No 10 Roam

#1305 in my "Tour de Fragrance" Got this as a decant. This is a really nice, masculine leaning, high-quality, mildly oriental fragrance, that if used conservatively can work for business or pleasure, though I personally don't wear orientals in a business setting as they can be distracting. Looking at the range of responses on longevity and sillage. I had to assume something about this scent is very dependent on personal chemistry. I became suspicious that coconut is the culprit as I've noted how coconut in food and drink is very polarizing. So I pulled up thirty scents with a coconut note and found the same broad and contradictory responses on longevity and sillage. So I suspect if you don't react strongly to coconut in your food and drink, you may not find this long-lasting and strongly projecting. But if your taste buds and olfactory react strongly to coconut, as mine do, you'll be more impressed with this fragrance. For me an EDP is acceptable if it makes it to lunch, which is my minimally acceptable EDP performance. I think it's attractive if kept to a spritz, and even a small amount projects a good six feet. All the notes are easily distinguished for me. Not sure I'm in for a bottle as I have a number of coconut scents already, but if I did not have something like this on the shelf, this would be a good candidate.

Roam is beautifully sweet, smoky, and sultry. Roam brings to mind Japanese woodwork, the kind made with dark wood that is heavily lacquered. I'm imagining a wooden ashtray and an incense holder sitting next to a cocktail made with coconut rum, ginger, and mild spices. This tableau takes place in the luxurious, well-appointed home of a man who is confident of his place in life and enjoys being seductive and witty at the same time. Roam is appropriate for many different situations and is wearable for a large variety of men. The composition is technically unisex, but I think it's particularly fitting for men and I'd be very surprised to smell this fragrance on a woman. It is heartbreaking that this scent has very soft sillage and below-average longevity. Roam deserves more bravado in its projection. This fragrance has things to say! It can tell us stories of wild adventures and different worlds. I just wish Roam would speak up loudly enough for us to hear.

My first thoughts were that this was a dead ringer for the EDP version of "Idole" by Lubin. Both have similar compositions of saffron, incense and dry ebony wood, with vague hints of sweetness. The main thing that's sets them apart is that the boozy rum vapours which soak through "Idole" are not present here. Roam's uniqueness comes from its creamy coconut milk note, which adds a pleasant smoothness to the almost scorched texture of the ebony wood and the smoky incense, giving it a softer more luscious feel. They are both sensational fragrances though, so it's a matter of opinion. Very sultry and exotic, like a polished antique cabinet, warming in the sun.

Wow, for my first test on skin from a sample, in a pretty cold weather, i just love it. Pepper is strong and beautiful in the opening, it makes the coconut stay at a reasonable distance, while in between i smell some woody vibes. It evokes elegance and sensuality at the same time, in a subtle way. No screaming sillage here, just a classy and fleshy halo. To me, at least in the beginning, it has a great balance between spice and warmth/sweetness. it has this "piquant" touch i love, nicely rounded with a natural sweetness. Like a drop of honey after a sip of hot spiced tea. i'll wait for its evolution now...

Nothing has ever caused such a visceral reaction of "this is it, this is what I want to smell like, this is what I've been looking for." in me. It's so close to what I had been yearning for and picturing in my head, believing it not to exist. Smoky coconut-wood goodness with just a hint of exotic florals and spice I cannot quite place or relate to anything I know. Easily one of the best things I have gotten my nose on, if only price and availability weren't so prohibitive... but the FOMO is already unbearable.

This one solves the issue I had with Gucci Pour Homme I (2003), which is that there too much of a woody element. I think of Roam/10 as a lightened GPH1 with coconut added, and to me it's a great note for some contrast, and it makes it more unisex. The only issue for some will be the price, I assume. Otherwise, it's certainly the kind of scent I would want in my rotation.

My latest crush, love it! Not too woody, not too sweet, not too overwhelming. Too bad it doesn't seem to last long on my skin and doesn't stick. Maybe it will turn out to be a fling after all and I'll go back to my one and only Elixer de Merveilles...

Gorgeous formal scent. Most noticeable notes are ebony wood and Incense, I don’t get that much of the coconut milk UPDATE: Coconut milk became noticeable, lovely.

Dark, mysterious, and just good AF! Wow this fragrance is something else. If you are into fragrances this is a must own.

