Varuek

Potent on application and reminded me of Avon perfumes of the 80s. I almost washed it off. But, something drew me in...after 15 minutes, I was hooked. This fragrance is *complex.* Animalic, yet so very sophisticated. Think...the werewolf breathing on your neck and the Palais Garnier fireplace smokiness and dry heat clinging to his red velvet jacket. Spicy, black resin on flurry flesh. It is indeed evocative of the Wolf. This scent is for the daring. It is in no way subtle.

It's ok, fragrantica has it at 4.56. I don't score that high. But this was perceived from the generous sample from Luckyscent. May atomized it would wear differently. It's not that animalic to me. Becomes a skin scent in 20 mins.

To me, the first notes were human-ish fecal, maybe a whiff of vomit, then a probably-ruminant (not wolf) animal sweat/dander, with tar at the end. That was it for me--no spice/booze/incense/anything I found beguiling. It was much less "feral with sweaty fecal 'allure' now clearly looking for like-minded companions", and more like "I just had the worst babysitting gig of my life. The kid was sick at both ends, their sheep got stuck in the thorns in the yard and I had to untangle it, and all they had was an ancient bar of pinetar lice-killer soap that didn't even smell like pine, just old nasty tar and possibly killed lice. This shirt is ruined--probably can never wear these shoes again either."