Bois d'Ascèse Naomi Goodsir 2012

This fragrance starts right off with a fairly strong smoky note and tobacco. The smoked cedar juniper is quite dominant from the beginning and reminds of a smokehouse. Childhood memories of when my grandmother smoked her own meat come to mind. On the one hand a nice, pleasant and warm scent and then somehow a bit penetrating. The tobacco note from the opening also stays on my skin for a while, but makes the scent quite masculine and reminds me of Cuba I could hardly perceive the whiskey, just like the cinnamon, amber and labdanum. It was more like this: I had hardly felt a slightly sweet note in my nose when it had evaporated and was taken up again by the smoked scent. The dry down remains smoky, especially the smoked cedar juniper is in the foreground again. In the background the Somali incense resonates, very discreet.

The silage and shelf life is above average. The scent lasted a good 8 h on my skin with a good performance. Even the next morning there was still a slight note of dry down.

Although the fragrance is a unisex scent, I would describe it as rather heavy and masculine, due to the very smoky note and the tobacco. Also more for a man +30 who knows exactly what he wants and likes to stand out both with his personality and his scent. It is definitely more of a winter scent than a summer scent.