Laylati xerjoff eau de parfum

Haven't smelled black afgano, but I really liked it, even though I usually despise patchouli heavy fragrances

I like/love patchouli and I love tobacco scents. Combining the two notes is a hard nut to break, I always imagined so when I was offered a large bottle of Laylati for designer fragrance price I pulled the trigger. I do hold Xerjoff in high regards so they must be able to manage combining the two, afterall or even though they are an overhyped and overpriced nisch brand. I wasn't wrong, the purchase provided me with a scent that is intriguing and to my nose somewhat new but also a little challenging.
Too much patchouli has, to my nose, a menthol, Vicks tablet or cough syrup scent. This is the case in Laylati that combines an earthy kind of patchouli note with another menthol-ish note; Ceder. To my delight this menthol green/herbal almost medicinal, somewhat harsh note, mixture subsides gradually.
The combination of the tobacco and patchouli here is successful; to my nose it balances the sweet notes of tobacco with a fresh green note of a forest. Never than less it is a tobacco heavy scent thus perhaps headache inducing to some. It is first in the end, and it is a long lasting fragrance with good projection, that tobacco scent subsides and the fragrance becomes powdery while always woody, earthy and warm spicy.
All in all, not a big of a public pleaser nor as well balanced and polished as the more known tobacco heavy fragrance from the same house "Naxos". Where Naxos is much sweeter, honey, vanilla, powdery warm spicy Laylati offers a less trendy and more unusual road to a less sweet, perhaps even slightly herbaly bitter, fresh, warm spicy tobacco bomb.

Xerjoff blah blah, almost a copy and paste of most of my reviews except…

Blind bought pleasant surprise. Yep, typical Xerjoff.
I’m upset though…

Only because the brilliantly slightly subtle opening of green wood freshness lasts five minutes (great) where in the amazing photorealistic cedar overtakes and a peep of tobacco (more so blonde and as per a cigarette) - also great- developes which between 1 and 3 hours the gorgeous musky ambery base with vanilla comes in and I’m in love but the last phase of this 3 phase experience is what annoys me.

By and large - irrespective of the note make up for the long dry down it’s more or less the same for any number of Xerjoff and if I’d have known I would have a)Bought a smaller bottle b) bought La Capitale where the subtle strawberry drives me nuts before the same dry down happens OR c) maybe even Erba Pura - just replace Strawberry with Fruit. Strangely I found a sample of Thameen Cullinan Diamond which I loved and held off purchasing for some reason - my brain kicked into gear and I sprayed on the back of my hand and sure enough, it’s not far off the Xerjoff dry down.

Well, don’t pass this up on my account. For me this is a predominant woody perfume rather than anything else. I also bought Amabile and that has turned out to be possibly the best blind buy in a long time…

I received my Italica (2021) purchase today and was excited to open the package and test the fragrance. After doing so, I opened the sample pack and noticed Laylati, a fragrance that I was not familiar with. When I sprayed it, I INSTANTLY fell in love! Let me get straight to the point: If you love Nasamatto's Black Afgano, then Laylati is the fragrance for you. Unfortunately, I was already wearing Chocolate Makes Me Happy, so I could not truly test its performance, longevity, etc.
But I definitely will test it and update this short review.

Def in the vein of Black Afgano, Fortis, Cuirs, Mumbai Noise et al...
Black Afgano is the original, Laylati is not a bad interpretation.
I like it.