Reviews of Nasomatto Duro (2007)
by Nasomatto

This was love at first sight for me. All notes from other reviewers ring true. But I find it rather extraordinary and mysterious and well, wonderful. Definitely a winter fragrance and projects well and lasts forever. To my mind, this is most like GP's Querelle, but better.

I get oud and leather to begin with and woods on the drydown.
Is this the strongest & loudest modern fragrance in my wardrobe? Perhaps, but it's also one that's agreeable to my tastes, I find it be well blended. This is to my mind a modernized version of the 70s and 80s powerfrags, so it would be very easy to overdo it. Applied in a conservative manner (2 sprays max) I can see this getting a lot of play during the cooler months.
Longevity is outstanding and it projects like you wouldn't believe!

this is not a very original scent, it sort of combines several 'masculine' stereotypes taken from older woods and leather scents----and hurls them into an attractive, gimmick ridden package which oozes cool. it's got a cool name, in a cool bottle, with an interesting image--------and the scent is pretty decent. an upper scale middle-of-the-road leather and tar scent with some nice woods goin on. not really saviour material, but not boring either. also not worth $150 for 30ml. cut the price in half and i'd buy a bottle.

A bitter leather opening fades quickly away to a deep, sweet (yes, it's sweet to me) woody scent with oud, sandalwood, and some nice patchouli and musk. Duro is designed for men, and the Italian word is slang for hard-on; yet, I find it more wearable for women than the dry, bitter genre of other masculine leather fragrances. Duro is big, wet, and warm, like… oh, heh, heh. Sorry about that analogy.

I've been wearing this masterpiece for about 2 mounths till now only in the evening outs and I must say it's the most incredible masculine fragrance I've ever experienced. Created by an italian genius called Alessandro Gualtieri, he officially said that the scent aims to enhance all the manifestations of male strength and so it's naturally intended for the italian playboy type.

It's in the same vein of Kouros even though not similar scent, only even more direct and rugged, if you know what I mean. Maybe I've found my new holy grail. I agree with other reviewers it's a sillage monster.

For a strict analisys I must say that Duro belongs to the very odour of a male skin, enhanced male skin. I don't detect properly leather, but maybe musk or, much more possibly human pheromones. A chemist friend of mine, perfume fan, once told me that Nasomatto Duro is made of masculine hormones.

Anyway, don't overapply. Two spritzs on the neck is all you need for an evening battle.

This stuff is like M7 except SO much MORE refined. Heavy on the leather, but not aged, worn in leather. More like brand new leather jacket leather. Expensive leather at that. Good stuff, don't wear it in the summer tho, it doesn't quite mix well with sweat...

Isn't it just amazing how an individual's reaction to a particular fragrance can differ so radically to that of the next guy! I am a great fan of this site, but I do not often feel moved to write a review. I read the last two reviews of Duro and felt I had to add my own. This perfume is the most powerful intense, masculine fragrance for years! To use the term of the "cognoscenti", the sillage is in the realms of science fiction. If I pick a shirt out of the washbasket a week later, I can still get that wonderful refined, deep, dark and expensive aura. As for sweetness- Trebor- are you sure you werent eating a toffee apple when testing this one? This is dry, dry, dry- on me anyway. All joking apart, this is one to try for any guy who is a serious scent fan. And Trebor, as I said at the start, I'm amazed at your experience with this one, but hey, funny world if we all liked the same. To any readers, try this, it's streets ahead of 95% of what you can get out there. Not an every-day fragrance, but top-drawer evening wear.

Duro is an unabashedly, powerfully, masculine scent. There is no sweetness to this at all; it is dry like a fine extra brut champagne. The leather in Duro is nicely complimented by wood and herbs (something about this vaguely reminds me of the herbs in SL Ambre Sultan) and creates a complex scent that one immediately identifies as leather but a leather unlike any other.

This extrait has excellent longevity (8-9 hr) and a good sillage. I think this would be easy to overapply, and it would probably appeal to those who are prone to overapply.