Oud Mood Reminiscence
Pimento is the material that separates Lattafa Oud Mood Reminiscence Eau de Parfum 100ml from everything else wearing the Oud Mood name, and it is worth knowing about before you buy.
Pimento is allspice, and it smells of it: hot, peppery and faintly sweet, with a dry bite that arrives fast and takes its time leaving. It opens the fragrance alongside rose and saffron, the rose full and faintly jammy, the saffron bitter and dry, and the three of them make a start that is spiced rather than sweet.
The heart turns in an unexpected direction. Oud comes through sour and resinous as it always does, but caramel is sitting right next to it, dark and faintly burnt, and the pairing of a medicinal wood with a confectioner's sweetness is a genuinely odd one. Patchouli is the material that makes it hold together, earthy and inky and bitter enough to stop the caramel running away with the whole composition.
Amber, incense and musk take it home. Amber adds resinous warmth, incense brings a cold, dry smoke that reads as serious, and musk softens the lot into something that stays close to the skin rather than filling a room. Nine materials and a real structure. Expect a day of wear from the eau de parfum concentration, with the first hour and a half the most assertive. It is a cold weather fragrance and an evening one, and it reads unisex, slightly to the masculine side.
Khamrah and Yara brought Western buyers to this company, and the oddities further down its catalogue are the reward for staying. Reminiscence is the sweeter and stranger of the Oud Mood variations, and the one to pick if the original struck you as too austere.
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