This should have been everything I love - and maybe even more than I could handle, judging by the macho packaging and the comparisons to Lubin Idole (which I love) and Serge Noire or Black Afgano (*cough* another time, another time...). But this is a mild thing, not a wild thing. Not what I thought it was AT ALL. Was expecting a savage jaguar, a big beast bristling with spice and testosterone and funk. Instead it's a big floofy pussy cat, pleasant and soft and rounded and sweet, sitting in your kitchen as you bake some spice cookies. Should have been notorious, but turned out to be just ... nice. Very nice spices and wood and coconut, in fact, but extraordinarily gentle and sweet and with pitifully little projection. Nothing to be surprised or seduced or alarmed by, just a perfectly OK, unisex, inoffensive, mildly aromatic smell. And therefore I do like it, but don't love it - and definitely wouldn't pay the full niche-level price for it. If you find it heavily discounted this could be a great, and truly adaptable, blind buy, but it's really nothing to write home about.

Wow! This is the epitome of dense wood, 10 roam even opens with it and what a gorgeous opening it is! Rare for a fragrance to go on SO woody, revealing a peak at the base before the sweet coconut comes into play. Then a very classy, dark, warming cocoa butter scent is revealed in the heart with a touch of ginger and saffron. It's not hugely complex but does enough to impress me. It's like if you kept your lip balm inside an antique wooden chess set. Great fragrance for winter this, it's a heavy one though maybe a touch too heavy on the coconut for me now I'm deep into wearing it. Thankfully the dry down has become intensely woody again and as such very enjoyable. This is only my first time wearing 10 Roam, so my second wear will be when I form a proper solid opinion. My first impressions are very good though.

This would be a great final touch before boarding the water taxi and heading off to Tea Dance on a summer afternoon. A whisper of coconut reminds me of the best pina colada I ever had. A light, sweet scent--but not like a finger full of marshmallow icing, more like sweet dreams and sweet surrender.

A shimmering elegant woodsy spicy offering, this beautifully constructed and put together perfume evokes visions of tropical jungles. Similar to Kenzo's Jungle but far more earthy and classy than the mass produced offering. Very alluring, sensual and lingering.

اودین 10 - 10 از 20 همه چی برعکسه !! ...ا اگه به نتهای عطر در نت ابتدایی و نت میانی و پایانی توجه کنید؛ میبینید که شیر نارگیل در نت پایانی این عطر ذکر شده. به این معنی که حداقل تا یک ساعت پس از شروع اسپری کردن عطر؛ نباید هیچ اثری از شیر نارگیل ظاهر بشه. در حالیکه به محض اسپری کردن و در فاصله ی کمتر از یک دقیقه؛ بویی که حس میشه دقیقا شیر نارگیل هست!! و البته کم کم فلفل به آن اضافه میشه. البته فلفل حالت کاملا کنترل شده ای داره و خیلی تند و آزار دهنده نیست. در قسمت نت میانی عطر(که بشخصه از اون به علت کاملا روتین بودن رایحه خوشم نیومد) خیلی شبیه به آرمانی کد از برند جورجیو آرمانی میشه و یک حالتی شبیه به رایحه ی تونکا در اون قابل تشخیصه. و اما در نتهای پایانی زنجبیل باعث میشه که اون عادی بودن رایحه ی کلی عطر تغییر کنه و بسیار قابل قبول تر بشه اودین شماره ی 10 عطری است با پخش بوی نسبتا متوسط و دوام خیلی خیلی خوب که بالای 10 ساعت بر روی پوست قابل تشخیصه --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Odin 10, 10 from 20 All is Reverse!! If you see base note of this perfume, you can see coconut milk in that. So you expect that this scent don't fade in for at least 1 hour, but it is too strange that after 1 minute you can detect it in perfume!! after that, paper is added to coconut milk. Paper isn't too potent. In middle note it is so similar to Armani code, Giorgio Armani. The perfume in this step have a kind of Tonka scent.... Finally in base note, ginger change the middle note scent and it become so acceptable. The sillage is moderate, but longevity is so good and it stay on skin over than 10 hour....

I can appreciate this fragrance purely intelectually, but it doesn't appeal to my nose at all. On me, it smells like coal and incense, it is overpowering and very dry. However, I think that the combination is very original and I really wish the actual fragrance would impress me as much as the notes alone.

Roam is my second bottle from Odin, and like the other (Tanoke), this one does not disappoint. Smooth and suave AF, it strikes that balance between unburnt incense and precious woods, with a lovely little wrinkle of creamy coconut in there. If you're familiar with Franck Boclet's Incense or Penhaligon's Agarbathi, you will find this similar to the main accords of both, but with another woody, almost animalic facet that brings to mind the criminally underrated Al Rehab Sultan Al Oud. It's softly spicy/sweet and woody but not smoky. Gorgeously masculine. My only complaint -- and very possibly a temporary one is that like Agarbathi, I find this one to be rather shy and less than stellar in the longevity department (3-4 hours on 1st wearing). But as this is right out of the wrapper, I'm not going to assume anything just yet. It would not shock me to discover better performance after letting it sit a month or two. Seems like Tanoke got stronger with time as well -- and that one turned out to be magnificent.

