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03/08/2021
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Also Fo'ah does not get around an Oud Creamy in his olfactory studio - "14" melts the Orient and the desert, combines the dark eagle wood noblest 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 just stood in a luminous phone booth and traveled back fifteen years - "Fo'ah 14" would blow my mind and it would not only be my favorite in the Fo'ah collection. However, after almost 10 years of oud (just with the rose in it) accompanying me on my olfactory journey almost since the beginning, enthusiasm has turned into more of a friendly but determined shrug. Which is not at all to say that Fo'ah 14 isn't a good scent. It's creamy, delicious and brown-autumnal-sultry, but in a positive and very wearable way. It's a great oud scent that clings bravuraly to the skin and the wearer, enveloping them shield-like and giving them strength. But it is also an astonishingly boring and despondent oud scent. Very safe, very well-behaved, very rounded corners and valleys. Even the palm, which is otherwise clearly noticeable in Fo'ah, is completely lost in the mainstream orast here. And yes, oud really is mainstream by now. When even quite "unduff" work colleagues can match and recognize the scent. Timelessly beautiful. But it hasn't been "BAM!" for a long time. Or only very rarely. And if, then in completely different, more exotic and more creative combinations.
Flacon: Tetris says hello
Sillage: creamy and quite assertive-gentle
Durability: 9 hours and more, fully in the good to very good range
Conclusion: classic-oriental combination. Noble and soft and elegant. But of course also hardly particularly more
If I had never smelled a fragrance in my life, or if I just stood in a luminous phone booth and traveled back fifteen years - "Fo'ah 14" would blow my mind and it would not only be my favorite in the Fo'ah collection. However, after almost 10 years of oud (just with the rose in it) accompanying me on my olfactory journey almost since the beginning, enthusiasm has turned into more of a friendly but determined shrug. Which is not at all to say that Fo'ah 14 isn't a good scent. It's creamy, delicious and brown-autumnal-sultry, but in a positive and very wearable way. It's a great oud scent that clings bravuraly to the skin and the wearer, enveloping them shield-like and giving them strength. But it is also an astonishingly boring and despondent oud scent. Very safe, very well-behaved, very rounded corners and valleys. Even the palm, which is otherwise clearly noticeable in Fo'ah, is completely lost in the mainstream orast here. And yes, oud really is mainstream by now. When even quite "unduff" work colleagues can match and recognize the scent. Timelessly beautiful. But it hasn't been "BAM!" for a long time. Or only very rarely. And if, then in completely different, more exotic and more creative combinations.
Flacon: Tetris says hello
Sillage: creamy and quite assertive-gentle
Durability: 9 hours and more, fully in the good to very good range
Conclusion: classic-oriental combination. Noble and soft and elegant. But of course also hardly particularly more
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