Aromas de Salazar

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Cafe Oud smells pleasant enough, but is far from setting the world on fire. I just can't get past the hunch that there are pre-blended fragrance oils here doing much of the heavy lifting, much like with De Rosa. There's a lot of cardamom somewhere...

This one is helplessly unbalanced and muddled, with pepper and saffron competing to be the alpha in the opening while a bunch of other less-domineering and gentle elements are left to languish in the background. What's truly heartbreaking is that I detect...