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Jalua 2003

7.0 / 10 53 Ratings
A perfume by Azya for women and men, released in 2003. The scent is woody-smoky. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Woody
Smoky
Fruity
Spicy
Resinous

Fragrance Notes

Tobacco absoluteTobacco absolute Whisky barrelWhisky barrel Red berriesRed berries AmberAmber MuskMusk BergamotBergamot Quantified ThumbprintQuantified Thumbprint

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Ratings
Scent
7.053 Ratings
Longevity
7.844 Ratings
Sillage
7.044 Ratings
Bottle
7.551 Ratings
Value for money
7.214 Ratings
Submitted by JoHannes, last update on 12/20/2024.

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Vibrantgirl

66 Reviews
Vibrantgirl
Vibrantgirl
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Camping, simply
This is Apres from Ellis Brooklyn, or Cape Heartache from Imaginary Authors - but stronger. It's a lovely boozy-berry layered with smoky woods, and if you like this type of smell you will love it. It smells like camping in the forest, but I don't get any tobacco or the depth that I've come to expect from Kerosene. It's lovely... but not for me.
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ScentStudio

156 Reviews
ScentStudio
ScentStudio
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Not so sacred to me...
Sacred Memory is true to the DNA of Kerosene from first spray. I get flash memories of Blackmail, Broken Theories and elements of other fragrances too.
Sacred Memory is truly just that, sacred memories of some of the many Kerosene fragrances I have tried.

I get a contrasting sour, woody note and lightly sweet berry undertone. It is oak, whiskey and tobacco in harmony with red berry notes. After dry down, the fragrance is woody and based on the somewhat sweet undertone of whiskey. I am excited to see how it performs with my skin.
Wow. Turpentine, burnt wood, nothing pleasant to my nose, at first spray. Sacred Memory is a harsh fragrance! Unfortunately, the red berry notes are nowhere to be found on my skin, which would have been a pleasant contrast to the fragrance.
After dry down, Sacred Memory isn't as sour and chemical, but burnt wood is at the forefront with just a hint of something else, not whiskey though.

To my surprise, the fragrance sweetens up a little bit and it is as if the red berry notes are there after all. Unfortunately, Sacred Memory won't be a sacred memory to me.
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Splitter

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Splitter
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Guilty Pleasure with a Short Breath
I, a whisky lover to the core. Bowmore fan with a matching tattoo.
Smoky, salty, spicy, sometimes also a strongly astringent fruity note, that’s what I prefer to pour into my glass.

I imagined this scent, let’s say cautiously, differently. Especially since I seem to perceive some as smoky and woody. I can’t really go along with that. For the term ‘Sacred’, I had wished for incense, which, after all, hasn’t made its way into the bottle. Strange.

It starts for me with a heavy fruit wine. Almost piercing in the nose and definitely more than just a little boozy. At times, a note of melting plastic comes through - I hope that’s not what some understand as smoky.
Linear progression, thus little changed even hours later. But then indeed drier, less fruity, not woody, but rather dry green. So the spice of dried tobacco.
I was already on the verge of wanting to get rid of the bottle when, after several attempts, this very strange characteristic emerged, that while it is not particularly suitable for everyday wear, it does carry a certain charm that makes it somehow exciting for me.
I do have a small negative note, unfortunately. Sacred Memory is quite short-lived. Two hours of a bomb, where one might worry that colleagues leave the room, after that the fruit is gone and continues to fade. Only the spice and much later a gentle woodiness remain, but after four hours it’s almost undetectable.

And whether I will ever understand what some perceive as smoky....

Overall to be enjoyed with caution but somehow definitely worth a try if you’re looking for adventure.

Speaking of adventure. Since I got the gigantic Kerosene sample pack, I’m now also trying my way through the entire catalog.
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Chnokfir

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Ran Over by a Bus
Love at First Sight!

Do you know that feeling? Not just a casual "Oh, yes, that’s really nice!" No, it’s more like being hit by a bus when it unexpectedly catches you off guard, you first flinch because something comes at you out of the blue, you feel an impact just a fraction of a second later, in your heart and in your head, and then you’re left bewildered, completely at a loss. Ideally, this happens with a dear person and is mutual. Sometimes it also happens with amazing food featuring exquisite spices, or here and there when you’re testing a new fragrance.

With the very first encounter of a Kerosene scent, that’s rather unlikely to happen, unless you have a penchant for black velvet pouches. Let’s leave it at that. The bottle is a mysteriously dark square in solid standard design with a similarly simple cap. Unobtrusive, were it not for the large brass plate on the front, into which the artist is said to still hand-stamp the letters of his label and the name of the perfume. Always a bit crooked and uneven, and that’s what makes it so beautiful.

One spray and you get brushed by the bus. A second careless press on the atomizer and it runs you over. Yes, many have written this and some surely meant it just as much, but it rarely holds true.

Here, you’re enveloped by a very dense and very dark cloud, where some might immediately shout incense and oud. But it shouldn’t be that simple. The two dark companions are certainly part of it. However, there are also amber, woods, and musk, from which all the light and bright elements have been stripped away, like in a black hole, along with all the liquid, until only the extract remains in the form of a dark crystal that you crush and blow into your nose. To slightly soften this Mordor-like impression, a fruity accord can be detected as a faint light in this tunnel, distinctly synthetic like Red-Berry Iced Tea from a Tetra Pak. This may not be to everyone’s taste, but in moments like this in this dark valley, it comes in very handy as it at least tempers the dark notes a bit. However, the fruits don’t last long, and a harsh, almost bitter-torrefied whiskey accent makes its presence known, always surrounded by the dark, smoldering woods.

Once you’ve somewhat recovered from the collision with the bus and wonder how long you’ve been in a coma, you might be surprised, because the scent is still there. Even the next day, distinctly. Very distinctly and still very expressive. It lingers in your clothes, two days, three days. For my part, I apply this scent Scottish-style sparingly to the back of my knees, thus creating a sufficient distance from my own nose, and only softened whiffs of the scent waft towards me.

Call me a macho who hasn’t quite arrived in the here and now, which I can’t entirely deny, but for me, it’s a men’s scent. I don’t know any woman on whom I would want to smell this fragrance, nor can I imagine one. Maybe Grace Jones, although, no! More like a battle-axe-wielding Viking warrior defending her children from a marauding band of thieves in the smoking ruins of her village. But I wouldn’t want to get too close to that woman either. But let’s leave it at that; it leads nowhere. It remains a men’s scent.

At this point, the discerning reader might wonder if one must absolutely have and wear this scent. No. My answer is: No. It’s more of a scent for oneself. Or if you want to maintain a bit of spatial distance from others in public transport, the office, theater, cinema, or family gatherings. The scent is robust, but it also has a certain addictive quality. Similar to a bus accident, you don’t want to see it, but you still look...
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Spruce smoke spices whiskey cask
Ice flowers freeze berry red
Marionette - wooden face
Eye slits/edge/depth
Bitter dark#whispers of ruins
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A bitter and dark affair, often too harsh for more than one nose. Still has an addictive quality...
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As much as I enjoy a glass of peaty whisky, I don't want to smell like it afterwards. It could lead to losing my driver's license during a police check.
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Reflux after too much mulled wine.
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Great deep dark red berry
Woody and smoky
(Really no incense?)
My nose doesn't pick up the tobacco
Moderately good
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I find the woody-smoky aspect of the scent very dominant. Additionally, there’s a note in the smoke that bothers me. Softer in the base.
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