09/30/2022

SmellGoodGuy
47 Reviews

SmellGoodGuy
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4
Anticlimactic
This smells of frankincense and fenugreek. Maybe if I took my time, smelled it a bit more, I would get tobacco and perhaps other notes, but, on it's face, this is 100 percent frankincense and fenugreek.
I say fenugreek not because I'm familiar with this note, but because of how everyone else described it and, yep, I get it. Discursively, adding it was quite brilliant. It works beautifully with the frankincense.
So while this is not a bad fragrance, it's not what it promises from the tin. You see "tobacco" and "Amouage" and you begin to conjure up fantasies of dense, rich, opulent tobacco. And when that expectation is met with a wildly different scent profile, it's rather anticlimactic. Albeit a good fragrance.
I say fenugreek not because I'm familiar with this note, but because of how everyone else described it and, yep, I get it. Discursively, adding it was quite brilliant. It works beautifully with the frankincense.
So while this is not a bad fragrance, it's not what it promises from the tin. You see "tobacco" and "Amouage" and you begin to conjure up fantasies of dense, rich, opulent tobacco. And when that expectation is met with a wildly different scent profile, it's rather anticlimactic. Albeit a good fragrance.