Spirit Of Japan

If Leonard Cohen's songs had a scent, it would be this.... elegant, deep, mysterious, beautiful poetry, sacred...an elegy, a plea, a prayer. Opens with a sweet, rich and heavy voice, reminiscent of an Italian herbal amaro liqueur. Within an hour, moves into cool, austere, sacred wood of a zen temple, incense wips in the air. The initial sweetness settles down into a meditation. Golden light falling onto on an altar. Unfolds for hours... just a dab of this keeps me in good company all day. Beautiful. I've tried 6 from this house and they are all wonderful, but this is the one I will invest in, suits my tastes perfectly. For reference, I adore CdG Avignon, Kilian Pure Oud, Tom Ford Oud Wood Intense, Lush Rentless.

I got this as part of the micro sample set. Great customer service. I can smell the anise note blended with the other floral, woody and warm spicy notes. Stylish, salubrious, and unique, I would wear this in cold or warm weather.

This reminds me of a cinnamon based Japanese incense. Highest quality materials and complexity, this is stunning. I have a 0.3ml sample that will probably last the rest of my life with how potent a single dab of this is. 5/5

Warm spicy opening, touch of sugary sweetness in the background. Within minutes you pick up, deep and ambery woods being burnt, with a touch of smokey incense. Starts becoming darker, reminds me of interlude man by Amouage due to the incense smokey and spices, but much more tame and not as loud, but even more complex, I know it's hard to believe but this has more complexities than one of the most complex spray fragrances I have worn. As it dries down it becomes a smooth, very warm spicy scent with a backbone of incense. The incense of smokey part of the scent isn't like a campfire, its beautiful smooth warm fragrant incense. Longevity is around 8 hours, with moderate projection for the first 6 hours after which its a skin scent. Overall rating of 4/5 You can check out my video review on my YouTube channel: Handsome Smells

What a stunning attar. It's smells like an ancient zen temple 🛕 where agarwood chips are burnt often for prayer or ceremony. The scent is so dense, incensy, spicy, smooth, sweet, warm, and smokey. It's a very lovely, comforting, and meditative type of scent. It also projects like crazy and very long-lasting. ✨️💯 A bit ruthless...