I applied a tiny pinhead droplet on my hand, rubbed it slowly on my other hand and hours later I can still smell that dark, smokey, heavy, spicy, woody, incense, balsamic scent. It has a lot of flavors that I don't like, but I respect the choice of others in which they find their happiness. Saving this fragrance for when I have a very important meeting or when I visit a luxury place and I feel a little overwhelmed, this perfume is kind of helping me. I see the creativity and uniqueness of the scent, but the fragrance is so heavy that covers all the details and beauty of the scent. Sweet and smoky, evokes memories of smoking a fruit-flavoured narghile in a chicha bar in Beirut or Istanbul.

Also waiting for almost 3 hrs and it is still going strong with that opening note hijacking all my senses. Just to open the big gate to the sensual world of fragrance: Leather - often a counterpart to my feeling - is the forerunner to the fragrant finale!Black Iris flanker might be a gateway drug for the younger guys but its essentially a lighter version of the OG with iris. This is because the smoke didn't slap me right away, only after a couple of minutes did it mingle with the oregano and the resins. You want it more and more, and with every sniff, like your dark master, interlude gives it to you just enough so you come back for more.

Interlude Man doesn't garner any compliments for me, but I'm not a very approachable-looking guy which leads me to my last point. After the smoke kicked in, i could still pick up on the ambery, balsamic sweetness emanating from the resins while with the clone, sadly it feels like there is not much else under the smoke and herbal oregano. At this stage somehow the fragrance comes alive and it keeps transitioning between the two phases i described above: smokey sweet balsamic resins vs sharp herbal spices.If you only find the fragrance exciting, if you only decide to use it every few months, you are better off with Midnight Oud as a 95% copy, at least in monetary terms.

A fragrance for me, not for others, I'm sure a lot of people would be seriously annoyed by this one if you overspray. While we strive to provide accurate and helpful information, we cannot guarantee the complete accuracy or reliability of the AI-generated pros and cons. After 45 minutes it will smoothly transform in to incense kind of burning sweet and this is the Heart of the perfume and carrying same for the day. minutes into the fragrance is where I really begin to pick up on Oregano, lending its herbaceous greenness just over a dark, earthy soil-like Patchouli note. The Oud-Cuir-Patchouli base is propelled upward with the Frankincense and Oregano giving it enormous body.At first I thought- ew, balsamic, but if you let this settle you will discover many other notes that start to take over. Every fragrance I have sampled so far has a very subtle and quick yet memorable jolt of perfume excellence.

I could go on about the various stages, the complexity but i will just say it’s a work of art in perfumery and one that you will rarely find anyone else wearing, when you are in a group. Frankincense and Myrrh traditionally smell spiritual and religious but in Interlude, they have been reconstructed to feel contemporary yet sophisticated.The initial hit of oregano can be a bit harsh, but it quickly mellows into an incredible blend of smoky notes and some other stuff I cannot quite figure out. But the combination definitely works , like music it all comes together wonderfully , you might not appreciate some of the tracks are there unless isolated but they’re there playing their part adding to the fantastic whole .