Top Notes 
Egyptian cumin
Heart Notes 
Iris
Violet
Rosewood
Jasmine
Base Notes 
Frankincense
Virginia cedar
Leather
White musk
Oud
Vanilla
04/16/2015
Drseid
821 Reviews
Drseid
2
Synthetic Oud Reprise...
Omega opens with a brief vanilla sweetened jasmine floral before quickly moving to its heart. As the composition enters its early heart the jasmine all but fades, leaving the syrupy, moderately sweet vanilla remaining in support of an emerging strong synthetic smelling Oud wood with hints of cumin spice. During the late dry-down the synthetic woods vacate, leaving the vanilla now losing most of its earlier sweetness all by itself save faint hints of the jasmine remnants to finish off the composition's development. Projection is on the low side of average and longevity below average at about 5 hours on skin.
Omega started off pretty decent with its early jasmine presentation, but things went downhill fast when the perfumer rolled out the near certainly norlimbanol derived synthetic smelling Oud Wood. This stuff dominated the rest of the composition's facets as it almost always does, making for an unimpressive mid-section to the perfume's development. The late dry-down while more pleasant is near-equally unimpressive as it pretty much consists of relatively dry vanilla with a hint of jasmine. Like most of the Mendittorosa compositions (save the superb Le Mat) it just doesn't have the structure needed to hold things up, and the composition again folds like a house of cards, providing terrible performance metrics, especially considering this is supposed to be an extrait concentration. The bottom line is the 185 Euro per 100ml bottle Omega is a bit of a synthetic smelling mess, earning a "below average" 2 to 2.5 stars out of 5 and a mild avoid recommendation ignoring price. If price were taken into account the avoid recommendation would be much stronger.
Omega started off pretty decent with its early jasmine presentation, but things went downhill fast when the perfumer rolled out the near certainly norlimbanol derived synthetic smelling Oud Wood. This stuff dominated the rest of the composition's facets as it almost always does, making for an unimpressive mid-section to the perfume's development. The late dry-down while more pleasant is near-equally unimpressive as it pretty much consists of relatively dry vanilla with a hint of jasmine. Like most of the Mendittorosa compositions (save the superb Le Mat) it just doesn't have the structure needed to hold things up, and the composition again folds like a house of cards, providing terrible performance metrics, especially considering this is supposed to be an extrait concentration. The bottom line is the 185 Euro per 100ml bottle Omega is a bit of a synthetic smelling mess, earning a "below average" 2 to 2.5 stars out of 5 and a mild avoid recommendation ignoring price. If price were taken into account the avoid recommendation would be much stronger.
