Empiryan

This fragrance WANTED to be more - WANTED to be really dark and skanky, WANTED to be sharp and offensive, WANTED to be rough and loud, and someone saw its potential and refined it like the faceted jewel that it is. Great in the cooler months or cool indoor date nights. MIGHT be office safe if it's cool and you only spray once, maybe twice. This is still strong on my skin at hour 6. Will see how long she'll hold out. This is a fragrance with numerous volatile and spikey accords, softened and contained within its delicate golden-amber filigreed shell - keeping this safe yet still rich, still very niche. It wants to be loud oud, but it's more of a super long-lasting hug of golden amber and incense that once dominated but tamed for skin and possibly even work safe. The tobacco isn't super strong or overly masculine, but more a part of an accord that was meant to be perceived as a mildly spiced smokey oud. The mint isn't even loud - but helps project this in a very non-offensive way. The incense is soft, the cedar, soft, the vanilla is the glue holding it all together but not the center of attention - neither at the opening or dry down. This fragrance is very very likeable and for a middle eastern swayed oud, safer blind buy than many others. I have to mention that one of the driving factors of my getting this one in particular, even though I find this collection a harder one to like, was the bottle itself - it's one of the prettier ones and its looks so luxe. I'm so happy that the fragrance lives up to it's cover. I have nearly 70 Xerjoff at this point and this is in the top 20% for sure. But I do LOVE oud, including middle eastern beasts like Oud Zarian (Creed). Just keep the soured honey ones like Mamluk very very far away from me... ffs that's an oddity I will never understand.. Favorite rich powdery Xerjoff fragrance: Esquel Favorite rich tropical Xerjoff fragrance: Cruz del Sur II Favorite powdery lactonic I CAN'T afford to wear: White on White ; Amber Star : Star Musk Favorite Xerjojff Freshie : Still Deciding :)

I picked up this fragrance and was not disappointed, it was not a love at first sniff but something I knew I was gonna love later so I ended up pulling the trigger on it and I am so glad I did it’s such an amazing realistic smell of tobacco and incense with a dirty chocolatey patchouli that I absolutely love, I would say it’s not a safe blind buy and I would say it’s for a more mature user. Upon the opening you get blasted with the tobacco and incense that dries down to a creamy yet dirty chocolatey patchouli, in the mid you get a nice amber floral vanilla that is very beautiful. Performance 8.5/10 Scent profile - has been done before but it’s amazing Smell - 9/10 My only complaint on this fragrance is that the tobacco seems to fade within a few hours and disappears for me entirely in the dry down Overall I give this a 9/10

Royal Tobacco was one of the fragrances that kicked off my fragrance addiction. Although, I have yet to purchase it. I have purchased a few Xerjoff fragrances. Most all blind buys. All successful. I took caution and picked up a few samples. Those samples led me to purchasing Naxos and Tony Iommi Monkey Special. They may lead me also in getting this. It isn't as rich as Royal Tobacco. It is in the ballpark. Not as strong and missing the licorice. Not a bad thing. I wore then at the same time, one on each arm. I prefer Royal Tobacco. My wife prefers Empiryan. We will compromise and get Empiryan first and maybe Royal Tobacco later. 😀 Just a fantastic amber tobacco fragrance with vanilla. A little powdery. Absolutely gorgeous bottle. Certainly on my want list.

Ah, what a sublime creation this Empiryan, I think the most beautiful scent I've ever smelled. Balanced, charming, mystical, I would almost add magical. Magical yes, starting from the name that echoes the Empireo, the third heaven or high sky, where God and the higher celestial beings dwell. And that's exactly the scent: a voluptuous ascent to the top, a flight with wings spread to lap the sacred skies. I find it really superfluous and, especially in this case, extremely limiting and childish, to describe this work of art from a technical point of view. Empiryan should not be described or even smelled. Empiryan must be lived. And with the same attitude of reverence with which one should approach a sacred text or a work by Michelangelo.

This was love at first sniff for me. Starts pretty earthy and woody with a slightly sweet tobacco. This has a lot of smooth incense and a touch of patchouli in the heart. Natural Vanilla makes its presence, but overall stays in the background with a lot of amber being the base. This is quite oriental dark and a bold masculine scent. To sum it up its earthy, woody, smoky, spicy, oriental, sweet and almost smells like it has Whiskey in it. A bold but beautiful release. Sample first!!!