Nasomatto Absinthe (2007)
by Nasomatto

Great stuff! Absinth is especial , appealing and stylish. It has almost the quality of a diamond, polished and shiny, (in this case, a green diamond).
Unfortunately, as other reviewers have pointed, it lacks of the wished strength, so I should also have liked to see more presence in it. The initial blast is very grassy, herbal, with hints of dark moss , almost with a moldy quality. The opening is crossed by a slight cannabis touch , delicate but well defined, surprisingly well made.
The absinthe note is very subtle, I´d say 'domesticated ', which even seems slighty caramelised.
On the other hand , this green river runs through a riverbed, made of the typical 'metallic' musk of many other nasomattos, giving a clean feeling of luxury.
The Overall is a little bit linear but the idea is very well executed.

28th November, 2011.

Grassy, mossy, herbal, with a mellow dry down that stays crisp and fresh. A little mint note exists, but this is a warm fragrance never the less. I purchased after sampling during a department store clearance sale. I paid a third of suggested retail. Although I like it, doubt I would pay premium price. Longevity is approximate 5-6 hours. Very mild, pleasant, "any time, anywhere" frag.

17th November, 2011.

I had some minor peeves upon my initial sample of Absinth. For one thing it reminded me of Geisha Green and it is truly hard to achieve a fondness for such green oily juice. Longevity, and especially for an extract, was underwhelming all around.
Well all that was yesterday. Now for today's run with Absinthe. Sunny clear day here in CA and air is so fresh aiding nicely my trial with this fragrance. The weather seems to work better today and the scent has transformed itself from a Geish Green clone to a Green Fairy in its owrn right.
Gone is the oily green sappy nature of Geisha Green to be replaced by a prefect blend of vetiver absinsthe and some herbs. The effect is brooding, naughty and intriguing. A true feel good fragrance . The drydown is superb and adds a refined hippy feel to the potion.
I find Absinthe to be a green sanitized Ultraviolet without the sickly sweet notes that fell such a potentially good scent.
I will monitor the longevity this time around and see if there is an improvement over yesterday. Sillage is pretty good here and I found my myself plesantly caught off guard by a couple of stray whiffs that reached my nose throughout the day.

10th November, 2011. (Last Edited: 11th November, 2011.)

Probably my favorite fragrance as of yet. A green scent, but not too green....it's juuuuust right. There is some grass in the topnotes, but again, it's not too much. Just a very smooth scent. I'm unsure of any of the other notes, but apparently everyone else is too. The only downside is that Absinth is very expensive; something like 165$ for 30 ml.

8th October, 2011.

Grassy, prickly, earthy, rooty, sharp and crazy, this is Absinthe, at least in the main part of its development, before starting finally to soften and go towards a nicer, warmer and slightly smoother mossy and resinous-incensey stage. The juice itself, as usual for Nasomatto, is a mysterious blend of many notes, some of which are apparently more easily detectable as vetiver, artemisia, woods, burnt incense and some final smoothing element as moss and resins. Other notes could possibly have been inserted by Gualtieri  but we have no certainty about ( i mean mushrooms, ortica, angelica, obscure greens, dark tea etc). The essence of artemisia and  the extrait of secret greens produce that sort of wormwood-strong anice-licorice characterizing mould that makes this fragrance immediately recognizable. Only God knows whether wormwood is concretely present in composition or if what we inhale is just the olfactory effect of absinth created by a blend of secret herbs in their extrait. Some floral note emerges sometimes from the dark abysses. The fragranze is persistent even if not as well as Duro or Black Afgano. I detect some similarities with the wonderful  Fou d'Ansinthe by L'Artisan Parfumeur, which is a spicier, sweeter, more lethery and animalic stuff (absith-angelica-spices and animal-leathery notes) and with the more refined Parfum d'Habit (mainly in the first stage because of the similar  usage of musk, vetiver and woods) which is anyway a more woody, clean, refined and leathery kind of juice expecially in its dry down.

23rd September, 2011. (Last Edited: 19th November, 2011.)

This is absolutely fantastic, hands down the best fragrance ive ever smelt, dark , woody, green, spicy, herbal, earthyness, very very sexy, classy and warm with a hint of sweetness and strong incense, strongly masculine and very sexual in nature, heavy earth notes, after a spray im smelling my wrists all day and the feeling after smelling it is empowering and uplifting, very strong and good projection, truly perfection, a work of art

18th November, 2010.