Trance

Great fume, one of the best tested recently, very intriguing and animalic, if you like the genre, you will love this but you also have to love rose. This is most similar to vintage Bal a Versailles and L'Air de Rien in vibe but of course there are differences. If you want a heavy hitting seductive fume but something new, try this. There is definitely oud here, it is listed and is most present in the opening notes but lingers on counterbalancing the very different notes. This is a complex fume with a definite presence for a strong, sexy woman from Film Noir or early film history, twenties, thirties, even fifties. In my opinion this is more feminine for sure due to the heavy rose and a slight sweetness. Fortunately for me this is very far from a gourmand, while there is sweetness, it leaves after the first ten minutes or so because it is true that it does open up quite sweet. Whatever remains of that is slight and necessary to counteract the strong rose, labdanum, oud combo, which notes most definitely dominate here in this order. I want this badly, I tried it last week loved it, got a sample which I used today and might go out and grab a bottle today. Very unique among what is made and sold today, while nothing is really unprecedented in perfumery, it is a new take and great interpretation on a more feminine animalic, dark and seductive fume.

I find this scent truly superb! The opening is very intense, and rather similar to other scents in the line (Namely Rausch) but you really have to stick it out for about an hour until it really comes into its own. As mentioned in previous reviews, the darkness and is really something that is difficult to describe as its not characteristic of anything else I've smelled. Boy oh boy is this stuff strong, the staying power is also top notch - interestingly enough though the Rose does not get overpowered by the Oud and the pairing of the two in this instance is really great! FYI I am not at all the type to like an oud based scent usually. Perhaps years of living in the Gulf have thrown me off it for good. All in all I think this stuff is killer and it should at least be tested. I don't believe its for everyone though so do be warned - to my nose it seems very youthful and the same goes for some of the others in the line (Rausch - 1A33).

We were fantasizing about a more modern and lively rose about 20/20, now it's done! It is indeed a perfume that I think more complex than this other rose mentioned above, more animal and sensual too, deeper, with a very peculiar background smell, almost of burnt tire or plastic (but vegetal) slightly spicy, which makes it a rose that is relatively out of the ordinary. It evolves then on something very veiled, light grey, tissue paper of thin layers, and it is really something on which one puts the nose with pleasure throughout the evolution (on purpose, I almost want to say "of the stripping"). Not disappointed, very interesting. And as for all the other perfumes of the house, the hold is very very good on my skin (it really follows me from the morning to the evening).

Aaaahhhh...I stumbled upon something that will improve my blind sampling batting average. Simply put, Trance is like olfactory hypnosis. It's a few things in life that I can't live without; Trance and the NFL Red Zone Channel are a few of them. Once I purchase this, it will replace my Incense Rose for the title of Signature Scent. This is an incredibly delightful and effervescent rose. The labdanum on the other hand has a darker tone disabling any feminine dominance. Not really a fragrance intended for that muscle bound man whom can bench press Delaware but more suited for the kind of gentleman who wears a scarf. A very versatile fragrance that can pitch, hit, play 1st, 2nd and 3rd base. For my taste, this is a pure homerun.

Oooh lala, aren't you a sexy little noir thing? That's it. I can stop looking for perfumes now. I know I like rose, I know I like oud and I know I like a perfume like a foghorn. This tix all the boxes and it tickles mine so this one will be my next purchase. From the bottle, on to my skin and now 3 hours later it has my nose glued to my hand. It sustained icy wind and freezing temperatures, this is one hardcore fume. She lifts, she definitely squats and she listens to Armin van Buuren. Yes!!! Tis me indeed. This not particularly baby is a fantastic, one of a kind, enchanting sorceress of the notes. Yes I'm in a trance... yum, yum all high on the fumes. Happy, lucky, hot scent you. Grrrrrrr, Come to mama!