Reentry (ROUND 2)
scent of the day: Oud Rex Chinese Exclusive, by Ensar
Oudy but with an edge of a salon-spa in poor neighborhood meets musk and mate. / Has a solid resemblance to Purple Orris Star Ghaliyah by Pinoy Sirun: deep purple over a rich tobacco-castoerum-oud trifecta that would make Ramsey go gaga—and this, for those who know Ramsay’s tastes, means that we are, like Ensar says in his writeup, getting something quite sophisticated (befitting a European aristocrat) while not getting the overt animalics or exotic spices that make Prin so repugnant to him. / Ensar lists no Iris here but it has to be contributing to the purple element/ Its impression is more rooty here—no over cosmetic associations like in the Pinoy. / while there is a phenolic element because of the dirty luxury of castoreum and the smoke of oud, I find that the phenolic element of the Pinoy is more pronounced whereas a cheesy oud (there in nose dives) is more pronounced in the Ensar. /
New oud rex I find cheesier than the old/ it’s cheesy Oud through the thick veil of purple and castoreum I get in the older version. / definitely another and star purple the today the DNA is like. oh wow, so redundant among the sense, but I’m sure I could find specificities if I look you closer./ the castoreum in this new one is definitely loud too: it’s a castoreum scent, primarily another castoreum leather that you can smell from the beginning. / This is something that Ramsay would really like. It has more of the European style with a little bit of cheese in the back. I personally would probably prefer the more Middle Eastern style, but this has a European style with the castoreum leather base. I could just knowing Ramsey he would really like this one./
Reentry
Dirty nails cradling it at heart for hours in “oneness with the native maker,” he reburied
that petrified jug (worth, he knew, his SoHo loft) in the red sands of its canyon cave—
unable to find it, for the bloody life of him, in the psilocybin descent of digging dawn.
