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Japanese oaks carry sweet peach moss, chilled cuddly animals drink iced tea with mint and chamomile, amber whale weeps honey citrus tears
an elegant solid fougere
gourmand scent for me
rugged soft oak wood, green herbs (lots of rosemary) spiced with cumin honey, black mint tea with chamomile, and bitter grass with a hint of anise, green moss is the base
on which cedar and lavender frolic, honeybees everywhere and leathery thick peaches fall from the sky, a small island somewhere, musk animals meditate
in the last piece of oud forest sleeping in the background.
Henry Jacques sends his regards.
Beautiful start as always with Ensar and then after 30 minutes it becomes almost synthetic, everything fades away, a hint of oud can be felt with honey, I have a lot of oak moss and oak with cedar here. The scent is soft lavender and has a lot of tea with chamomile and honey, amber with a lot of looking closely yes but I don’t know
there are better whales.
Very perfumey and wearable and
is not my herbal candy.
for me too little oud, too little different, no dimensions, the scent moves from left to right and lingers so long that it doesn't grab me, no.
Thank you to the dear Floyd for the testing opportunity.
gourmand scent for me
rugged soft oak wood, green herbs (lots of rosemary) spiced with cumin honey, black mint tea with chamomile, and bitter grass with a hint of anise, green moss is the base
on which cedar and lavender frolic, honeybees everywhere and leathery thick peaches fall from the sky, a small island somewhere, musk animals meditate
in the last piece of oud forest sleeping in the background.
Henry Jacques sends his regards.
Beautiful start as always with Ensar and then after 30 minutes it becomes almost synthetic, everything fades away, a hint of oud can be felt with honey, I have a lot of oak moss and oak with cedar here. The scent is soft lavender and has a lot of tea with chamomile and honey, amber with a lot of looking closely yes but I don’t know
there are better whales.
Very perfumey and wearable and
is not my herbal candy.
for me too little oud, too little different, no dimensions, the scent moves from left to right and lingers so long that it doesn't grab me, no.
Thank you to the dear Floyd for the testing opportunity.
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I mostly agree with you and also ended up with a decent 7.
It's a briefly minty-cool jungle, with typical Papuan earthy (incense) notes. However, that faded away extremely quickly within seconds, and aromatic-fresh herbs like mint, chamomile (you too!) & fennel took over, giving me the tea vibes you mentioned for most of the duration, with slight mossy-vetiver-earthy accents underneath. So far, quite pleasant and ordinary, but what I found really exhausting was the last third of the scent, which was dominated by sweet, creamy musk that made everything softer and even more trivial. I would never want to pay the typically inflated price from Ensar just because of the ouds, which only stood out clearly in the opening with the typical jungle scent (Agarospirol, probably a foreign term for many), as you can achieve identical scent profiles with cheaper raw materials (which I suspect are used here in much higher doses).
I'm thinking of Bravanariz, Pineward & Noam, for example. So aside from the jungle in the opening, it smells like nothing that other notes can't also provide. The combination of fresh herbs & moss-musk fixation can also be found in many classic Henry Jacques & Fougères, so I understand where you're coming from. I have lavender like you, both pure as oil or plant, and that herbal-minty-sweet facet was definitely noticeable here.
It's okay for me, but to call it a great, particularly complex & even “Kinamic“ OUD scent feels like an exaggeration when I consider much oudier & more complex oud fragrances from other houses. Connoisseurs know which ones I mean. For such a big name, it's just too flat and more suited for beginners, in my opinion. Furthermore, I find it very diluted in character. Too many Ensars with oud in the name seem to be overshadowed by other notes lately.
…which raises doubts given the prices. I felt quite fooled, especially since I've tested so many ouds from these regions, and after the disappointing test, I treated myself to a couple of Agar Auras as a response :D
Not liking something is totally fine.
This is just another "I smell lavender" thing like back with Black Afgano. 😅