Embruns

I have ordered this on Luckyscent to my man for Christmas..It is listed as a unisex fragrance on the masculine side. I really love fragrances with a twist, which men with balls wear with confidence..I am really looking forward to this one.

I ordered over a dozen samples and I tried them all on paper as soon as I got them. My first impression of this scent was quite mediocre. I thought that it smelled rather nice on paper but it definitely didn't make a big impression on me. Smelling this was like meeting someone who's very nice and pretty, but whose name doesn't linger on your mind and who you don't necessarily recognize when you meet them again, even though you found them somehow familiar. Like someone who's living in the shadow of others. The next day I was reading a book in my bed and I smelled something very warm and nostalgic, something completely mesmerizing. The scent made me feel all fuzzy and it reminded me of someone I used to be in love with, not any specific person, but the feeling when you ache for something that once was familiar and now almost forgotten. It had the warmness of a loved one's neck. The scent felt very much alive, it felt like it had a pulse in it. I stopped reading the book and closed my eyes. I tried to breathe in the smell - all of it. I tried to capture it, but every time I got a grasp of it, it soon got away from me completely. First I didn't realize where the scent was coming from, but then I remembered that I had put the used sample papers back in a box in which the order came in and the box was in my bedroom. I was baffled how the scent had remained so strong over 12 hours. I tried to find out which one of the samples this lovely scent was coming from, but all the sample papers and the whole box had this same beautiful scent on them - all the other scents were completely gone. A day after I identified this lovely scent I tried it on my skin and it smelled even better on skin. It is melancholic but very warm and comforting. I'm not a fan of vanilla scents, but in this the vanilla note is very beautiful and soft like silk. Silky vanilla underneath warm suede leather, iris, salty notes, incense, cardamom, sichuan pepper and woody notes. AND this also reminds me of the smell on my cat's forehead - although this isn't as dusty. I don't know why but it does! Maybe it's just the warm, familiar and comforting feeling this scent brings and not the notes - I'm not sure. This is very unisex fragrance. It brings warmth to cold and dark winter nights. Highly recommended!

Keiko was born on the volcanic hills of Atami city, famous for its seaside, hot springs and not far from the Fuji mountan. If you are familiar with Bois d'Encens Giorgio Armani you will see the resemblance: both fragrances are aimed to embody the smell of a volcanic soil. Embruns is less moody than Bois d'Encens though and more light-hearted. It is a non-sweet incense and driftwood, warm yet fresh like a breeze from the sea, good balance between light and dark notes, I really enjoy wearing Embruns, yet I would prefer Bois d'Encens if to choose from two.

I wrote a review two weeks ago, but now I have to write another one. I was in love with this scent for a little while, but then the vanilla note started to be too much for me. I generally dislike vanilla scents. Sometimes - very rarely - I discover a scent with a beautiful and well balanced vanilla note and I fall in love with it, but then after a while the vanilla begins to irritate me and it is all I can smell. Sadly, the same thing happened with this one.

I read that the whole pyramid is: Top Notes: Cardamom, Salty Notes, Sichuan Pepper, Yuzu Heart Notes: Iris, Suede Leather Base Notes: Ambergris, Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Frankincense, Tonka Bean, Vanilla I also read that this is actually a masculine/unisex fragrance.