Very incense leaning amber perfume, has that bright, freshness of olibanum/elemi/mastic in the opening and beginning of the experience but that could just be an expression of the labdanum here. Clearly it’s a classic accord of amber in that it does have something of a dryness, warmth and gentle rounding of vanilla but feels less the stuffy ‘old book’ vibes and much more radical, and spaciously uncluttered. I like it. Etro do smell something of yesterday, even feeling a little ‘aged’ (possibly because they are now?) but with a freshness to them (in terms of ideas) and quality. Yeah I like it, I mean I wouldn’t go too mad, it’s an amber perfume at the end of the day and isn’t trying to be super complex or artistically challenging, but for a perfume connoisseur who fancies something a bit more scarce and unusual from a collecting point of view, Etro is a brand which garners some Kudos there as well.