Hate to hate...but this fragrance truly is awful. Again...I'm not one to jump on the bandwagon, this is only my opinion and evidently peoples tastes vary massively but for the life of me I will never understand the attraction of overly boozy scents. It's saving grace is the drydown if you can get past the initial unpleasentness it gets a little better...but not much. I generally like CK fragrances across the board, this one might be a brave departure in perfumary terms but I'm really not feeling it.

What a fool I am!!!! Yet another retraction of my original review...I have to blame a poor nose that day but this came across as boozy and repulsive on the card. How wrong I was and how many times must I have a knee jerk reaction to the opening of a fragrance. I was surprised to learn that the nose behind this fragrance was non other than Pierre Negrin the guy behind quite possibility the greatest triumph in male focused perfumery EVER!!! Of course I'm talking about Interlude by Amouage. I thought I'd missed something even when I wrote the initial review all I can say is my nose must've been shot that day because the opening to encounter is fine and not overly anything! It dries down to a really lovely and different scent which for me sets it apart from the usual bland designer rubbish...but only slightly so don't get carried away! Sweet, but light a little reminiscent for a moment of Mont Blanc Individuel (despite not sharing common notes) but there's something to what I'm saying....honest! This is not a full retraction because I don't love it Furthermore, although this is woody and has odd composition, I don't really get a lot of Oud myself.