Cream Sandalwood King

Lustre is pure Sandalwood, Spicy, creamy & Silky, a state-of-the-art sculpture made of Beige marble. Igor, in the article you found up there, described it perfectly. This is a scent that acts as a Sandalwood Attar. Julien and Paul teamed up, and their decision was to use Sandalwood as the core, which acts as an oil, placing it as the pillar of the profile, which is smoothed with a beautiful creamy amber and some Myrr and Cardamom; however, the spices aren't frontal, they are used as functionally as possible to allow the Myrr to shine. I love the way the opening was formulated, because its ruff on the spices and has a backbone of the stink of the amber and myrr, is little off putting, but i like it as mixes very well in the coposition, and even thught starts like that is as smooth as it gets later, still keeping a punch of spices as a misty fog, wizard stuff, and clearly showing some very high-level skills, it looks simple, but clearly isn't. That is the beginning, the magic happens in the middle, the development, and the Drydown.The middle part of the scent is probably the creamiest fragrance I have ever tried of a spicy sandalwood combo, which uses wood-amber. It evolves into a very complicated scent to describe, because it is pure class in using Sandalwood, Myrr, and mixing the Ambers in the correct way, allowing it to become this "oil" of some sort that is visually exactly like the sandalwood image of the Amouage campaign. The twist here is that it is creamy, thanks to the Orris. Imagine a very fluffy "cappuccino" like cream, but with the core of sandalwood and amber + spices, i know it sounds weird, but this is the image that I have. It's basically an Attar that is acting like a scent. The 6 months of maceration give away the secret and the reason for this statement of mine.Is quite overpriced, but I doubt other scents come close to this, so somehow it came to be justified. Is not a perfume you find every day, it is a unique scent, and it belongs beautifully in the Amouage Essence collection. If you are a fan of something creamy, spicy, and at the same time woody and resinous, this is it. Simplifying I can describe it as a oriental warm milky-tea with spices, but all created with Sandalwood, as i said Wizard stuff.