Nasomatto Duro (2007)
by Nasomatto

The longevity is fantastic. You can spray some in the morning, work out, wash your wrists, and you'll still have the scent. I also discovered a great mix between Duro and Creed Green Irish Tweed. The smell was intense and immediate! I had compliments all day, I would suggest you try it and see what results you get. This is a great scent for the masculine man.

6th December, 2011.

Gotta disagree with Mr. Turin on this one. Perhaps I'm not as offended by synthetics, but I really dig the dark wood here - the unending resins that are generally at the basenotes of most complex masculine woods but, here, hit hard from the very top.

Yes it is too strong, and perhaps too expensive (though the mere single spray, over which I will not dare trespass, will in the future compensate for what I just paid for it). If you like the base of Memoir Man, the attack of Epic Man, or perhaps Montale's new Dark Aoud (and there is quite a bit of that particular pungent wood to be had here), this is worth trying.

I have a good feeling I might attempt some blends with this, as it is very linear and might benefit from a few other notes, perhaps some sweetness. Maybe this could add the missing Oud to L'Artisan's Al Oudh. I applied it three hours ago to my arm and can still see the oil on my skin - looks and feels more like attar than eau de parfum (and certainly packs the punch of an oil).

Synthetic? Novice? Sloppily Blended? Perhaps. But the scent succeeds in making me "duro."

19th July, 2011.

It's really all been said. What is left after the nasomatto hype has been superceded by the next 150 niche brands popping up out of nowhere, with a line of a dozen slick flacons containing entirely forgettable scents, is, too summarize, an extremely loud concoction of stereotypically masculine notes of an annoyingly synthetic nature. The mere shock of such undiluted aromachemicals exudes a certain fascination very briefly, like those Parkerized bombshell redwines built to score at mass wine tastings, but impossible to drink with food (or with pleasure). The shock thus soon settles into never-ending boredom as the shrill woody amber sits and sits and sits on your skin, like an olfactory version of radioactive waste with a 25,000 year half-life.

21st June, 2011.

I think Duro is actually much better than Black Afgano with its blast of woods, leather and spices. It's a very intense, loud and very masculine scent that you will surely dig if you love Montale's Aoud Musk. These two are very similar even if Duro is much more louder and synthetic. The scent is pretty linear but very well crafted and has ain incredible lasting power and sillage but I find this kind of fragrance very fascinating at first but You can get easily bored.

6th March, 2011. (Last Edited: 4th April, 2011.)

So, this is a powerful, resinous, damn near flammable smelling oudh. This note drowns out just about everything else except the fruity (yes, fruity) plum, raisin, fig, or something. I feel like I'm the first one here saying this, but this fragrance has a fruit note in it, and it's the only other note that isn't obliterated by the oud.

Still though, the owd isn't that nuclear, medicinal, bad aoudh from Montale's Black Aoud. It's actually the better ahuwd that more resembles YSL's M7, Amouge's Epic, and L'Artisan's Al Aoudhe. Despite it containing the better type ouwd smell, it's too basic in construction for me to actually reach for it if it were side by side with Epic and/or M7. M7 is more masculine and Epic is just more, uh...

Epic.

5th February, 2011.

Duro is a leathery woody juice, spicy and smoky which rides the stereotype of an unapologetic masculinity. Duro conteins no flowers or fruits in its composition and is conceived as a scent that manages to enhance all the manifestations of male strength. High secular trees, campfires and resins come to mind. Duro is an aoud based scent, a bit balsamic and earthy. The longevity is notable though it doesn't reach the Black Afgano peaks. It’s a potent stuff with an earthy, crisp temperament. I guess there are woods, a touch of vetiver, cuoio, aoud, incense or galbanum and spices (may be black pepper) in the composition. I'll recommend it to my friend Peppe, the macho men for excellence, clothed of leather, rough with the girls, tanned on February but often and often ready to cry in loneliness against the walls, ah ah.

12nd January, 2011. (Last Edited: 3rd June, 2011.)