War and Peace Part II

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• Dr.No

  June 25, 2021

  

  Very artistic, but it doesn’t convince me. The opening is an ultra-resinous, dark scent, like dampness—as if time had stopped. With vintage oils and million-year-old resins, the verdict is clear: do we believe Russian Adam? He shouldn’t have to lie. There’s no evolution or other nuances; it feels like it’s in beta, lacking development because it’s so simple. As a fragrance, it’s fantastic: if I were building a volcano diorama for a dinosaur era, I’d spray W&P2 to add realism. It smells like frozen time, very resinous and dark. Good performance, it’s masculine, though in perfumery there are no rules if a woman likes it. If someone recreates the smell of hay or excrement, I appreciate it, but as a perfume, I struggle with it because I just don’t feel like it. If they toned it down and paired it with white flowers and a touch of vetiver, I’d consider it. Areej le Doré is an elitist house with very artistic perfumes. Zoologist follows that ARTISTIC philosophy (or did, since they reformulated many because they don’t sell due to being exotic or rare). I applaud smelling different things and that passion, but I don’t want this in my collection to lift my chin and say, ‘I have an Areej.’ That’s not my philosophy. If I end up storing something in a drawer unused, I’d prefer it to be a gold coin or cash, not a bottle gathering dust.