It's an interesting experience to smell this chemical once, and see what it does on the skin, but it's pretty horrible. There's a reason it's blended with other things to make proper perfume. This is industrial, plasticky, glue-like vetiver, with car interior and a dash of something you'd use to clean your oven. Immediate scrubber, never again. (showering) And of course it's impossible to remove, although after a thorough scouring it's less repulsiv at least.

I'm wearing Guidance on one arm and Guidance 46 on the other. Guidance is very Bisch. It immediately reminds me of Encelade, but with more depth and sweetness (though nowhere near as sweet as the Extrait version). I quickly start to pick up on a sort of foot-cheese, sweaty off note, which doesn't put me off exactly but I can see why I would deter others. The sillage is giving me pretty perfume while the up close sniff is sweaty jock-strap (none of that in the Extrait). I like this, it's not my thing, as quite honestly I'd rather wear Encelade, it's more edgy, but this smells opulent and performs very well, of course. The Extrait does seem smoother and more refined, but it also lacks the hook. It's way sweeter and more incensey. I wish they'd upped the weirdness rather than the sweetness.

I'm not sure if my miniature has turned, but to me this is half perfume half burrito. The coriander is SO strong and something about this with the cinammon is too culinary for my taste (boom).

Sniffing my way through ten samples from this house, and I'm realising they're mostly syrupy sugar-bombs, and this is one of the sweetest of them all. If that's your thing, you might like this but this type of perfume is nauseating to me after 10 minutes max.

Sickly, cloying, cheap-smelling, diabetes-inducingly sweet. In the wheelhouse of masculine JPG fragrances but more obnoxious if such a thing is possible.

Scratchy, toxic, cheap-smelling, loud, needy, macho, just absolutely awful.

Lavender-filled condoms.

The notes listed don't represent what I'm smelling. For me it's strong tonka, rose, fruit (as a review said below, blueberries) and saffron. The other notes are there if I squint and use my imagination. It starts well, smelling opulent and complex but quickly the brightness fades from the top notes and it becomes sickly, cloying and cheap-smelling.

A horrible, monstrous, synthetic tuberose nightmare. Screechy and scratchy as I've come to expect from this brand.

나는 Ex Nihilo의 모든 향수를 테스트해 보았고, 이렇게 많은 향수 중에서 한계에 도전하는 것은 거의 없다. 그들은 검증된 아이디어를 가져와서 세밀하게 제작하는 것을 좋아하며, 거친 부분이 없다. 그들의 모든 향수는 강렬하며, 이 향수도 예외는 아니다. 모든 향수는 두드러진 합성 우디 앰버 베이스를 가지고 있는데, 이는 도전적이라고 생각하지만, 내가 흥미롭게 느끼는 방식은 아니다. 오히려 나는 그것이 지루하게 느껴지고 드라이다운이 길어질수록 나를 괴롭히기 시작한다. 여기 있는 향수는 매우 진부한 남성 디자이너 포뮬라에 대한 능숙하고 세련된 변형이다. 괜찮지만, 그게 전부다, 그냥 괜찮다. 아마도 이 향수 프로파일이 이렇게 널리 퍼지기 전인 10년에서 15년 전에는 더 높이 평가했을 것이다.