The Modernist

First impulse buy for ages, bought on deep discount. The opening is weird - like WD40 blended with lighter fuel. Then even more bizarrely, it dries pleasantly to a sort of light, woody orange. The opening ruins it for me, I sneeze each time I spray. This is a dud I'm afraid, lesson learned. 1/5

Well I thought I wasn’t too keen on frankincense until I tried this. The supporting notes all seem to pick out and enhance elements of the olibanum core. From the start the bergamot picks up the citric aromatic aspect - I hadn’t realised the two were related until I experienced this. The fruit and white flowers a watery gourmand aspect lend space and wings. The woods are a real triumph of aromatic terpenes of the most delicious wood you’ve ever smelt. Over time the supporting actors go home to leave a cosy spicy unisex frankincense. Not challenging, not too shouty, not eternal but very wearable.

i was lucky found it at TKmaxx discounted at 21£ only well, before of i test it i heard that this perfume is so similar to shalimar but no and thousands of no, this is something different it’s immediately reminded me of maai and o/e of bouge, where you can see the glory of olibanum and bergamot, starts difficult but amazing drydown, it’s really remind me of gardoni touch especially in o/e but more humble and can be worn, not roaring, i love the freshness of orange.