Castiamanti

Sticky, smoky and woody oh what a love for this fragrance! She's not for everyone but those who will like it like me , will LOVE it. Beautiful so many spices, Casti Amanti in Italian means " Shy lovers / Chaste Lovers" and let me tell you, there is nothing shy or chaste here, hence why i love the mindscrew so much. Perhaps it was a secret, passionate, inappropriate relationship the lovers had ? Chaste in the sense of secretive, but definitely intense! Sure, the ingredients may not be new, but here, they are used in a completely different way. Quite impressive use of creativity and free will, we need more perfumes like this. The first time i tried it: after the first spray without even having heard of Agatho, attracted by the stunning bottle, it made my sensors go crazy, my hair go up and my lightbulb go on! I almost brought it home straight there and then. I decided then to wait and let it develop on my skin more and more, quite much into something less pungent and it made me regret not getting it. I was on a trip, in a different country, so i could not go back, i was leaving the same day, but it left me an unquenched thirst for more! She will be mine one day ( soon ). I am in love with Agatho's work now, each fragrance it's a true journey and discovery, that's just how it should be , no mass pleasing, no people pleasing, perfumes are intuitions, dreams, and stories captured in an instant.

This stuff is pretty darn good, Agatho has a very smooth smell. This starts off pretty confusing and weird, lasting for about 20min or so. It's weird because it's chaotic and sour at the start, something weirdly odd and somewhat unsettling. Yet I keep smelling it, trying to figure out if I hate it or tolerate it. Once the weird opening is over, that beautiful rose starts to peak out. The rose is the reason I bought this, they used it so well in Adone. I just loved the sample I got of Adone but it's too feminine for me to wear out. This eventually has such a beautiful rose smell with smokey incense in the nicest combination possible. Often times I can smell the smoke, then the rose shows up in the middle before the smoke takes over again. It has other things going on, you get the musk and the vanilla seems to be holding it all together. After the chaos in the opening, it becomes so well balanced, and the rose is so sweet. Yet you have a smoke, musk, and ode to bringing it all together. It's really beautiful to smell this, and makes you think more and try to figure out what is happening. I definitely recommend this, it's really nice and so appealing to smell. I can only describe it as sitting in a field of flowers with the woods behind you. Someone burning incense in the distance, and you are watching Rome burn.

wow.... the saffron in here makes me realize how much I adore this scent... it's mostly saffron with earthy notes. Fresh and clean just like that. The bottle is nice.

How is this rated so slow??? It's so damn great, it is very close to Boadicea the Victorious Ardent but with a nice edge that Ardent doesn't have

It's really nice. It's a rose/oud but not like any of the others in my collection. No rough edges and smells high class.