TWIS: Classic Oriental.
This is interesting in some ways but it's not Oud. I need to qualify my thoughts a little better.
This is the kind of fragrance that a year ago, I would have sold blood for. Now, I think I have been quite comprehensively jaded, spoiled if you will, by Oud and not just any old oud but Oud. Capital O.
So, TWIS, if I am not as appreciative towards your scents as they perhaps deserve then you are right.
All I can say in my defense is that I just tried EO Royal Kinam right after EO Kyara LTD.
What I will try to do is judge your scents on their own merit and much more importantly at their price point level.
So, let's start again and with apologies.
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TWIS: Classic Oriental
Initial Application.
It's about bitter and sour orange to start, orange that's intense at the peeling, musk that's not musk in the same way that amber is not ambergris.
There is a hint of spice in the background I can't quite place and a hint of wood too, perhaps cedar?
15 minutes.
Now after having let myself go a little I am enjoying this much more. The orange is backing away into the room a little and the woodspice is coming up to dance. Pine notes are present, I think.
Getting a definite lift from the bitter orange.
30 minutes +
This has calmed down into a much more unified scent profile though the seville-like orange certainly still predominates.
It's nice.
1 hour.
Had a little inspiration from Taha inadvertently and added the tiniest of swipes of FO Dr. Hindi to it.
It's now a vastly richer and deeper scent. I can discern depths of leather amid this that the only possible possible ambience is this:
Arnold's diner. (Pre shark)
Pretty young girl walks in and accidentally bumps her head into The Fonz wearing his leather jacket.
Wooooooooo