Sohrab The Fragrance Engineers 2017

Follow the mystical-sweet opium mist to a clearing in the woods at dawn. It is cool, misty, and humid incense threads lead to an abandoned fire pit - something has taken place here. The smell of fur rubbing against fur, sweat, and cold ash still lingers in the air - was it a fight or a union or both? The animal approaches, its fur dirty and damp from the earth, its sweet breath on your neck. At some point, when you have long lost your sense of time and space, you awaken on a bed of soft leaves and sweet woods and wonder if you were part of it.
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The "fur-animalic" created by cumin and castoreum from Sohrab instantly reminds me of Doraphilia by Miguel Matos - just more masculine, more brutal. Perhaps like a sibling scent... or the lover of Cruella... or the still-living animal of her stole...

While Doraphilia presents an opulent and shabby diva-like floral bouquet as a fur stole, Sohrab opens with a mysteriously cool forest theme. I primarily perceive the opium note, alternating with cold cypress and peppery saffron spice. It feels as if one is strolling through this clearing, where wild guys roam and rub against each other (I allow myself to draw inspiration from Floyd's statement here). Surrounded by smoky cold ash and earth (incense + Indian spikenard?), the animalistic note becomes increasingly prominent, as if "the beast" were drawing closer - threatening, raw, seductive, while intermittently something sweet flickers through. The scent alternates between airy and earthy around the fur. Finally, the fragrance softens and mellows, resinous-woody, calming both the beast and the prey.
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Very impressive, cohesively composed scent: devilishly animalistic, raw, and seductive. Certainly a challenge and not entirely easy to wear, but still beautiful. In my opinion, more suited for a "wild guy".

(Thanks to Floyd)