Reviews of Espionage (2002)
by Ayala Moriel

Strong smoke at first. And I do not like smoke. Then, leather, at which point it is a bit masculine. Twenty minutes into its development, it turns into tobacco. Yummy tobacco. I love tobacco. But this needs to be 3 X stronger for me. Then it would be perfect. I would happily wait for the smoke to clear, and then be set to go.

Family: Oriental Ambery, Oriental Woody, Chypre Leathery
I need to qualify my perspective--I don't own any oriental frags. Maybe it's because Mom used no spices in her cooking (I still love boiled cabbage, adorned with nothing more than salt). Of all the Ayala Moriel scents I pre-sniffed from my large array of samples, I knew this was the one I'd care for least and the one for which I'd have the least effective vocabulary (my apologies to the reader). I like sugar with my leather (Dzing!, VIP Room), and this is dry. Espionage comes across as unisex, and the floral aspects are not obvious. It smells expensive, not like cheap musk or vanilla scents. The tobacco is subdued, more reminiscent of leaf than smoke. I'm sorry that I'm so unfamiliar with similar scents that I cannot compare this with others of its class. I can say the fragrance wears close to the skin and smells well balanced.