Iranzol Acampora Perfume Oil

With the sense of smell, it can really be quite challenging sometimes: Through my knowledge of many wild plants, kitchen herbs, and a rather considerable spice repertoire in culinary use, along with decades of fragrance experience, I believed I knew and could recognize quite a bit, without considering myself a particularly gifted "nose," mind you.
And then there are always moments of doubt. I know this scent, but something is different, what is it?
I don’t want to embark on the testing process in the sense of "Today I was at Douglas and a saleswoman crossed my path..." no worries! Certainly no evaluation if the scent only rushed by for an hour and then had to be washed off due to urgent, medical needs and, of course, world-shaking and forum-public-needing complaints.
First: Twice while testing Bruno Acampora fragrances, I experienced what I had sometimes encountered before, where the initially favored scents faded, then turned back, and another one was preferred because it was surprising. A rollercoaster. I no longer trusted myself.
Iranzol starts strong, bitter - and with the realization that I know something from somewhere but cannot name it, which frustrates me: I can't figure it out. I first suspect something fennel-like, herbaceous, along with a bit of coriander that softens it, yet at the same time something disturbingly attractive and familiar-unknown dominates. Similarly, though friendlier, is the opening of "Black Orchid," and slowly it dawns on me what I remember: mushrooms. Many mushrooms have a distinct smell, almost fatty when they are fresh and being cleaned, and then when soaking the dried specimens in water, you can experience it again; it doesn’t smell sweet, but rather has a truly peculiar spiciness that can define or nuance a sauce.
This completely unappealing, utterly unfamiliar top note in a perfume is intriguing in both senses of the word. It is bold to not simply rely on a beautiful allure in the top note but to irritate or even shock testers. I was extraordinarily intrigued to find out what lay behind the riddle.
The scent changes only slowly in a softer direction. I sense floral notes rather than being able to define them until the patchouli reveals itself. Very smooth and not from the cellar region. Beautiful, linden-leaf velvety, but now I would wish for a bit of that mushroom-like galbanum to return. That means what was very novel and highly concentrated in a scent at the beginning could linger more clearly later. As a curve progression, I would compare it to an immediately high peak that then quickly subsides and remains in an almost constant, only slowly falling line, but indeed also loses tension.
Iranzol - for me a fragrance experience, a fragrance course - with an open ending. I like it, the confounder, from which a drop is enough to puzzle, to marvel, to learn to smell. Whether I would buy it, I do not yet know, because the balance does not completely satisfy me.