Asmar

Nektar: Right off the bat you smell everything all at once: honey, grape, the incense, tobacco, amber, a lovely soft leather and faint coffee. Within 5 minutes the notes float apart. a soft warm, sweet honey and white grape emerge with a lovely warm amber tobacco and incense holding them up. I think the company description is truly dead on. This scent has a subtle sweetness. It sort of does have that warm skin smell. Not any skin mind you, but skin of color that is in the sun, or tanned skin. It reminds me of being out in the sun all day during the summer at the lake. But its more than that. It is exotic. The scent is a semi thick or maybe dense blend: honey that has a fruity hint of white grape, a curl of incense that is intermixed with with a sweet warm ambery honey tobacco and vanilla soaked coffee beans. The coffee, musks, amber and a bit of vanilla seem to dominate the dry down of the scent. There remains a faint hint of the honey, incense and tobacco - more so the tobacco and amber. But your left smelling a very warm sexy scent that is lightly sweet and gives off a "dusky" exotic vibe. Asmar is a smooth lovely scent that stays fairly close, yet lasts a long time. A scent that is interesting, unique, exotic by way of the silk road through India and the Middle East....via the hollywood lens that paints only the beauty peaceful exotic parts. It is one of those scents that you smell, and then want to smell again, I find it very personal, and sexy.

Stephane Humbert Lucas was just getting started when he created this fragrance. But to me he shows off his powers far more here than some of his most recent efforts. This one is so smooth, so well-blended with fine ingredients. It wafts slowly upward as a blend of familiar notes that still stand out as far above most others on the market. This one is not nearly as "Middle-Eastern" as the fragrances from his eponymous line. It is more European; its sophistication is what comes across through most throughout its scent journey. This can be worn any season, night or day. Absolutely full bottle worthy. There are some available on discount sites. I will be wearing this one a lot this Fall. It puts a smile on my face.

One of the best coffee scents I've ever worn. This is a beauty - coffee and honey and suede - and it morphs and changes during its long life into a exotic smokey vanilla high class perfume. I just checked and the white 2oz bottle can be bought on Amazon for $180, so a better deal than Tom Ford and many others. My sample is from Lucky Scent. If you like exotic gourmands, this should be on your radar.

What hit me first was the musky smell of a middle-Eastern bazaar. Not that I have ever been to one, but this is exactly how I imagine they smell: incensey, musky, earthy. It was the Parfum Nectar version: intense! Once dried down, it becomes sweet and leathery and tobacco-ey but still with the incensey base. Love it.

Opens with dark coffee after the honey has been leaving his mark of sweetness, fantastic. I need this big bottle without doubts. I sort like this: Smell: 10/10 Projection: 9/10 Longevity: 9/10