Mandalay Nebiru Parfvms 2025

Wow, the Mandalay is a really interesting, horizon-expanding Nebiru with a certain beginner-friendliness and daily wearability. First off: I had no idea that lotus could smell so beautiful and multifaceted! I can imagine that Mandalay needed a few more attempts to achieve the perfect balance between a "spotlight lotus" with depth, spice, and a changing scent progression. But: Frederic has definitely succeeded :-)

Mandalay starts with a sweet-alcoholic note, amber, musk, and strong, spicy citrus. You can already sense a certain floral quality in the first 15 minutes, without the lotus being able to dominate the scent. The lotus comes across (still) very 'tenderly', contributing more with a strong sweetness. Oud is also already detectable in the first 30 minutes, but it leans towards a earthier direction.

After 30 minutes, Mandalay presents itself as a resinous-sweet, intense floral/lotus scent with a clearly noticeable champaca component, as well as earthy, very slightly animalic oud and patchouli.

After 1 hour: The citrus and spice from the top notes I perceived on my skin relatively (very) briefly. After an hour, the scent develops into a floral-spicy character. The lotus is very, very interesting, as it literally "lulls" you in, being soft and very noble.

In the time between hour 1 and 2, a certain earthy animalic quality develops, but by no means is it a stinker. The oud-patchouli accords temporarily take up a bit of space from the flowers, but they become more noticeable again towards the end of the 2nd hour. It has a floral-resinous tendency in hour 2 - 2.5.

By hour 4, it feels balsamic-woody with this distinctive sweet note of the lotus flower.
Funny: Between the 4th and 5th hour, the sweetness even gives me slight bubblegum vibes :D
The scent is now best described as sweet, balsamic, floral, and woody.

Between hours 5-8, it evolves into an airy, resinous-balsamic floral scent with woods.

On the "home stretch" from hour 9 (until ~12/13), there is only a little (lotus) flower left -- rather a resinous, balsamic end.

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Conclusion:
A thoroughly floral Nebiru with very subtle (one wouldn't think so with the base notes, right?!) animalic/"dirty" qualities. The scent development is very interesting with an exciting, changing drydown. Nothing is (too) linear, it’s really fun to "listen" to it 8-)

Very likable DNA and for floral and lotus fans (of course) an absolute must-have.
I was close to buying it - but then I decided on the Ruby instead ^^

Clear purchase recommendation!

Summer '87" somewhere in the misty
rainforest, calves, Zibi, Bisam, and the deer brothers Mandalay are playing. Beaver starts and draws the pink pepper card, and old citrus fruits fall from the oud tree, then the deer draw the brown card. Suddenly, a cuddly soft musk cloud creeps around the board and envelops all the players in a warm, soft love cloud.
Bisam is happily furry and secretly draws the green card; a bright light appears on the horizon, awakening the jungle. Creamy flowers and balsamic resins begin to ooze, the evening begins. Zibi is up to draw, there is only one card left, the gray one.
Cautiously, Zibi nudges the card, and it starts to rain lightly, small cool soap leather bubbles bursting in the fresh rain. Indolently annoyed, Zibi looks for shelter in the steaming thicket
and is a bit upset about it.
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an outrageously good perfume
Vintage jungle rain, uninterrupted Yuzu bitterness, animalistic cuddly love
crystal clear vision, nothing murky, transparency and lightness, never too much. The scent feels alive, from the green fresh rain it transitions to a flower meadow, everything creams and butters in full swing, lotus also in the foreground for me. The pink pepper adds spice and sophistication, it cuddles throughout without being intrusive
balsamic woody finish with civet cream, delicate deer leather, and tobacco, Beaver with mini peach soap bubbles.
for me, it's a blockbuster.
I would love to sniff it once in oil.
PS: for mistakes and writing, the pen is responsible
Thank you Schoeibksr for the testing opportunity.

Mandalay is meant to capture the original beauty of Myanmar, this is the starting point and drop of inspiration for this symphony of scents

It opens with the classic Nebiru Magic Drop, none of the fragrances from the Imperial Collection carries the unmistakable Nebiru flag as prominently as Mandalay!
The perfumer's signature is clear, yet the scent does NOT smell interchangeable.

The start is fresh, ethereal, aldehydic - immediately a certain cozy vintage flair. As it develops, the main players become more prominent: lotuses (blue from Thailand and pink from India)

*No, of course my nose is not capable of detecting which color the lotus had, here the look at the fragrance pyramid helps, which is, as usual, very complex and full of marvelous naturals*

Other flowers, such as jasmine, gardenia, and ylang-ylang join in the song of the former beauty of the land. This is underpinned by delicate woody oud, resins, slightly smoky nuances, and very subdued and agreeable animalics.

It seems the entire animal kingdom of the country has come to this serenade, but they know how to behave and do not stand out negatively

On my skin, I think, after about hour 4, of red tea and light incense

Beautiful scent, love at first sniff!
Last year, when I had the chance to test the freshly prepared working version, I was smitten, and I knew the scent had to move in!