Fortuna

If you're trying to break down the notes so as to see if Fortuna is worth a blind buy or not - don't bother because I've wasted many an hour tilting at that particular windmill. Having sampled most from this house, I can assure you the notes won't equip you for what you're about to smell. Upon the opening, I'm greeted with a highly concentrated, ginormous dose of overtly cheesy oud, almost squalid (?) - so cheesy I could actually taste it - whose raunchiness is enhanced by a semi savoury, musky ambergris. Soon after, the animalic open is joined by a velvety soft yet crimson rose and LOTV before the musk and medicinal saffron slip in and wrap the whole thing up. I also feel the need to specify how unique the LOTV note/accord ultilized in many offerings from this house is. It still bears the same soapy clean, airy green qualities you usually see in this particular flower that tend to lean to the feminine side most of the time but in here it's simultaneously pollen-y, creamy, and fleshed out. The perfumer somehow managed to make it completely gender neutral, feels almost like they stripped it down to only its essentials and then used them to build their own version of LOTV. Fortuna is a contrast between light and dark, effervescent and grounded. It can be either utterly inaccessible and relentlessly profound or endearingly and charmingly provocative - you be the judge. Personally it was a love at first sniff. Reading from the notes, I was expecting a pretty airy floral with only an oudy backbone but it's more so the other way around. Fortuna is by no means just another tawdry rose-oud, and only blind buy when you've become habituated to fecal/cheesy ouds.

Okey lets do this 🤟🏼, first off I want to say this is a personal favorite from the line so far, Its unconventional, edgy, mysterious and unique, this fragrance is a one of a kind, a maverick to most as it plays your olfactory perception like a drum, at first spray you get a fleshy almost meat like rose scent with hints of geranium making it smell a bitt off to most people but to me this is how art is immortalised, this passes on the mid fairly quickly at a linear pace then it dries down into a dirty almost damp patchouli scent mixed with what seems to be a withered rose crushed under the damp earth. Is it for everyone..Nope, this fragrance is an art one that I would wear when the need to impress arises. 10/10

This seems to be a polarising fragrance. I’ve been circling around it for a few months and took the plunge today. I’m glad I did! A bit of barnyard in the mix seems to be the main issue for the naysayers; for me, however, a rich fruit-cakey oud and gently feral musk are right up my alley! The saffron and citrus up top deliver a lively opening; of the floral notes geranium trumps a rather wan rose and lily-of-the-valley illusion. Towards the end a really lovely, faintly chocolatey, patchouli and dry, earthy vetiver gather everything else together in a satisfyingly warm embrace. There are many far dirtier contenders out there for those of us who like rolling around in the mud occasionally but Fortuna holds back a little and is all the better for it. I think I’m going to be wearing it often.... I like it a lot.

I'm not sure why people trashed this one so much. I don't have a huge expenrience with the oud rose category, but I would describe it as a loud oud rose with spicy and soapy qualities. The price of this at discounters seems quite reasonable. Performance is quite impressive.

ما اعتقد ان النوتات اللي فوق صحيحة، أو أن العطر اللي شريته فيه عيب مصنعي أو مضروب .. الريحة بالضبط جنك رايح سوق الغنم وتتمشى بينهم .. شي منفر مزعج جدا