The Perfumes in J-Scent's Profound collection are more modern than their earlier scents. There are popular elements and notes rather than utterly traditional Japanese ones and the structure of the scents differ as well. The delicate, subtle and somewhat fragile aroma connects the scents which are in the bottles with the white label. They are all different in their own way but I experience them all as very calming concoctions. I have written of them in my review of "Yawahadat" . Ume Amaretto Oath has an intriguing opening which style is familiar from older releases - I mean to make you feel "wow". Anyway in the same time it feels very familiar like dozens of other scents nowadays and it has the notes which seems to been trending during the last years - like boozy notes and Plum. It opens up with almondy Amaretto and ripe Plum which is not clearly fruity nor juicy. Opening is not unique but in the same time it maybe pleases the bigger audience. The scent doesn't have the big step between the different stages, it evolves slowly into the dry down maintaining the boozy feeling and the scent of Almond. All the flowers in the middle seem to be only in a supportive role. The base of the scent is totally different than the scent which I love from this house. Here it's not so subtle and therefore I'm missing the J-Scent's signature style which is unique, very Japanese and so delicate that I'm wondering how it's possible to make something so fragile that I feel that I could break it like a balloon and still it maintains my interest into the scent during it's lifetime . This could be easily the perfume of some other house. The notes in the base perform in the way which doesn't convince me. It makes me think why such a beautiful house wants to make something which could be found widely already. This scent is heavy and it may be headache inducing. Chocolate is not realistic nor sweet and Labdanum together with Patchouli is dominating in the base. This seems to be something delicious but actually it's not. This is not a bad scent but it's not how it looks if thinking the notes and if you know some of their earlier work you maybe wait something different than this and don't enjoy it. This happened to me and the more I smell it the more I'm curious to discover their older releases. Thank you for reading and if you want to follow me on IG: @ninamariah_perfumes