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Extremely boring, repetitive theme, bottled as attar in a gorgeous presentation.
The perfume itself is so boring and basically an attar bottled version of your popular men's cologne, a mix of resins, spices, and aromatic herbs. Meant to smell sexy, inviting, and elegant, but nothing daring or interesting about it. An easy grabber for those who want a boring office scent that doesn't offend. Think Dior Eau Sauvage Parfum from 2012 but in attar format. I'm amazed so many people praise this utter mediocrity. This is not spectacular in any way. The only amazing thing about it is the bottle, which is one of the most beautiful bottles I've ever come across. Pure art. However, I matured as a collector and realized that it didn't make sense to keep a good-looking bottle for a subpar perfume, so I sold it. There are hundred better attars out there and a thousand better perfumes, so don't be crying over this, unless you want to have a nice-looking bottle sitting on your shelf.

Pohadka from Ys-Uzac is an amazing agrestic perfume that smells like nothing else. It feels like a cross between Fougere Bengale and Tabac Tabou, sprinkled with minty Shiso on top. Subtle and long-lasting, natural smelling, and elegant while remaining an artistic exercise in this genre. It blooms in the heat.
The opening is all about minty Shiso, grass, and hay. Bright, invigorating, warm, and green. Like taking a road trip in the countryside and lowering your car window to get a whiff while chewing mint-flavored gum. Shiso is traditionally used in Japanese cuisine and has this sparkling minty flavor to it. A unique touch in this composition that works so well. The best part about it is that this accord lasts well through the heart of the perfume, not just as an opening burst.
Soon, the composition warms up as the Immortelle starts creeping in, lending a beautifully sweet, herbaceous touch. Perfectly dosed and not too heavy. This ingredient can sometimes feel overpowering but here it is light and caressing. The same goes for the Jasmine accord that sides with the immortelle. A mere whisper.
The base displays powdery tobacco and soft brown leather, pairing seamlessly with the immortelle. It settles down like a glowing golden-brown flume, just like the sun sets down the landscape at sunset.
It feels like a trip in the countryside ending at dusk, when the colors deepen over the land just like the perfume settles from a bright, invigorating opening on a richer, brown-hued base. Excellent craftsmanship and an overlooked perfume. One that should be on the sampling list of all fans of agrestic compositions or fans of Cortichiatto's style, as it does hint at the aforementioned Parfum d'Empire compositions while staying original.

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In my opinion, here you have the best use of Siberian Deer Musk in perfumery, so far. I'm a long advocate and lover of the original EO2 parfum, but this one is better. More complex, has more balls, and better blended. Oh, did I mention it's half the price and at a higher concentration? Yes.
Onthamara uses two core materials that lead the composition as a duet, the musk and the amber fossil. They marry beautifully here, the musk with it's animalic, earthy, chocolatey and pissy facets, perfectly tamed by the smokiness, dryness, leathery, and sweet facets of the amber. Around these, you have other notes dancing around, rounding everything. Woods, spices, tobacco. At the end, you get this multifaceted smoky, ambery, musky perfume, that makes people get close to you, and dances around like a hypnotic aura for hours and hours. Perfectly dosed dirtiness, never too much to offend, just enough to intrigue. I love it so much, I had to get a backup. Top 3 ever Prin releases for me, and quite possibly my favorite from him.

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Danse Lascive is a composition where Rose and Leather dance together till the end surrounded by a big cloud of Frankincense smoke. The smoke accord almost renders a spiritual flair to the perfume.
I'm not a huge rose lover and struggle with smoky perfumes, however, I find the balance Angelos struck here truly captivating. Here we have a smoky leather perfume where Rose is used carefully to balance the composition but never to dominate it. The leather accord makes me think of a black leather jacket, whereas the smoke accord comes across as churchy to me, and appears to be built on the olibanum note. I must say, it makes me think of an Oriental perfume rather than a dance floor. The rose is beautiful, and natural smelling with a slightly green and metallic facet given by the geranium. A masculine rose indeed. I don't quite pick up the tobacco. The vetiver is used to instill a dry texture to the leather. It feels like a dry, almost ashy perfume. In the dry down, the labdanum lends extra leatheriness and smokiness, while the animalics become increasingly assertive. The hyraceum gives a slight mineral nuance while pushing the composition into dangerous territory alongside the civet. As mentioned, I don't get the dance floor association. It makes me think of compositions such as Sultan Pasha's Ame Sombre and to a small extent, Sultan Leather Attar, two perfumes that I adore. Yet, it brings a different flavor to the table and behaves differently enough to find a welcoming place in the collection. One of the best Rose and Leather pairings that I have tried, and the beautiful Frankincense accord is the icing on top of the cake. This was a blind buy for me and a very successful one at that.

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Now this is a very complex piece of olfactory art. Wow, what a journey. This stuff smells different in the air, close on the skin, on paper, and it changes all the time. It has that same smoke accord you'd find in Lita, Rex, and Serin, but I prefer this one over the others, as it just conveys what it wants better. The story behind it pretty much tells you what you are to expect here. Buttery Daffodils, ripe peaches, dusty-old furniture, and of course, the smell of a burning lamplight, with the oil and everything. One of those telling-a-story type of perfumes. It is smoky, but not overly so, it has this oily texture to it. The fruits balance out the smoke and the dusty woods, but they are perfectly dosed, not too much, nor too sweet, and the daffodils are very buttery, and creamy, providing even better texture and a sense of the outdoors. The woods are dusty and smell like old furniture. I can't pick up a leather accord, but there is definitely a boozy, scotch-like nuance flowing through.
Blind bought this and I don't regret it at all. This is interesting, very complex, and unique. Big like.

EDIT: It also kinda feels like a child of Kiste and Serin lol:), so yeah, it's a weird one, in a good way.