Hope / Auspicio

[Atrous]

Black oudh and carnation.

I love the Lab's simpler blends. Give me a scent with just two notes that I happen to love.

This is no exception. Of the Lupers I've tried this one is my favorite.

The Black Oudh in this reminds me of a lighter version of the Motor Oil note in Streets of Detroit.

Combine that with a spicy carnation that's present but not overpowering and you have an awesome combo that smells like a gritty, dark, spicy carnation.

[Lycanthrope]

This is mostly dark, dark oudh on me. Chew with your teeth and fangs smoky oudh. Perhaps a bit of the carnation petal in the background, but it's also a deep russet red, and not particularly flashy. The wood is the star here.

[Smaragdina]

Oof. This is straight dark, filthy, animalistic oudh on me. Rub-your-face-in-the-dirt oudh. After about an hour or so it smooths out and calms down a bit, but I was hoping for more carnation; this is still too much for me.

[zankoku_zen]

Dark, smoky oudh that smells like it has jasmine in it, and doing unpleasant things to my skin at the moment. I occasionally get whiffs of carnation but then something smoky and oily underneath. Great throw, of course. Yeah, this isn't working for me at all.

[Lucchesa]

Big dark indolic oudh versus carnation. Carnation loses, big time. I'm going to age my decant a bit to see if the carnation bucks up at all, but I'm not hopeful.