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Powderly lemon bon bon-bergamot and sharp green-ish black pepper juxtaposed over sweet soft sandalwood and white musk.
Opens sharp peppery, green and lemony. Lemon quickly gives way to a sweetened powdery bergamot. pepperiness grows greener with a galbanum note that is pronounced without going over the top. Cedar comes in providing a bit of a woody backbone to the pepper in the mid as the powdery bergamot note dies down. A sweetened sandalwood and soft white musk grow in the base as the mid dies down. Leaves an almost vanillic sweetness on the skin after all else is gone.
You Doux is laying in bed with freshly moisturized skin just out of a bath using Dove bar soap to wash away the smoky smell of a bonfire.
Opens with a slight violet note, that kind of ghostly note that escapes you any time you try to pin it down. The violet note plays this same trick for a while. There is a well-done Palo Santo accord with incense which deftly avoids the overly smoky BBQ thing. I get a little bit of a sandalwood floating in and out along with an almost aldehydic soapiness. Ambroxan and ambrette create a skin-musk base. Simple, soapy, clean skin scent with a nice twist.
Mid-August, 95-degree day, 100% humidity. you wake up late, hungover. you rush out the door to work. You forgot to wash your pits and undercarriage... again. You go down to your job scraping barnacles off the pier at low tide. You catch a whiff of your rancid B.O., a waft of salty sea breeze sneaks in to relieve your nostrils for a fleeting moment, only to be overwhelmed by the fishy musk of the seals sunning themselves 100 feet away. You feel the metallic taste in your mouth of eminent vomit ...That was 2 days ago... and you still smell all of it in your clothes.
-Lattafa Atlas
Tenacious and synthetic metallic, bitter, greenish, inky, tea, very musky. Fantastic cooling, kind of indescribable fragrance.
Strong, classic, masculine, aromatic, citrus, floral, dry woody.
An opening of spicy aromatic petitgrain and bitter orange, quickly followed by a nice, green neroli. Orange blossom floralizes and sweetens the neroli, while carrot seeds add a slight powderiness in the mid. Cashmeran and woods combine to create a very nice dry woody base. Claims oak, I don't really detect a significant oak note, more cedar if anything specific. Has a feeling of a classic EDC-style fragrance with a significantly stronger woody base.
Futuristic, masculine cold damp earth and rose done in a clean, modern way.
A bit peppery with a little synthetic sweetness in the opening. Quickly a slight grayish, mineralic, damp earthiness appears, casting a kind of veil over a fairly prominent rose and a cold, slightly plasticky incense note in the mid. A synthesized patchouli derivative woody base with ambroxan. This is a fairly linear scent with many interesting aroma chemicals and futuristic synthetics.
Light, clean, uplifting, meditative, spa-like cypress/cedar scent
Mineralic, herbal thyme opening leading directly into a cypress and cedar top. Thyme drops away, to be replaced with olibanum in the mid, adding a slight smoky depth. Dries down to have a sweetish, softer cashmeran in the base.
A nice, dense, slightly bitter, almost milky black tea with bergamot and orange. Like an Earl Gray. Gently spiced, strong apricot and smokey, incensy woods with a bit of a grassy, earthy, slightly powdery sweet base. A wonderful tea note. Outstanding apricot scent.
Very aromatic lavender and mint opening with bitter orange and a kind of ozonic note joining quickly in the top. Nothing challenging or astringent about the aromatics. I think this has a violet leaf note somewhere in it. Mid adds some sage, but mostly the top carries through into the mid maintaining a fresh, incredibly clean aromatic scent. Ambrette and ambroxan create a clean musky diffusive base. My personal favorite in the line. Classic Prada cleanliness without some of the sweet powderiness of the other masculine freshies from the brand, which makes this stand out to me.
