Aman

This is lovely. Very floral initially then the sandalwood and vanilla kicks in. The rhubarb is done very well, just a hint of tartness. The vanilla is very nice, it adds a wonderful softening to it.

#1439 in my "Tour de Fragrance" I have a few scents that combine rhubarb and incense that to my complete surprise I enjoy enough to wear. Afnan "Portrait Abstract", Adamo Parfum "Numero Tres", Agatho Parfum "Giardinodiercole", Bois 1920 "Frammenti", Rue Broca "L'Alliance Stellar", Moresque "Midnight London", all great scents I own and recommend." So despite the low rating of this scent I ordered this decant anyway. Unfortunately it seems I have a sensitivity to Gardenia that I was not consciously aware of before now. This started a coughing fit, luckily of short duration. It irritates my lungs for some reason. I realized as I searched on it that I don't have a single gardenia scent in my extensive collection. And thinking back, I have never grown Gardenias in any of my flower gardens. In fact I have only bought one scent before this one that contains gardenia, Tom Ford "Black Orchid", as a birthday present for a young woman that was moving away after graduation, because it was a scent she liked but could not afford. It seems as I look further that I have an issue with white florals generally. While I have sampled several dozen scents with white florals, Clean "Rain", Xerjoff "Apolonia" and"Muse", Mugler "Alien for Women", Montale "Soleil di Capri" and "Orchid Powder", Nobile 1942 "Levante", Mancera "Lemon Lime", Calvin Klein "Obsession Night Woman", La Yuqawan "Jasmine Wisp", etc. etc. I've thought they were all grandma scents for women fifty and older. Definitely not for men. Definitely not for me. Definitely not for any women there's a remote possibility of me getting intimately close to