Nosorius

Hmm... When I read the comments here like this, I begin to doubt my olfactory sense. Animalistic? Sweet? Leather? Oud? Can't smell anything. Maybe it's hiding in the back corner somewhere.
My first association: 80s men's shower gel "Sport", admittedly in a noble variation and very loud. I had sprayed this on a hut hike in the Alps with a generous spray and reaped an "oh - freshly showered" from the waitress at dinner.
Other assosciations are actually Tiger Balm and Vicks Vaporub - especially if I don't dose the substance extremely carefully. Maximum one spray - if you can do it, better half a spray. Then I also feel some wood in the fragrance. I'm wearing the scent on my forearm right now, eight hours ago a short spray - chocolate or animal? Absolutely not to be smelled.
I really think V. is way too loud. Olfactory techno disco with the level at its peak. Two sprayers of this are a good recipe to keep the environment at bay. At the beginning of my perfume affinity I was enthusiastic about this extreme durability and silage, meanwhile I find it too penetrating.
The crazy thing is that if I dose it very carefully, I don't think it's bad at all - but anything but gourmand or pleasantly wrapping. And I also perceive forest very differently from virid - perhaps a eucalyptus forest

While searching for a skin scent I came across the South of Mendittorosa and read a lot about the scents of this less known brand. As a result I simply had to order samples of South, Alfa and Archetipo - and I must say it was worth it! All three are really beautiful fragrance experiences and none like the other.
But now to the Archetipo: The start is already wooded, whereby quite fast something smoky-earthy is added to it, which then also further on shapes the picture. Spontaneously it reminded me of Terroni from Orto Parisi. Anyway, I have red, volcanic earth in front of my eyes or nose. Maybe a little shale, too. With Terroni such a red wine note is added, here it becomes rather woody and warmer as the fragrance develops. But there remains fine, spicy smoke and I mean to smell oakmoss, especially in the later fragrance. A really beautiful incense scent, which is thank God not so heavy and penetrating, as when the priest lets it really crack at Easter and the lambs are standing or kneeling in rows shortly before fainting. This one is much lighter but still serious. And it is not ONLY incense, but always also earth and resin and some "green".
A wonderful fragrance with a great balance, which in my opinion should not deter anyone. Thanks to very nice durability and silage, neither loud nor too discreet, very portable. Noble and full of character.

This scent was my first consciously sniffed and acquired scent. Completely without any background knowledge and without special perfume experience. It had grabbed me then and I simply found it spicy and distinctive. Until then I had used perfume very rarely - most likely an after shave. Interestingly enough, my son recently told me that he had found a really good scent for himself while sniffing around in the airport duty free: the hot "Terre d'Hermes" and he didn't know that I already owned it and had applied it from time to time :-)
In the meantime I have been able to get to know many interesting perfumes and have also acquired a little more knowledge, so that I can perceive the citric of the top note more consciously. The prelude in my nose already shows clearly the grapefruit next to the orange, which makes the whole thing a bit sharper and bitter, which is underlined by pepper. Pepper is for me also clearly to sniff from the beginning and remains in the entire fragrance process. I find vetiver in this perfume to be quite subtle and very subdued. When I think of the vetiver in Sultan Vetiver by Nishane, for example, the version available here has considerably fewer rough edges and corners and therefore appears somewhat cooler. In the further course of the piece, woody tones push more into the foreground. Interestingly, I don't find TdH really earthy and not musty at all - how different one and the same fragrance can be for different noses and olfactory centres. In this respect, I would almost say that the name is somewhat misleading, so to speak "subject missed".
All in all a nice, rather fresh and spicy scent, which is not really offensive and rather pleasing. I can imagine for almost any occasion, perhaps more the classic office fragrance and perhaps more men than women. And, as my son has shown, for all ages.

With the image of the mystical forest in my mind, I sprayed Coven on my forearm for the walk along the heathland wall in the Vosges mountains and it fitted perfectly with this forest full of moss-covered large boulders, which looked like they were bowled over there by giants. It was cool and windy, the forest was dense and humid and I would not have been surprised if goblins and unicorns had crossed our path and swept witches over us...
Coven starts already very fresh and bitter green, almost biting. Then a note of heavy, wet, dark earth is added, while this pungent green tone remains. In the base the whole thing is a little milder - in fact a certain similarity to peaty (Islay) whisky. So much for "a little milder" ;-) Vanilla is certainly not a dominant theme here.
Today I tested again - without the mystical forest scenery around me and I felt especially this quite dominant pungent green note. Boxwood? Thuja? No: Ivy! This is the ivy smell that is produced when cutting, not so much the leaves as the sap that swells from the cut branches or stems. Plus a good shot of conifer needles - then I am very close to the note of coven that runs through the whole fragrance.
Shelf life and silage seem to me to be quite tidy.
Who likes it green and wooded and is not on the sweet-flowery side, should have a look.

Attached by Apicius' commentary I got myself a sample of South. That sounded very exciting, especially since the previous comments and statements on the material seem quite heterogeneous. At the first test I would have agreed most likely to the "innocence from the country" that Lox sniffed. Really somehow soap and detergent, but then, especially when testing again and again, I could smell more and more a hint of these "nylon tights".
However, not at all in the sense of the quotation attributed to Napoleon "do not wash yourself madame, in FOUR days I will be in Paris". It smells to me rather as if Madame had washed herself after all and treated her legs with fine cream before she put on the nylon stockings and lay down in the relatively freshly made bed to await Monsieur, whereupon she fell asleep, as the gentleman had been waiting a little longer. And so she has been lying there for several hours now. (How many hours, this should vary from nose to nose)
All in all for me a very "human" scent, which therefore comes along inconspicuously in the truest sense of the word. Not like a classic perfume, where you ask yourself WHAT kind of perfume it is, but rather ask the question: "WHO smells like this here? Extremely subtle and for my nose very clearly in the pleasant corner. Absolutely no stinker but fortunately also anything but clinically pure. Thus I arrived again at Lox' statement with the "camouflage".
A really exciting fragrance for my sensation.
Shelf life and silage are, according to the "camouflage", reserved but nevertheless present. If they were "louder" it would not fit at all.
I see... Can someone describe to me how carrot seeds smell?