Hello, everyone,
let's get straight to the foreword:
Crazy me bought you blind as a 50ml bottle - I advise everyone not to!
Why such a purchase?
Fragrances from EO are works of art and they want to be treated as such, that means taking the "daily", of course you can do it, but I wouldn't.
The point was a mix of the attraction of the unknown (new - I don't know it), I can usually imagine a fragrance very well and somehow I wanted to have such a direction and by the way many fragrances of the brand (EO) are quite animalic...., I may go along with this up to a certain level as long as it is supportive + only noticeable for a short time. But after a certain level, I'm out and it's not like that here! (FOR LUCK!)
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About the scent:
Nevertheless, we initially had minor differences in terms of the roughness, the darker woodiness and the subtle sweetness.
What do I mean by that?
The subtle sweetness is the smallest part of the "triangle" and the more prominent parts here are the smoke and the wood. "Triangles" because it feels as if you are virtually surrounded by the 3 things for the first 2 hours and it's a tug-of-war between the fragrance notes as to which is the "stronger" and I didn't like THAT so much.
After x weeks apart, a new attempt and I now ACCEPT it without any problems...
BUT...?
(Personal thinking!)
The amount of spray makes the poison. But 3 1/2 or 4 it gets too dense for me, too voluminous and I have the feeling it fights against me more than with me and a fragrance shouldn't bother me or annoy me, so I always take 2 to 3 sprays and everything is cool!
It's a dark woody scent with a fair amount of smoke and a subtle, non-annoying sweetness. However, it is quite unique because it is a relatively engaging, noticeable rose that is NOT jammy like, for example, the
Jamaican Ambergris or the
Jamaican Ambergris Attar but a kind of dry sweetness and that is really uncomplicated
After almost 2 hours, that sweetness disappears and the
Oud Sultani: Brunei Kynam slowly becomes creamier and creamier and that in combination with the wood and subtle smoke is in my opinion a very very nice stage!
BUT I really only recommend 3 sprays ;)
H/S is good+ to very good
(varies a lot depending on the weather when you wear it)
How is it received:
EO's are not usually well received by the masses = this is because they are not made for "everyone", but are works of art that want to be seen as such. That's why there is no EO that is always 1a, BUT the
Oud Sultani: Brunei Kynam is one of the better and lighter ones (and not an animalic club like others).
When and where:
September to May.
Indoors, please dose relatively sparingly (in the sense of max. 2 to 3x.
And outside "just do it" ;) -no more than 5 (max. !), otherwise you may be greeted with a headache like me.
In general...
It is and remains special and should be used as such, because otherwise its MAGIC may evaporate very quickly and using such an expensive fragrance almost every day = you can do it, but I advise against it, also financially...
I also recommend testing it on the skin and not just on the sprayer and/or on paper, because that way you might be testing 2 different fragrances = trust Benny!
The dear money / the purchase price:
I am PITY to talk about whether a purchase makes sense or not, in this respect it is very relative and my views may not be like yours and vice versa... . From a purely commercial point of view (which I am, among other things) I can say = test it, then we'll see!
And now have a nice day/evening, or whatever you read this review, LG the Benny
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Castoreum
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Orris butter
Oud resin
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