Upon first sniff, I immediately get a peppery, sweet tobacco with a backbone of something wet--like chopped dark wood left outside after a rainstorm. The sweetness doesn't linger, but definitely more floral than I was expecting at first spray. Not sure if it's because I recently bought it, but Comme des Garcons' new "Black" comes to mind, probably more in the BLAM! I'M HERE note progression than in actual smell. It's dark, warm like a body, but not sultry. It's comforting. In fact, it's closer to the first CdG parfum minus the herbal notes. On skin, it's much creamier than on my shirt. You can smell that coconut milk with the sparsest dusting of something vaguely resembling nutmeg. Too faint to tell. Does it make sense if I say it's a MASCULINE-edged coco milk? On my shirt after 30 min, it's incredibly smokey, but warm. I'm not getting pine tree/Northwest wilderness. This is definitely warmer climate wood and earth.

so i've tried the BEJESUS outta this in the last few days and i've come to a conclusion of sorts. there is INDEED a 'black afgano' feel to this, and i put it down to the presence of the ebony wood and the incense making some sort of accord that chimes with black afgano. unfortunately though, there begins and ends the similarity with it, as there is some parallel accord struck with the aforementioned notes and the coconut. somewhere somehow, coconut, ebony, incense and black pepper make an 'off fig' accord, and that's all i can smell. my parents used to have a fig tree in their place when i was young, and when they dropped and rotted, they sorta-kinda smelt like this. and i can't get it out of my head! so, unfortunately, black afgano mixed with rotting figs doesn't work for me...

I wasn't originally sure what to think of this one since it's not a wildly original woody-spicy scent. But it is beautifully well-blended, and while the notes are traditionally masculine, it is perfectly unisex to my nose. It's strongly woody and incensy, but the coconut adds a milky smoothness. It doesn't register as tropical or fruity, just creamy. That softness smoothes the edges of what might otherwise be very piquant with the saffron, ginger, and woods. This smells like a warm-weather, tropical bonfire. It's transporting and comforting. I like it.

Not often can you associate woody sweet scents with warm climate but I believe this fragrance is soft enough for the primaveral weather. This is an all year perfume sure to rival other signature scents in existence. Everything is blended well leaving light traces of cocunut where ever you "roam"(pun intended). The pepper is a nice touch to showcase Roam's "not so" tough side however it's tough enough for a man to find value in this soft concoction of sweetness. Odin proves yet again that you don't have to take your clothes off to have fun.

I've tested Odin 10 couple of times and I get the boundaries around a strong version of D&G The One, a bit of CdG DNA (Wonderoud, Black), a bit Gucci PH, and a bit Black Afgano. In general it's very well blended, feels more suitable for cooler weather. I would not call this as a sweet scent but warm. It's dry at the same time, like the dryness from Lalique Encre Noire a L'extreme.

This is an incredible coconut fragrance - as far from a "beachy" coconut as you can get - this is a black-sweater-in-the-fall coconut fragrance. This is spicy, woody, dry(ish) and aromatic - absolutely great. I also cannot say this has great performance, but I'd say it's right in the middle, firmly average performance and longevity.

yep...i got quite a fair bit of 'black afgano' outta this, and i can't quite find where and why... the black ebony wood smell is quite similar to that in Serge Lutens' 'Serge Noire' and Lubin's 'Idole' (both EDP and EDT). It's quite dry and smoky...i think i like it...need to try again.

Odin is the perfume for the wood lovers. this one is quite impressive, the top note wasn't as good as the base note, the base note goes woody essence that hides the background tease of a coconut haze, it give a semi sweetish essence of a wooden core. i guess im getting this one as well.

See, Fragrantica confuses me here. The reviews below to my mind all applaud Roam to a degree qualifying for 'love'. The notes above look to me to be absolutely seductive and beg me to try it.....but why is the love to like ratio so off balance?

Hmm. Interesting. I don't actually get any of the listed notes. What I get is a slightly woody, slightly spicy, but smooth scent. It's interesting, but it's not what I was looking for.

Whoa! What a nice surprize! On my skin this smells like a deep,deep darkgreen pine forest.Warm,round,no edges here; it's perfectly unisex.I can't smell any coconut in this forest.;-)

Clearing out. I have a nearly full 100ml bottle without the box for anyone who's interested. US only. PM with offer.

Incredible scent!! Loved it. A must sniff for sure and very possibly FBW for all you real fragheads.

Lovely peppery woods, very my kind of scent. Very unisex, fresh wood. No coconut for me.