01/21/2025

Landshark321
731 Reviews

Landshark321
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Energetic, bold, spicy, resinous, modern, a risk taken and rewarded
Narcotica Doza is described as an “amber intense” on the bottle, and a fittingly resinous, spicy, woody, smoky blend that smells like a modernized heavy-hitter men’s signature scent. Notes include pepper, incense, labdanum, tobacco, myrrh, guaiac, and cedar. It’s really a sort of resinous wintery wonderland that is a decided cold-weather, more stereotypically modern masculine turn from, say, a 4-season unisex chypre. I think that anyone could wear this, of course. It’s quite intense, as is subtitle suggests, starting off especially spicy and smoky and predictably giving way to more of the smoothness and vanilla/woods in the dry down, but it frankly almost starts out animalic with a sort of oud/pepper/castoreum-ish blend in the opening minutes, perhaps hour. It reminds me of both classical chypres and fougeres a bit while also being reminiscent of more modern bold styles like Tom Ford Oud Wood Intense, albeit without some of its castoreum-led bite, and Piotr Czarnecki Sensei/Shihan, though without much of its boozy sweetness. It’s really an impressive experience clearly marked by taking some risk but achieving a workable balance (for me) in the process, though I’m sure it’s overwhelming to some.
Doza is extrait concentration is sold in US boutiques like Krystal Fragrance, from which I received a sample with a different order, for which it retails at $280 for 100ml. It performs outstandingly, intensely projective and long-lasting.
8 out of 10
Doza is extrait concentration is sold in US boutiques like Krystal Fragrance, from which I received a sample with a different order, for which it retails at $280 for 100ml. It performs outstandingly, intensely projective and long-lasting.
8 out of 10