Valdar

I was expecting an evil smoke monster that summons the Prince of Darkness. But no way! For me Interlude has a cheerful character. So after the first spraying, my thought was immediately: "Wait a minute...I know that...that's just typical how it smells on a fairground".
Why does it smell like Interlude at a carnival? I'm not sure. This characteristic smell of burnt caramel at folk festivals is probably due to the roasted almonds, the plugfish, the cotton candy, etc., whereas in Interlude it is possibly produced by the combination of oregano/opoponax.
But I cannot smell out differentiated these and the other components mentioned, which of course speaks for a good, round overall composition. In the endlessly long process the whole thing remains linear and loses (the next day) only a little bit of the caramel sweetness, in favor of more woody and smoky aspects.
I can't understand what great philosophy some people interpret into this fragrance, as it smells great and pleasant, but for me it is rather one of the more insignificant Amouages. However, I can subscribe to the technical beast fashion factor. This thing lasts forever and radiates violently. Qualitatively a super perfume, the scent is nice, but not as provocative as I would have hoped. Sure, its penetrance and presence can go to your head in the long run, which makes it tiring to wear it every day and it also fits better into winter because of this radiance.
All the comments and videos that I have combed through before, created an expectation in me that would have fitted in the end to for example Black Amber by Agonist, whom I really felt to be the smoky prince of darkness.
Interlude Man, on the other hand? A cheerful fairground caramel candy with good quality and long shelf life. No more and no less...

Except for the two new ones, I wore everything from zoologist one day. Many I found irrelevant or disgusting (e.g. Dodo), while a few really fascinated me, including Camel, Bat (2015), Rhinoceros and Tyrannosaurus Rex, which is what this is all about now.
If you want to know what the T-Rex's prelude smells like, you can take an empty lighter (one with a flint and a metal wheel) and by turning the wheel several times you can create a shower of sparks, which causes a billow of smoke. This should come very close to the smoke smell of this perfume. Not an ethereal, solemn or balsamic smoke, but the brute smoke of flints, silverster firecrackers or those produced by the work of a farrier.
Due to a slightly sulphurous component it also makes me think of volcanoes. Later on, dark green, woody notes creep out of the underground, making the whole thing rounder, more natural and atmospheric.
The fragrance is definitely unique and creates primeval or stone-age images in my head. However, the association with a dinosaur doesn't come to mind, as the fragrance completely avoids animaic, leathery or generally more organic notes.
This gives the story a not at all difficult wearability and if one accepts the concept that the scent should only convey the smell of the habitat of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, then this has succeeded.

Exactly...let's move on to wearability: the fragrance is special and yet, as far as I can tell, it does not contain any note that anyone might find unpleasant, but neither does it contain any note that would be a particular treat for the nose. So I think that you don't bother anybody with it, but you don't get any compliments either. It's hard to say on which occasion the T-Rex fits from the feeling. For me it is independent of the weather, has a good but not penetrating sillage and a decent durability. So I would probably wear it as a strange everyday scent on all kinds of occasions. People might think "This guy smells pretty weird, but not bad" and that's okay.
If Fred Flintstone wore perfume, it would probably be this.

"And the moral of history':
Girl, soft from the path not!
Stay alone and do not stop;
Never trust a stranger!
Never go to the bitter end
Don't give yourself into other people's hands!

Your beauty attracts them,
And a wolf is every man!
Remember one thing: At night
Many a wolf has woken up
Don't cry a tear for her!br />
Wolves have sharp teeth!"

Well! I bought this perfume blindly, because of the descriptions and because I liked the design of the bottle so much that I thought, because I MUST like the fragrance as well.
Well, in a way he does, too, but while wearing it I always wait for the attack of the wolf that can be seen on the cover, but he seems to sleep all the time.

To put it less abstractly: The fragrance starts off quietly, darkly, green and somewhat leathery. The fragrance has no top note, it starts with its heart note, which is practically also the base note, with the small difference that after about an hour the leather becomes more dominant, while the fougère elements move into the background.
"Background" is generally a word which describes this fragrance as a whole very well. It is a woodsy/leathery background noise. Very linear, very quiet and restrained and without anything unusual.

The fragrance is versatile, fairly easy to wear and can be used at any time of the day or night and in any season.
And yes, it's sombre and yes, it's woodsy, but somehow I keep waiting for a note that will give it something special, some kind of outstandingly unusual component that will give the fragrance character. The attack of the unexpected.
In my opinion, a special fruit, a special spice or an extraordinary flower would have given this perfume that certain something...the attack of the wolf.
So Russian Leather remains an easy to wear, pleasant, but also somewhat boring perfume, which for me comes across as a more refined and delicate version of Drakkar Noir.

Hard to say why, but for me Devil's Nightcap conveys an intangible eroticism. No brothel eroticism, no big city eroticism. No! A natural, grounded eroticism: the image of a young, pale woman with shaggy hair, riding naked on a goat through a dark moor, only dimly visible in the soft light of the moon.

I can't smell the given notes directly (I remember the smell of oak moss completely different). To be honest, I find it hard to say what this perfume actually smells like, although a typical Lush farm vibe of homemade is resonating.

The next question is: Can I even wear this? I am neither female, usually not naked and only rarely ride on a goat through a moonlit moor.
Well, nevertheless, I think that the components of this perfume cannot be assigned to any particular gender, that it is definitely unisex enough to create different associations in a man, but in a similarly nature-loving and yet seductive direction.
So the scent of mine would even be very suitable for everyday use, because despite the typical organic farm vibes of Lush, I can't imagine that anybody doesn't like it at all. For me, however, it is much too special to wear it while shopping, for example. Not because the scent would not match the situation, but the situation would be too banal for this scent, which would offend him somehow.

I can perfectly imagine the fragrance for romantic evening walks in idyllic landscapes with a person you love. Practically a date perfume for all those who prefer to lie with their loved one on a lake under the stars instead of sitting in an overpriced sushi restaurant.

Durability is a solid 8 hours, with a suitable average Sillage. Devil's Nightcap does not have a particularly complicated course and remains rather linear. Surely great on both sexes, although it would really captivate me on a woman.

So, girls, if any of you are thinking of seducing me: Grab your goat, spray this water up and down to the next bog (with a little luck I'm at a pond at night fishing).

In my opinion the best forest interpretation I have ever smelled. And the scent cannot be assigned to any specific forest species (coniferous forest or deciduous forest), as the focus is fortunately neither on the woods and resins, nor on the leaves and needles, but rather on the fresh scent of a moist whale soil with its fungi, lichens and moss species, without becoming earthy.

So Coven really gives me the authentic feeling of lying on a forest floor covered in wafts of mist early in the morning and taking a deep breath. Mystical, cool, greener than green and incredibly "real" looking.

When I was looking for a green woodland scent, I swung extremely between Tom Ford's Vert d'Encens and this masterpiece here. In the end, I decided on Coven, as the woods were too much in the foreground for me in the Ford, which somehow took the magic out of it (despite the incense) and more drifted into sawmill.

All the other forest things I've tested have simply always reminded me of a cold bath.

Admittedly, I wear this very long-lasting perfume relatively rarely, as it doesn't really seem to fit perfectly in many situations, but every time I wear it it gives me a magical aura.

What is interesting is that two people told me completely independently of each other that they perceived a clear, hot but beautiful chili note. I myself don't notice any of this at all and I have no idea where this feeling could come from...maybe this is the real mysticism of this perfume

Durability: Very very very very long...10 hours
Sillage: Average, pleasant...
Wearability: Doesn't bother anywhere, but doesn't really fit anywhere perfectly (independent of the season)