Chamarre Mona di Orio for women and men

Hmm, I don't even know what to think of this. It opened with animalistic and bitter notes, I wonder where does "animalistic" come from? I can definetely feel adelhydes which are very bitter/masculine at the opening. I'm somehow drawn to this perfume and keep sniffing my wrist even though it's not my favourite type of smell. Like Kterhark mentioned - you just feel urge to smell more and see what comes up next.
For me next comes sweetness of amber, it's "tucked in" bitterness and mingles perfectly together.
Then comes this "skanky" note, it gets more and more sensual and sexual, I've been stuck with my nose up my wrist and inhaling deeply and I feel this to some kind of aphrodisiac, it's so sensual, raw, animalstic, oh my. The flowers are not so noticable, but I can feel them playing around.
Just "wow". I'm so lost here. I keep thinking - this is not my type of scent, it's disturbing, but I keep sniffing my wrist and thinking - oh, god, this is addictive and wonderful and I wish to feel like this more.


God. I think I'm in love.

Mona di Orio is the Lada Gaga of fragrances. You'll sniff at her creations and think "that's odd, but I'm kind of drawn to it and out of morbid curiosity want to see what it will do next."

This is my third scent from this line, and I can now understand why it was a hard sell. These just don't open favorably. This one I applied heavily to my wrists and not so heavily to my decollete. I soon started sneezing and thought 'this just stinks'. The opening is somewhere between dusty and carboard fragranced by a bland floral.

The middle phase lightens up and becomes warmer, and makes for an OK skin scent; but still holds on to that cardboard note. I can't believe i'm goign to say this, because i'm not a floral person, but I ish this was a bit 'sweeter'.

Oiro remains my favorite from this line, and I would say Chamarre is better than Jabu to my nose.