This is an essential every day, all purpose cologne. If you had this and a fresh fragrance you would be set. The opening is a bit spicy in a kitchen spices kind of way, and not super amazing, but the dry down (takes about 20 min) is phenomenal. The mixture of woods and resins take the stage, with the spices providing background support.
The scent has the character of an oud fragrance without a super noticeable oud scent, if that makes sense. In a way this reminds me of a much better version of Haltane / Oud for Greatness, which in my opinion are both terrible and poorly blended. Halfeti is blended in such a way that there is no dominant note, and individual notes would be difficult to detect if there were no note list. I will note that I don't detect any vanilla, this is not sweet to my nose.
When I wear this, I feel confident in my own skin. I think this is a great signature scent because it's unique enough that people will associate you with this.
