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Bucephalus N IX
Armaf Bucephalus N IX Eau de Parfum 100ml belongs to a small numbered sub line that sits apart from the brand's better known ranges, and this is the lighter and brighter of the two the shop carries.
Three citrus materials open it. Bergamot, grapefruit and mandarin orange together make a start that is bitter, juicy and sweet all at once, with the grapefruit loudest and the mandarin softening it. That phase is lively but brief, and most of it has gone inside twenty minutes, which is normal for citrus of this kind. The heart is small and quite clever. Violet leaf is the key material, green, dewy and faintly metallic, nothing like a violet flower, and it gives the middle a cool crispness. Black pepper sits with it, dry and prickly, and between them they hold the scent in a sort of austere, well pressed register that the citrus alone could not reach. Underneath, four materials carry it home. Musk provides warmth and skin, tonka bean a soft hay sweetness, patchouli earth and depth, and oakmoss a dry, slightly bitter dampness that keeps the sweetness in check. It is a classical sort of base, built the way masculine fragrance was built for decades, and it gives the whole thing a seriousness that the bright opening never promises.
Reckon on six hours at this concentration with moderate projection, and treat it as a spring and autumn scent for daytime and work. It reads masculine. Everything here is made in the Emirates. The plant sits at Dubai Investment Park and has done since 2009, the company that runs it opened in 1998 under Fakhruddin Holdings, and this particular brand arrived in 2010.
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