Or de Calambac

#1213 in my "Tour de Fragrance" This scent contains so many notes I usually dislike that I was taken by surprise by how well all this works. Another grand slam for Alberto Morillas: ADP "Colonia Intensa", Amouage "Journey Man" and "Opus VII Reckless Leather", Antonio Puig "Aqua Quorum", the Bvlgari "Man in Black" series, and on and on. A largely self-taught master, he really has no equal. If I had to live in a world where he was the only perfumer, I'd be fine with it, though he seems to have retired. I'm betting on Quentin Bisch to take that throne if he stays in the game as long as Morillas has. I found this in a sprayette on sale on Amazon for $11, loved it, found the 100ml on sale for $85 on Amazon, which was $50 less than I could find it elsewhere, and that bottle is on its way. I almost never find good prices on Amazon, so It was just dumb luck that I was looking over the deals and ran across it. Strange that the Amazon seller listed it as a woman's fragrance as it's not a woman's scent on any planet I've visited. This is very masculine in every accord. Long lasting on the skin. Moderate projection. Very leather, nuts, anise, cinnamon and myrrh. Very heavy and oriental, but without the Damascus or Turkish rose notes that tend to make those scents a bit too much for me. Orientals were an acquired taste for me and I now prefer them. I'd say if you run across this for less than $100 I'd just go for it. If not, I'd get a sample first. Morillas got lazy and repeated most of the accords in this scent just a year later for Philipp Plein "No Limit$", which you can typically find for $45. It's too chocolatey sweet for me and the added vanilla takes away from the overall woodiness this Chopard scent features, though if you lean more gourmand than oriental you might prefer that scent to this. Good luck and good hunting!

Oh my lord. To me, this smells like Mexican hot chocolate with oud! 😍 I love it. I wear this all year round even in summer and it does not get cloying at all. Excellent fragrance

One of the best fragrances out there. Perfect for autumn winter nights.

So smooth and pleasing! Smells really expensive and natural.

The green nuances; notably the hazelnut and cypress (which I get right in the opening) feel a bit unwelcome in what is otherwise a pleasant warm amber with a lovely subtle leather accord from the labdanum and oud. The ‘green’ hazelnut note suits scents like Jo malone oak and hazelnut but in here it feels somewhat misplaced. Thankfully it tapers off after 30 mins. The pink pepper in the opening gives this a good amount of spark, paired with the juniper and vetiver offering an aromatic quality, contrasting the gourmand notes. I’m not sure if it needs to do both, and in my opinion feels like it’s trying to please too many tastes by going in two different directions when it would excel as a stand-alone amber/gourmand with a heavier dose of notes like cinnamon and cacao etc. hell maybe even more oud. The dry-down settles on myrh, labdanum, and oud which I like. It’s very wearable but isn’t groundbreaking and only just misses the mark for me. Bears resemblance to Monarch boadicea and Halfeti in the sparkling-warm-spicy department. Longevity is good and projection is average

Sophisticated and pleasing woody gourmand scent. The scent opens with slight pink pepper, star anise and cinnamon and moves to a heart of cacao, hazelnut, juniper berries and tonka. It settles on a woody bed of vetiver, labdanum, guaiac, myrrh and slight Oud. Sweet inoffensive and surprisingly soft in spite of several dense notes, which are used very sparingly. Easy to wear but also not particularly a stand out. Enjoy!

Om my god this perfume is so beautiful and elegant and it's real unisex perfume, I bought it these days and I am wearing it every day, confuse me a lot I don't know if it's floral or oudy or woody and maybe balsamic , very unique release and sophisticated and complex but it's simple and classy, I think if you want to have a good mood, a good dating, and important meeting go ahead and don't step back with this it's very elgant and pleasing perfume. Alberto morillas is genuis and smart perfumer. longavity:8 hours on clothes and more on skin. sillage: about I meter. versatility: unique 100% final rate:9/10

20 minutes of the first spray will not make you very happy. Afterwards, it is as if you smelled the branch of a broken tree in the forest, which distinguishes it from other wood smells. It is not a fragrance for everyone. Do not buy without trying.

In the vein of L’Artisan’s Mechant Loup and Fou d’Absinthe, but with a juniper note and definitely oud. It’s spicy, the way myrrh turns cocoa notes dense and powdery (psychedelic love; Valentina myrrh, CH myrrh absolute...). The Star Anise note furthers this spicy myrrh feel, but isn’t distinguishable - it’s well blended. The gourmand aspect feels thick and nutty from the raw hazelnut paste as in givenchy l’interdit rouge (none of its flowers are to be found here; and you won’t find roasted hues in the “raw hazelnut paste”). The “sour wood” aspect from byredo’s oud immortel is here too. “Sour” not as in “unpleasant”, but in the same way it feels in JHAG Another Oud feels oudy but bright. I can feel a pinch of ambroxan too (it’s everywhere nowadays - they don’t even bother mentioning it anymore in the pyramids I guess). Mixing JHAG Another Oud with Mechant Loup won’t recreate the scent, but in terms of texture, density, gourmand sour oud unisex feel - it explains it for me. I if you hate all these perfumes, you either may end up unimpressed by Or de Calambac, or end up liking them too.

I figured what it reminds me of, No Limit$, less sweet and with the quality oud that this line has. A cocoa leathery oud that opens nutty and oily, a bit weird. Not a monster projector but the oud is authentic and the fragrance is very long lasting. The drydown is more resinous, you can clearly smell the myrrh giving it a unsweetened amber vibe and something smoky like a fireplace. I don't like these types of fragrances, too oriental for my taste, but the quality is 100% there, I feel like it’s incomplete... it’s all about a semi gourmand ode to oud and myrrh but fails at having something that will grab your attention and make you buy it, unfortunately blindly I did.

Tons of myrrh, oud, cypress, labdanum. Sweet hazelnut and vanilla. Green notes of cypress and juniper. It took me a while to understand this scent. I gave it to my husband because I thought it was nicer on a man. Until I decided that the trail of scent is so beautiful I need to give it another chance on my skin. I had changed my initial review. This scent is gorgeous and ethereal and I need another bottle!

@tandem_4x4 It is a gourmand fragrance and the most wearable of them four. Very likable, well blended and opulent but nothing ground-breaking. The performance is moderate.

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