Samurai on a Bridge Battling a Ghost While Making Love to a Woman

[Jenjin]

Steel, leather, and scarlet chypre, pomegranate incense, tobacco absolute,
nagarmotha, saffron, Ceylon cinnamon, champaca, and red oud.

[vixen of pie]

I'm new to the world of perfume reviews, so here's my take on this scent I had the joy of getting in my Luper haul because of its amusing title. I got this in the hopes someone would ask me what perfume I'm wearing just to tell them the name. 😏

 

ITB: This smells very mossy and green, kind of like tea and fresh leaves. There is also a slight muskiness I detect maybe from the oud. 

 

WET: The green, chypre scent is strongest! This smells so fresh like I am rolling on a mossy forest floor. But it's clean with no dirty earthiness. Very green scent with a bit of tanginess. As it's drying, I think I can start to detect some clean leather. Like I am cosplaying as a leather clad elf in the forest! 

 

Dry: Okay, this has developed so beautifully. It's turned from a green to what I think is like a red scent. It's warm, and there is now the incense coming through, and a hint of spice peeking through the moss. It's not a strong scent, and not overpowering as I was worried this would be with the listed notes. This is a lovely unisex scent, and smells foresty and clean.

 

 

[Fancyfetus]

I've been avoiding this review for long enough. I'll try to do it justice. 

 

This is primarily a chypre perfume; sophisticated, green, and mossy. I pick out the bright steel note immediately. I think it's the same gorgeous metallic that's used in Chrome Peaches - bright, sharp and almost sweet. A perfectly forged blade.

 

On a deep inhale, the cinnamon appears. I think the cinnamon likes to hide amongst the moss. With careful attention you can pick out a flash of it, like the ripple and flutter of the samurai's red robes. I can imagine someone else's skin really amping the cinnamon here.

 

The leather in this is quite polite. It's soft, worn leather - maybe brown. I can't quite pick out pomegranate, but there's the hint of incense. The oud helps to make the entire scent nice and round and whole, giving it some heft.

 

I haven't been able to put my finger on what about this chypre is so particularly intoxicating, and I think it might be the saffron. It's just enough to add the lightest touch of gold, honeyed sweetness to the moss. Over time, this just gets warmer and softer but never loses its charm.

 

This is a truly gorgeous blend and I'm glad I took a chance on it. There's a complexity and depth here that keeps me coming back for one more whiff. I can see this becoming a classic. If you're a fan of chypre perfumes, give this one a shot.

[Roogna]

surprisingly sweet at first, a creamy incense-y kind of sweet. (chypre and champaca?). It's overall light with a low throw. It shifts to more steel, There may be leather if I sniff carefully and maybe the saffron or cinnamon, but the oud nudges in with just a hint of woodsy poop (not the full on stink it can sometimes have) making it hard to tell