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Ars Amatoria - O

3.5 / 10 13 Ratings
A perfume by Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab for men. The release year is unknown. The scent is synthetic-citrusy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Synthetic
Citrus
Resinous
Green
Animal

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
LavenderLavender LemonLemon
Heart Notes Heart Notes
GalbanumGalbanum BlackcurrantBlackcurrant RoseRose ZorplamquixZorplamquix
Base Notes Base Notes
MuskMusk SandalwoodSandalwood
Ratings
Scent
3.513 Ratings
Longevity
5.511 Ratings
Sillage
6.411 Ratings
Bottle
6.520 Ratings
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Taurus

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Top Review 10  
Retort Lemon from the Stable
There are things I just don’t understand. For example, how someone over 40 can still indulge in a hype like Pokémon Go. People, grow up already! Or how one can drown finely tuned and spiced dishes in copious amounts of Tabasco or Sambal Olek. Everything ends up tasting equally spicy anyway, whether you’re downing Beef Stroganoff or a soggy kitchen sponge.

Or the mixture of Al Wisam Evening. Which means something like the award of the evening. However, the pyramid rather signals a fragrance experience for the day. With lemon and lavender, it’s actually quite sunny. But that’s not even the real problem. How can one ... really: how can one underscore such a lemony affair, which also comes off as synthetic and cheap, with an extremely stable Oud note and not even announce it officially?

I can well imagine that some blind buyers were taken aback by the sight of this relatively attractive bottle and then by the first spray of this catastrophe. The stable smell comes without any warning, thankfully doesn’t last long, but is enough to ruin the promising evening. After all, there’s no sweet-floral-fruity sensual compensation that follows, just the nasty aftertaste of a refreshing little water. With a bit of generosity, a few usable fragrance molecules are perceptible here and there, but by then the child has already fallen into the well - and with a big splash.

Musk and sandalwood in the base note? No way!!!

Well, in Arabic regions, Al Wisam Evening might find one or two fans, but in our latitudes, it’s a prime candidate for the golden scent lemon or the red perfume lantern among men.

One thing I can understand, though: that Al Wisam Evening has been bottled in this chic flacon so that it can at least draw some attention. That this is a form of consumer deception, as well as the concealment of the Oud note, is another story.

And to avoid being misunderstood: I like Oud - but please not in this insidious and unclean way!
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Sisyphos

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Apocalypse Now
The bottle looks quite stylish. That’s about it. The rest is somewhat like ...

... the feeling when the last episode of the ZDF Christmas series in the 1980s (Tim Thaler, Patrick Pacard) was over.
... the state of mind of lying in bed on a Sunday evening, knowing you have a math test on Monday (of course not understanding anything and not having studied, but comforting yourself with the thought that the test is only in the third period, after all there’s the long break in between, etc.).
... the certainty that the severe cold is coming and cannot be (absolutely) stopped - and the day after tomorrow there’s a wine tasting with the finest vintages from St. Emilion.

There are limits. And here one has been crossed. What on earth is this supposed to represent? At the beginning, a picture: Apocalypse Now. And the start is still the best part, but it lasts as long as the hope for a better world while watching that film. The river, the mud, the diffuse threat ... In this perfume, you wouldn’t want to be a lemon. Here, sour is no longer funny. A completely joyless affair. Lavender in its dirtiest form. Never experienced anything like it. Whatever has been used here, it makes you want to run away. The musk base is then: The End - but there’s no catharsis here, no, for that you’d better get under the shower quickly. With soap and a hard washcloth, preferably.

This mixture is synthetic and crude, the ingredients seem cheap and everything, really everything is out of balance. Fragrance development? None. The longevity of the scent is not great, I find the projection to be somewhat stronger. This is stagnation, the absurd, nothingness. Al Wisam Evening is undoubtedly something for people who are completely indifferent, e.g. "The Stranger" by Camus. At least emotions are stirred here. You feel almost obliged to protest. Sure, anything goes and all that, but honestly: It doesn’t smell nice. Not even interesting. Not even theoretically interesting.

However, AWE is a perfume that can reconcile you with the world, for example, when you’ve once again let your defeatism and world-weariness run free and then just barely catch the bus (and are happy about it). You’re just glad that things in this world sometimes work: A mechanical watch, for example, or the toaster that pops up the freshly toasted slices of white bread and fills the room with a wonderful scent. It’s a nice feeling when the pain subsides. 10% for not giving it a 0% - but it was a damn close call.
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9 years ago
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A light stable scent on me, which I only know from Oud! Behind it, a fresh, quite decent mainstream fragrance.
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