Wazamba

You can detect golpar (Persian hogweed) scent for 30 minute after spay. A kind of astringent sense is in Wazamba for this 30 minute. After that, smoke is added to previous scent. This fragrance has very complex scent changing. I tasted many fragrance till now, but this one is so complex against other fragrances that i smelled. As I said earlier, Persian hogweed is in the start of fragrance and after 30 minute, smoky scent added. After 3 hours, it becomes so similar to Gray Vetiver of Tom Ford, but at this time, you can detect smoky scent too. (Imagine that you added some smoke to Gray Vetiver in this step). After 5 hours, fragrance become a little sweet, because of Sandal wood. The sense of astringent become vanished in this step. Some peoples compare this fragrance with Fille en Aiguilles Serge Lutens. I think that the base note of Wazamba is similar to Fille en Aiguilles Serge Lutens because of sandal wood, but these two perfumes don't have any common similarity in others notes. Sillage is good and longevity is very long... عطری است نسبتا تلخ که در نیم ساعت اول استفاده از آن؛ بوییکه کاملا حس میشه ولی درنتهای عطر اصلا وجود نداره؛ رایحه ی گلپر هست. این بو در نیم ساعت اول عمر عطر بسیار محسوسه و شما حس گیاهی و کمی گس گلپر رو کاملا حس میکنید. بعد از نیم ساعت بوی دود کم کم به عطر اضافه میشه. این عطر تغییرات بوی بسیار متنوع و پیچیده ای داره. به شخصه با تست کردن صدها عطر؛ عطری به تنوع تغییر در نتهای بویایی همچون این عطر ندیدم. همونطور که گفتم اولش بوی گیاهی؛ کمی تلخ و گس داره که بعدش بوی دودی ملایم و دوست داشتنی به عطر اضافه میشه. بعد از حدود ۳ ساعت خیلی شبیه گری وتیور از برند تام فورد میشه که البته بوی دود اون رو همراهی میکنه. یعنی در نظر بگیرین عطر گری وتیور رو که دود ملایمی هم به اون افزوده شده. بعد از گذر از این مرحله؛ عطر تلخی اولیه اش رو از دست میده و یکم به سمت شیرین شدن حرکت میکنه. یه بوی صندل مانند و بسیار کم شیرین و بسیار گیرا که در این مرحله از نت بویایی؛ در حدود ۵ ساعت که از عمر عطر میگذره . در این مرحله عطر دیگه حس گس اولیه رو همراه نداره. تغییرات نت عطر بعد از گذشت ۵ ساعت به بعد دیگه محسوس نیست و عطر با همین تم بویایی قید شده به سمت پایان عمر بویایی زیبا و پیچیده ی خودش گام برمیداره..... پخش بوی قابل قبولی داره و طول عمر عطر طولانی هست. بعضی از کاربرها این عطر رو با fille en aiguilles, Serge lutens مقایسه کرده اند.در حالیکه به نظرم من این عطردر مجموع تلخ هست و سرج لوتنز ته بوی شیرینی داره البته یک نکته ی ریز هم به نظر من هست و اون اینکه علتی که بعضی اشخاص این عطر رو شبیه فیله سرج لوتنز میدونند در نت پایانی عطر وازامبا هست. عطر وازامبا در نت انتهاییش به علت کم شدن رایحه تلخ و اضافه شدن صندل و در نتیجه شیفت کردن بو به سمت شیرینی ملایم؛ شبیه فیله سرج لوتنز میشه. البته فقط در این نت پایانی و به هیچ وجه در نت اولیه و نت میانی این دو عطر به نظر من شبیه به هم نیستند و این عطر بمراتب پیچیده تر از فیله سرج لوتنز هست.

Wazamba is a lovely take on an incense-led amber perfume. It can be described as a balsamic amber scent enhanced by aromatic green pine notes. It brings to mind elemi, one of my favourite amber notes - a rich, resinous amber with pine-like nuances. Wazamba is like an artistic reconstruction of elemi from other notes, enhanced by other, well-chosen ingredients. It is an easy-to-wear, understated scent for amber lovers - pleasant, comforting and elegant, as well as made with high-quality ingredients. Wazamba opens with dry, resinous incense from initial spray, closely followed by a photorealistic pine note. Like an evergreen forest in the summertime, it smells of the new growth of fresh pine needles alongside a dry woodiness that reflects the trees and fallen needles underfoot. It is the most beautiful accord - I have a weakness for a good ecclesiastical incense note, and the realistic woody pine enhances it to perfection. There is a soft spiciness in there, adding warmth, and the amber accord becomes increasingly balsamic as it develops. It is rich but remains somehow airy. As it develops, a fruity accord comes to the fore, honeyed and sweet but reasonably subtle. It complements the amber accord beautifully. I get baked apple and something akin to dates. Some juicy plum makes its presence felt as it develops further - in my experience, plum notes are never subtle. It adds juicy sweetness here, but marries well with the more honeyed dried fruit notes. The amber accord becomes darker and more dense as it dries down, resinous and leather-like. The incense that permeates this scent keeps it dry and aromatic, and the balsamic sweetness persists. There is a lovely smooth sandalwood note in the base, tying everything together beautifully, and a hint of greenness remains throughout, perhaps thanks to the fern note. It fades to a sweetly musky skin scent. Sillage is moderate and longevity is long-lasting, and it is best worn in autumn/winter, as tends to be the way with amber. A unisex balsamic amber scent, complemented to perfection by pine-like woodiness, Wazamba is a nuanced, beautifully-balanced composition that is well-blended throughout. It feels classic in style, yet has subtle points of interest. Made with top-quality ingredients, it is a delight until final fade - another gem from this house. A underrated amber scent, Wazamba is timeless. 4.5/5.

