Top Notes 
Saffron
Siberian stone pine
Heart Notes 
Damask rose
Oud
Palm leaf
Base Notes 
Musk
Sandalwood
Leimbacher
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Even Fo'ah cannot avoid an Oud Creamy in its olfactory atelier - “14” melts the Orient and the desert together, combining the dark agarwood nobly with human saffron and - of course, how could it be otherwise - rose.
If I had never smelled a fragrance in my life or if I were to step into a glowing phone booth and travel fifteen years back in time - “Fo'ah 14” would blow me away and it would not only be my favorite in the Fo'ah collection. After almost 10 years, during which Oud (especially with rose in tow) has accompanied me almost from the beginning on my fragrant journey, my enthusiasm has turned into a friendly but firm shrug. This is not to say that “Fo'ah 14” is not a good fragrance. It is creamy, delicious, and brown-autumnal-sultry, yet in a positive and very wearable way. A great Oud scent that snugly embraces the skin and the wearer, enveloping them like a shield and providing strength. But it is also an astonishingly boring and timid Oud fragrance. Very safe, very proper, very rounded corners and valleys. Even the palm, which is usually distinctly perceptible in Fo'ah, completely sinks into the mainstream mire here. And yes, Oud has truly become mainstream. When even completely “unfragrant” colleagues can identify and recognize the scent. Timelessly beautiful. But it no longer makes that “BAM!” sound. Or only very rarely. And when it does, it’s in completely different, more exotic and creative combinations.
Bottle: Tetris says hello
Sillage: creamy and quite assertively gentle
Longevity: 9 hours and more, fully in the good to very good range
Conclusion: classic-oriental combo. Noble and soft and elegant. But of course also hardly special anymore.
If I had never smelled a fragrance in my life or if I were to step into a glowing phone booth and travel fifteen years back in time - “Fo'ah 14” would blow me away and it would not only be my favorite in the Fo'ah collection. After almost 10 years, during which Oud (especially with rose in tow) has accompanied me almost from the beginning on my fragrant journey, my enthusiasm has turned into a friendly but firm shrug. This is not to say that “Fo'ah 14” is not a good fragrance. It is creamy, delicious, and brown-autumnal-sultry, yet in a positive and very wearable way. A great Oud scent that snugly embraces the skin and the wearer, enveloping them like a shield and providing strength. But it is also an astonishingly boring and timid Oud fragrance. Very safe, very proper, very rounded corners and valleys. Even the palm, which is usually distinctly perceptible in Fo'ah, completely sinks into the mainstream mire here. And yes, Oud has truly become mainstream. When even completely “unfragrant” colleagues can identify and recognize the scent. Timelessly beautiful. But it no longer makes that “BAM!” sound. Or only very rarely. And when it does, it’s in completely different, more exotic and creative combinations.
Bottle: Tetris says hello
Sillage: creamy and quite assertively gentle
Longevity: 9 hours and more, fully in the good to very good range
Conclusion: classic-oriental combo. Noble and soft and elegant. But of course also hardly special anymore.
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