Review Alyssa Ashley - Oud - Pour Lui

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The rumor factory in the online fragrance community has it that The Perris Grouping launches variants of the aforementioned formulas for the more upscale Perris Monte Carlo house, and the Alyssa Ashley label it acquired when the last vestiges of the original Houbigant (nether the Parfums Parquet name) crumbled into assistants, leaving it'south holdings for the picking over at sale. Well, I can sorta meet that rumor carrying some weight because Alyssa Ashley Oud pour Lui (2012) was released the same twelvemonth as Perris Monte Carlo Oud Imperial (2012), features the same perfume (Luca Maffei), and much of the same notation pyramid. However, I held out some skepticism until I could actually sample the damned stuff, and what exercise ya know, this stuff does smell a lot like a really cheap take on Oud Imperial. Possibly it is the other mode around (although I doubt it), and this came out first as a depression-cost and depression-chance proof-of-concept that was promoted to higher-form materials, but being as both scents launched simultaneously, that seems unlikely. In whatever case, this does smell like a cheaper, thinner, worse-wearing iteration of Oud Imperial, so much that if yous smelled this showtime, yous might not have interest to try the latter. Fortunately, doing the reverse means you end up just valuing Oud Imperial that much more rather than losing any taste for information technology.

The irony hither is Alyssa Ashley lists more than notes in its breakdown pyramid than Perris Monte Carlo does, yet smells more simplistic in many ways. The same semi-petrol semi-barnyard opening blast of medicinal oud comes forth, missing the indoles or caraway of the Perris version, and instead merely calculation more aldehydes and lemon. The incense annotation hither is specially more pronounced than in the Monte Carlo oud, coming beyond churchy so scratchy like the norlimbanol information technology likely is, with the petrol patchouli in particular starting to overtake the oud and become irritating to boot. The lovely amber annotation that enters the late stages of Oud Imperial is absent, but vetiveryl acetate is added aslope increased benzoin and Iso Due east Super, giving this some unintentional Terre d'Hermès (2006) vibes, but if y'all had taken Terre d'Hermès and dumped in woody aromachemicals. The last dry down is thankfully not all that strong, and some of the transparency Terre d'Hermès is known for comes through hither, meaning that at very to the lowest degree, Oud cascade Lui becomes a tolerable clothing if you don't mind the scratch. Article of clothing time is going to be about eight hours, with booming projection for about an hour then whimpering into an abrasive bubble for the other 8, pangs of the shrill jet fuel and sandpaper notes coming up from peel. Best use if you similar this is fall and winter coincidental outdoors wearing.

All in all, Bogart One Homo Prove Oud Edition (2014) is a better and more-potent take on a upkeep masculine oud, smelling closer to Perris Monte Carlo Oud Majestic than this does, fifty-fifty though information technology comes from the same perfumer and overall company. Luca Maffei really must have been asked to take his formulas for Perris and gut them for release every bit downmarket drugstore options under the Alyssa Ashley make, which is a proper noun plate that the prestige-oriented Perris Group must non actually know what to do with. You can sort of tell this past the fact that the US still only gets the original musk line (and it'southward flankers) that have been stinking up hippie bathrooms since the sixty'due south, while poor European high street perfume shops or drugstores get saddled with all this newfangled downmarket desaturation of Perris Monte Carlo scents in Alyssa Ashley grade. People in the U.s.a. tin order this stuff online (although prices fluctuate wildly), but information technology'due south just not meant for markets exterior of Europe. I mean, who would desire a drugstore oud here in the U.s. anyway when the average Joe hither doesn't even know what oud is? Alyssa Ashley Oud cascade Lui does indeed scent like an abysmal skeleton of Perris Monte Carlo Oud Imperial, and so for once in a lifetime, all the online fragrance community rumors were dead on center. Thumbs down.

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Misty tornado
I have to admit of having been really impressed by the aroma of this fragrance immediately after the first sniff....."what a gorgeous combination of fruity floral tart notes and night mystic elements" i thought in a while. Incense, spices, balsams, amber and fruits....a sort of new (conceptually, just information technology) Black Cashmere that i supposed to be managing with. One hr later unfortunately i noticed on my peel en excess of constructed "presences" in the alchemy (probably a besides much pretentious alchemy) in a manner that yous feel yourself asphyxiated by an overbearing and overly synthetic/resinous combination of olibanum, spices, benzoin and oud. Too much resinous, almost sticky. Effectively dark but cloying for certain. The best function is represented by the elevation notes since you observe soon a blast of citrus, tart flowers and nonetheless aqueous vetiver balancing the (soon) oppressive night tornado emerging from the background. In a while that touch of wet radiancy is knocked down by a misty grit of culinary (plastic) spices, industrial olibanum, dark woods and resinous balsams draging yous downwardly under the quicksands level. A gorgeous olfactory idea Oud Pour Lui is unfortunately badly supported by the implemented olfactory means and past a shallow quality of the the elements.
Pros: Proficient olfactory thought
Cons: Cloying and suffocating"

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