Nocturnal Poetry

As we all know, fragrances react to our skin differently...we might experience a totally different scent journey after all and that's totally fine! Nocturnal Poetry is easily THE MOST animalic creations from the house of Prin by Prin Lomros. I saw someone suggested Aranyaka/Aran in the 'reminds me of' section and I would certainly agree, but just for the opening minutes of this fragrance. After 15-30 minutes or so this beast takes another direction of its own and turns into an extremely leathery, moderately floral (champaca is prominent here) and ever so slightly aromatic spicy fragrance on my skin. All the animalic notes (oud included) are present and detectable right off the bat. But it is as if they are all chained and buried in a cage, flooded with flowers and spices...waiting to only be unleashed for the grand opening later on. After 3-4 hours or so, this beast finally reveals its actual self...a very dense and wild animalic scent full of exotic vibes and nuances. What I get at this stage of the journey is the vibe of Dzing/vintage Kouros/vintahe Antaeus on crack. Nocturnal Poetry is simply much stronger and much more animalic compared to those three. **full disclosure I am a fan of animalic fragrances** As further it goes, you start to get a dry pee-like and ambery vibe (in a good warm and cozy way). Hyraceum is the main star of the show at this stage. When combined with civet and castoreum, it is just marvelous...very unique and sophisticated. It’s like all these animalics are amped up beyond their full power. It’s such a ride... This thing lasts 24 hours on my skin. I am not kidding. Prin's works last a very long time on your skin. If you couldn't smell it, it's probably because of an olfactory fatigue. Full bottle-worthy for the fans of animalic fragrances!

Arrhythmic and lavish notes imbricate one upon another like a compost bin whose humus is dependent on visits from the civet cat, beaver, and hyrax venturing out from their dens at various times of the night, shrouded by the safety of darkness. Prin's Nocturnal Poetry even in 2025 holds its ground as being the most animalic of the Thai perfumer's fragrances, particularly due to the almost golden backbone of animal hide that seems to originate from a more restrained selection of complementary ingredients that predate the "kitchen-sink" approach of later compositions. Plotted between an axis of dried buttermilk ("jameed" in Arabic, quintessential to the dish mansef) and another of used undergarments, Nocturnal Poetry nonetheless manages to evade any sense of fixed coordinates with its flowers, coffee, and beeswax that sweeten and pretty things up in an expressive but still aesthetically uncanny way that is not unlike a Francis Bacon painting, say "Head VI." Prin has said this fragrance evokes surrealism and non-narrative poetry and while I agree with the "non-narrative poetry" part I'd actually argue that Nocturnal Poetry doesn't necessarily evoke the landscapes of unconscious objects—the "chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella"—that's ubiquitous in surrealist painting and poetry. Just look up above at the list of notes for this fragrance and you'll notice that nothing is out of place. Whenever Prin works in such a radically closed way, his artistry is at its most inventive.

Very nice! It opens with a very good balance between the different scent families...I could pick out jasmine, green hints, a good dose of animalic underneath, and a kind of chocolatey leather non-gourmand sweetness underneath. The overall smell reminds me of walking around Little India, Singapore where lots of sidewalk shops sell jasmine garlands, Indian herbs and produce, and incense was burning (I’ve been to India itself as well, but this smell reminds me specifically of Little India because all of those smells are more concentrated in those few blocks in Singapore). Later an apricotish smell comes forward (the champaca I assume). Later I can detect a little oud. There’s also a very nice tobacco in there. The animalics are always present but in good supporting roles only. Update: most of the above is moreso the smell when one sniffs their skin up close. I wore it again in a way that presented me the smell of it in the air more and it was different. It smelled quite similar to Homa actually, minus the goat smell. So kind of a nice citrus and overall non-sweet vibe over nice leathery animalics. Prin Lomros makes good stuff!

Oh boy, oh boy, where do i start ? I'm one of those lucky ones to own a full bottle of this I blind bought it, and it was one of my best descions that I did in my life. This stuff is animalic to the maximum level it can't get more animalic than this. Not only animalic, it is also smookyyy and beneth all of it, the smell of the beautiful Jasmine comes through with the beeswax adding sweetness to it. the smoke reminds me of Thailand/Vietnam for some reasons, and I have never been there. lol maybe it is the Prin DNA ? No idea It is very very very Vintagy as well and the quality of this fragrance is something else pure stuff Not only Vintagy it is really really edgy, gothic, dark, weird a scent for outcasts, very hardcore . Be aware that this stuff is very strong and not mass appealing at all, but it is super unique I would say it I'd more challenging than Zoologist Hyrax but now I own both ! 😎 The Performance is just amazing as well. As an animalic scent lover this was my holy grail Nocturnal Poetry from Prin gets a 10/10.

When I first experienced Nocturnal Poetry, a holy grail light went off in my brain. For me, it wears like a dark, floral, almost barber shop fragrance (depending on the day I notice this more or less than other days) underneath a deep, somewhat unsettling cloak of shadowy animalics. There’s nothing barnyard or discordant: just smooth, luxurious, rich, round deep animalic notes woven with leathery resins and a luxurious tobacco and coffee accord wrapped around the aromatic florals, with an unmistakeable pinch of cumin. And I do think this perfume paints the picture of a quietly dark, still night with something unknown lurking, a sensation, waking up after a bad dream. It’s fantastic if you smell it with Prin’s website description in mind. I think this and many of Prin Lomros’ compositions are true works of brilliance (genius). Some of his perfumes have opened my eyes and nose and mind to scent experiences I couldn’t have begun to imagine prior.