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Spices, Amber, incense? On paper this was stacking up to be a olfactory wet dream for me and as such I couldn't wait to sample it's goodness. Now that I have, the best word to describe it is... Weird! I'm really not a fan at all...I never let it drydown properly due to an erge to get it off my skin as quickly as possible. I wanted to like it so bad too, it's brave and very different it strikes me as be very excentric, extroverted. I can just imagine some hip young fashion conscious french gentleman the kind who would wear a CDG jacket with lots of ruffled fabric on the lapels and arms smelling like this...needless to say not my scene AT ALL! I like saffron but all I get in the opening is awful booziness and spice attack, turmeric galore!!! Maybe I'm not being fair and the drydown is nice but yet again I can't get past the opening, a real shame because CDG do some great fragrances.
Oh yes! It's as weird as I hoped and provides a delicious, shifting, roller-coaster ride of genre-bending perfumery. I can't put my finger on any one thing. What seems to be metallic one minute suddenly seems sexy-skanky the next (I get the same vibe from Ganymede) sort of like hot sweaty muscle dude, although that's not to say it's masculine, I reckon anyone can rock this if they're feeling it. The turmeric is very apparent, but it's such a complicated chorus of accompanying notes it doesn't seem at all culinary. I can totally understand those who say they appreciate this but couldn't imagine wearing it, and I probably won't wear it often, but I'm looking forward to trying it in different seasons. Wearing this again today, and OH the drydown... So creamy, ambery, spicy and wonderful, but in a unique way. It really doesn't resemble anything else.