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Seko207 11 months ago
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When hopes come true
Hello everyone, first of all a little randinfo about the general relationship between the Ottoman Empire series and me.
The first time I got to know this series was through the OE4, and that was the very first time I had an Areej le Dore under my nose that just didn't appeal to me, even after wearing it several times I didn't warm up to it.
It was just far too bright, far too flowery and simply not special enough for me.
In the hope that the OE3 would be a little more special and darker and spicier, I then bought a sample and tested it, yes it is indeed darker and slightly spicier but it was still too thin and too light for my taste
I had almost given up hope that I wouldn't get any more with the Ottoman Empire range, I had noticed that some people were already talking about how dark Myrhe schocko oud-like the OE2 is.
Since I'm already a big fan of such fragrances anyway and there just happened to be an offer for OE2 in the souk, I just had to go for it and see how I like it, with the thought that I can sell it again if necessary anyway.
A long introduction but now to the fragrance, which starts similarly rosy as its successors but from the beginning noticeably darker and more mature.
Definitely more oud.
As it progresses, it becomes really resinous and slightly sweeter, I think I even detect some of the cinnamon in combination with rose and oud.
Later in the course I perceive a slight similarity to Oud Zhen, if it had fallen into a rose-cinnamon-muscat stew.
It also looks great and the numbering on each bottle gives you the feeling of holding something special and rare in your hand.
The first time I got to know this series was through the OE4, and that was the very first time I had an Areej le Dore under my nose that just didn't appeal to me, even after wearing it several times I didn't warm up to it.
It was just far too bright, far too flowery and simply not special enough for me.
In the hope that the OE3 would be a little more special and darker and spicier, I then bought a sample and tested it, yes it is indeed darker and slightly spicier but it was still too thin and too light for my taste
I had almost given up hope that I wouldn't get any more with the Ottoman Empire range, I had noticed that some people were already talking about how dark Myrhe schocko oud-like the OE2 is.
Since I'm already a big fan of such fragrances anyway and there just happened to be an offer for OE2 in the souk, I just had to go for it and see how I like it, with the thought that I can sell it again if necessary anyway.
A long introduction but now to the fragrance, which starts similarly rosy as its successors but from the beginning noticeably darker and more mature.
Definitely more oud.
As it progresses, it becomes really resinous and slightly sweeter, I think I even detect some of the cinnamon in combination with rose and oud.
Later in the course I perceive a slight similarity to Oud Zhen, if it had fallen into a rose-cinnamon-muscat stew.
It also looks great and the numbering on each bottle gives you the feeling of holding something special and rare in your hand.
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The best summer fragrance?
Most people probably imagine a summer fragrance to be something completely different and not an animalic musk scent
But that changes the moment said fragrance starts out extremely citrusy and refreshing and even keeps that in the background for the duration of the fragrance.
Pine, bergamot, lime and mandarin have such a cooling effect on me not only in the first 20/30 minutes but are permanently in the background.
After about 10 min +- the musk comes out as you know it sweet and warm, but then again not quite warm because the citric elements cool it down and it smells like cooled sweet animalic musk accompanied with citrus
That's what makes it so good for me for the summer, applying it in the summer gives me such a cooling sensation i feel like i'm taking a cold shower with musk deer while shampooing with lime mandarin shampoo.
At temperatures of over 28 degrees I smell something slightly cola-like, don't ask me where it comes from, I don't know myself:)
The durability and sillage? What can I say, the scent lasts until the next shower and simply drowns out everything and everyone else in the room.
To anyone who has the necessary small change but also the great luck to somehow get hold of this fragrance in the souk should take the chance and then not only has another masterpiece by Russian Adam, but also the most unique summer fragrance he can find.
But that changes the moment said fragrance starts out extremely citrusy and refreshing and even keeps that in the background for the duration of the fragrance.
Pine, bergamot, lime and mandarin have such a cooling effect on me not only in the first 20/30 minutes but are permanently in the background.
After about 10 min +- the musk comes out as you know it sweet and warm, but then again not quite warm because the citric elements cool it down and it smells like cooled sweet animalic musk accompanied with citrus
That's what makes it so good for me for the summer, applying it in the summer gives me such a cooling sensation i feel like i'm taking a cold shower with musk deer while shampooing with lime mandarin shampoo.
