/fa/ - Fashion

I tried Nicolai Amber Oud sample I got with my order and lads, it's brilliant. She did a very out of the box thing: took a classic gentlemany fougere with dominant lavender (very much in her Patchouli Intense style but not as much geranium-forward) and married it with an oriental ambery-(slightly)oudy base. It works really well and I thin all fans of APH, PUH, Rive Gauche and all other aromatic fougeres should check it out. The way she brought up the dirty aspects of lavender with oud and labdanum reminds me a lot of how it is done in Caron Pour Un Homme where it's rather accented with musk. I really think that people like Wafts would go nuts over it and I'm only 30 minutes in.