Recently got a bottle from a swap page, and it smells so much more different than the dozens if not one hundred reviews I’ve read online (warm, woody, smooth, luxurious, elegant, etc). I Smell most of the individual notes, but it’s so heavily “top dominant” with the mandarin and pepper, and the benzoin really makes it almost sickeningly sweet (which contradicts the reviews of people just saying ‘slightly sweet’). The vanilla and rose are wrapped in there, but I get almost no cedar and...

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