JimiKofski

What can I say, I agree with everyone here that this is not a perfume.

In India, there is an attar called "Mitti Attar." It basically contains 2 ingredients: clay distillate and sandalwood oil. These are mixed in a ratio of about 20/80.

Since I had a sample of Le Mitti at home, I quickly mixed it myself. Here, it contains alcohol, in a different ratio. And that was a good thing, as it lasted longer on the skin and had something of a perfume.

This can certainly be tested further with, for example, rose or other ingredients.

So, in short: Alone, it is useless, but great for further processing.

At first sniff, it didn't quite convince me on the test strip; it had something slightly piercing, difficult for me about it, but with AlD fragrances, it's worth taking a few more sniffs. You have to learn the scents, in a way. It's art.

Then later applied to the skin, it was a kind of revelation. What I had previously perceived as piercing really worked well on the skin and transformed into something positive, as if it were enhancing my own skin scent.

I detected osmanthus, other flowers, and spices, and in the background, there was something reminiscent of a campfire, of that burnt wood, but not too strong.

I can already sense the typical AlD DNA, but somehow it’s also different; it has transformed from a troubled child into something valuable for me. Further tests are still to come in the days ahead; you have to give these fragrances some time.

From the new attars, I was sure that this one would be the most suitable for summer based on its ingredients, even though it has a certain heaviness. It is definitely my favorite of the 4 attars that were in the gift box.

It surprised me the most positively. Rose and other flowers, like lotus, come through at first and last longer than average. There is an animalic note present, but it doesn’t bother me at all; rather, it rounds off the scent well and doesn’t come across as dirty to me, although I have also gotten used to a certain animalic quality by now. I find it to be more floral than Wallimah 2, for example, but it is also different from Civet de Nuit, which is also described as a floral scent.

Somehow it reminds me of certain candies from my childhood. I can’t quite put into words why I like it so much. You can definitely notice the quality and the complexity that comes together from the individual raw materials. Let’s put it this way: if this is a novel, then an average designer fragrance is like a short story.

The best part is that it is everyday wearable; I would even describe it as office-appropriate, which I don’t often see with Areej le Dore, but of course, there is also the risk that it will run out the fastest.

Another thing to mention is that Russian Adam describes Cuir de Russie as a chord or its own genre, just like it is with Cyphre.

And regarding price-performance, what can I say? If you buy the fragrances directly from AlD, I actually find them reasonable and not too expensive, since the raw materials are limited and inherently costly, and considering all the work behind it, I don’t see it as too expensive. When I look at some designers where half the price comes just from the name, they are therefore 100% overpriced and cost double what they should actually cost.


Addendum:

I tried it on my roommate, and he found it too animalic; he preferred Inverno Russo, so this scent doesn’t appeal to everyone. In warm temperatures, the beaver tail oil also comes through quite clearly, which has a somewhat special note that I noticed afterward. You definitely have to sniff it more often.

I had high hopes for it, as the first one was rated quite well and the ingredients and stories from Russian Adam appealed to me.

It really has an antique feel, it's well made and also rounded with the patchouli (I am an absolute patchouli fan), but it simply has this disruptive note for me that I know from Sultan al Oud by Bortnikoff (only there it is even stronger). It has this straw-barn-stable note paired with musty wood, which I most associate with Hindi oud, although that is not included at all. It could also be something else, perhaps certain combinations that have this disruptive note for me.

If it weren't for that, the fragrance would really be great for me. Spices also come through, citrus is hardly present.

I will try it again in winter.

First :-p

The gift box with the attars arrived today. I'm already daring to write a review. I find War and Peace 3 as an attar actually more rounded than War and Peace 2.

I initially had concerns about the Indian oud, but what can I say, it doesn't stand out negatively and it also doesn't have that specific hay-cow stable note with rotten wood, as I've experienced with other fragrances that have too much of that note.

The civet also rounds the whole thing off nicely and somehow it has an alcoholic note for me.

A well-rounded affair, I will definitely keep this attar, for me it's the better War and Peace.