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8.7 / 10 14 Ratings
A popular perfume by House of Orpheus for women and men, released in 2014. The scent is smoky-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky
Woody
Spicy
Green
Resinous

Fragrance Notes

OudOud OakmossOakmoss Canary Islands juniperCanary Islands juniper Haitian vetiverHaitian vetiver

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Ratings
Scent
8.714 Ratings
Longevity
6.913 Ratings
Sillage
6.513 Ratings
Bottle
6.915 Ratings
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Medianus76

32 Reviews
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Top Review 17  
Time is the Fire
“Time is the fire in which you all burn,” said the shadowy figure somewhere from the half-light between the gates. I was at a loss as to when and how I had even reached this enchanted place on the edge of darkness.
“How much time do you need?” the apparition whispered with a whispering echo into the infinity surrounding me. Overwhelmed by the events, I could hardly form a few words. This djinn or spirit or whatever was present placed a box made of the finest wood on the table in front of me. The bizarrely shaped, mossy-knotted legs of the table seemed connected to the figure. The root-like fingers, reminiscent of dark, creaky grasses, pulsed in the night’s darkness and slid the box across the silver metal plate of the little table, which was marked with deep grooves. Many tiny sparks sprayed into the silence of the surrounding darkness. The scent of glowing starbursts emerged, tracing sparkling fiery magic across the sky in slow motion and bathing the box, adorned with leathery fittings and dark, steaming wood ornaments, in lights akin to an Aurora Borealis.
My breath caught, the future revealed itself! What awaited in the box? Time...?

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Time, what is it actually? We could all use time, most of us have too little of it, and no one knows how much time one is actually granted. In the end, time is something created by humans. Philosophically, time describes the progression of the present coming from the past and leading to the future.
Here, I find this incredibly well-composed fragrance comes into play. It allows me to forget time for a moment. The progression comes to a halt for a moment. This is again quite a stretch for a fragrance. But I hardly know another work capable of creating such a magical and mysterious aura outside of time. Pure Magic!

This brings me to another essential point for me. I know no other fragrance that reminds me of a djinn. Often, one has associations with other scents. Smells similar to fragrance XY, reminds me of fragrance XY! Here, I find no suitable comparison or twin. Pure Magic!

All of this is created by Marcus R. McCoy with just 4 ingredients. The aromas that initially remind one of starbursts are somewhat harsh, but gradually give way to the arrangement of dark woody, mossy, as well as leathery-earthy and slightly resinous components. And indeed, the mystique that Marcus surely breathes into the fragrances separately…

In conclusion, I thank the devilishly good Chizza once again. He organized this olfactory soul vow for me from the USA. Because unfortunately, one can hardly get hold of these works. Unless one has time…

Oh yes, suitable musical accompaniment would come from Pink Floyd - Time
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BeJot

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Helpful Review 13  
Invitation
You invite me.

The closer I get to you
the deeper and darker you are

I step in
into your mist
am surrounded by you
I breathe you in
am filled with you
you breathe in me
quietly
resinous
spicy
woody
smoky
leathery
infinitely soft

you in me

**

Djinn is a spiritual scent for me. With its numerous, fine nuances, it plays on multiple levels. It makes boundaries blur and points beyond itself.

Thank you very much, dear Can!
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Floyd

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Top Review 55  
The Spirits in the Night Garden
Was there the breeze of a fleeing cloud, the dying smoke of a sulfur wood? Did it extinguish the light at the secretary, sweep over the ancient dark woods and out through a crack in the leaded glass window into the night garden? There, greenish glowing traces unfurled like smoldering nests in the misty grasses, toasting crackles in the earthy roots, drying tracks in the lichens and mosses that led into the distant darkness. Did you follow them?
To where the smoking remnants of the traces lead even deeper into the clay soils, where the spicy roasted green earth transforms into landscapes of leathery tobacco.
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Marcus R. McCoy, perfumer and operator of House of Orpheus, claims to have acquired the language of plants from shamans and the craft of distillation from the origins of alchemy. His creations move beyond the physical, transcending the liminal boundaries. He writes hymns to Greek gods and burns incense for them. Sometimes, perhaps, also cigars.
"Djinn," according to Islamic belief a spirit-being made of smokeless fire, is in this scent never smokeless, as the cedar juniper at the beginning, in connection with the Haitian vetiver, reminds me of a matchstick, the smell of sulfurous smoke, before the sweet grass reveals more of its earthy-rooty and smoky aromas, which are nestled in lichen-like green-brown oak mosses. Then the spicy, slightly leathery clay of the oud increasingly comes to the fore, and the scent increasingly resembles dark cigar tobacco, as aptly described below by Caligari. The spirits are quiet and remain in the garden for about seven hours.
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the moment of ignition
juniper sparks
sweet grass breath of my desires
earth leather smoke of dying embers
in the darkest moss night
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The pitfalls of desires! Ash on lips, whispered smoky-green, promised in woody white heat, broken in intention and tobacco smoke…!
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Vetiver & Oud
Is enchanting gold
Oud enhances the woody-smoky elements of the sweet grass
& adds depth
Moss with a dark green hue
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You green-brown charmer
Born from smokeless fire
Casually chewing tobacco
I want to whisper wishes
My lips breathe desire
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Possessing the HoO mystique, too much vetiver for me, dark smoke, anti-sacral turibulum, spicy, subtle animalic; ambiguous goat (?)
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Cloud-soft green moss indulges.
Red bark splits, needles & resin crackle in the fire.
Mystical oud balm -
I savor every drop.
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The vetiver subtly weaves through the oud, creating a scent of tobacco. Very well done, though unfortunately a bit weak.
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Vetiver with moss and a warm woody note, likely created by the oud. Warm-woody, yet green and deep. Very beautiful...
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