Malesia

Another successful blind buy. I am now convinced that you can make due with just Xerjoff (but I won't 😀). Such a wide variety for any occasion. I should have just started here until I had all of the ones I wanted. Oh well. I guess having the others makes my collection more diverse. This is amazing. No funk. Not fecal or skanky. I suppose there could be a sour facet deep in the background. But that is drowned out by the rest of this beautiful creation. If I squint my eyes and look for it, I can see that. However, it doesn't matter. This is like pouring a fizzy cola on a bed of white florals and powder. So good. Not too sweet. Certainly not as sweet as Tonka Cola. I haven't tried Enigma. Its on my list. This is beautifully balanced. I was recently gifted More Than Words and it was an instant favorite. Now this is as well. The kicker, my wife likes it. May need to make some changes on my list of top fragrances. I will give them more wears and let them battle it out. Get your nose on this. Edit. After more use, it reminds me of those Bottle Cap candies.

The Laotian oud in this smells similar to Tigerwood Royale by Ensar Oud. I purchased a sample of the pure oil for about $55/.05ml just to find out what it smells like. It could be described as a top of sweet rotting wood over a base of coal tar and ancient machine oil. Malesia smells like it could well have been formulated using this exact ingredient. This fragrance is the highest form of art in that it develops consonance out of the most dissonant motif. The agarwood retains all of its pungent and volatile facets: there is no attempt here to cover up the nuance of lawnmower gasoline and sour, rotting crabapples. Rather, these difficult facets are rendered intoxicatingly pleasant through a careful balancing with balsams, musks, and florals. Malesia is a sublime pleasure to behold. Scent/Quality: 10/10 Versatility: 6/10 (strikingly unusual, but not polarizing) Sillage: arm’s length Longevity: 6-8 hours

Florals and Oud, a little sweetness and boozy smell as mentioned. This one is a crowd pleaser as evidence by the rating. The lily of the valley and sweetness are there pleasing the mainstream. The oud is plentiful enough to please the oud lovers. I have no reservations in wearing this as a guy but I could see a woman easily wearing this one as well. This is loatian oud which I didn't think I favored but this one is so well blended I can't help but love it. It is repetitive but I'm going to reinforce what has already been said two key ingredients that shine here are the Lily of the Valley and oud. This one lasts all day

Mesmerizing Floriental centered around a beautiful lily of the valley. The perfume opens with this note before moving to a balsamic ambery heart accentuated with amber and gurjun balsam. The perfume settles on a woody powdery base of Laotian Oud, Tolu balsam, musk, labdanum, tonka bean and vanilla. Slight feminine leaning with moderate sillage and projection and very good longevity. Absolutely exquisite and stunning like many in the Xerjoff Oud Stars line, Oriental perfumery with very high quality ingredients. Enjoy!

Oh this is gorgeous. The best Oud fragrance I have sniffed from a luxury brand. A regal Oud accord sweet woody and ethereal supported by a bright floral sort of note I guess Amyris as its unique to me. Pink Pepper accord is not sharp and I get a generic sandalwood in the drywdown. Works really well for me. I got a generous sample from a friend (Kenneth,USA)and I am blown away. First the Pikovaya Dama and then this. Very luxurious Neo Oriental Blend. 10/10

I felt like i had the world's best kept secret when i wore this. Walked around smiling all day! This is an amazing fragrance..definitely not a blind buy. It's the oud for me. In the immediate opening I get the oud and the amber but the oud is just enough. It is animalic yes, but somehow it caresses you (me). I feel confident, beautiful, strong yet vulnerable in this perfume. Unfortunately I dont get the lily of the valley note.

Ice cold Coca Cola Candylicious fizzy straight outta tin poured over ice and some sweeeet boozy rum ( just a little ). This is top tier perfumery, it’s just so different and evokes so many emotions, without having cliche characters. 4 sprays get on the bed, romantic night, dirty sex, cocktail party, comforting goodness, must experience this from Xerjoff. I love it, woah 😍

It's a wonderful oud fragrance. I don't get the barnyard oud here as some below do. It is certainly less fecal than something like Mamluk's opening. It may be challenging for someone unaccustomed to oud as it is certainly of that genre. But I think it's a wonderful scent. I think this could be considered unisex but to me, it leans slightly masculine.

I have a Love/dislike relationship with oud fragrances, however this is sexy and alluring. Very smooth. First it’s the oud and then 10 mins into it, it simmers down into a sweet oudy seduction. This Reminds me of a grown and sexy man who’s dressed in formal clothes with a shot of whiskey and a cigar! 🔥

Ferociously addicting , a blend of dark woods, hay like, somewhat animalic laotian oud ,submerged in golden resins, vanilla tonka sweetness play major role in the heart to soften up the beast while tolu balsam further enhances the warmth ambery quality of the composition in the base. Astonishing blend.

What can I say? I'm a huge fan of Xerjoff and Malesia is another strangely beautiful perfume. Somewhat sour but addictively so. You do get the resins and a floral note. This combined with the tonka bean and the labdanum and the beautiful laotion oud give it a warm, rich and sweet feel. Love.

