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Maderas de Oriente Oscuro 2019

7.9 / 10 76 Ratings
A popular perfume by PK Perfumes for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is smoky-woody. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky
Woody
Spicy
Resinous
Earthy

Fragrance Notes

Hickory woodHickory wood TobaccoTobacco CherryCherry Gaiac woodGaiac wood HoneyHoney MushroomsMushrooms CaramelCaramel PatchouliPatchouli SoilSoil VetiverVetiver Virginia cedarVirginia cedar AmberAmber AniseedAniseed Brown sugarBrown sugar Cherry treeCherry tree CloveClove OudOud SandalwoodSandalwood

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Ratings
Scent
7.976 Ratings
Longevity
9.165 Ratings
Sillage
8.467 Ratings
Bottle
6.362 Ratings
Value for money
7.931 Ratings
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Interesting Facts
This fragrance won the Art and Olfaction Aftel Award 2019 in the Handmade Perfume category.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions
VTrancoso

34 Reviews
VTrancoso
VTrancoso
Very helpful Review 7  
By the Fireplace of Memory
Maderas de Oriente Oscuro is easily associated with dark burnt woods. For me it's a kind of return to olfactory memories linked to a Portuguese fireplace in the interior of the country.

It feels like I'm having breakfast with homemade honey in front of a fireplace in a village lost in the interior of Portugal. Outside there is cold, rain and the winter wind. Inside the house, we huddle by the fire and the smell of sweet smoke clings to our skin, hair and clothes. When we go to sleep, we take this smell from the fireplace into our blankets and our dreams.

On the skin, the perfume opens strong and with a complex, rather smoky aroma, as if we were really feeling burning woods close to us. But I don't feel the smoke like a liturgical accord. Rather like a burning of aromatic and resinous wood caught in a dark forest dotted with moss and mysterious mushrooms.
In the intermediate phase, the sweet notes of honey and cherry can be noticed, which comfort and tame the initial spiral of smoke. There's also a hint of blond tobacco and an earthy, spicy vibe.

It is not a creation for beginners but for those looking for something different and conceptual. A perfume that will not bring “compliments”. It is not an easily “wearable” aroma, but rather for those who dare to dive, probably alone, into a profound and radical almost meditative experience. An experience in which we don't care about exterior “compliments” but only about being sheltered in our interior landscape. Where we feel good.
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Evannell

46 Reviews
Evannell
Evannell
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Maderas de Oriente Oscuro
Woody smoke, earth, humidity, mushrooms... A fireplace in the woods. Brings back memories.

The honey note is detectable throughout the whole time. It's a bit urinal, but also realistic.

You can also detect tobacco easily - if you know it's there. Reminds me of Virginia tobacco leaves dried on a string in the sun.

The drydown is woods/honey. There's still much going on, but no smoke, no mushroom and it's not humid anymore.
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LadyLuxifer

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LadyLuxifer
Top Review 12  
Moss-embedded, wind-breathing...
Where the oaks stand and listen to eternity, over bays and moors, lies the land of dark forests and crystal-clear lakes. It is full of vibrant souls and dark shamans.

Deep in the woods, it smells astonishingly peculiar, like vast amounts of fresh wood shavings dipped in grandma's cherry glaze from her poppy seed cake. It smells earthy-musty, but also syrupy sweet and damp-green, like the sighing breath of the forest after the rain. Tears of the old trees roll down, separated by elements, trapped in the sweet pain of memory.

It took only a moment when I applied Paul Kiler's new fragrance until I was instantly reminded of the East Prussian song. I took the first line as a sample, and the rest of my intro followed like an avalanche.

“Maderas de Oriente Oscuro” is a seduction with deliberately built hurdles. The fragrance seduces me to something I didn’t know I wanted. Nothing here is direct or crude.

Paul Kiler uses the erotic language of vague allusion. The American knows exactly that attraction alone is not enough. So he built obstacles that must be overcome.

The fragrance starts spectacularly but lingers in suspension for a long time, making me feel that patience is needed to fully experience the style and aesthetics.

