Shinanay Nishane 2024

You've lived in the woods your whole life, have a pet wolf and chop trees in your spare time. This is what all the alpha males preaching to you on your social media platforms would smell like if they lived the lives they claimed. This is also what I imagine that the men who wore scents like polo green in the 80's thought they smelled like.

Shinanay is much smoother (and overall way better smelling) than a polo green however. This is an unapologetically resinous fragrance that I can see being a signature scent for an overwhelmingly confident man's man. If that isn't you, then this must be worn intentionally or rest assured that it will wear you.

From the opening to the end of its 8 hour lifespan it makes itself known with a good projection and sillage. If you love the house of Nishane and want to get into animalic fragrances, then this may be the easiest wear that they have to offer in that style. While I think this is an amazing scent (that I wear it at home from time to time), it is ultimately too animalic for me to wear as often as I would like.

Shinanay is a bold unisex fragrance that opens with aldehydes and blood orange, leading to a heart of white florals like tuberose and gardenia. The base combines sandalwood, oakmoss, and civet, adding depth and complexity.

Rating: 8/10
Longevity: 8.2/10
Projection: 7.8/10
Versatility: 6/10
Best for: Evening / Fall-Winter

First off, I’m a big fan of Nishane; it’s arguably my favorite niche house. Kredo is my signature fragrance for the cold weather, and I plan to buy Wulong Cha as my summer signature. You can probably imagine my excitement when Shinanay came out. The timing coincided when I started using Souk, and I got Shinanay via a Split.

When deciding how much to split, I was hesitating between 10 vs 5 ml. The heart wanted 10 ml, and kept reminding me all my previous beautiful Nishane experience. But the brain was telling me to not rush. Eventually, the brain won, and I feel very lucky about it now. Here is why.

Shinanay is NOT a conventional smell. While the orange note in the opening brings some freshness, an animalistic note (probably the Civet) quickly pushes out and dominates the stage thereafter. In Kredo, there is also a slight offness and animalistic sense, but it was not dominant and is quite enjoyable for me. However, in Shinanay, the note is dominant and unpleasant.

The scent itself is complex, and, with more wear, I start to pick up different layers. While it may be interesting, I‘veI never found it desirable. If Shinanay is an art, I am not a good enough artist to appreciate it.

Lastly, the moral of the story: when sampling a new fragrance, start small!

Civet and beaver bring their three little zibers to dear Ziber Grandma for a little chat before they head off to the disco
they run into the neighboring forest where the little ones were just playing in the cedar forest and are full of resinous oak moss. But Grandma is clever and has already filled the bathtub with soapy foam, so she carefully places them one by one inside and starts to rub them down. Afterwards, they are creamed and powdered, and after a little smoky citrus spritzer, they head to the freshly made cuddly soft sandalwood bed. Grandma tells her favorite story about the evil blue goblins who become greedier and hunt the kind-hearted, empathetic goblins, but they are not interested because they sleep through until Sunday morning.
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What a bombastically brilliant
opening celebration after the
first contact, I thought I was
in the seventh Chypre heaven
citrusy mossy truckload
full of all the flowers in the world
meter-high soap foam mountains
green woody lavender soft and still
pine bath like as a toddler, I find it like at Grandma's, musky soft bed linen cuddly soft, oak moss fresh, the old wooden wardrobe ventilates through and Grandma's cream and powder are everywhere, the lily of the valley calls loudly for water. The scent is more than vintage, everything from the past is there, musk very tame, the scent is really well blended and feels very rich, it radiates pure luxury, is enchanting and seductive, exalted and all-encompassing like a scent ball.
There are very sweet goblins here, everything fits, no poking this time.
Thank you to the very dear Gandix for the testing opportunity ️

The word Shinanay or actually
also " şinanay " comes from Turkish and has many meanings; it is often associated with playful themes and is also versatile in its application.

I connect the motto with the fragrance as well. The start begins green, somewhat Fougere-like, with a bit of the vibe of aftershave, and then shifts into a Chypre direction. I have tested an extreme number of fragrances from this house and was literally shocked that such a step was taken. If I were not aware of which label the scent comes from, it could very well be a "Bogue" fragrance, with the fine difference in complexity.

With the Chypre character, the drydown also begins; tuberose is no longer at the back of the line... My concern was confirmed! It keeps pushing further and further forward until it characterizes the scent very dominantly. Thus, a mixture of 50% tuberose / 50% greenery emerges. The drydown did not go over well in my friend circle because I was visiting a buddy at the time, and they commented on it haha :))

And now to the end, after about 3-4 hours, the tuberose pulls back a bit and the notes of the ingredients listed below come in, which I personally liked the most. It gains a new scent character through civet & co. All in all, I find the fragrance very well made. However, I am, from the bottom of my heart, an enemy of tuberose, which is why it finds no parking space in my perfume cabinet. The tuberose is somehow and somewhere present every second, sometimes more, sometimes less...

Nevertheless, "good job"!