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10/22/2021
Nikolai
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Nikolai
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No oriental-overkill. Fortunately!
Taif T04 is actually not a fragrance that I would have immediately assigned to myself. I do not consider myself someone who can wear dominant oud and admittedly - I do not particularly like it. Nevertheless, I do not harbor a common aversion to oud, just to make that clear!
So when I came across Taif al Emarat and clicked through the various creations, I was almost sad that a large part of the Taifs but apparently has a very strong oriental touch and all dripping with oud and hot spices, which now so not my taste and probably does not really suit me.
However, I finally came across Taif T04. Honey is for me usually already a blind buy reason, I'm totally on the honey smell and the now rather unusual combination with oud and a generally (at least for me) unconventional note of cranberry, aroused my curiosity. For this, the ingredients mentioned were already enough, with Prunus dasycarpa I can of course do nothing and the base notes did not strike me at all great while reading.
In my research about where and especially at what price I could get a bottle of the yellow elixir, I thought my dream but first again for burst. Scarce 100€ on 75ml are now long below my pain threshold - 93€ for shipping from the UAE unfortunately not.
By a very happy interaction of some unlikely coincidences, I managed but actually already the next day half a bottle of T04 in the hand to hold, without having to pay the horrendous shipping costs.
But we come now after the rather longer outlandish prehistory to a few short praises on the flacon, to the fragrance itself:
The bottle is valuable, heavy and looks very handsome. The racing yellow liquid does not fit in my opinion to the otherwise noble presentation of the whole, but is made up for by the excellent atomizer and the great, elaborate packaging.
And now to the fragrance:
Spray T04 on my skin, I smell first and foremost one note unmistakable and naked, in all its fullness. Oud. To my delight, it did not repel me, however, but hit the mark. This oud, behaves like oud I hold in high regard. It is less bitingly animalic, and more woody and airy, without holding even a hint of mustiness. In fact, the top note of the Taif reminds me unmistakably strongly of Oud Wood Eau de Parfum.
This is probably not for animalic fanatics and oud purists, but in the portfolio of Taif al Emarat probably still find.
Full of excitement I waited for the honey, which comes to my disappointment not such sweet and full-bodied as I had hoped for him. Presumably, however, that is nothing but a gain for the fragrance. By a honey as in honey jar it probably delivers danger of being completely torn by this sweetness combined with vanilla into the mass of the sweet-woody gourmands. Because that's exactly what the T04 is not: sweet.
Sure, it's probably more sweet than fresh and more sweet than smoky or bitingly leathery, but really sweet? No.
I would primarily assign the quality of balance to this fragrance. Balanced in the sense of "all notes are similarly clearly perceptible", as well as balanced in the sense of the fragrance pyramid and its development: for me, no clear division into head, heart and base notes can be made here after a while. When applied, it is indeed clear - the oud dominates at the beginning, honey, cranberry (equally little sweet, rather tart-bitter) join in, but do not detach the oud. Likewise, all parts of the base note, none of the predecessor notes dissolve. In drydown, the fragrance merely adds fragments of its DNA to itself and ends with a harmonious coexistence of all the listed notes. A small imbalance I smell only between the oud - which is anyway by a small margin the most dominant ingredient - and patchouli, which unfortunately I can not sniff out practically at all.
To the durability: top of the upper class. The
T04 remains the whole day even for one perceptible on the skin and is not unpleasant.
To the sillage: At most upper middle class. Oddly enough, the sillage is less impressive in contrast to the excellent durability. It is not weak, but you have to be close to actually really perceive the fragrance.
Without having tested other Taif al Emarats, I can imagine that T04 is the softest and most pleasing, at least of this series from the house. A crowdpleaser he is nevertheless not, because I have received very mixed reactions to him. If you are looking for the total oriental spice bomb or the Urinstinkt-triggerdem oud overkill, you are wrong with T04.
If you want a fragrance, at least in Germany but very unusual, which seems unadulterated oriental and quite needs one or two attempts to like him, T04 is probably a good choice. I advise anyone who has an opportunity to buy or exchange without the criminal shipping costs: strike!
