Incense City

AllSaints Incense City EDP opens with a moderate projection of sweet, incense, and woody notes. The opening is well-balanced, aromatic, projecting, and unique. The incense is a very prominent note, it comes across as smoky wood as opposed to church burning incense, it makes the fragrance slightly dark. The cypress and cedar add a pine-like, resinous, slightly smoky, slightly sweet, and balsamic, not as prominent as the incense but noticeable. In addition to the sweetness of the cypress. The fragrance has an unlisted sweet resinous accord that balances the incense, this note is evocative of amber, sweet, warm, and resinous. The fragrance does not have any significant opening to dry-down changes. Once AllSaints Incense City EDP has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, sweet, ambery, and incense fragrance with woody, piney accords. The fragrance feels bold, casual, classy, commanding, dark, elegant, exotic, expensive, formal, fragrant, high-quality, masculine, mature, modern, mysterious, nicely-blended, nocturnal, resinous, refined, rich, smoky, sweet, unique, warm, woody, and very pleasant. CATEGORY: Woody Floral Musk (2018). BATCH REVIEWED: 2020. WOW RATING: 10/10. A great combination of notes creates a well-balanced resinous incense fragrance. DISLIKE RATING: 3/10. The incense is a prominent note. UNIQUENESS: 10/10. The combination of notes and resulting scent are unique. MASS APPEAL: 7/10. A fragrance is more suited for those that appreciate the incense as a note. The sweetness will make it appealing to others. PROJECTION: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet around the wearer. SILLAGE: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 6 atomizations. LONGEVITY: 5/10. Good, about 5 hours, it projects well for 3 hours. SEASONS: Winter, fall, colder days, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, business, casual, holidays, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 6/10. A great and versatile fragrance for cold weather. GENDER: Masculine, the incense note gives it a masculine character. AGES: 30 and above. The incense, although balanced with resinous sweetness, is traditionally a note for mature wearers. RECOMMENDATION: AllSaints Incense City EDP can be purchased for about $80. Its uniqueness and well-balanced notes make it a great buy for those that enjoy incense. BLIND-BUY: Yes, but only if you are familiar with its main notes. SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. Amouage Interlude Man EDP is the darkest and greatest fragrance of this house; Amouage Memoir Men EDP is a more wearable dark fragrance with stronger green tones, and outstanding performance; Amouage Epic Man is a great incense, spicy, nutmeg, and leather fragrance; Chanel Les Exclusifs Sycomore EDP, this is a strong oud fragrance with moderate performance; John Varvatos Dark Rebel Rider this fragrance is dark with incense, tobacco, and leather notes, but low performance; John Varvatos Dark Rebel is a more wearable woody, leathery, tobacco, spices, and boozy fragrance; Louis Vuitton Ombre Nomade EDP is a fantastic dark, incense, masculine fragrance but with low performance; Bvlgari Man In Black Men EDP is one of the best designer’s leather and dark fragrances, but lacks longevity; Mercedes-Benz Club Black Men EDT is superb, sweet vanilla, benzoin, smoky incense, and woody fragrance; Issey Miyake Nuit D’Issey Men EDT is a highly wearable dark, incense, and green fragrance, very affordable; Mancera Red Tobacco EDP is a strong projection, mildly sweet, ambery, tobacco, oud, cinnamon, and saffron fragrance; Mancera Hindu Kush is an incense, dark woods, and strong green accords fragrance; Guerlain L’Homme Ideal Intense is a pleasant dark, sweet, spicy, leather, smoke, and almond fragrance; Nasomatto Black Afgano is a potent, green, and incense fragrance; Tiziana Terenzi Ecstasy is patchouli, incense, woody, and floral fragrance; Chanel Egoiste Men EDT is bold, black tobacco, and woods fragrance; John Varvatos Oud Men EDP is a low projection dark tobacco, incense, oud, myrrh, and spices fragrance; Montale Full Incense is good wearable incense, dark woods, and green fragrance; AllSaints Incense City EDP is a very good, sweet, ambery, and incense fragrance. SUMMARY: A moderate projection, sweet, ambery, and incense fragrance with woody, piney accords. The fragrance feels bold, casual, classy, commanding, dark, elegant, exotic, expensive, formal, fragrant, high-quality, masculine, mature, modern, mysterious, nicely-blended, nocturnal, resinous, refined, rich, smoky, sweet, unique, warm, woody, and very pleasant.

Incense-heavy, but I would not call it churchy; the fragrance starts off strong on the incense note, but on my skin it settles into something almost gourmand and vanilla-like, with notes of fresh laundry. Smells like stick incense burning in a nice appartment —well-constructed brutalism, tropical houseplants. Incense City was my daily fragrance for about four years and I got many compliments wearing this. Probably more of a typical cold-weather scent profile, but I think its heavyness works well in the heat.

What a great bargain find! Smells like church, but warmer. Like smoky incense burning, mixed with that old wood smell you get in church. It reminds me of Serge Lutens Chergui, but without the honey/tobacco notes and with a significantly smaller price tag. It's easy to wear, and smells "different" enough but without the potential to overwhelm/scare people. Moderate sillage and moderate longevity, definitely unisex. I love it for a crisp autumn day.

I quite liked this one, just not on myself. The incense which I love, is front and center from start to finish, making this feel quite linear on my skin. It was very masculine on me as well. Longevity is good, lasted about 6 hours with a decent sillage. Update: Gifted my bottle to my partner, and my god this is fantastic on him. It’s not linear at all on his skin, so I think it was simply a better match for him instead.

I tried everything from the house today including popular ones like Sunset Riot, Metal Rain and Concrete. This was my favorite. This smells like really smooth incense along with papyrus even though it isn't listed. Linear but very nice. Reminds me of Bond Governors Island with amped up incense at a fraction of the price. Drydown is like Gucci Pour Homme 1. Performance is average. Scent 7.5/10 Performance 5/10