/fa/ - Fashion

I promised I'd give my first impressions on Kosciuszko by Blocki Perfumes, so here they are. It's surprisingly light to me, but not in a bad way. By light I guess I pretty much mean that I expected it to be sweeter. Definitely not a summer perfume but I could see it in spring. When I first sprayed it on I was hit with what smelled like a churchy incense, even though that isn't a listed note. It's probably just a combination of the notes it does have, like maybe gunpowder+fir balsam. It is fairly smoky at least in the opening. The gunpowder smells stronger than it does in La Fin du Monde (the only other perfume I've tried with gunpowder listed). Black pepper is very easy to pick up, and so is the orange. I've never smelled a "bitter orange" note to my knowledge (yes I haven't smelled TDH) but it's very likeable. I smell very little if any booziness from the cognac note so far, and I think it's likely to stay that way, at least for me. I usually don't have mid/base notes suddenly pop up like "Oh, there's the (X)". I think I get a small amount of the tobacco now, about 15 minutes in. It also seems to have gotten a little grassier. My last thoughts are that the orange seems to have disappeared pretty early on, but maybe my nose just got used to it. It's extremely dry and very masculine. This would not fit your average woman, or really any woman at all.
>but perfume doesn't have a gender
Shut up dummy

This fits a similar spot to Royal Oud for me, but isn't redundant at all and is higher quality. Oh and I kinda forgot about the cedar note but it's definitely there (Hence the Royal Oud comparison). It is worth the money they're asking, so I'm very happy about getting it for near half price. Also about 20 minutes in now and I can't shake the feeling of the incense note, similar to Avignon/Cardinal/Liturgies Des Heures/Lavs. More reminiscent of than similar to, I guess.