Hamdani Parfums de Marly 2013

Well, Hamdani surely does not hold back. The opening shot is brutal with its cloves of the medicinal, camphorous kind. This miraculously transforms into an animalic type of leather. I get an image of brown, suntanned animal skin with a golden honey glow. The references to 'arabian horses' are quite accurate. Along the way, the resins come forward and smoothen out some of the hairy edges, while the scent keeps getting richer and darker.

A Parfums de Marley that slaps you in the face and then turns you in a funky old stinker. No wonder this has low scores. This one caught me by surprise and definitely won me over. Especially the mid-phase with its golden-brown glow is highly enjoyable and worth another wear.