Adam’s Apple (ROUND 1)
SCENT OF THE DAY: Malik al-Taif, by Areej le Dore
Malik is like Attainment (I have only smelled part 2, so I will only speak on that) deepened in the rose dimension in that infinite depth way I get from E03 Rugosa—a similar smell too. Malik is better than both—the blend is just phenomenal with the earthy chocolateness merging with the rtose. I bought this years after release. I assume it was brighter in the beginning. Now the earthty element is dominant, which especially draw connection to Attainment. And on that note, there is absolutely no justification for Malik selling for figures approaching 2k. It was prices amazingingly for the time 250 or so, just as Attainment was in its time (400). People need to explore Amphora Exotica. If you are out to make money and so want a sure resale or if you are one of the hype-train sheeple, fine—skip it. Amphora’s stuff is for people who love the perfumes—not those who fret over buying and selling in this endless revolving door that is obviously covering up a spiritual-psychological-emotional hole. Subtle mint comes through in the dry-down. I can see why Ramsey once called this an end-game fragrance.
Adam’s Apple
Picture a closeness so true that when they tell you their illness, that it will kill them,
you do not make it about you— throat hitches unhidden as you ask what symptoms
came first, in case you might have it too—precisely because it already is about you.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)