At temperatures of over 28 degrees I smell something slightly cola-like, don't ask me where it comes from, I don't know myself:)
The durability and sillage? What can I say, the scent lasts until the next shower and simply drowns out everything and everyone else in the room.
To anyone who has the necessary small change but also the great luck to somehow get hold of this fragrance in the souk should take the chance and then not only has another masterpiece by Russian Adam, but also the most unique summer fragrance he can find.
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If only your girlfriend valued you as much as she does
I had been aware of the Bortnikoff brand for a long time, after Areej le Dore and Ensar Oud, I had to immerse myself in the world of Dmitry Bortnikoff.
Through the exchange with @TonyTonka, I finally did so.
At first it was only supposed to be a short statement, until I saw the video of Marc Gebauer, that he actually now also sells Bortnikoff in his store and dedicates a separate video to the brand, I found on the one hand very good that an Artisane brand is now so easily available here, but also on the other hand a pity how the fragrances were handled in this video
Each one was only smelled briefly, briefly said what goes through your head in the first second and then directly the next.
That this is not just another niche house or what exactly Artisane perfumes are was hardly explained (I'm only talking about the youtube video, I don't know what was said in the complete stream)
But since I still think that a lot of people have become aware of this brand and there may also be a handful of these people who are interested in this "cowshed" fragrance, or as sascha mentioned in the video "the ass of a cow"
Are interested, it will probably be a longer review after all.
For noses that enter unknown territory here, this is really a bomb and if you really only spray 1 time, briefly hold your nose and pull away, you could say, yes cowshed and on to the next one.
But if you really want to give the fragrance a chance and hold your nose longer, you realize that the brown stuff is not cow patties, but a mixture of oud from Laos (which really smells almost like oud from India) and coffee with some dry-sweet cocoa in the background
Many of the others here often talk about the cocoa and often leave out the coffee in their statements, but for me the coffee is clearly the main player next to the oud.
When I compare the Lao oud with my Russian oud 2, which is really a cocoa oud fragrance and does not contain any coffee, I can clearly smell a clear difference that the Russian oud 2 smells much sweeter than the Lao oud, which is also logical when you compare coffee with cocoa.
For me, The Lao Oud is much more mature, more mature, almost a suit
The coffee so black and unsweetened, the oud from laos so intense, and then there are the floral notes of magnolia and chamomile, paired with the sweet touch of cocoa which give this otherwise very harsh perfume a slight sweetness and lightness in the background and make it so much more wearable.
Approx. 45min - 1std after spraying, I notice how the flowers and the cocoa briefly fight for a place in the foreground with the coffee and the oud and then move back into the background.
This interplay continues pretty much until the drydown.
If you already have a practiced nose, you should definitely try this one, if possible through the souk here or (unfortunately) through Marc Gebauer's store where you can also buy samples, but for absurdly high prices that he can't actually logically justify why a sample costs twice as much as the actual bottle, if you calculate it in euros per ml.
Even inexperienced noses who want to experience something completely different and extraordinary should not be averse to trying it and giving it a chance, so really give it a chance and not like a certain lady in my immediate vicinity who made me wash the fragrance off again
At the end of the day, it's probably not for everyone and better to use with caution.
Through the exchange with @TonyTonka, I finally did so.
At first it was only supposed to be a short statement, until I saw the video of Marc Gebauer, that he actually now also sells Bortnikoff in his store and dedicates a separate video to the brand, I found on the one hand very good that an Artisane brand is now so easily available here, but also on the other hand a pity how the fragrances were handled in this video
Each one was only smelled briefly, briefly said what goes through your head in the first second and then directly the next.
That this is not just another niche house or what exactly Artisane perfumes are was hardly explained (I'm only talking about the youtube video, I don't know what was said in the complete stream)
But since I still think that a lot of people have become aware of this brand and there may also be a handful of these people who are interested in this "cowshed" fragrance, or as sascha mentioned in the video "the ass of a cow"
Are interested, it will probably be a longer review after all.
For noses that enter unknown territory here, this is really a bomb and if you really only spray 1 time, briefly hold your nose and pull away, you could say, yes cowshed and on to the next one.
