Nilubol (นิลุบล)

Nilubol! This fragrance is just on a whole another level of being creative, it is really complex but I'm gonna try my best to explain what I'm smelling here as there so many notes in this beast. One thing straight away is that it is by no means a crowd pleaser, and you need to have an advanced nose for it. First time when you spray you are greeted by extremely green notes, like tomatoe leaf among other leafs that are listed here, they don't last that long, after 5 mins the scent transfer to this extremely bright green, it is very very uplifting and bright, it has kinda of "Menthol" effect like something minty, this effect is also present in his other creation like Nilmalee and 0225, not only that it also has a very bitter greeny smell too along with that minty effect, it is a refreshing in a way but I wouldn't call it Blue de chanel fresh, if that makes sense, it is soo unusual and weird kinda of fresh, you also got Birch Tar touches that adds smokiness to this aura as well. Mid drydown: that green effect is still there but 2 new things gets added here, the patchouli contributes more to the green effect and making the scent earthy, the other thing I notice here is some kinda of goaty smell, I know it is not listed in here but there is definitely a hint of goat Tincture smell in here, making this scent even more interesting. Late Dry Down: extreme Civet overdose with a hint of goat smell and the ouds comes a bit forward while still having this bitter/menthol effect. I sadly don't detect any Blue lotus in this but honestly it's not a big deal for me. It is absolutely weird and gorgeous, I have no idea why is this late so low, by far one of the Mr Prins wildest creations. Performance is good no complains and It has some similarities to Nilmalee and 0225 but I find Nilubol the edgier from all the 3. I rate Nilubol is 9.5/10, glad I have a full bottle.

Another expensive beauty. I have samples of all his latest creations, but I'm not sure which I'd grab a fb of. This one is a fairly bright and smoky floral. It seems to get brighter the longer it sits upon the skin, but it's far too hot at the moment to get a real grasp of this. Having said that, Mandarava and Mandodari performed crazy well on my holiday to Thailand last year in June...humidity does interesting things with perfume.

For good and bad - a very, very Prin product indeed. Big, complex, a bit reeky, a little over-busy; seriously nichey and maybe just a hair too much, overall. Smells like he genuinely threw everything but the kitchen sink in there, which ends up being so overwhelming that it doesn't quite cohere into a real identity, the way that some other slightly-less-complex Prin/Prissana scents manage to build a nuanced, but still recognisable, picture and keep you in there, even as they morph and change over time. (For instance, Varuek's amazing beastly-sexy wolf, or Aranyaka's goaty-hippie head shop, or Tirtha's green-jungle trek - all Prins I am totally convinced by and willing to follow through the adventure maze.) Instead, Nilubol adds up to an impressive but chaotic giant splatter-painting - smell this! now this! and that! and what about some of THIS? Certainly dramatic, and also very confusing. What's it really trying to say? As ever with the house, you can't argue you're not getting your (large amount of) money's worth - it wallops huge thickets of detail and a dizzying array of ingredients and has truly bombastic lasting power. Sadly some of the more bitey notes (oud & birch tar in particular) add character, dark and dirt, but then collide with some of the sweeter ones (heliotrope, jasmine etc) to give a slightly urinous-honey effect - on my skanky skin at least. Couldn't even begin to pick out some of the other stuff reputed to be in there because of this whole bamboozling, dizzying-tapestry aesthetic. Admirable and intelligent, but really not that easy to wear. If elaborate chypres are really your thing, and/or you love the house style to the brink of madness, there will definitely be weeks of entertainment in this trying to figure this one out. Perhaps just too clever for me to grasp, but ... as an actual smell, rather than a nose-IQ-test, (NQ?) ... not my favourite from this undeniably incredibly talented guy. Less (just a bit less!) might have added up to more here, in my uneducated opinion only.

Fermented, mulchy peaches passed through a sieve and mixed with grain alcohol and then touched with medicinal spice make up this drunken fragrance that only a madman like Prin could do. Hyperbole aside, he never ceases to impress how much of a range any one of his perfumes can single-handedly encompass. Nilubol smells like nothing you've ever smelled before and that's a good thing. There's a bit of orris-y powder à la a cosmetic bag, some civet-y stink that's amplified by Prin's religious use of cumin, a very watery teal floral note, and just a tad bit of leather, though I wish Prin would've gone in one direction or the other, either making this a little darker, adding more terpenic and indolic notes, or prettying this up with a juicier peach and a more sumptuous, buttery, musky, creamy base. As it stands, Nilubol is phenomenal but I'm not sure how to smell this, what I should be smelling, and why I would want to smell this way.

Bubbly fruity beer! Bright, uplifting and interesting! Definitely grabbing a fb if I want to treat myself with an expensive perfume.