Amazing! I can't identify notes and accords like others here, but I know how to recognize when something is good. And this is really good. I mean REALLY! Before I smell this, my favorite perfume was Alexandria II, now I think is Malesia, although they have some similarities. Just try it.

I’m so happy that when I smell oud I don’t smell barnyard animal or fecal matter like other people do. Maybe my nose is broken but I’m ok with that! This smells so good and leans slightly fem in my opinion but a man could def pull it off!

Animalic and lightly boozy oud, lots of ambery facets . Sweet at the start, becomes noticeably woodier as it dries down. Projects beautifully on clothes, creates a warm cloud that lasts 10+ hrs. Best suited in the cold.

Very nice. Smells exactly the same as Hayat by Kemi Blending Magic (owned / same house as Xerjoff!) Doesn’t seem to last as long though. Nice but a lovely skin scent.

[Tested on skin] Malesia opens with a lovely, sweet, and boozy burst, immediately reminding me of Kilian's "Old Fashioned," though with more amber and a hint of oud. Within the first 5 minutes, it develops into a syrupy, nectar-like scent with subtle booziness and balsamic depth. It feels like a much stronger, more amber-forward version of "Old Fashioned." While I don't detect the oud distinctly at this stage, the overall impression is captivating. Around 15 minutes in, the resemblance to "Old Fashioned" strengthens as the scent settles and the sweetness tones down to a more tolerable level, although I'd prefer it a further notch lower. Projection remains quite strong. About 30 minutes later, the scent appears fairly linear; it's still syrupy sweet but no longer sickly. The booziness from the balsams comes forward, creating a smoothly blended, ambery sweetness. By an hour, the scent remains quite linear, with projection still decent, just not as loud. At 1.5 hours, the sillage is consistent, but a closer sniff reveals a significantly woodier and more balsamic profile. It's a nice fragrance, if I find it discounted, I'd consider buying it, especially as it seems to perform better than "Old Fashioned" in terms of longevity, and I feel it as more depth to it. The sillage becomes weak-to-moderate around 2 hours.

I sprayed it from an official sample on my wrist. The first impression is in the same note as the other people who left a review about Malesia. There is, at least in the first phase of development, a sour smell, but I think it could be due to the combination between oud and lily of the valley. On hour later, Malesia it's still sour, not sweet at all on my skin. She has that velvet texture, but the smell remains dominated by a woody & sour aura. I asked around and the smell is perceived very different: my colleagues (usually they are using mainstream fragrances, perceive Malesia as woody, quite unpleasant, while people familiar with niche (using Love and Black Phantom by Kilian) told me that it smells sensational and alluring, without knowing that it's a Xerjoff. As for me, I will come back later with conclusions. Edit: I feel the sweetness now, 4 - 5 hours later ... It is so beautiful, smooth and velvety now. Very complex, it could be a royal perfume.

Barnyard opening. Humid and mildly skanky oud right out of the gate. Resins are present but not center stage. Dry. Though the opening is not my cup of tea it's not entirely unpleasant and within minutes a richness begins to develop with deep woods and spicy resins framing the barnyard, mildly feral oud note. A sweetness begins to become perceptible at the end of the first hour. It is at this stage, with sweet notes of bourbon vanilla bean and tonka enter the scene imparting fullness and, frankly, wearability that the fragrance transitions from merely smelling interesting to actually smelling quite pleasant. It's warm, resinous, mildly animalic and woody with moderate projection and sillage, sitting comfortably close to the skin. Would be of interest to lovers of oud and exotic fragrances tailored with European refinement. I enjoy it but not something I would wear often.

Initially I wasn’t sure, but now I love this.. Moderately animalic and boozy from the offset, though I don’t feel this comes solely from the oud but instead a blend of indolic white florals, oud, and a soapy/earthy musk with the whole composition being structured around lily of the valley. Labdanum and gurjum balsam are at the centre of the amber accord, striking a subtly smoky camphorous note. Lily of the valley and musk are definitely key players for me. I think it’s easy to become fixated on oud when a fragrance is marketed as such, but I feel that lily of the valley really shines above it and gives this a calm, clean feel. Fairly humble in that it stays close to the skin, but it has great depth which lasts all day and speaks quality, albeit quietly. I wish it had better projection, nevertheless it’s a real pleasure to wear and completely unisex.

I love this scent. The fecal animalic smell at the beginning is to die for. Its weak and doesn't last My grouch is that it doesn't last. The lasting power is zero. I have to spray a million times to even feel it a little. Why they do this is beyond me. We need to feel the scent to enjoy it. How do I buy a perfume and cannot smell it on me. the feedback smell is weak. Aside this I truly love this scent and hold it dearly. Its my first from the Oud Stars line. Now i have 5 and hope to increase it some more. FARS is still my best from the line so far. Here I support an upward slant for reformulation. Please make it stronger. So we can feel that it's equal to our money's worth.