The moment I smelled Kumiho for the first time, I knew it was *me*. It's the scent I wear most often when I go out and really want to feel confident and sophisticated.
Its most remarkable quality, in my mind, is the balance of elements, and the way they combine to create an enigmatic gestalt that really feels more than the sum of it's parts.
It's crisp and energizing without feeling like a soap or cleaning product. I get a bright yet elusive citrus note, could be a kind of orange some days, yuzu perhaps on others, I can never quite pin it down. There is a mysterious, barely sweet body, somehow made both brighter and darker by the presence of ginger.
The overall effect for me is a feeling of being in a warm open space, perhaps a grove of citrus trees on a pleasant day, drinking tea with close friends.
It's the perfume that made me decide that a man of my age ought to have a "signature scent," because, well, I knew I had one now.
