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A rather lovely woody scent designed to scent a traveling hip hop art exhibit by Yasiin Bey. The perfume opens with aromatic notes of grapefruit and tobacco. The heart is patchouli, opoponax, and frankincense. The perfume settles on a powdery base of sandalwood, cedar, slight oud, guaiac wood, muhuhu wood, and vetiver. The masculine leaning scent has moderate to strong sillage and good longevity. Overall, a lovely tribute to African influenced art and music, and a complex yet easy to wear pleasant sensory experience. Enjoy!

Very strong pines and frankincense combo. It's citric, smokey, green, woody and incense-y. Thankfully, none of that weird musk they use in their floral/fruity offerings, however this one feels a bit unoriginal and candle-like. It's nice, but I am not loving it either.

The notes per an article that was written about the art exhibit that this was made for (a collaboration with Yasmin Bey aka Mos Def): oud, sandalwood, olibanum, hinoki, grapefruit, opopanax, patchouli, ambrette seed, vetiver, tobacco, copaiba, gaiacwood, Himalayan cedar wood, and Kenyan muhuhu. I will say the macaque yuzu is a starting off point for this fragrance as a quick reference but this is much much deeper. This smells of a deep Hinoki wood with vetiver. Very little citrus to me. Take out the musk from macaque and replace it with vetiver and oud.