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zld466speagoessenda – :
Extraordinary. Superb quality and a beautiful scent. I can almost pull this off in a crisp white button down, brogues, and maybe a hat tilted just so. Plus I would need to work in an art gallery. I agree with the review below…very zen. The sandalwood in this is flawless. Worth the splurge.
Vetrofan – :
Another Mona Di Orio I wish I could own. I won’t give a proper review on a sample, but the quality stays true to the brand and it is incredibly delicate and warm. Evokes a sense of peace for sure
Duncan – :
Very, very, very special juice indeed. Got a tiny sniff of this on my skin from a pre-order tester at Les Senteurs in London – after being tipped off about it by an insanely alluring update email from the Mona di Orio list. It did not disappoint at all.
The concept /marketing blurb is an outrageous froth of exotic-historic flim-flam about the ancient Nabataean spice traders of the Arabian Peninsula, complete with gorgeous high-res photography of the fabled carved city of Petra and so on, complete with references to archaic mysteries and precious, hard-to-source, ancient ingredients and all that jazz. Full retail price is absolutely terrifying, making you wonder if every drop of this had to be distilled from museum-grade antiquities hand-carted to you by camel from the desert. The hype implied a spicier, darker sort of blend than this is … but I have to admit, grudgingly, that this is TRULY a luxury product and might even be worth it.
Exceptionally individual and distinctive – absolutely NOT ‘just another sandalwood but more luxury added’, more like ‘a whole different class, or many classes, above and beyond what you’re used to when you hear the word sandalwood’. Very sweet, almost powdery, subtle and harmonious spicing, with the pepper and leaf and coffee adding juuuuuuust enough bitterness to make it bewitching, without ever shouting their names out loud.
So for once, the orientalist-antiquarian blabber actually does have something to do with the scent; like Papillon’s Anubis (an utterly different smell), this one really does conjure an impression of something archaic, historic, resurrected from centuries (or millennia) long past. Oh my ancient gods it’s good.