Resine Precieux

The top notes are strong with this one. A truly unusual scent, and I recommend you read the review below mine, although my take is a little different. I wore this close to a dozen times and kept reviewing the note pyramid to identify what I was smelling. I saw what I thought were caramel cubes in the top notes, which confused me. Then I actually hovered over the image and saw that it’s something called Asafoetida, described as somewhere between an onion and a leek. And although that sounds awful, it’s not at all. It’s likely what keeps this fragrance from falling into the usual resinous pitfalls of being too sweet or too intense and predictable. It’s got this strange herbal vibe that keeps everything else in check. This fragrance evolves a lot over many hours, but the through line is beeswax. You smell the waxiness in the herbal top notes, and you smell it in the soft animatic end. When it’s left on your clothes, the resinous notes linger. I bought this and Nankun Kodō and it was money well spent. Nankun is all about smoky happiness for me, while this one is more of an intellectual exercise.

RESINE PRECIEUX is very resinous and balsamic with vanilla-tonka and frankincense and an animalic touch coming from black ambergris and civet. Tobacco is also very present and Indian spices (cumin). It is a yummy dark spicy amber on my skin. Rich, opulent, delicious. Sometimes I have the impression it has coffee but there isn't. A cozy composition, perfect to stay home on a cold day reading a book !! If you like layering you can try with Lutens' Miel de Bois or Arabie! :D

Oh wow this one was my favourite one. Starts of somewhat fragrant green then it becomes a wonderfully smooth resinous masterpiece. Love it.

The smell doesn't worth the price PERIOD

This is vile. Almost made me sick 🤢 the opening smells like meat 🥩 gone bad. I’m guessing its the asafoetida resinoid (devils dung!) it was so bad i had to remove it after 20 mins, just couldn’t take it any longer. Overall very disappointed in this sample pack. Out of 30 attars i liked around 13/14 and disliked the rest. Didn’t find any i loved and wanted to buy maybe 1 that i would like to buy and even then I’m still dissatisfied with the sillage on that one.