Liquid Mind Control

This is Dua Fragrances impression of Nasamotto Baraona. Baraonda is one of the best whiskey scents on the market. Whiskey, woody with a bit of musk. LMC is similar to Baraonda, but there are a few differences. The opening of LMC is very whiskey heavy, but there is a different background here. I get a coconut that has been drizzled with chocolate and honey that I do not get in Baraonda. In the beginning of drydown, the two scents get a lot closer, and warm whiskey and wood dominate. Several hour in the sweet almost chocolate-like note returns in the background. It is subtle but present. LMC is about 75 to 80% the same as Baraonda. A great impression that captures the essence of Baraonda, but adding in its own character. Like Baraonda, I get great projection and longevity on my skin. This can be worn in either formal or trendy casual attire. If you like whiskey scents you should try this one.

Love at first sniff and that does not happen often for me. The initial coconut blasts is very persistent and remains throughout the duration of the scent. Coconut is not listed but it's the key note. The whiskey note is the 2nd most noticeable along with smooth woods. Then way in the background is cypriol oil. Yep the key note in YSL M7. That adds to the ruggedness of LMC. It's a limited edition so I might grab 2 bottles. This is a true beast mode scent on my skin. Over 10 hours of longevity and the scent bubble is very apparent.

I LOVE THIS FRAGRANCE!!! Im told it is a clone of Nasomatto Baraonda. I havent smelled Baraonda, however Dua's LMC is AMAZING! It boozy, coconutty and spicy. I have numerous Dua frags and this one is my favorite.

A weird one, by smell & name. Liquid Mind Control (LMC) smells spicy with a dusty, dried fruits accord. This combination smells, transiently, like burning wood. It's weird as I've said. It remains like that throughout. At the drydown, it gets a little coconutty without changing much. LMC is a weird but likable smell. To me, the name is more intriguing than the smell. A "Like" & pass from me.

So, this one is a clone of Nasomatto's Baraonda, one of the best liquor-based scents out IMO. That one is a whisky-forward, sweet, dense and loud affair but with clearly high quality ingredients. Liquid Mind Control (LMC) is not really all that similar, to me. It opens with a lot of resins and comes off a bit medicinal from the cypriol oil mixed with pretty synthetic smelling whisky top notes with some odd coconut notes overlaid. As it dries down you get a lot more of that sweet, resinous scent and it sort of resembles Baraonda in the far drydown. That said, I don't find LMC to be an ambroxan and Iso E bomb like the rest of the products put out by Dua, where so many of their scents post top notes smell like a fuzzy, screechy synth mess. Longevity on this one is strong, 8+ hours with a few hours of decent projection. This is a 7.25/10 for me. It's far worse if you're judging by how close of a clone it is. If you viewed it as an original creation, which it should have been released as, the score I gave it is fair as I think it's not super well-blended, you need to wait to the middle or later phases of drydown to get to a nice scent, and it comes across as not using the highest end materials to my nose.