Wasnbt sure where to put this since it not really a cologne, feel free to move it if you want.
I just spent $100 on a 2ml Hindi Kadem from a well known store in NYC that is repubtable for agarwood from doing my research.
they had two different agarwood, the first one I had put on, smelled literally like I was on a barnyard and fecal all around me later on it changed but no way I can wear this.,
This one I bought was sweet in the beginning then later changed to a complex of dry, woody, and musky. I am not even sure how to describe it.
Very strong. For experimentation I decided to take an atomizer and fill it up with some of my TAK since that has no fragrance and then added 3 drops of the oil and then shaked it all arond and made it a perfume.
I am going to test this for a few days and see what happens. I would add my Ammo but it has neroli, and not sure how that would react.
I have a few vials of agarwood and like the smells on small dosages. I don´t feel I´m mature enough or old enough to pull of their scent. I bought mine from q-store and tiny vials from orriscent. Denec, to avoid the barnyard smell, try to stay away from the assam type, they tend to be very animalistic. Some of them are quite intoxicating and I enjoy them, but still feel that girls my age might be a bit immature for this type of scent, but sometimes I get the same feeling with straight musk. What you can do is buy the attar which is mixed with sandalwood usually. It is less intense.
I have tried it before, and to be honest it’s not really a smell I enjoyed. That could be because I was using it on myself, however. I may have liked it if a man was wearing it.
It’s a very heavy, male scent in my opinion. Not one to be worn by someone who doesn’t know how to carry it off, or walks around feeling uncertain about it.
There’s a 333 entry discussion of this near the bottom of the 3rd page of the main discussion forum at “the other place” that you might find interesting.