Of the Immortals

It opens up with coconut and bergamot on my skin. The coconut is a dry kind, I see why alot of people say it reminds them of toasted coconut. I think of those roasted coconut drinks by foco from the asian market I used to drink as a child. It doesnt smell like sunscreen or summery but it can pass off as an evening summer scent with campfires on the beach as each heavy note in this juice is balanced with something uplifting. The bergamot is not loud as I thought it might of been, it was mellowed out by the coconut which shortly transitions to the salt and coffee, it's like a light roast coffee, gently brewed. It's not prominent, also quickly sinks into the sweet drydown. And boy the dry down is sweeeeet. The honey comes off as more of a base scent then mid on me, like its drenching jasmine flowers where u get just a peep of milky fresh floral through the sweetness, a dose of praline balanced with fig to give it a pop of freshness, a glass of rum on the rocks, and strong and a clean musk from than orcanox is the drydown for me. Very prominent of woods throughout but it's like clean, light, dry, slightly sweet kind. Like few pieces of Palo Santo sitting in a bowl with pods of vanilla. Everything is extremely well blended, with alot of complimentary notes. I really wanted to give it a good well rounded opinion, so I didnt post anything until gave it about a week of thorough testing. I was hoping my nose was just asnomic to it but as beautiful of a scent it is, it doesn't last long on me. Although, it could be a plus for some who like to change up fragrances in midday or evening. About 2 hours (arms length projection), then it becomes a skin scent which maybe last about 2-3 hours. Unfortunately, I think because it has orcanox, a form of Ambergris, my skin ate up this fragrance (did the same for Evening Mystique which also has orcanox). If you are curious on how orcanox smells like, it's very close to the molecule used in Juliette's Got a Gun, Not a Perfume except less synthetic. Same vibes fersure tho. I still think this was worth buying for the uniqueness, and for the size and quality the pricing is great! Plus, I'm supporting my favorite youtubers and George seems like a gem, very kind and caring about his customers! A company I don't mind backing. Thank you for this journey, I look forward to other offerings from the World of Zaharoff.

Never have I opened a fragrance and smelled the atomizer and immediately fell in love. Now wait....not that hopeless romantic Hollywood type love. NO! I'm talking about a toxic love. The kind of love you'd go to jail for. The kind of love that makes you immediately buy a backup bottle because you don't want this feeling to end (yeah, I did!). This is the kind of love that reminds me why I love fragrances, and Curly Scents' 'of the immortals' is a beautiful fragrance that introduces itself in a strong way. Full disclosure, I adored Curly Scents (Andrea and Anthony) first offering 'Siren', but I never got to fully enjoy it as I left my bottle in Cuba this past year on my birthday. So, it was a sad reference point, but OFM is a welcoming nostril enticing gem that makes my lost Siren bottle not hurt as much. OFM opens with Honey that screams off the atomizer, and like opening Pandora's box, you get the rush of Bergamot, Brandy, Coffee, and a linear salt note that plays throughout. I can detect the Fig as well. Praline and Tonka are dancing in the dry down and you can also feel the musk, Amber, and Oud, which is blended beautifully. There are hints of PDM Herrod, Kilian Back to Black, and Kerosene Followed, but this doesn't clone either of them. OFM simply walked into the room and said hey bitches, I'm way better. AND IT IS! This is my new love, and we're committed because you're a 120 ml, and I just bought a backup, so we are in this. Thank you, Andrea and Anthony, for this vision of a scent and George Zaharoff for bringing them back as part of the #Zedcreators. This is truly a magnificent addition to your Frangrance world, and knowing that it is a limited edition makes me so happy I got two of these in my life, however toxic our love may be.

Second full wearing of Zaharoff Of the Immortals, the second Zed creators’ release from Andrea Charls / Curly Scents, following The Siren, part of the initial Zed creators trio in 2021. Like The Siren, Of the Immortals is an intoxicating mostly-gourmand—sweet, alluring, and a little resinous. I could classify it as being boozy, tropical, ambery, musky, or more, so it has a lot going on while being quite accessible. The Siren is a bit darker than Of the Immortals, which I find to be a more a little lighter, less spicy or animalic-adjacent, more syrupy, and, while comparably seductive, a bit easier to wear (for most, I imagine) and a bit more of a gourmand, as most of the listed notes indicate. Of the Immortals smells godly, an easy winner for gourmand lovers while not being too sharp or sweet, despite having more of a syrupy quality than The Siren. It hits the right spot of being a smooth gourmand that’s fun while still having some intrigue and mystery to it, as I would have a tough time picking out some of the notes, with the standouts for me being tonka, praline, rum, amber, and musk. I think everyone could get their own notes out of it, and I suspect that each time I wear it, it might seem a little bit different in terms of which notes are emphasized, a fun feature. It performs quite well, and as with the other two Zed creators’ releases of 2022, is an uncannily-great price, at $160 for 120ml in EDP concentration, somehow a significant reduction in cost per ml from the 2021 initial Zed releases at $119 for 60ml. Overall, this another outstanding release from Andrea, the Zed Creators, and George Zaharoff. 8 out of 10

I absolutely love love love this to death! <3 I've never fallen in love with a frag from first spray like with this one. I am very lucky that I got one of the last bottles available, and am not wasting or parting with a drop of this beautiful juice! <3 I just wish this was still in production so that I could have gotten a full backup bottle later, because this is a scent I would love to have for life. It's sweet but not sugary, very balanced and dries down to cozy woods without any skank or overpowering harshness. Soft vanilla woods. At the start, I definitely get rum, coconut, honey, praline sweetness and coffee, blended to perfection. It's a bit hard to pick out individual notes because it's so well balanced and blended, but that does not take away from how much I love it. 🥰 Don't get a prominent jasmine, salt or fig, but it's surely in there somewhere. 😁 My skin eats fragnances, but this one lasts for roughly 4-5 hours before its a skin scent that others still pick up for 2-3 hours more in close proximity. Sadly, I go noseblind as soon as I spray it. Though I can feel wafts of it from time to time. Compliment getter for me. A colleague thought it was a grown up caramel scent, haha and asked what I was wearing that was so good. First time I wore it, I sprayed 3-4 sprays, mistakenly thought it was very weak, and a colleague/friend could pick it up as soon as I entered the office 50 m away, haha. He loved it. 🙌

I’m getting sweet leather, but complex. I’m not familiar with oud but I’m guessing that’s where the leather comes from. I don’t really pick up on the sandalwood. This is so hard to describe without being more familiar with oud. It’s 50% something other than the sweet notes and 50% sweet notes but that balance keeps it far from feeling sugary. The sweet notes feel very unspecific but not in the way that some of those REALLY unspecific sweet notes do like in Ariana Grande Cloud/Baccarat, or anything with sugar cube or caramel notes. It’s more like all of the sweet elements listed in the composition are in such equal proportions that none of them are particularly distinguishable. Anyway I love it but would never spend $300 on it. Especially with such poor projection. You’d have to use a really heavy hand on this to even smell it on yourself the way you want to. More masc than femme but would make such a cool signature scent for a woman. I would be all over this stuff if it was closer to $100. Kind of wish this sample had never even landed in my hands.