Sex & Cognac

Hello everyone, this is probably too much of an exaggeration for a relatively young Niche house from Korea, but it seems quite popular and it somewhat clones the scents of scents from other brands. other spices. In particular, this scent is quite similar to Tamburins' Unknown Oud, a product also from Korea with a quite high price. And finally, you should not waste your money on this company because there will be many better choices in the same price segment on the market that also have better tracking performance.

This straight up smells like an ultra sexy Palo santo smudge. The oud is there but light (to my nose at least). It’s clean and layers well with sweet sugary scents (think Eilish or Kayali Silk Santal). This and Sugar Addict ate my favorites from the house.

6/10 Based on the brand's name, fragrances name and bottle design, it looks like one more fast fashion brand playing on the "be edgy, fuck society" vibe, all the while asking you to be a good consumerist and pay $50 for a white t-shirt. Now to the juice. Opening is strong in oud and a toned-down version of cognac, booze minus the complexity and depth. Saffron's spiciness then timidly emerges in the background, while leather and papyrus provide a moderate animalic bitterness. The evolution is pretty linear given how major the oud notes remains, and again the juice never gets very complex or deep. Overall Sex & Cognac stays on the bittersweet opening note, which I still find enjoyable. So I think this works if you consider it's gonna sit on the shelf of a late teen/early twenty kid making baby steps into fragrances. It's straightforward, delivers a few pleasant notes, and paves the way for more subtle fragrances once the kid graduates.

I'm embarrassed to say that this fragrance makes me go full Jeremy Fragrance "i wanna have actually sex right now and i do like this quite a lot." Somehow floral but like daaark and musky. It reminds me a lot of Whisky, 1969 by Thin Wild Mercury but with more balance to it. I had the same initial reaction to smelling W1969, but after actually wearing it for 5 minutes found myself quite overstimulated by it, and by the end of the night swore to never wear it again because of how well it stuck around. By comparison, this does also have staying power and I often smell it on my clothes the next day but don't mind it nearly as much because it doesn't feel as overwhelming. This is one of the few BTSO fragrances that actually does stand out to me, for better or for worse. Definitely not an everyday scent for me but a fun one for sure.

Leathery, syrupy oud. Good for someone who wants to test the waters when it comes to animalic oud scents. It's not too dirty or offensive, but it's certainly not an easy wear either. The cognac isn't prominent unfortunately, but there's a nice syrupy sweetness that when paired with the oud starts to smell like molasses cookies. The performance is what you'd expect from a real oud fragrance, it lasts all day, and people will smell you from a few feet away. I dabbed a little from a sample bottle on my hand while at work, and everyone who came into my office could smell it.