But if you really want to give the fragrance a chance and hold your nose longer, you realize that the brown stuff is not cow patties, but a mixture of oud from Laos (which really smells almost like oud from India) and coffee with some dry-sweet cocoa in the background
Many of the others here often talk about the cocoa and often leave out the coffee in their statements, but for me the coffee is clearly the main player next to the oud.
When I compare the Lao oud with my Russian oud 2, which is really a cocoa oud fragrance and does not contain any coffee, I can clearly smell a clear difference that the Russian oud 2 smells much sweeter than the Lao oud, which is also logical when you compare coffee with cocoa.
For me, The Lao Oud is much more mature, more mature, almost a suit
The coffee so black and unsweetened, the oud from laos so intense, and then there are the floral notes of magnolia and chamomile, paired with the sweet touch of cocoa which give this otherwise very harsh perfume a slight sweetness and lightness in the background and make it so much more wearable.
Approx. 45min - 1std after spraying, I notice how the flowers and the cocoa briefly fight for a place in the foreground with the coffee and the oud and then move back into the background.
This interplay continues pretty much until the drydown.
If you already have a practiced nose, you should definitely try this one, if possible through the souk here or (unfortunately) through Marc Gebauer's store where you can also buy samples, but for absurdly high prices that he can't actually logically justify why a sample costs twice as much as the actual bottle, if you calculate it in euros per ml.
Even inexperienced noses who want to experience something completely different and extraordinary should not be averse to trying it and giving it a chance, so really give it a chance and not like a certain lady in my immediate vicinity who made me wash the fragrance off again
At the end of the day, it's probably not for everyone and better to use with caution.
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What Oud for Greatness wanted to be
After reading the ingredients, I thought I had read this somewhere before but couldn't quite remember where.
I tested it for the first time at my local perfumery which, luckily for me, often restocks its range with the novelties of the niche world.
And from the first smell it was clear that this is exactly what I wanted from Oud for greatness but never got, because there REALLY is oud in here, how much oud and whether from plantations or wild oud is up to me, but I actually smell oud with saffron and not saffron with saffron.
However, it has to be said that it is not intended for the typical oud for greatness wearer and a little more for the connoisseurs, if I had to quote the older couple standing next to me on the train "what smells so stale here"
You can tell that this one is more sophisticated, but that's a good thing because this one doesn't want to be mainstream.
As for the fragrance itself, I find it very successful, the oud and the saffron are clearly recognizable.
The durability and sillage are amazing and you really feel like a gladiator in an oud armor on a saffron carriage in the Colluseum where the others can only bounce off.
The only 2 things that this armor doesn't survive more easily is that the scent hardly changes or develops from the beginning to the end, which is a bit of a shame considering the price, which is the second thing, because for 450€ the 100ml, it is still acceptable on the ml price, but apart from that you still have to put almost 500€ on the table at the end of the day for a perfume that cannot be compared to Areej le Dore or Ensar Oud.
I tested it for the first time at my local perfumery which, luckily for me, often restocks its range with the novelties of the niche world.
And from the first smell it was clear that this is exactly what I wanted from Oud for greatness but never got, because there REALLY is oud in here, how much oud and whether from plantations or wild oud is up to me, but I actually smell oud with saffron and not saffron with saffron.
However, it has to be said that it is not intended for the typical oud for greatness wearer and a little more for the connoisseurs, if I had to quote the older couple standing next to me on the train "what smells so stale here"
You can tell that this one is more sophisticated, but that's a good thing because this one doesn't want to be mainstream.
As for the fragrance itself, I find it very successful, the oud and the saffron are clearly recognizable.
The durability and sillage are amazing and you really feel like a gladiator in an oud armor on a saffron carriage in the Colluseum where the others can only bounce off.
The only 2 things that this armor doesn't survive more easily is that the scent hardly changes or develops from the beginning to the end, which is a bit of a shame considering the price, which is the second thing, because for 450€ the 100ml, it is still acceptable on the ml price, but apart from that you still have to put almost 500€ on the table at the end of the day for a perfume that cannot be compared to Areej le Dore or Ensar Oud.
