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08/02/2021
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Smells like a wet and green subject here
The youngest offshoot of the white series and to my knowledge currently in Germany still not to get. Since I have already made good experiences with White Hinoki and the wet stone, I wanted to try him necessarily once.
At the start, spicy notes mix with greenish chords. Here the fragrance strikes into the somewhat "juicier" corner, without being citrusy or at all overtly fruity. I don't smell any herbaceous bitterness. Instead, in the first whiff, a spiciness with distant associations to Epic Man, which then, on the second sniff after a few minutes, takes a fairly definite turn in the direction of Green Irish Tweed. Creed's mossiness is no more achieved than Cool Water's synthetics. Quiet rain or fog chords drip along in the background like Wet Stone. As it progresses, the spice notes subside and you're left with a skin-like woody note at the end, which then reminds me a bit of Rocky Mountain Woods again with a bit more humidity. Here, olfactorically, a misty mountain with diverse green vegetation actually comes to mind. So the name is not completely am from the shot.
In sum, then, a potpourri of familiar scents? In a way, yes. Where Wet Stone and White Hinoki impress with a rich pinch of uniqueness, Himalayan Wood sticks more to well-trodden paths, but mixes them to a thoroughly successful overall work. The scent is natural, unassuming and yet has quite an interesting progression. It manages to be at the same time absolutely superbly wearable and yet a bit idiosyncratic without pulling up in the rebel chariot. Personally, I've grown to really like these kinds of evergreens with an individual twist, as unlike, say, Ford's Atomic Mushrooms, I actually get around to wearing them. The longevity is good, as usual for Amouroud, the sillage rather weak. Oud, as also usual, is not even visible under an electron microscope despite the name. Craft definitely a very well made, pleasant companion.
At the start, spicy notes mix with greenish chords. Here the fragrance strikes into the somewhat "juicier" corner, without being citrusy or at all overtly fruity. I don't smell any herbaceous bitterness. Instead, in the first whiff, a spiciness with distant associations to Epic Man, which then, on the second sniff after a few minutes, takes a fairly definite turn in the direction of Green Irish Tweed. Creed's mossiness is no more achieved than Cool Water's synthetics. Quiet rain or fog chords drip along in the background like Wet Stone. As it progresses, the spice notes subside and you're left with a skin-like woody note at the end, which then reminds me a bit of Rocky Mountain Woods again with a bit more humidity. Here, olfactorically, a misty mountain with diverse green vegetation actually comes to mind. So the name is not completely am from the shot.
In sum, then, a potpourri of familiar scents? In a way, yes. Where Wet Stone and White Hinoki impress with a rich pinch of uniqueness, Himalayan Wood sticks more to well-trodden paths, but mixes them to a thoroughly successful overall work. The scent is natural, unassuming and yet has quite an interesting progression. It manages to be at the same time absolutely superbly wearable and yet a bit idiosyncratic without pulling up in the rebel chariot. Personally, I've grown to really like these kinds of evergreens with an individual twist, as unlike, say, Ford's Atomic Mushrooms, I actually get around to wearing them. The longevity is good, as usual for Amouroud, the sillage rather weak. Oud, as also usual, is not even visible under an electron microscope despite the name. Craft definitely a very well made, pleasant companion.
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