I was on vacation in Miami and went to the famous OSME perfumery in Wynwood. Maurice, the guy with the fancy hats that you probably know from videos of different influencers sprayed this fragrance for me without telling or showing me what it was.
I think, a lot of times, when we try a new fragrance, we’re influenced by the things we heard about it, by the presentation or other things. To me, this was one of the first times in recent years that I can say, I wasn’t influenced in any imaginable way.
On my initial smelling of the fragrance, I placed it in the amber-woody category with some fruitiness, which you find quite often in Amber fragrances. The notes that stood out to me were Amber, Cherry, incense and Oud (in that order). Hence to me the fragrance is very unisex, I have placed it even slightly more on the masculine side on initial try.
After I told Maurice my thoughts he told me which fragrance it was and showed me the „pretty pink bottle“.
I would never have guessed that this is a feminine targeted fragrance in one of the most feminine packaging, I have ever seen.
Honestly, I don’t know what the marketing department of FdB was thinking when they designed everything around it in a way that a man usually wouldn’t even dare to try it. We could discuss the sense and nonsense of gender targeted fragrances for hours. But regardless of your gender, if you like Amber fragrances you should try this one no matter how pink the bottle and the box of it are.
