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Wood from the Labo - Part 1 (Oud)
Apart from the unbearable tropical-humid heat of Berlin, it was probably also the nervelessness of the notoriously poor shelf life of all Le Labo fragrances I have tried so far that led me to Neroli 36 here instead of a serious review only a borderdebil-demideliranten verbiage could deliver. Unfortunately, my hope is that the wood fragrances will last longer than the citric ones
When spraying on about half a vial of a sample each, i.e. 0.75 ml or about 10 small sprayers on the neck and wrist (I don't find it stingy, do I?), I would actually have to lie, if I wanted to say otherwise, both with "Oud 27" and with "Santal 33" after four hours of scythe, end with funny, shift in the shaft. And that means a very close residual fragrance restaurant. Projection is well past. My nose is fine, as it appears when testing other scents (and because my wife confirms my findings), the samples are not superimposed. What are they doing? Incorporate a secret ingredient into all your fragrances that activates four hours after application and triggers fragrance self-destruction?
I don't care, I won't let you get me down and I'll continue to comment unabashedly, even if I take revenge now. Because I'm doing the same thing with my comments now and I'm using extender! I'm going to recycle this introductory part for Santal 33
Now to the point: The list of ingredients with their three woods (oud, guaiac, cedar) and all sorts of usual suspects (incense and patchouli in particular) sounds like Brutalo: Full with the wooden baseball bat pulled over the skull and then smoked with some dark stuff. Yatagan has captured this with a great statement, he feels the scent exactly the same. Many others similar here.
I'm not. Oud 27 first blows a handful of dry sawdust into my face; whether it is oud or a sawn Ivar shelf from Ikea is less obvious to me. After the shock has subsided after about a minute, this subsides and the candidate becomes untypically friendly and soft for an oud scent.
I don't find anything dark-threatening here (the darkest thing I can think of here is nicely spicier but also a bit sweet forest honey). Incense at most unburned, held in a sweet, soft hand, so that some aroma escapes from the resin under the influence of body heat. Animalism at worst briefly like a wet dog, but mostly more like the imaginary body odor of a fluffy squirrel baby (isn't that sweet-sooty?). And not like what one imagines with Oud-Animalik in such a way (rutting Wapitihirsche, tiger piss or whatever). Wood most likely like moist, green young wood. And quite definitely, as many a pre-reviewer has already noticed, an unspecific, but also unmistakable, gentle, almost creamy, fruity note. Maybe it's from saffron in combination with some chemistry (ups, Le Labo supposedly only has natural essences, but why are they called Le Labo and not Le Plantage or something?), maybe it's that among the 27 ingredients (which aren't all named by name) there's also a plum or something like that hidden somewhere.
Conclusion: An annoyingly ephemeral, but quite beautiful saffron oud, surprisingly good-natured, honeyed (or honeyed), moist woody, fluffy-plumpy, in view of the list of ingredients.
When spraying on about half a vial of a sample each, i.e. 0.75 ml or about 10 small sprayers on the neck and wrist (I don't find it stingy, do I?), I would actually have to lie, if I wanted to say otherwise, both with "Oud 27" and with "Santal 33" after four hours of scythe, end with funny, shift in the shaft. And that means a very close residual fragrance restaurant. Projection is well past. My nose is fine, as it appears when testing other scents (and because my wife confirms my findings), the samples are not superimposed. What are they doing? Incorporate a secret ingredient into all your fragrances that activates four hours after application and triggers fragrance self-destruction?
I don't care, I won't let you get me down and I'll continue to comment unabashedly, even if I take revenge now. Because I'm doing the same thing with my comments now and I'm using extender! I'm going to recycle this introductory part for Santal 33
Now to the point: The list of ingredients with their three woods (oud, guaiac, cedar) and all sorts of usual suspects (incense and patchouli in particular) sounds like Brutalo: Full with the wooden baseball bat pulled over the skull and then smoked with some dark stuff. Yatagan has captured this with a great statement, he feels the scent exactly the same. Many others similar here.
I'm not. Oud 27 first blows a handful of dry sawdust into my face; whether it is oud or a sawn Ivar shelf from Ikea is less obvious to me. After the shock has subsided after about a minute, this subsides and the candidate becomes untypically friendly and soft for an oud scent.
I don't find anything dark-threatening here (the darkest thing I can think of here is nicely spicier but also a bit sweet forest honey). Incense at most unburned, held in a sweet, soft hand, so that some aroma escapes from the resin under the influence of body heat. Animalism at worst briefly like a wet dog, but mostly more like the imaginary body odor of a fluffy squirrel baby (isn't that sweet-sooty?). And not like what one imagines with Oud-Animalik in such a way (rutting Wapitihirsche, tiger piss or whatever). Wood most likely like moist, green young wood. And quite definitely, as many a pre-reviewer has already noticed, an unspecific, but also unmistakable, gentle, almost creamy, fruity note. Maybe it's from saffron in combination with some chemistry (ups, Le Labo supposedly only has natural essences, but why are they called Le Labo and not Le Plantage or something?), maybe it's that among the 27 ingredients (which aren't all named by name) there's also a plum or something like that hidden somewhere.
Conclusion: An annoyingly ephemeral, but quite beautiful saffron oud, surprisingly good-natured, honeyed (or honeyed), moist woody, fluffy-plumpy, in view of the list of ingredients.
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