I Am Darkness

This one is gorgeous. A beautiful fresh fragrance with a masculine bitter green citrus chypre edge. Easily to my personal tastes as I like things like vintage Rochas Moustache EDTC in the "Column" bottle. I Am Darkness is full bodied with many complex tropical nuances from juicy and refreshing grapefruit, bergamot and tropical flowers and a dark weightiness from high quality Cambodian oud, woody, balsam fir, with a thick, bitter and piney frankincense. If you've already tried it, one can smell the Nutt's own newest release Kham ข่าม or "Unbeatable" in Northern Thai Dialect lurking in the foundation of I Am Darkness providing a very pungent, bitter and wild element to the fragrance that harmonizes with the tropical and damp, sour, decayed fruit sensation given by the Cambodian oud. A brilliant duality with a fresh juicy tropical heart that is maintained gracefully throughout the wearing and is properly decorated with a masculine and bitter edginess. It is sentimental to me because its earthen qualities remind me of my vacation in Phuket Thailand a long time ago. The natural smells of walking through the humid rain forests. Then within I Am Darkness there are also metropolitan smells of the Thai stores selling leather goods, silk, varnished wood carvings made of teak wood and the dampened asphalt roads baking in the temperate tropical heat. A quality fresh oud that can easily compete with established western brands that charge 4 times this and middle eastern houses that produces quality mukhallats like Rasasi in which it slightly reminds me of "Asrar Indonesia" with a more potent skank of high-quality oud and dimension. No real relation and much different than it after smelling them side by side. Asrar Indonesia uses Indonesian oud, grapefruit and ginger. I believe here the grapefruit, blackpepper and closely related Cambodian oud profile produces a fleetingly similar realistic juicy tropical nuance with a bitter edge. It wears quite refreshing, atmospheric, balanced with intensely bright and effervescent elements and intensely dark elements. The Cambodian oud, slightly warm frankincense with citrus, pine and vanilla nuances and oakmoss in I Am Darkness produce a textbook chypre backbone that smells rich and is allowed to growl! The first one I wore out and to work when my sample set arrived and at first it was perplexing and challenging because of how bitter it was. But now I enjoy it thoroughly and it is due to be had for this upcoming spring season. It is exciting to experience how this fragrance grows and displays such beautiful and complex tropical nuances in the air. One wearing is completely different from another. There are true naturals at work here. A masterfully blended, refreshing, masculine Oud with an Ancient Southeast Asian feel. Masculine and a decent performer. How fitting, I will be dining at a Thai Restaurant tonight! I will wear it again and update this review. Test first... 🍋🍌🌲 10/10

In my mind, I Am Darkness was made using some sort of ancient mysticism– a ritual that created a potion that transports the wearer into that dark and quiet spiritual plane where profound truths whisper when all else is silence. It is one of a few fragrances that speak to me on a much deeper level. I can’t say anyone else will connect with it the same way, but this is how I experience the stunning incense-centric masterpiece that is I Am Darkness.

Opening very fruity and bright. I feel pearl, jasmine, sweet flowers. Well blended. Easy to wear. With the drydown gets woody with a little incense. Complex one. Perfect unisex for grownup people.

Well what a mysterious fragrance At initial spray it’s very shrap might be too much for some especially people that gravitate towards a more calm approach It’s the incense mixed mostly with citrus The strongest notes I got are the incense maybe a little oud It’s a heavy one indeed The florals didn’t annoy me much since they are not very prominent Longevity was very good projection could’ve been better What I got from testing it is that it’s something you plan to wear it’s not easy to just pick it out of the blue and wear it

A bright almost cheery incense based floral chypre (the name is a real head scratcher) that recalls the smell of temple incense sticks. The perfume opens with the central incense surrounded by citrus, fir, pepper and dried fruit notes. The brief heart is mostly floral but also has slight oud. The perfume settles on a powdery rather flat base of labdanum, oakmoss and amyris. The unisex scent has moderate to strong projection and good longevity. All in all interesting and worth sampling for incense aficionados. Enjoy!