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Earl Grey tea
Bergamot
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Oud
Gaiac wood
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Sugar-Sweet Queen
Oud save the Queen I first encountered in December on a paper strip, which the friendly perfume sales assistant finally handed to me. Fortunately, I had already finished my shopping at that point, otherwise it would have been yet another costly impulse buy - I really liked the scent a lot. So I first needed a decant, whose multiple uses have now tempered my initial enthusiasm to a reasonable level.
The Queen makes a grand entrance right away - powerfully loud and intensely vanilla-sweet, she comes with a few cloves in tow. Unfortunately, there’s no trace of the airy freshness and lightness of the supposedly included Earl Grey tea, just a downright sticky, slightly spicy sweetness. I do enjoy sweet, heavy scents, but this is even a bit too much for me. As if that weren't enough, my tolerance is further tested by the rather generous use of jasmine and orange blossoms, which I do not appreciate in fragrances at all. These flowers combine with the sweetness of the top note to create an almost breathtaking opulence in my perception, which also develops into a powdery direction. At this stage, the scent has nothing at all to do with what I positively perceived on the paper strip.
Only after about an hour does the loud, floral-sweet crowd calm down; the flowers slowly retreat to the background, and spicy, slightly herbaceous oud takes a bit of the sweetness away and merges with woody notes for the next approximately eight hours into a warm, almost creamy, pleasant scent with just a bit too much sweetness and light spice, which comes close to what was on the scent strip and I quite like. However, fewer cloying flowers and a bit more lightness would have done the fragrance good, because as it is, it’s just too much for me in the long run. But at least I now see the connection to the name, because here the oud has indeed saved the Queen - otherwise, she would have suffocated in the powdery-sweet sea of flowers.
The Queen makes a grand entrance right away - powerfully loud and intensely vanilla-sweet, she comes with a few cloves in tow. Unfortunately, there’s no trace of the airy freshness and lightness of the supposedly included Earl Grey tea, just a downright sticky, slightly spicy sweetness. I do enjoy sweet, heavy scents, but this is even a bit too much for me. As if that weren't enough, my tolerance is further tested by the rather generous use of jasmine and orange blossoms, which I do not appreciate in fragrances at all. These flowers combine with the sweetness of the top note to create an almost breathtaking opulence in my perception, which also develops into a powdery direction. At this stage, the scent has nothing at all to do with what I positively perceived on the paper strip.
Only after about an hour does the loud, floral-sweet crowd calm down; the flowers slowly retreat to the background, and spicy, slightly herbaceous oud takes a bit of the sweetness away and merges with woody notes for the next approximately eight hours into a warm, almost creamy, pleasant scent with just a bit too much sweetness and light spice, which comes close to what was on the scent strip and I quite like. However, fewer cloying flowers and a bit more lightness would have done the fragrance good, because as it is, it’s just too much for me in the long run. But at least I now see the connection to the name, because here the oud has indeed saved the Queen - otherwise, she would have suffocated in the powdery-sweet sea of flowers.
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