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Stanky or sexy? Why not both?
Here are the published notes:
- Top: Petitgrain, black pepper, frankincense
- Mid: frankincense, cumin, cedar
- Base: sandalwood, cedar, vetiver
I get basically zero petitgrain or vetiver off this. From the top it's primarily pepper and cumin for me. The pepper fades quickly, but the cumin becomes more prominent in the mid along with the frankincense and sandalwood appearing and continuing through and a touch of cedar at the base as the cumin fades out.
I'm not really a cumin fan in general. It usually comes off either weirdly gourmand (curry) or more often just stanky body odor. Here, it's played as a stinky BO note - if you're sensitive to cumin it might something you can't get over in this fragrance as the cumin note is fairly prominent. I get what they're going for with it, however: they're trying to blend it as sort of an animalic, musky, human note. And it kinda works? Sometimes it's a little overwhelmingly stinky, but once it settles down a little bit I absolutely 100% get the vibe - it adds a sort of sweaty, sexy, rolling-in-bedsheets, post-coital accord.
The sandalwood is a little synthetic to me. It's a buttery sandalwood, slightly cedary and ever-so-slightly powdery. It's not sweet or fluffy at all - think salted butter, not milky cream. It's smooth though, and keeps the cumin and pepper in line. Combined with the frankincense, there's an intriguing smooth, floral and heady cloud that permeates through the mid and base, almost but not quite like a hidden tuberose accord that reminds me of a room with thick, stale air that someone lit incense in a few hours earlier, like a musty function room in a church basement.
Longevity is weak-moderate, about 5-6 hours. Projection is moderate, and significantly increases with body heat/activity. Sillage is weak generally but increases in the heat.
This one is growing on me as i wear it more. Which is fitting I guess, given the name is a reference to repetition as method of memorization/understanding. The PR copy is dumb, rolling around references to Narcissus and Echo, mirrors, "liquid stillness of a pond or looking glass". I kinda get the Narcissus angle though: desire, sex, bodily pleasure. Previously I said it reminds me of a musty function room in a church basement, and I can easily still picture that. But if I flip my perception around it's this intoxicating, sultry, just-fucked bedroom scent instead. I like it.
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