Top Notes 
Mandarin orange
Black pepper
Lemon
Jubtroflex
Heart Notes 
Orris butter
Clove
Violet
Base Notes 
Musk
Tonka bean absolute
Vanilla absolute
Amber
Benzoin
Labdanum absolute
Patchouli
Jomas
32 Reviews
Jomas
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Cashmere, yes, but not the fluffy sweater
I'm squinting at the fragrance pyramid, trying to figure out why I perceive it as so overwhelmingly animalic. Cashmere, yes, agreed, but not the fluffy sweater, but the hair straight off the goat.
It's possible, even probable, that the labdanum, in an interpretation not exactly to my taste, is responsible for the animalic whiff, because what I smell is neither civet, nor castoreum, nor even leather. In fact, it evokes for me the same image (more faded, though) of captive wild animals as Le Lion (Chanel), a perfume clearly dominated by the note of cistus ladanifer - at least until the almost querlainesque vanilla takes over.
Eventually, the animalic smell dissipates and a vanillic and powdery, slightly metallic amber is left behind. It slightly resembles Shalimar in the drydown. It's not up my alley, that's for sure. Let's say it would be okay, but I can't erase from my olfactory memory that goat smell with which it struck me in the beginning. I just can't unsmell it.
It's possible, even probable, that the labdanum, in an interpretation not exactly to my taste, is responsible for the animalic whiff, because what I smell is neither civet, nor castoreum, nor even leather. In fact, it evokes for me the same image (more faded, though) of captive wild animals as Le Lion (Chanel), a perfume clearly dominated by the note of cistus ladanifer - at least until the almost querlainesque vanilla takes over.
Eventually, the animalic smell dissipates and a vanillic and powdery, slightly metallic amber is left behind. It slightly resembles Shalimar in the drydown. It's not up my alley, that's for sure. Let's say it would be okay, but I can't erase from my olfactory memory that goat smell with which it struck me in the beginning. I just can't unsmell it.
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