topped off with a vanilla note dominate the drydown. A very unisex fragrance, again just not my taste.
bochan – :
About a month ago I visited the Providence Perfume Factory and had the pleasure of meeting Charna Ethier who gave me her undivided attention while letting me sample every male scent in her shop. I felt like a kid in a toy store. All the perfumes I sampled were wonderfully composed and I had a hard time choosing just one.
I finally settled on a 1 oz. atomizer of Samarinda and she told me this is what her husband wears. I guess we both have excellent taste.
Samarinda to my nose and on me opens a little like PDN’s New York, my signature scent, and the middle notes are just a prelude to the finish which remind me a little of Andy Tauer’s L’air du Desert Marocan, another scent I love. It doesn’t get any better than this. Although Samerinda can be worn during any season, to me it should be worn in cooler weather.
JigneeDrearecruibra – :
Darn! On me this is one of those perfumes that smells fantastic but either my body chemistry or some hypersensitivity in my olfactive system produces an unpleasant effect that overwhelms the rest of it. In this case I get mostly play dough with something nice underneath it. It takes about four hours for the play dough to fade and then it’s a delightful sweet vanilla coffee dry down. Sadly not for me.