I make no secret of my fondness for smoky-leather fragrances, which have become plentiful in recent years. I can be a bit more selective than before and now get a thrill only from new discoveries in the genre. Shaman hits the spot perfectly: a luminous leather with a quiet, distant floral note and a faintly vanillic Kraft-paper character. It is utterly beautiful. I would love to know who composed this marvel.

Luca Turin

Ce parfum très chic, douce délicieusement poudreuse. Le parfum qui a une très bonne tenue à sillage

@DrDizzy

My 11-year-old daughter was explaining to me some of the tropes of Japanese anime, and one was “enemies-to-lovers.” As it happened, I was reeling from smelling Narcotic Bohemicat the time, and the term struck me as a perfect description of the fragrance. After a brief, deceptively anodyne sweet note up front, within seconds NB develops an iris accord unlike most others, metallic and sinister to an extent I do not remember smelling before, even in the originalIris Silver Mist (Serge Lutens, 1994). In ISM, perfumer Maurice Roucel famously piled on every iris material in his database, including an iris nitrile, which carried the signature metallic stay-away character of the -C≡N (nitrile) group. I am not sure whether this particular odorant was used here, or whether the related alkyne -C≡C- of violet leaf compounds does the job1. Either way, the iris accord up top is suitably brutal, alarming, and definitelyenemy.As the thing goes along, it softens on acquaintance and ends up as a soft, comforting, leather-tonka drydown, clearlylover.The last time I recommended a nitrile to theaficiónwas withSécrétions Magnifiques(Etat Libre d’Orange, 2006) and I lived to regret it. Be warned: an alien iris is only for the brave.

Luca Turin

A soft, feminine bouquet of flowers, very pretty and elegant. Initially perhaps the mimosa is more becomes more abstract, like a
garden of flowers indeed. It hits the right balance for me, it is non-offensive, and not overwhelming. It is noticeable,
nonetheless. Safe for blind-buy, and daytime
use for any profession.
More on the feminine side.

@adrienn99

I have never been convinced by the ozonic descriptor for aromachemicals. Ozone, a highly reactive gas typically produced in sparks and best enjoyed in electrostatics demonstrations in science museums, has an intense distinctive smell, not a million miles from that of ether, utterly unrelated to the character of so-called ozonic materials like calone and floralozone. These smell more like sucked silver spoon to me.Aquatic Ozonic is a silvery-herbaceous leather accord, a sort of bright fougère in a relatively unexplored style. Pleasant and quietly distinctive.

Luca Turin