00 Auriel Odin New York 2015

Also another beautiful brand, even though so far no bottle has taken root with me! I like the typical Odin melt, where sweet notes blend with woody, piney, or smoky nuances. Roam, Petrana, Amanu, or Tanoke are good examples here. It's quite similar again.
Auriel has this very light Campino candy note (dark red, blackcurrant), which I loved as a child, only here almost completely without sweetness. The fruitiness is a bit in the foreground, which quickly mixes with something woody-piney and herbaceous-spicy, taking the edge off the challenging blackcurrant note, reminding me a bit of the fruit residue from Rudis, also a scoop of Berlin in winter I think I can recognize. So, not exactly the simplest scents. I can only smell the oud in the first 5 minutes, after that a jasmine-resin mixture dominates, very aromatic and relatively not floral for me. As always, the Odin scent carpets are relatively difficult for me to decipher; they are characterized mainly by a certain homogeneity without appearing trivial.
The top note scores full points with me, an absolute candidate for purchase. After that, it gets a bit heavy for me in this extraordinary combo... exhausting would be too much to say, something is scratching at my nose... so my gut feeling says, this won't work out for us two on the first try... but maybe test again in autumn, as it probably fits better in this season.
Auriel is a beautiful unisex scent, like all Odin scents, which has very nice aspects, but for now does not trigger a Pavlovian response in me. However, as always, you get a well-rounded scent that is anything but off the shelf.
The longevity is typical for Odin, 5-6 hours, rarely more for these scents, and the sillage is as always a bit more subtle, but not skin-close... I don't know any loud scents from them, always very stylish!