Excited to hear it is in NYC! I’m going to pop by the shop to try! I too hope there is one more still in the work. It was a very unceremonious departure!
I like it! An easier Night and an easier Promise. I have the others, and this very well may be the last Malle Malle, so I think I may “have” to get it. Glad I saw your vid that it hit NYC!
Hope has thai oud compared to the Night which has Indian oud Thai oud is usually Aquilaria Crassna species whereas Indian oud is Aquilaria Agallocha two very different types of trees and different oud oil products The promise doesn’t have oud at all only cypriol and other woody oils
@@RichMitch did you notice the dry down of Hope gets pretty dire? I'm still smelling the card in my room and 3 days later there is still a powerful amberwoody smell that'll singe the nose hairs. 😫
None of the Frederic Malle's ouds smells remotely closed to any natural oud I've smelt or even my sample of cypriol oil. I wonder what type of oud do they use in there. I believe Malle himself has standards and wouldn't pull a fast one on us but I am puzzled by the type of oud accord in his releases.
@@gunmetal2445 I wonder if it has something to do with Frederic's desire for clarity, like how the vetiver in Vetiver Extraordiaire is so scrubbed clean of any undesirable components. Maybe he takes the same approach to oud. I must say I don't particularly like the results, it ends up being a bit dry and unrelenting.
@@cheapimitation2242 I am going to ask the oudh enthusiast that i know if there’s any oud oils that have a dry leathery quality. It might be something Ive never encountered before.
@@cheapimitation2242 I've come to discover that most high end artisanal oud oils are free from funk/ animalics have minimal of it - the key is the way it is distilled/ extracted. This was what I was expecting to smell from the high priced oudh line. I was really hoping Malle would invest and use top shelf stuff (presuming here). But saying that, the natural Oudh oil is not loud or aggressive enough to stand alongside the woody ambers so it would be a waste of an expensive material. Maybe Malle has a different objective then what I think is the perfect Oudh scent.
Have you smelled the night? It has a very animalic oud smell probably what you think of a more traditional oud smell. But i really don’t care for that smell. The oud in promise is perfect to me.
Promise’s dry down is beautiful. The moon has more berry on the oud.
It mellows ,in hours ,pleasant , sniff in the room the presence of Aoud
I think it's the fifth desert gems release (promise, night, dawn, moon, hope)
Right!
Love the Headhunters cover on the book.
Excited to hear it is in NYC! I’m going to pop by the shop to try!
I too hope there is one more still in the work. It was a very unceremonious departure!
@@orosz4001 let me know what you think when you try it!
I like it! An easier Night and an easier Promise. I have the others, and this very well may be the last Malle Malle, so I think I may “have” to get it. Glad I saw your vid that it hit NYC!
Hope has thai oud compared to the Night which has Indian oud
Thai oud is usually Aquilaria Crassna species whereas Indian oud is Aquilaria Agallocha two very different types of trees and different oud oil products
The promise doesn’t have oud at all only cypriol and other woody oils
I was hoping to buy the travel size sprayer of this and saw the price. 😆😆😆
Promise is such a sledgehammer 🔨
Literally might be my top fragrance of all time for me. Such a banger 💯
@@RichMitch did you notice the dry down of Hope gets pretty dire? I'm still smelling the card in my room and 3 days later there is still a powerful amberwoody smell that'll singe the nose hairs. 😫
@@cheapimitation2242 yep absolutely. It's essentially just promise with a nice incense note at 3x the price!
It can’t be the 4th. The night, Dawn, Promise, Moon, and now hope. 5
None of the Frederic Malle's ouds smells remotely closed to any natural oud I've smelt or even my sample of cypriol oil. I wonder what type of oud do they use in there. I believe Malle himself has standards and wouldn't pull a fast one on us but I am puzzled by the type of oud accord in his releases.
@@gunmetal2445 yea I totally know what you mean!
@@gunmetal2445 I wonder if it has something to do with Frederic's desire for clarity, like how the vetiver in Vetiver Extraordiaire is so scrubbed clean of any undesirable components. Maybe he takes the same approach to oud. I must say I don't particularly like the results, it ends up being a bit dry and unrelenting.
@@cheapimitation2242 I am going to ask the oudh enthusiast that i know if there’s any oud oils that have a dry leathery quality. It might be something Ive never encountered before.
@@cheapimitation2242 I've come to discover that most high end artisanal oud oils are free from funk/ animalics have minimal of it - the key is the way it is distilled/ extracted. This was what I was expecting to smell from the high priced oudh line. I was really hoping Malle would invest and use top shelf stuff (presuming here). But saying that, the natural Oudh oil is not loud or aggressive enough to stand alongside the woody ambers so it would be a waste of an expensive material. Maybe Malle has a different objective then what I think is the perfect Oudh scent.
Have you smelled the night? It has a very animalic oud smell probably what you think of a more traditional oud smell. But i really don’t care for that smell. The oud in promise is perfect to me.