NASOMATTO Pardon Extrait De Parfum

Nasomatto mystery fragrances! They leave it up to your imagination, and that's groovy. However, I find the notes people listed above to be less than adequate for my scentsory experience. I own it, I sampled it, I lived it, I love it, but it isn't Tonka-chocolate-flowers... here's what it is...

The best way to describe the opening moments (from the spray, not a tube for sampling) is.... you know that smell that waps you in the face when you enter an auto parts store like Pep Boys, or NAPA, or Auto Zone? You know that smell of fresh tire rubber and hints of oil and cardboard, etc? OK--hold that smell in your mind. Now apply a high-pass filter (sound, smell, all the same!) and take out the deeper, darker, more synthetic and noxious notes of that auto parts experience. THAT is what the first few minutes smell like: vibrant, sparkling, black rubber and oil and crispy dry cardboard. Weird? It's Nasomatto... get used to it.

After 10-15 minutes it settles down and becomes linear for long hours of wear. That period doesn't smell like cinnamon and chocolate!! It smells exactly like taking a dried cedar and a dried pine 2x4, strapping it together with a crispy dry, leather-bound hardcover book from the 1800s... and cutting it all in half. Then tenderly placing the tiniest of violets on top while it rests in a hot summer sun on a very dry day.

YES: you smell like a romantic lumber mill where they destroy books.

I'm sorry if that sounds absurd, but that is what it smells like on my skin. Later on it seems to fade into some kind of vanilla/cream as it ghosts out forever. Trying to discern this scent is odd. It fools me into musk and whiskey/brandy, but when I really concentrate, it is a strong cedar/pine with leather and paper and nearly imperceptible hints of delectable background notes that never emerge.

Overall, it's VERY masculine and very classy, but it isn't inappropriate for women either. It's a delightful scent that enthuses the nose and invigorates the mind without grabbing the victim and beating it over the head with obvious notes and sickening synthetics.

Projection is moderate with 2 sprays. Longevity is good, not incredible, going for 8 hours until it is just a mild surface scent.

This is easily the single best fragrance I own. Yeah it's only a 30ml bottle, but this is the only fragrance that I NEED a backup bottle of. The patchouli, oud, and chocolate mix together in the most *heavenly* way possible. I might have gotten more compliments with blue fragrances... but this bottle got me the *best* compliments ever.

Aweee man I can’t explain how much I love this scent. There is nothing like it. It’s the kind of perfume that u wear coz u just want to keep smelling it on yourself . It is just amazing. I want to buy 100 back ups and never be without it . There are very few scents I feel this way about. Chypre Palatin is one and TRNP Embers is another. This is masterpiece in perfumery.

Love at first sniff!!!

What a fragrance!!!
I feel a bit vulgar trying to break it down but here goes.

There's definitely patchouli in here and that might account for the chocolatey vibe.
I also get a cocktail of sweet balmy incense elements of ladnaum, Myrrhe, opoponax just about everything I love.
The Oud is present but not that prominent at first but comes on stronger and stronger in the drydown which is sublime.
It's an interesting mixture of Carner cuirs, jubilation 25, black Afgano, Duro, Myrrhe imperial, bois noir but with the patchouli of Hindu grass.
This fragrance might even surpass some of my alltime favourites,
Pardon is quite simply a revelation, brilliant and something I would wear in a heartbeat.
Despite vague similarities across the board, the more you discover about perfume the more you refine 'exactly' what it is that you're into.
Pardon delivers it...what it can't do is recapture the enthusiasm or the sense of discovery the first time I smelled certain types of perfume but it has a damn good try.
By some strange miracle Pardon is not that strong...yes you heard me right.
Of course it's strong, it's a Nasomato perfume for gods sake but in my experience this is not as strong as Black Afgano or Duro.
A top top fragrance no doubt and has that signature Nasomatto thing about it.

I would like to meet a man who wears Pardon! This is an amazing scent! It’s not enough to say it’s good! PARDON gives me a sense of strong embrace where you could melt…This scent invites:” Come with me, I'll gift you all the stars...” It’s not safe, it’s not calming, neither dirty or mischievous, but it’s elegant and so generous, it’s full of desire to make you feel good…