Whispered Myths Imaginary Authors 2017

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6.6 / 10 102 Ratings

A perfume by Imaginary Authors for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is woody-smoky. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Woody

Smoky

Spicy

Fruity

Sweet

Fragrance Notes

Cantaloupe

Cambodian oud

Cedarwood

Driftwood

Abelmoschus

Honey

Perfumer

Josh Meyer

Ratings

Scent

6.6102 Ratings

Longevity

7.271 Ratings

Sillage

6.871 Ratings

Bottle

7.180 Ratings

Value for money

6.732 Ratings

Submitted by M3000, last update on 11/25/2024.

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Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/17/2023

6
Pricing 6
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 6
Scent

Mlleghoul
407 Reviews

Mlleghoul

2

a neural net scoop of ice cream

You can definitely smell the cantaloupe in Imaginary Authors Whispered Myths. The cantaloupe is the entire reason I passed over this fragrance with a “nah, I’m good” dismissal when I first saw the perfume announced. Its distinctive musty-musky honeyed gourd vibe registers immediately, but what’s interesting is that in combination with the accompanying and somewhat competing woody notes of barnacled shipwreck and oud’s scorched earth pungency, the cantaloupe becomes less fruity and more creamy, like if you asked a neural network to come up with a new flavor for artisanal ice cream shop’s daily special board. Cantelurp Cram Cruble with splimter sprankles, anyone?

10/06/2023

ScentStudio
147 Reviews

ScentStudio

1

Stark contrast of oud and cantalope

What a fragrance! Not at all what I expected. Imaginary Authors never cease to amaze me, but this time I don't know whether I'm in over my head.

Whispered Myths opens with a strong note of cantaloupe promising something sweet, but the fragrance is very resinous and leaves me speechless. This is a strong and oud heavy fragrance! I don't think it will please many Western noses, like my own, I think this might be too Middle Eastern for most. Oud is very appreciated in the East and the use of real, natural Cambodian oud in Whispered Myths might be too intimidating for some. This fragrance has me realising that my nose is not ready for real oud!

I am an avid and biased lover of the house of Imaginary Authors, but this one is simply too heavy for me. Though not completely unwearable like some reviewers say on Fragrantica, this is a very unique fragrance that won't please the masses, which in itself makes it thee fragrance for someone who can carry an oud like this.

After dry down, Whispered Myths changes into a more nautical fragrance on my skin hinting at the imagined note of a salvaged shipwreck. A slight note of salt, wet wood and ambrette is what this fragrances is made of.

It isn't even a case of the fragrance leaning too masculine, resinous heavy Whispered Myths is just too linear for me to be pleasant to wear. I need a slightly fresher element, maybe a sweet undertone or an herbal kick to lift it's character, because it almost becomes peppery by being so oud heavy. I don't know whether this is the correct term, but it is very monotone in its nature.

A couple of hours' wear leaves Whispered Myths unchanged on my skin. On paper, the fragrance is much lighter with a fresh note of not too sweet cantaloupe, a nice twist that I would have loved on my skin.
Though still loving Imaginary Authors to bits, Whispered Myths won't become a part of my collection anytime soon, but I am absolutely in awe of their use of real oud.

02/09/2024

6
Pricing 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

LastWonder
222 Reviews

LastWonder

1

A Softly Sweet Wood

Right at the beginning I got an almost metallic note but that quickly faded into the predominant notes of cantaloupe and wood. I would say that there aren't any "top, middle, or base" notes because the scent really doesn't change after that. The cantaloupe is nice because it brings a lightness to the scent without overpowering is like most fruit scents will. So you just have a nice woody scent that doesn't make you smell like a tree. It lasted about 5 hours, which is nice because I find most of Imaginary Author's fragrances don't last very long. This one projected nicely for the first few hours but then becomes more of a skin scent.

10/22/2019

10
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Emorandeira
389 Reviews

Emorandeira

Melon-oud

The first time i tried It i thought: what the hell!! What a weird perfume! The mix between the citrus-fruity-sweet scent of the melón with the animalic-medicinal of oud was ununderstandable for me. But today i am trying It again, after having tried some more oud based perfumes, and now i can find a very interesting and original perfume. This is an oud but a different oud! The problem is that o dont know if It really worths the price because the performance is just average and un the market id easy yo find arab perfumes for a fraction of the price of that one. For example 'dhanal oudh raswah' by rasasi has an oud very close to the oud here and it costs only 40€/45ml while that one costs double (100€/50ml). I think i would not buy It but maybe can be interesting for oud lovers as parte of a collection. Unisex but a bit difficult to wear as most ouds.

06/05/2021

Splitter
56 Reviews

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Splitter

Helpful Review 4

I don't know what he wants..

On paper, a pretty entertaining fun with way too much synthetic fruit. On me...

Weird combo.
First so WOW, is that much synthetic fruit.
Shortly later then so WOW, that is this special smoke note from Breath of God Perfume.
And barely that is gone way too quickly so WOW, the intriguing needle spice from "Portraits - Terrible Teddy | Penhaligon's".

Just all much much much too shallow and with little substance.
But let's go into a little more detail.
The start is strangely unspecific and overdrawn. He does not want to fit so right to the rest and except scream he can somehow also nothing.
Underneath shows said smoke note, which is transported by oud and cedar very well and at the same time is so subliminal and subtle... what do you do with it? The cedar also continues to permeate and, along with a soft sweetness, is also the only thing that shows up for more than ten minutes.
But what is already missing after five minutes, is expressiveness and sillage. Because this is... underground is still too kindly put. There is simply nothing. There is so what other fragrances of the house still surpass after 8 hours with ease. Can not understand the reviews in this regard, unfortunately. Or they were achieved by human has tipped over the whole bottle.
I hope not.

Sure, the water is called Whispered Myths. But this is now really too quiet for me

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