Sugared wood shavings of all kinds are the seductive greeting of the fragrance in the opening. Instantly, I smell the cherry glaze with slight creamy undertones. It sounds obscure, and that’s exactly what it is. The fragrance is dark - even sinister, incomprehensible, unknown, and covered.

The fragrance goes through so many stages; from woody-creamy to sugary-green to ambery-earthy. I would define the final stage of the fragrance as tobacco-heavy woody. All in all, it is a scent of special class. I want to compare it to the designs of haute couture. The fragrance is grandiosely quirky and I like it extraordinarily, in all its facets.

However, this special fragrance will not become everybody's darling. It is far too complicated for that. I would compare it to the early works of Philip Glass.

Paul Kiler also uses vast amounts of (fragrance) tones to almost show off in a minimalist way. That is the beauty of this fragrance. It feels like a journey, where we focus on the passing images, realizing that although the images change, the land is still the same, beautifully and soothingly familiar.

Paul Kiler is a gifted perfumer. He is as “niche” as one can possibly be. I thank Paul for this fragrance that makes me forget time and the world, moss-embedded, wind-breathing…
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Simo1978

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Simo1978
Helpful Review 8  
Give it time
The scent was featured by The Perfume Guy in a Top 20 Smokiest Fragrances list. Since I’m into heavy, smoky fragrances, I wanted to test it. Searched, found, and ordered it for about €130. After a week, the package arrived. With a handwritten thank you note for the order, a few additional samples, and some sweets.
I tested the scent immediately.
Tadaaaaa, the disappointment was great. What I smelled was not even close to what The Perfume Guy had described.
I detected something soft, mild, and unremarkable. Great, €130 wasted.
After a year in the closet, I rediscovered the PK Perfumes packaging.
The liquid had become noticeably darker. I sprayed it, and I immediately had a smile on my face. THIS WAS WHAT I WANTED! The scent is dark, smoky, resinous. I smell tobacco, honey, smoke. I find the scent wonderful. The longevity on my skin is a good 10 hours, and only a few fragrances manage that, as I have dry skin. For lovers of dark, smoky scents, I give a clear recommendation to buy!
This is my first review, please be kind to me. :)
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XyzXyz

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5  
Ham for the Mandrill
A woman wearing L`Heure Bleue buries a ham in the woods - Werewolf? Or bitten by a monkey? Sweet Black Forest ham licorice in the badger-marten honey forest, crazy. I have to have it, this should become my signature scent once I turn seventy and go punk again.

Nobody talks about fragrance with this scent anymore. Oriente Oscuro reminds me just a tiny bit of “Ahood Alenezi - The King.” But that one holds its nose much higher, not down in the muck, and doesn’t have this (pre)monition of a whiff of “Unclean Dirty”…
Don’t get me wrong, the scent is by no means “dirty,” it’s actually somewhat delicate. It is layered like twelve climbing plants full of different, brightly colored berries - which don’t actually exist in real life. - Crazy idea: Did the manufacturer want to ground the stuff with the hint of anise, perhaps even seriously create a reference to the collective “olfactory memory of the world” by briefly quoting the aforementioned classic?!

KA… Oscuro has its secrets. On the other hand, it is “unveiled.” - So, not “brazen”! There’s nothing nasty about it! More like that nakedness that knows no silly inhibitions, and therefore has no terms like “frivolity.”
Crazy stuff, in any case.
Suddenly makes me think about how my mom taught me to lick the back of my hand so that you can stick a complicated star made of ammonium pastilles on it… it’s dark like humus, and - unusual. Still familiar - primal familiar! - You could convince strangers that this isn’t a perfume, but a personal scent.

And it’s bear-like, more than it is wolf-like… sorry. I’m binge-watching ‘Beastars’ again, hence the association. - But wait:
When I think of the scene where the young wolf, during the crash course on meat-eating deconditioning, buries the black market ham on the beach before the surprised eyes of his teacher, the panda, my description of the top note suddenly makes sense ^^.
So. N o Sorry. There’s more to it than just the fact that I’m watching it again: Oscuro would definitely be one of the perfumes from that world.

