Oud Burmi Al Waseef
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Just to be safe, apply it by 5 PM
What? Oud Burmi smells like a cow stable? Nonsense. Do you have to understate it like that? Cow stable doesn’t even come close. Oud Burmi smells like a brief, typically sour-woody-leathery note right away, without detours through the barn, like a manure pile, like slurry. I wonder if I have ever experienced a more intense opening for a… uh… the term “perfume” just doesn’t fit… a liquid intended for application on the skin. Phew.
It takes a while, but it happens: Within about two hours, the slurry smell dissipates and makes way for a powerful, dark-spicy, almost tobacco-like oud wood. As the morning progresses, this note becomes brighter and brighter, even starting to shimmer (with an “r,” not an “l”). There’s hardly a trace of the stench left; Oud Burmi has become quite well-behaved - at least comparatively. In the afternoon, this development gently continues, becoming increasingly bright-woody, while still retaining a sour-leathery quality, and now the thought of a distant, barely noticeable breeze from the cow stable fits in. The latter is only noticeable very close to the skin, surely just for the wearer.
Oud Burmi is undoubtedly not a scent for the uninitiated, but it does become wearable - who would have thought that at first? Everything from start to finish can probably be summed up under the various facets of oud, so the simple mention of a single ingredient in this case seems not pretentious, but appropriate.
Conclusion: Anyone wanting to wear the scent in the evening should apply it by 6 PM at the latest. Just to be safe, already by 5 PM.
I would like to thank 0815abc for the sample.
It takes a while, but it happens: Within about two hours, the slurry smell dissipates and makes way for a powerful, dark-spicy, almost tobacco-like oud wood. As the morning progresses, this note becomes brighter and brighter, even starting to shimmer (with an “r,” not an “l”). There’s hardly a trace of the stench left; Oud Burmi has become quite well-behaved - at least comparatively. In the afternoon, this development gently continues, becoming increasingly bright-woody, while still retaining a sour-leathery quality, and now the thought of a distant, barely noticeable breeze from the cow stable fits in. The latter is only noticeable very close to the skin, surely just for the wearer.
Oud Burmi is undoubtedly not a scent for the uninitiated, but it does become wearable - who would have thought that at first? Everything from start to finish can probably be summed up under the various facets of oud, so the simple mention of a single ingredient in this case seems not pretentious, but appropriate.
Conclusion: Anyone wanting to wear the scent in the evening should apply it by 6 PM at the latest. Just to be safe, already by 5 PM.
I would like to thank 0815abc for the sample.
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It can also take days when applying.