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Whew, what a ride!
An Afghan acquaintance once gave me a large tin full of saffron threads. His mum regularly sends him such tins from Afghanistan anyway and he always has supplies. I had never smelled saffron in large quantities before and was fascinated how taste and smell can be so different for one aromatic substance. Saffron in rice tastes delicious. The saffron pure in the can smelled pungent, bitter and musty.
Why do I tell this? Because it was 1:1 the first impression after spraying Aoud Vanille. Except saffron I have initially perceived nothing. The but in an intensity that I was actually very briefly times nauseous. Vanilla, oud or even flowers - missing. A dust-dry, deep-dark, pungent medicinal saffron note, absolutely nothing else. Absolutely exactly how the saffron can smelled when it was opened. The fragrance has first absolutely nothing sweet or soft, let alone creamy, to counter this note.
I then wondered if my bottling might be tipped because the scent impression was so extremely different from the other comments here. After about 30 minutes, however, the Safrangemuffel then calmed down a bit. It doesn't disappear completely, but slowly the vanilla starts to fight its way to the fore a bit more and I can gradually smell it on my arm again without flinching. Over the course of about 3 hours, the scent turns into something like what most of the other commenters are smelling. Is therefore probably not on the sample, but on my skin chemistry, that the saffron makes such a spacey appearance.
The drydown is then really very nice - dry, completely unsweet, sandalwoody vanilla; overall a bit incense-like. Would the fragrance on me from the beginning at least as similar as what becomes of it after hours, he would definitely be a candidate for purchase. Interesting, "different" and absolutely not mainstream. Unfortunately, I'm afraid I wouldn't have the patience to endure the first 30 minutes of saffron overkill every time I put it on. If you fight through it, or if you have a skin chemistry that puts saffron in its place, you'll be rewarded with a beautiful scent that I could easily detect even after showering.