Nohiba E. Coudray 1978
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Helpful Review
Something of a Necker Cube
Coudray NOHIBA is a strong, ylang-heavy woody oriental perfume to my nose. It smells like some of the orientals from last century and has fantastically fabulous sillage and longevity like those ones, too!
I wore this perfume twice and discovered that it has a masculine woody facet. In fact, I vacillated between thinking that this was an old school oriental and a new school masculine woody. What never changed was the potency, whether it's the ylang and the carnation or the woods which are dominating at a given moment, this potion is very potent!
I have smelled a number of perfumes which combine ylang and carnation, and I must say that it yields a distinctive scent which is probably going to polarize people into "yes" and "no" camps. For me this is a serious wintertime creation, and I wonder whether I need it, given that I have Guerlain Aqua Allegoria YLANG & VANILLE, which is super ylangy and also very strong.
Well, in any case, NOHIBA is certainly worth a try by lovers of bold oriental perfumes!
I wore this perfume twice and discovered that it has a masculine woody facet. In fact, I vacillated between thinking that this was an old school oriental and a new school masculine woody. What never changed was the potency, whether it's the ylang and the carnation or the woods which are dominating at a given moment, this potion is very potent!
I have smelled a number of perfumes which combine ylang and carnation, and I must say that it yields a distinctive scent which is probably going to polarize people into "yes" and "no" camps. For me this is a serious wintertime creation, and I wonder whether I need it, given that I have Guerlain Aqua Allegoria YLANG & VANILLE, which is super ylangy and also very strong.
Well, in any case, NOHIBA is certainly worth a try by lovers of bold oriental perfumes!