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10/01/2023
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Inspired by Black Phantom but still own
Who hopes with Ajayeb Dubai on a dupe to the well-known Black Phantom Memento Mori, I must unfortunately disappoint directly.
The fragrance is at most inspired by Black Phantom, but still independent.
At least I know nothing that really resembles the Ajayeb.
When I Ajayeb that first time tested I was pretty disappointed.
Sometimes you have to give a fragrance time before you stamp him as a bad buy and this time I gave him.
One of the reasons why the perfume disappointed me is the opening.
The pineapple, saffron combo in the opening smells extremely minty.
Mint in perfume is really not mine.
That did confuse me quite a bit, because pineapple I never felt like mint, both notes are not even very similar and yet mint is all I could perceive.
Only at the third or fourth wear I have understood the perfume goes strangely directly into the heart note and this combination of pineapple, violet leaf and saffron has something totally minty.
At the same moment you also discreetly perceive coffee and butterscotch.
Vanilla and sandalwood are also not long in coming.
Everything goes quite quickly, pow, pow, pow.
This can confuse the nose a bit.
Sounds all negative now, but it is not.
You get used to it over time and you find like it.
The most prominent notes in the later drydown are butterscotch and this something what I would call "minty".
In the background you still have a coffee "vibe", so it's not a prominent coffee note like in a fragrance like Coffee Addict or similar.
Sandalwood and vanilla give the fragrance a pleasant sweet creaminess.
However, the fragrance is never toouu sweet.
It remains until the end a mix of fresh and the Gourmandigen notes whereby the sweet somewhat predominates.
And exactly because of this freshness, you can wear it even on warmer days.
He gets it really quite well to build a bridge between gourmandigen and fresh notes.
The performance is a bit strange.
Some days I perceive him well, on other days rather less.
Probably the fragrance must still mature.
But in the first 90 minutes, the charisma is moderate to strong.
After that I perceive him still up to 3h and only then either my nose fails or he really strongly decreases, I still have to test.
Ajayeb is to be unisex, but on me he seems a little more masculine than expected.
Probably it is this fresh note that makes him look slightly masculine.
But on a woman I can still imagine him well, so it is not.
On the whole, a nice fragrance with which I had to warm up first, but now I'm still happy to have him in my collection.
And who stands on fragrances that are somewhat unique, which should give him a chance and test him.
The fragrance is at most inspired by Black Phantom, but still independent.
At least I know nothing that really resembles the Ajayeb.
When I Ajayeb that first time tested I was pretty disappointed.
Sometimes you have to give a fragrance time before you stamp him as a bad buy and this time I gave him.
One of the reasons why the perfume disappointed me is the opening.
The pineapple, saffron combo in the opening smells extremely minty.
Mint in perfume is really not mine.
That did confuse me quite a bit, because pineapple I never felt like mint, both notes are not even very similar and yet mint is all I could perceive.
Only at the third or fourth wear I have understood the perfume goes strangely directly into the heart note and this combination of pineapple, violet leaf and saffron has something totally minty.
At the same moment you also discreetly perceive coffee and butterscotch.
Vanilla and sandalwood are also not long in coming.
Everything goes quite quickly, pow, pow, pow.
This can confuse the nose a bit.
Sounds all negative now, but it is not.
You get used to it over time and you find like it.
The most prominent notes in the later drydown are butterscotch and this something what I would call "minty".
In the background you still have a coffee "vibe", so it's not a prominent coffee note like in a fragrance like Coffee Addict or similar.
Sandalwood and vanilla give the fragrance a pleasant sweet creaminess.
However, the fragrance is never toouu sweet.
It remains until the end a mix of fresh and the Gourmandigen notes whereby the sweet somewhat predominates.
And exactly because of this freshness, you can wear it even on warmer days.
He gets it really quite well to build a bridge between gourmandigen and fresh notes.
The performance is a bit strange.
Some days I perceive him well, on other days rather less.
Probably the fragrance must still mature.
But in the first 90 minutes, the charisma is moderate to strong.
After that I perceive him still up to 3h and only then either my nose fails or he really strongly decreases, I still have to test.
Ajayeb is to be unisex, but on me he seems a little more masculine than expected.
Probably it is this fresh note that makes him look slightly masculine.
But on a woman I can still imagine him well, so it is not.
On the whole, a nice fragrance with which I had to warm up first, but now I'm still happy to have him in my collection.
And who stands on fragrances that are somewhat unique, which should give him a chance and test him.
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