Monoliths & Dimensions by Phronema Perfumes

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Monoliths & Dimensions Phronema Perfumes 2022

8.3 / 10 21 Ratings

A popular perfume by Phronema Perfumes for women and men, released in 2022. The scent is resinous-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Resinous

Spicy

Woody

Smoky

Powdery

Fragrance Notes

Black frankincense

Cambodian oud

Vietnamese oud Amber

Amber

Labdanum

Vanilla

Ambergris

Australian sandalwood

Hawaiian sandalwood

Mysore sandalwood

New Caledonian sandalwood

Patchouli

Labdanum absolute

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Weston Adam Brand owner, Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

8.321 Ratings

Longevity

8.217 Ratings

Sillage

7.817 Ratings

Bottle

7.422 Ratings

Value for money

6.912 Ratings

Submitted by TheBladi11, last update on 05/25/2025.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/15/2025

9Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

Turgenev
73 Reviews

Turgenev

2

Masterpiece

To me, Mr.Adam has it all to be considered one of the true indie creators out there:

Superb natural ingredients, intimidating and borderline scary presence, shitty bottles with labels printed with the microwave, strange names, concepts and stories for his fragrances, and absolutely mind blowing compositions.

Monoliths is the best sandalwood forward fragrance I've ever tried. Creamy, embracing, smokey and earthy. The balance of ingredients and the blending is just of another dimension (no pun intended).

Great discovery.

05/17/2024

10Scent 10Longevity 7Sillage

ScentMagpie
24 Reviews

ScentMagpie

3

Rich, simple, beautiful

This is a beautiful fragrance, a river of buttery sandalwood sweetened with laudanum and deepened with oud. It lasts forever and projects lovely wafts for hours. It’s probably my most worn fragrance the last few months. It’s in the same wheelhouse as the 2022 version of Slumberhouse Ore, especially the sandalwood, but with laudanum instead of Ore’s chocolate.
I did, honestly, feel a bit ripped off when I got my bottle because the packaging is the worst I’ve encountered and I had to decant it because the sprayer didn’t work and it was evaporating. The 3-D printed hunk of plastic glued to the cap of a stock bottle looks cool in photos but is pretty horrific irl.
The more I wore it though, the less I cared about price or presentation because the fragrance itself is magnificent - comforting, warm, sweetish without being in any way gourmand or boozy and rich.
The whole line is full of great fragrances. Adam’s Lament is a vanilla version of this that I would love to have as well, but probably not going to happen at these prices. I wish he would sell travel sizes in simple packaging.

04/14/2023

8.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Ropanski2020
28 Reviews

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Ropanski2020

Top Review 14

Turning His Face to the Timeless

Phronema Perfumes is a relatively young brand by the American Weston Adam, who primarily sees himself as a multimedia artist.

His multifaceted repertoire speaks for itself and is designed to be transmedial. Whether his creative expression in the world of fragrance follows a transformative logic aimed at a specific olfactory perception of his scents is beyond my knowledge and imagination.

I don't think I'm sticking my neck out too far when I say: So what! My interest lies mainly in the fragrances - in their concrete nature - less in the origins of their creation processes, the ideas and aphorisms of their creators, without wanting to sound too disrespectful or even contemptuous towards the craft in general.

If I still try to engage with his story(ies), it quickly becomes clear: As (musically) experimental as the eponymous album by the band Sunn O))) may appear, which served as a contrasting backdrop for Weston, Monoliths & Dimensions as a fragrance creation seems comparatively unexcitedly puristic.

The opening initially resembles a triumphant entry into the Amber Room. The magnificent doors open, and the gaze sweeps over the ornamented walls. The golden shimmering, balsamic trail feels limitless, overflowing, and timeless at the same time - it embeds itself in the mental storage of the present. Surrounded by baroque historicity, one soon gasps for air, the gaze longs for calm and grounding. The desired image resembles that of a cigar lounge in a remote estate, where the massive wooden paneling on the walls - in the warm candlelight - casts dancing shadows into the room, while discreetly placed seating invites one to linger. The stay lasts a good five to six hours, tendency: very close to the skin.

Weston himself speaks of a fragrance experience that primarily highlights classic base notes. Between smoky-warm amber accords and various sandalwood notes, the balsamic sap is meant to shimmer in its uniqueness as perfectly as possible. Furthermore, the use of different types of oud is intended to round off the fragrance profile with additional exciting facets. This sounds and smells very appealing, but also somehow familiar.

Monoliths & Dimensions is, as far as can be stated, a qualitatively convincing (dense) amber fragrance that relies on familiar mechanisms. The result is not complex for me, but certainly thought out in a refined way. The actual charm lies in the combination of various base notes that form an almost inseparable unity. The progression seems one-dimensional, at least at first glance. Lovers will notice the qualitative nuances that Weston seeks to present in his work after several tests; starting from the interplay of the various sandalwood distillates to the fruity-smoky undertones of Cambodian oud (presumably from the province of Koh Kong), which so skillfully play around the labdanum and, towards the end, create a rather warm-earthy, slightly sweet fragrance profile on the skin.

A second batch is already planned according to Weston. This also allows others, for whom the fragrance or the brand should not yet be a concept, to enjoy the testing experience.