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10/22/2023
Mitchcraft
36 Reviews
Mitchcraft
3
The Great Onyx Of 2023
This was my first Oud Rose fragrance that made me realise that I love this combination. It is also a great fragrance for those who want to try their first Oud Rose as it will definitely help you to be able to detect rose and Oud in other fragrances that you maybe already have rose and oud in them but wasn’t able to separate the other notes that are in them which was what happened to me after I had already had several wears of Xerjoff Soprano I had to go and look at the notes again the next time I wore it after wearing Onyx as it changed my ability to detect those notes for the better.
So, let’s get right in to the smell of Onyx.
The opening, I was very surprised with it, because to me this smells so much like a real rose has been presented to me, and the reason for my surprise is because Aaron has said in his videos that when using rose absolute, he likes to manipulate it to smell more like a sweet jam kind of smell, but here it is unmistakably the smell of a real rose. Along with it comes the smell of oud which doesn’t seem to bother me at all in this fragrance. Somehow it adds to the feeling of the rose being real and you are standing in a garden and you are experiencing the entire garden from the earth all the way up to the petals.
After a while the rose starts to give way and this light, airy chocolate smell appears in its place, which again smells like real chocolate. You still have the smell of oud with you, but the smell of vanilla and plum begins to move in also, creating a sweet, almost gourmand scent which is not a sickly overly sweet kind of smell from the likes of Vicious Cacao, but more like his Maverick fragrance which feels so natural and delicious, but not in a way that will leave you craving a sticky, sweet treat that will destroy your summer diet you have been on.
Performance. I put this on last night and 13+ hours later I am still smelling reminders that i wore this yesterday, even though I have sprayed on Bleu De Chanel EDP this morning.
Projection is great a 10/10
Bottle 50ml is a 10’/10 ,the 10ml is an 8/10
Scent is a 9.5/10 as I wish the chocolate was dialled back just a bit, but it doesn’t last long before the vanilla and plum kicks in. It’s a nightmare to try get a .5 when using your phone to rate things so even though it says 10/10 my actual score is 9.5.
This would be great for many occasions. Summer nights are fine but the chocolate stage may be a bit much for some in hotter parts of the world at midday when the heat is at its highest. It will definitely be fine for all other seasons though.
Enjoy
So, let’s get right in to the smell of Onyx.
The opening, I was very surprised with it, because to me this smells so much like a real rose has been presented to me, and the reason for my surprise is because Aaron has said in his videos that when using rose absolute, he likes to manipulate it to smell more like a sweet jam kind of smell, but here it is unmistakably the smell of a real rose. Along with it comes the smell of oud which doesn’t seem to bother me at all in this fragrance. Somehow it adds to the feeling of the rose being real and you are standing in a garden and you are experiencing the entire garden from the earth all the way up to the petals.
After a while the rose starts to give way and this light, airy chocolate smell appears in its place, which again smells like real chocolate. You still have the smell of oud with you, but the smell of vanilla and plum begins to move in also, creating a sweet, almost gourmand scent which is not a sickly overly sweet kind of smell from the likes of Vicious Cacao, but more like his Maverick fragrance which feels so natural and delicious, but not in a way that will leave you craving a sticky, sweet treat that will destroy your summer diet you have been on.
Performance. I put this on last night and 13+ hours later I am still smelling reminders that i wore this yesterday, even though I have sprayed on Bleu De Chanel EDP this morning.
Projection is great a 10/10
Bottle 50ml is a 10’/10 ,the 10ml is an 8/10
Scent is a 9.5/10 as I wish the chocolate was dialled back just a bit, but it doesn’t last long before the vanilla and plum kicks in. It’s a nightmare to try get a .5 when using your phone to rate things so even though it says 10/10 my actual score is 9.5.
This would be great for many occasions. Summer nights are fine but the chocolate stage may be a bit much for some in hotter parts of the world at midday when the heat is at its highest. It will definitely be fine for all other seasons though.
Enjoy
