Oriental Essence - Sultan de Muscat Rituals 2015

My second olfactory excursion from the sample box mentioned earlier with Eau du Kashmir from the same manufacturer, featuring three "choice scents" from Rituals. There is already a very nice comment here below from Aliana - the fragrance inspired me to a different format - let's see if I can manage it...

This Sultan full of nutmeg,
floral, spicy, very complex -
small radius very private,
masculine - feminine - unisex.

Somehow like Fahrenheit
- in retrospect quite similar to my favorite scent - what a rarity

just a bit quicker it dissipates…
… in its breadth.

fine honey questions…
… the Fahrenheit - it lacks the side,
that there so overwhelmingly dominates.

The bottle simple and amber gold -
the scent rather a red glow.
Unintentionally occupied me,
tempts me to spray again.

And again this potpourri,
the perfumer surely a genius.
Fine spice - hardly any chemistry,
well mixed with imagination.

The nasal mucosa is seduced -
familiar values, components,
flowers, herbs - deeply touched
to send to the hypothalamus (*)...

...which is thus intensely occupied,
to capture the components -
that are closely intertwined, viscous and strong
fit together so wonderfully.

The radius creeps after a while -
after a few hours at most,
in the secrecy of shirt and scarf -
delightfully dispels all...

...the pale gray of winter's everyday life.
The scent complex and linear
a little sweet, too little rough
And yet, in summary - wonderful.

So, now summarizing once again in plain prose. I truly find that Sultan de Muscat, in its long, yearningly sighing spice, is somewhat similar to my favorite scent Fahrenheit. The smell hardly changes over the entire duration of the day - I have rarely experienced that before. It is the unfathomability, the impenetrability that occupies. The nose keeps trying to dissect and analyze and repeatedly encounters the impossibility of doing so. Caution, the scent distracts, occupies. Perhaps one might also grow weary of it - nevertheless, I will buy a larger bottle. After about four hours, I had sprayed twice more - that is the method of choice. In the evening in bed, it still smells. Fahrenheit with honey. I can't describe it any other way. It's also great that you can spray it on and immediately dive into conversations. The radius is not excessively large. However, when engaging in an intense bilateral dialogue, you can almost feel how the other person is also captivated by the scent and their olfactory processing is as intensely occupied as your own. Exciting to observe. And here too, my very clear recommendation.

(*) As far as I have understood a little about olfactory processing, the processes of smell processing and smell interpretation take place in the hypothalamus, which is a part of the autonomic nervous system.