Oriental Lumpur Les Nereides for women and men

I have a 100 ml of Oriental Lumpur and am willing to swap ;-)

Ok, I'm sure I've smelled this scent before, I just can't figure where. I'm scratching and scratching my head, but one thing I'm coming to finally is that this reminds me of men's aftershave and not an expensive one. It's not that it's a bad scent per se, it's rather interesting and spicy as I like them, but I can't get past the men's aftershave thing enough to wear it in public. Still, this has an amazing staying power. I'm seriously impressed!

LOve Love Love. What a wierd fragrance! Its smells so strange, if in a way it smells like a plant that grows in a field next my mother house, it has pizza wiff on it, maybe it has oregon in the notes somewhere. I would wear it as a perfume but just more like an olfatory experience. After a while develops for something like a man cologne mixed with sweat.
Very sweet, oriental in a aromatic way I guess, fresh, mediterranean and unisex.

Wow, so good experience. Nice and mysterious fragrance. I’m in love just after first sniff. All spices are so well balanced that it smells very delicate but the silage is great. OL is also really long lasting fragrance. Slightly sweet and soapy, but these elements make OL wearable for all occasions and around the year. This is nothing like full of spices rich oriental fragrances. Also in my opinion OL is unlike any other cologne. A must try for perfume lovers.

'Lumpur' mean mud in my language

Incence. Strong church incence is all that I get on my skin when I spray this perfume. Why am I so unlucky? I was looking for saffron, cumin that I love but got church incence that I, well, hate...

Weird, to say the least!
It starts very tart to me, with spices coming in full speed! Interestingly, I smell sumak ( a red Persian spice, that is a little sour, a little spicy), saffron and aoud here. Absolutely no sweetness, and surely no vanilla, according to my nose; no curry either.
Woods are very pronounced too. Basically the whole scent is woods and spices. Not much development, and the dryness of the whole concotion makes it not heavy either.
To me, it evokes a woody ship from the middle ages, carrying spices from far away eastern lands, bringing them to Europe, to the amazement and delight of onlookers! Along with the smell of wood wet with salty water and spices, comes the noise, the color, and the smell and the adventures of the people from that ship.
I see this fitting an exotic looking man, or a very adventurous woman, not afraid to be talked about and not to fit in. I am getting a big bottle of this!
On a side note, it is more masculine than Imperial Opoponax, and not as strong and much less wearable...
Thumbs up for originality though, I wish it had less salt and a little sweetness to it though. Last words about it: unusual conversation piece!

Spice lovers should definitely buy this unsniffed. I did and was not disappointed. It starts off with pungent spices and mellows into a distinctly red peppery smell, then into a curry note and then into an almost unsniffable musky sweetness. Beautiful overall, but the lasting power is not great because this is an eau de toilette, but for this type of scent that is not so awful. Its also good that you can get a big bottle for about $70.

sono daccordo con te Migotka
è una fragranza pesante ma io la amo specialmente dopo un po di ore che la indossi
é TEATRALE

I admit, I am a sucker for spices. A perfume abundant in them is very likely to become my skin's and nose's best friends.

I know Oriental Lumpur gets a lot of very mixed reviews. I heard everything starting from "Awful", "It smells like an Indian restaurant" to "Divine and different", and lots of things in between.

It is an unusual scent for sure. People tend to say it is very foody, I actually dont quite agree. It is spicy, and makes me think of those amazingly colorful spice markets, where spice comes in all colours and you can get practically anything you could have ever wished for. I want to dip my hand in colorful powders and feel the texture. But, at the same time, I dont have an urge to eat raw spice! Oriental Lumpur therefore is not an 'edible' fragrance.

Oriental Lumpur is BIG in saffron and nutmeg, an the patchouli also seems very prominent. Vanilla is quite different from what we usually get- not sweet, but dark, thick. it is not a fragrance that I would call sexy, I describe it in terms of being intriguing and mysterious.

It is not a typical feel good fragrance, it is not particularly cosy, it has a heavier side to it, but I love it for its richeness and depth.

Zafferano, lotti di zafferano, curcuma, cumino, coriandolo - come hanno catturato il undertone dolce di coriandolo??? e sì, appena un suggerimento minuscolo di vaniglia dolce
splendido.

Every time I open my spice box to cook, I say to myself - "if only I could find a perfume that smells just like this...." and now I have.

Saffron, lots of Saffron, turmeric, cumin, coriander - how did they capture the sweet undertone of coriander??? and yes, just a tiny hint of sweet vanilla in the drydown. Magnificent. Just splendid.

L'artisan's Timbuktu is in the neighborhood, but some unpleasant and "perfumey" notes in Timbuktu - this Oriental Lumpur is all spice and nothing else. very very very foodie. Certainly a man could also wear this (it brings back the best memories of my dad teaching me how to cook) - very nice and spicy - but none of that horrible sharp, unpleasant myrtle that turns up in so many men's scents.