Oh, he is in my opinion, by the way, relatively clearly male, but with the right charisma also by a woman to wear!
So when I came across Taif al Emarat and clicked through the various creations, I was almost sad that a large part of the Taifs but apparently has a very strong oriental touch and all dripping with oud and hot spices, which now so not my taste and probably does not really suit me.
However, I finally came across Taif T04. Honey is for me usually already a blind buy reason, I'm totally on the honey smell and the now rather unusual combination with oud and a generally (at least for me) unconventional note of cranberry, aroused my curiosity. For this, the ingredients mentioned were already enough, with Prunus dasycarpa I can of course do nothing and the base notes did not strike me at all great while reading.
In my research about where and especially at what price I could get a bottle of the yellow elixir, I thought my dream but first again for burst. Scarce 100€ on 75ml are now long below my pain threshold - 93€ for shipping from the UAE unfortunately not.
By a very happy interaction of some unlikely coincidences, I managed but actually already the next day half a bottle of T04 in the hand to hold, without having to pay the horrendous shipping costs.
But we come now after the rather longer outlandish prehistory to a few short praises on the flacon, to the fragrance itself:
The bottle is valuable, heavy and looks very handsome. The racing yellow liquid does not fit in my opinion to the otherwise noble presentation of the whole, but is made up for by the excellent atomizer and the great, elaborate packaging.
And now to the fragrance:
Spray T04 on my skin, I smell first and foremost one note unmistakable and naked, in all its fullness. Oud. To my delight, it did not repel me, however, but hit the mark. This oud, behaves like oud I hold in high regard. It is less bitingly animalic, and more woody and airy, without holding even a hint of mustiness. In fact, the top note of the Taif reminds me unmistakably strongly of Oud Wood Eau de Parfum.
This is probably not for animalic fanatics and oud purists, but in the portfolio of Taif al Emarat probably still find.
Full of excitement I waited for the honey, which comes to my disappointment not such sweet and full-bodied as I had hoped for him. Presumably, however, that is nothing but a gain for the fragrance. By a honey as in honey jar it probably delivers danger of being completely torn by this sweetness combined with vanilla into the mass of the sweet-woody gourmands. Because that's exactly what the T04 is not: sweet.
Sure, it's probably more sweet than fresh and more sweet than smoky or bitingly leathery, but really sweet? No.
I would primarily assign the quality of balance to this fragrance. Balanced in the sense of "all notes are similarly clearly perceptible", as well as balanced in the sense of the fragrance pyramid and its development: for me, no clear division into head, heart and base notes can be made here after a while. When applied, it is indeed clear - the oud dominates at the beginning, honey, cranberry (equally little sweet, rather tart-bitter) join in, but do not detach the oud. Likewise, all parts of the base note, none of the predecessor notes dissolve. In drydown, the fragrance merely adds fragments of its DNA to itself and ends with a harmonious coexistence of all the listed notes. A small imbalance I smell only between the oud - which is anyway by a small margin the most dominant ingredient - and patchouli, which unfortunately I can not sniff out practically at all.
To the durability: top of the upper class. The
T04 remains the whole day even for one perceptible on the skin and is not unpleasant.
To the sillage: At most upper middle class. Oddly enough, the sillage is less impressive in contrast to the excellent durability. It is not weak, but you have to be close to actually really perceive the fragrance.
Without having tested other Taif al Emarats, I can imagine that T04 is the softest and most pleasing, at least of this series from the house. A crowdpleaser he is nevertheless not, because I have received very mixed reactions to him. If you are looking for the total oriental spice bomb or the Urinstinkt-triggerdem oud overkill, you are wrong with T04.
If you want a fragrance, at least in Germany but very unusual, which seems unadulterated oriental and quite needs one or two attempts to like him, T04 is probably a good choice. I advise anyone who has an opportunity to buy or exchange without the criminal shipping costs: strike!
Oh, he is in my opinion, by the way, relatively clearly male, but with the right charisma also by a woman to wear!
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