However, it wouldn’t be a bear wearing it (yes, even the honey cliché is explained and broken in the series). But the monkey director of Legoshi and the other youngsters. I can see her in my mind. Involuntarily (due to her natural mandrill nature!) colorful - correspondingly shrill… mega strict, and takes herself really seriously - Ha ha, thanks, brain, I won’t be able to shake that image now, so I can probably forget the aforementioned plan for my seventh decade.

At least. To the point! - In an anime about a world without humans, in which somehow (or rather, precisely because of that) everyone is a “human,” this scent of supple sweet mushroom licorice paste with a (don’t worry, extremely subtle!) hint of wet fur fits in perfectly.

Space science fiction, on the other hand, would be completely off, because Oriente Oscuro does not smell like “not from Earth…” But it also doesn’t really smell human. Maybe that’s what a friendly swamp monster would smell like. A cultured one that enjoys cooking. Just emptied the sample. Popcorn with Maggi; bold. How it manages to still be wearable… I don’t know, maybe it’s thanks to the forest honey.
It seems to reconcile all noses, even children’s noses ^^, with the unusual. Helps them to categorize it. - Speaking of categorizing.
Rarely have I smelled something that reminds me less of anything Oriental than this ^^

And, since we’re already on the topic of categorizing, when and where do you w e a r this?
A question I only briefly asked myself. Because, safe: Just the naturalness of it and the fact that you only sense the dirt instead of actually smelling it make it truly wearable as a splash perfume for the confident on cold days - at worst, people think you’re not wearing any perfume at all, but that you just came from an exclusive (!) restaurant, full of the fresh scent of something wonderful ^^
Well, anyway, I already inquired in the USA if they ship. The other day, I immediately got a response from the composer in person; wanted to know what exactly I liked - I have to say, I appreciate that.
And the concept is also nice: When you buy a bottle, whether small or large, trees are planted. Ten (!) in total, as part of the Eden Project.

The U m m m f e l d has classified the obscure little fragrance as pure gourmand. Well, surprised? - And sufficiently curious?
Drum roll: “Pancakes.”
- You-Dush. - Phenomenon debunked, cheese eaten, child in the well, and riddle solved, American pancakes, I say. The originals. With bacon. Why didn’t I come up with that myself? The world can be so simple. The small-footed big mouths that usually label Bianco Latte with “Rose” and Orchid Leather with “Tasty Sausages” were right this time…
But, without guarantee! Because, pretty much right next to me, someone also smelled like vanilla ^^.
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Initially sweet and spicy-fruity, this complex, yet challenging smoky-woody Winter fragrance slowly settles to a dusty earthy-leathery base.
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Smoky resinous opening. Slowly evolution: sweet and spicy parts with smoky floor. Unisex
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BBQ Smoke Spirals
Wood_Smoking_Cherry_Chips
Hickory tells of spitting cherry pits
Anise mushrooms smoke in the fireplace
Glowing holes in tobacco jackets
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The combination of smoky, woody, earthy notes with sweet accents is surprisingly harmonious, but it's too heavy for me to wear.
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Cinema theater of dark tobacco
Cherry red velvet curtain
Light play of anise and clove
On candied, decaying earth
Trees rot, smoking
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Tolerable, smoky, earthy, woody, and resinous notes, all drizzled with honey and sugar. It feels like pipe tobacco to me.
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Glowing smoky woods caramelize clove spices.
Tobacco on damp earth.
Dark forest.
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Hidden cedar gates open
in the honey-cherry ritual.
Veils of incense float, bloom
mystical shadows weave
in the ether of time.
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Less smoky than expected, but still a collection of unspeakables... masses of wood, earthiness, spice overload, overwhelming...
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Buried in the forest,
where mushrooms leap from the
ground. Where the night
always quickly approaches its end.
Cherry softly,
shaken by smoke.
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