Alkout

Cuoium, right away. Orto Parisi Cuoium--dry leather, hay, dried cow manure, a whiff of gasoline, sun-baked soil. Slightly more restrained than Gualteiri's version. This is my first experience of animalic ambergris, and I'm smitten. Now to just find a decant of Anonim Golden Ambergris...

رائحة (مسواك) خشبية عشبية مخلوطة بالعود بشكل غير مزعج .. بديع!

As usual with Electimuss, the listed notes won't exactly prepare you for the actual experience of smelling the fragrance, I was expecting a resinous musk-oud bomb done in a middle eastern style, after all this is a Kuwait market exclusive. Instead this smells like the base (and only the base) of the darkest green leather chypre imaginable. Bracingly herbal and mossy with raw animalic leather and black musk, smoky civet and medicinal oud. If that doesn't sound confrontational enough, the entire composition is soaked in what smells like a mixture of diesel and crude oil, ironically or perhaps not, the main export of Kuwait. The only source of sweetness and brightness, providing a somewhat pathetic attempt to balance the never ending barrage of dark dense animality, is a token soft powdery violet, its not significant but its input is appreciated and provides a point of contrast. Al Kout manages to shock, disturb, intrigue and excite every time, it has an addictive and enigmatic mystique about it that keeps me coming back for more. This will only be appreciated by the most experienced or possibly jaded noses, but to those people it will be extremely rewarding!

To me it smells nothing but Ambergris. Horrifying for me and anyone unfortunate enough to be around me when i sprayed it. I simply can't wrap my head around in what setting or place this would be used.

Smells like you're wearing a barrel of crude oil... and not in a good way