I've decided to start boycotting companies that churn out extortionately priced "oud" perfumes like this. It's an insult to people who love perfume that they make these synthetic duds and claim there's laotian, or any other specific, oud inside. This smells like straight up akigalawood, the aroma-chemical du jour, with some cheap vetiver chemical. It's cheap-smelling and uninspired, and I'm completely done with Affinessence. If you like this profile, check out any cheap perfume by Quentin Bisch from the last ten years and you'll most likely get an akigalabomb that's more interesting than this.

This is a cheap-smelling, crass perfume which would be appropriately priced at around 50 euros per 100ml, rather than the ludricous actual price point. It's scratchy, obnoxious and entirety synthetic in it's vibe, and not in a good way. Among the myriad vanilla perfumes flooding the market of late, there are so many better, cheaper options. This is trash, and to top it off it irritates my throat and lungs.

Esta é uma iteração incrível de violeta e um perfume de vetiver incrível. Estou surpreso com as afirmações de que falta o DNA da Amouage; para mim, foi imediatamente transcendental, belo e opulento, e percebo uma ligação direta com Lyric Woman, notavelmente na violeta (apesar de a violeta não estar listada em LW). Direi que é notavelmente semelhante a Girl da Comme des Garçons, exceto que este é inegavelmente melhor; só posso imaginar que os ingredientes utilizados são de qualidade muito superior. No entanto, se você não pode pagar por isso, Girl é uma alternativa muito viável e um perfume pelo qual já tinha um grande respeito. Portrayal tem uma profundidade mais rica, uma corrente resinhada doce e carece da madeira empoeirada de Girl. Girl pode se tornar um pouco implacável às vezes, enquanto Portrayal é eterno sem nunca se tornar irritante. Atualização: meu Deus, isso é maravilhoso. Há também uma pitada muito delicada e sutil de (talvez) cominho, dando uma leve vibração de cheiro corporal.

I've been quite shocked testing this brand that a lot of the perfumes have jarring, loud and synthetic base-note overloads. The brand image seems to be restrained/refined class but the scents are screechy, scratchy and designer-esque, and it baffles me because Sonia Constant has done loads of decent stuff for designers that doesn't fit into the shouting, beasty ambrofixative category. Maybe this is the type of thing she likes wearing, so it's what she's concentrating on for her own brand, but it's really not for me. If you like this style, this is a good perfume.

Se eu nunca tivesse sentido o cheiro de Interlude Man, eu acharia que este era o melhor âmbar de todos, mas é muito semelhante, embora ligeiramente inferior ao Amouage para mim.

Beautiful jasmine and resin. I get elemi from this, or perhaps it's the olibanum, but it's the same lemony type I love in Myths Man. Eveyone is bashing the newer Amouage but, while I love the Chong-era perfumes, some of the newer ones are sneaking up on me too. I absolutely love this. Update: there's a fleeting moment in the opening when I catch a scratchy woody amber, but it passes and the beautiful salty jasmine takes over. It feels fresh and briny, with a vibrant lemony shimmer. The dry down brings out the cardamom and an absolutely devestating sandlewood accord, absolutely top notch. It's very addictive and dynamic. I feel like this is underrated, maybe due to the bad direction they went in with packaging/branding. The curcuma here is in the mid and drydown unlike what the pyramid suggests, and it reminds me of Cuir Cúrcuma in its creaminess. Update: like a jasmine version of Encens Mythique.

Very strange, especially for a Salmon era Amouage. It's very spicy and aldehydic, with a monstrous, woody, musky, ambergris base. I left it a few months and it's really changed in the bottle. Every time I smell my skin I get something different. One minute there's huge turmeric, the next it's gone, but overall the thing I get least is the rose, then the jasmine, whereas when I first sprayed from the flacon it was jasmine-forward and much more gentle. I'm glad it turned out like this, and I'd say contrary to the bottle shape and packaging design this will be one for days when I want to wear a masculine scent.

Um agradável aroma de rosa picante com uma grande rajada de hálito quente de alguém que não escova os dentes o suficiente. Ou a língua 🤢

This is an ode to classic perfumery, with nods to Chanel and Guerlain, a stunning, voluptuous floral with honeyed benzoin and vanilla softening the base. The type of person who wears this would be classy but not showy, a friendly sort of class, mature and confident but with youthful energy, whereas the type of person wearing the ghastly 2024 New Look would be some sort of youth compensating for their generational malaise by smelling like a chemical explosion and probably sporting some sort of jagged, asymettrical haircut.

Scratchy AF chemicals making my nose hairs curl up. It is Bisch through and through. High pitched, histrionic, headache-inducing gass warfare. I simply cannot fathom what the hell he's gonna do chez Hermès.

Chicken goujons with peppered breadcrumbs dipped in lemon/lime mayo dip. I don't not like it, but it does smell like food.