Okay, Petra is a good perfume, let's get that out of the way. It's really not very trendy to make a populist myrrh perfume (well it's becoming a bit more trendy) many perfumes with myrrh in the title often don't overtly smell of myrrh, at least not mainstream Penhaligons types shit. Anyway this is a sticky myrrh biased amber with hefty woody tones and lots of discrete sweetness. Let's talk about the opening because that has the most overt, almost fruity and date like, caramelised, smell, I really love it and coupled with the most overt licorice which lasts throughout the entire perfume, I couldn't help but be wooed, in the initial phases at least. There's a bit of a downside here, clearly if you don't like licorice or anything verging on that, you're not going to dig this perfume or care about any other facets it might have, because it will plain put you off. Even me, someone who loves it, and thought licorice needed to be featured more in perfume at one time, could (and did) feel a bit fatigued by this because it is quite a heavy wear, and Licorice is somewhat of a recent trend in perfumery and I've definitely smelled it coupled with strong amber accords like this one before. (There's an Armani Prive one which is actually more subtle than Petra) However, I have to return to the fact that this is a really lovely, well made perfume, without any of the screechy, jarring BS of Halfeti or anything like that. Funny that tea is mentioned this does have some odd tea like quality, sandwiched somewhere between the resinous, tacky (texturally) myrrh and the dry, rooty, woody aromas, also the anisic quality of fennel (which I don't really get if I'm honest) IS actually a key component to creating that licorice feel. I'm onboard, I wouldn't buy it myself just because it didn't speak to me as loudly as I like, but I wouldn't blame anyone for being into it.