Eros Najim - Parfém

Sleeper hit with the dry down.

Took a chance with a travel size after smelling a sample in store, and it's definitely worth the purchase. Incredible, spicy and sweet scent. Gives a nice mix of herbal and gourmand, and the dry down becomes the perfect intoxicating all day scent. Perhaps a bit overpowering on the first spray, but sinks into the skin incredibly.

Short Version: Smells Good

Long Version: Here is a layman's review, because smelling this on my skin I understand now why reviews trying to describe it have been all over the place. It's a little hard to describe. This scent is a very sweet resinous one mainly. Warm incense resin with sweetness dialed to 11. There's more going on in this (spice, earthy, woody, etc) but that's the main profile: super sweet resin. The immediate opening is kind of a chaotic mess but give it a few minutes to settle down and then its true form comes out. Extremely strong projection. Definitely leans masculine even with the intense sweetness. Basically smells like the idea was to back up all that sweetness with an otherwise totally masculine medley so that the manly-man types can have an overtly sweet option that still reads manly. At random brief times it goes more toasted sugary-sweet and that's where the "caramel" clicks, it's caramelized sugar gently toasting, but it comes and goes as if the woody, resinous and earthy tones are battling it out with that sweetness back and forth for dominance. I also get now what is meant by it being "bright" as in, it's relatively bright compared to the usual "dark" scents of earthy woody "oud" incense concepts. This is like a translucent golden honey amber version compared to an acrid smoky dark leathery "oud" concept.