WaZAMbaaaaaa! Not for everyone, but very definitely a favourite for me. It's a very distinctive woody / resin/ spicy scent which completely avoids some of the usual pitfalls for me (no nauseating vetiver, no excessive rankness or bitterness). I teetered along the love/repulsion line for a day or two and then fell for it completely. It's extremely aromatic, lots of gummy resiny plenty woody stuff. On top of that, it's GOOD wood - quality timber, not just any old aromachemical that smells a bit like any old wood - although the pine / conifer / fir top note is strong and lasting, there are more interesting things going on underneath. I tested this when looking for a good Tam-Dao like sandalwood, and it's definitely NOT THAT - it is far more complex and more mixed up with more angular, more outdoorsy wood. It's infinitely fresher than Tam Dao, less sweet, with no cuddly cinnamon and less spiciness overall. Yes, it does have a few notes in common with Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles (which I also adore) but it's not at all fruity or syrupy either: it has nothing of the mulled-wine deep-red feeling of FeA. There is certainly a sour-apple note in there too, which sounds horrible, but really isn't - it just blends in beautifully with all the tree sap. There's a tiny undertone of smoke, too, but not much. If this were furniture it would be a beautiful raw-wood piece of freshly hewn timber, not a deep comfy padded upholstered couch like Fille. If it did have a colour my guess is it would be a light, beech wood tone - really an unusual sense of freshness for a woody scent. Lasts well for me - up to 8-10h, unusual for so airy-seeming a fragrance, though it does settle close to the skin. It's unusual but in my view really, really worth trying. ETA: every single time I wear this one, I wonder why I don't wear it more; my love of it only deepens. It survives cold weather just fine, and magically becomes light and aromatic enough to work even on hotter days. And every other person I've pressed a sample of this on to, ended up liking (and in most cases loving) it too, which is well above average. An absolutely solid performer.

Well well... what to say about Wazamba... First of all let me tell you I blind bought this (bad bad boy, shouldn't blindbuy any longer!)because of all the Fille en aiguilles similarities people mention. Well... of course both have some common ingredients: pine, incense and fruit. But in this case it is neither a dark perfume nor captivating. Instead, a very bright one and festive. I can't think of apple but quince when I have this on. Not the acid kind of the actual fruit but the candied one once you've made jam with it. I hate to compare scents because it seems I have to choose one and despise the other. I've come to think I can like 2 different scents and just enjoy them without having to do that. The thing is I quite like Wazamba... but I don't love it and could never possibly get to do so. I've grown tired of it in only 2 weeks. In the top notes a nice and persistent fruity vibe intermingles with pine to go into a different direction when incense enters the game. This is beautiful and cheering. However, I find that after some minutes I feel a bit sick, as if wishing to escape from sweetness and fruits jam. The drydown goes on in the same direction but much less pronounced and after some wearings I realized there was something I had sniffed before. Mandragore that is! Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they are exactly the same, not at all, but they share common features at this stage which for me are the best part of this scent. Don't ask me how, but pretty refreshing! I've given Wazamba a few full wearings since I felt somehow upset for not experiencing its reported marvel... unfortunately I still couldn't get rid of that sickening fruit soup part. It's crazy but even if it is very original and distinct, I get the same boredom and claustrophobia than wearing many mainstream perfumes for men. You know, those fruity messes. Now I enjoy it, find it high quality (plus excellent price for an eau de parfum), great sillage and longevity... but seldomly wear it. Perhaps when spring shows up again here in the southern hemisphere... who knows?

The exudates from trees are for repair, they flow around the wounded site, and harden into a seal. These resins are believed to repair our souls, to treat our wounds from trauma or grief. Their tears encourage our tears, which are themselves for repair, or they serve as a salve in times of anxiety or discord. I have much respect for what trees give to all other living beings, and I have a feeling perfumer Marc-Antoine Corticchiato does as well, from what I experience through Wazamba. The bitter and sappy are countered with the sweet and warm, like the cool air on one's face while wearing a well-insulated coat. I experience the skin of a red apple, an undertone of spiced cider, the whiff of a plum pudding, a festive echo with pine boughs adorned with twigs of juniper and cypress, then the frankincense resin simmering above a warmer, a bit of a bubble and sizzle, thin plumes of white. Myrrh and opoponax launch soon thereafter, and all of it stirs my personal space like an incantation. There isn't a carnal sensuality to Wazamba, and that may disappoint some, but I find relief in a fragrance that distances us from desire and brings to the here and now, without distraction, but allowing space for some wonder. It isn't conventionally sexy, but neither is it cold nor detached. It has a loving kindness to it, only hinting at cool, dry asceticism. It can't be all that serious when I can fondly recall the lush needles of trees, the sap sticking my fingers together as a kid, delighting in the aroma and watching my digits slowly separate with the resins suspended into webs. If you are a diehard incense fragrance like me, it's worth your while to sample this.