Kiki extrait opens on a strongly aromatic, balmy and invigorating lavender note that slowly reveals fruity and woody facets, to end in a- slightly burnt- caramel and patchouli base that reminds...
This fragrance rocks..!! Out of the bottle you get a successful blend of fruit, citrus, veggies (yes, cucumber is a vegetable), and aqua... There are similarities to other summer fragrances, but...
when i first smelled it, it was a dead ringer for chergui but that quickly morphed into a minted light suede/leather, hay (wheat?), very dry lavender and a faint boozy wood. it goes through three...
While Pure Havane doesn't smell at all like straight tobacco or cigars a la Cuba Red, a tobacco product it does smell uncanilly like is shisha. If you like to smoke hookah, you owe it to yourself...
Maybe this was created as a practical joke. My wife thought it might be made for pre-teens who have not yet reached puberty but want to smell like they have. This was the worst smelling cologne...
I admire you for liking it right off the bat, Rosehavn. Avignon took me several wearings to really appreciate and I can't say even now that I find it all that appealing as a fragrance to wear. I do love to spray some on my arm and consider it, though. It is just about as straight-up, solemn and uncompromising a frankincense as there is. Glad the stuff exists.
Avignon and Ouarzazarte are my favourites from the Incense series. Kyoto is too nondescript. Zagorsk is too nostril-crunchingly resinous. Jaisalmer is essentially an olfactory stereotype.