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Imagine they burned a batch of Oud Wood, the perfumer lost it and smoked a pack with the mixing pot as an ashtray and then pissed some in it, then you have London. I love it. London -when compared to other famous animalic beasts- feels purposefully dirty (not to challenge, but to embrace sexuality) and perfectly balanced.
London is a great animalic musc, a realistic cafe cigarette, a full-bodied leather, an astonishing spicy woody-smoky and and one of the most complex, complete and harmonious perfumes I have ever smellled. There are so many possible ways for approaching to describe London, it starts with a dirty sexy spicy (cumin+coffee) animalic leather (birch, labdanum, saffron, musc) and then slowly transforms into the most carnal animalic musc made by a 1001 facets dancing on the dirty muscy texture of castoreum. To me it's probably the single sexiest perfume in my collection.
To whom do I recommend this? Lovers of cumin, animalic musc, realistic tobacco and dirty leathers, woody smokies, this here is a must try and a rare recommendation to blindbuy. If you like Hard Leather, Montecristo, MKK, Kingdom McQ, War and Peace or Lui, rejoice, you've found a new love, from the same family but unique enough to be simultaneously comparable with them all. If you want another fruity sweety with hints of saffron+quinoline like Tuscan Leather, no this one's a big bad leather cowboy with close to no sweetness. I think the accords are very self explanatory, take them seriously if you're wishing for the usual sticky sweet private blend.
What do I think of when smelling this? Dirty hot messy sweaty sex with cool ppl during art school parties and my experience as an ex-barista smelling cigarette butts in the burnt coffee ashtray. I imagine someone/animal unshaven, effortlessly attractive, dirty, topless, intelligent-but sex driven, wearing/smelling like this. I don't agree with Songe or LO comparison; don't blindbuy expecting sth as airy or as rough respectively. London is a relatively shy perfume, it sits in my personal bubble and lasts 3~6 hours with 4 spritzs there, before getting too close to my skin.
Smooth, dirty, naughty and masterfully blended. Big love.
London is a great animalic musc, a realistic cafe cigarette, a full-bodied leather, an astonishing spicy woody-smoky and and one of the most complex, complete and harmonious perfumes I have ever smellled. There are so many possible ways for approaching to describe London, it starts with a dirty sexy spicy (cumin+coffee) animalic leather (birch, labdanum, saffron, musc) and then slowly transforms into the most carnal animalic musc made by a 1001 facets dancing on the dirty muscy texture of castoreum. To me it's probably the single sexiest perfume in my collection.
To whom do I recommend this? Lovers of cumin, animalic musc, realistic tobacco and dirty leathers, woody smokies, this here is a must try and a rare recommendation to blindbuy. If you like Hard Leather, Montecristo, MKK, Kingdom McQ, War and Peace or Lui, rejoice, you've found a new love, from the same family but unique enough to be simultaneously comparable with them all. If you want another fruity sweety with hints of saffron+quinoline like Tuscan Leather, no this one's a big bad leather cowboy with close to no sweetness. I think the accords are very self explanatory, take them seriously if you're wishing for the usual sticky sweet private blend.
What do I think of when smelling this? Dirty hot messy sweaty sex with cool ppl during art school parties and my experience as an ex-barista smelling cigarette butts in the burnt coffee ashtray. I imagine someone/animal unshaven, effortlessly attractive, dirty, topless, intelligent-but sex driven, wearing/smelling like this. I don't agree with Songe or LO comparison; don't blindbuy expecting sth as airy or as rough respectively. London is a relatively shy perfume, it sits in my personal bubble and lasts 3~6 hours with 4 spritzs there, before getting too close to my skin.
Smooth, dirty, naughty and masterfully blended. Big love.
