Wazamba Parfum d`Empire for women and men

A deep incense greets me at the door: "Hi lady, welcome to the world of mysteries and complexity. Enjoy your advanture."
I start walking down a staircase, dark and dry. A few minutes later, a group of myrth, opoponax, resin, and sandalwood meet me half way and accompany me the rest of the trip. They are close friends, I'd say; no argument, no competition among them. They work together to bring in harmony and beauty.
It's a dark, rough, and dry trip, but at the end, it does get alot smoother as amber takes over sandalwood.
*Strength: 9/10
*Sillage: 7-8/10
I like it very much.
PS: and no, this doesn't smell like Frapin 1270 at all on my skin. The other one is much smoother, lighter, sweeter, and more feminine compared to this.

First of all this perfume associates with earthy colour, deep browns, burnt orange. Through the first notes i went directly to the woods-resiounous, high density hard timber, exotic. It is as if it has absorbed all southern savannah scents, winds, herbs, even animals, and soil that gives birth and holds together everything alive.

Spices used in zesty african cousine-or so is my impression...

Then i smelled my small sample again. This time i could clearly visualise a pine-tree. Not a tall one like the ones in siberia-smaller, the one that we take to the house for christmas, with lush needled branches.

Its is scent for the brave in character, the ones who do not wear pefume, but those who use it to be transported to that special state of mind.

Enjoy.

WOW! Looking at the reviews this is SO different on everyone. My test (from a sample) offered me nothing but dirt and the scent of pine tree air freshener. This is not a perfume I would ever see myself wearing.

Myrrh, incense and cypress at the opening. After that the note of apple joins the composition. It is silent, quite linear and sits close to the skin.

Wazamba and Frapin 1270 could almost be twins!
Dried, candied fruit with a very slight booziness.
I really like it. Lasts longer than 1270.

wow, since it's been touted by some as similar to fille en aiguilles (one of my absolute faves) , i eagerly gave it a few quirts this morning. let's just say i've had two showers today :/ my first scrubber in quite a while... i don't get the frankincense at all (nor pine), just a cloyingly sweet, curried fruit stew (yes, i gave it a full hour before giving it the soap!).
it IS very similar to pd'e fougere bengale. maybe i have an 'off' sample or my chemistry clashes but this is just awful. you want a wearable incense? armani privé bois d'encens is the ticket!

Wazamba starts with incense and myrrh right on the spot, associated with a very evident resinous combo, but without being too pungent. The opening does not screams in your face since a light apple aroma kicks in leaving things softly. Anyway, a very pleasant fragrance that I recommend to everyone to at least try it instead of only look to Ambre Russe.

To me this is the frankincense of Comme des Garcons' Avignon or Montale's Full Incense made more colourful with the cypress and labdanum, and therefore more wearable. Sweet in a non-sticky way (I think it's the amber-like quality of the labdanum), this smells like the inside of a wooden box where you have been storing some resins to burn. As it dries down, it gets colder, closer to the aspect of frankincense I love the most. Gorgeous fragrance with a decent staying power.

I'm not aware of any scent that is similar to Wazamba. It sits at the driest extreme of the perfume spectrum, yet is not harsh or severe.
The pine and incense serves to conjure an image of old wooden lacquered chests containing treasures from the spice route.
I love Wazamba for it's distictiveness, and crave it on occasion. It is a perfume to be experienced, rather than enjoyed, but however you wear it, it won't be forgotten.

This reminds me of a walk in my very own backyard! Actually, perhaps a few miles out of town and into the Oregon woods in the middle of summer.

Wazamba smells like toasted fir needles crunching underfoot, with a sweet, sun-ripened, soft piney aroma. It's like a hitting the trail with my family which we try to do a couple of times a month during the warmer seasons.

The cypress in Wazamba strikes me as though I've deeply inhaled fresh, sinus clearing mountain air. Then I reach into my husband's top pocket and grab a small packet of trail mix, open it and release the rich smell of dried apples and sweet ambery-musky ladbanum.

Wonderfully wholesome, vibrant, natural, woody, resinous and rich all at once. I doubt I'd buy a bottle though as there's nothing like donning on my hiking shoes and going out to get the real thing, yet this fragrance is so true to scent that it transports me right there. I can't wait either as the weather is just now warming up.

Highly recommend for anyone who doesn't have a forest in their backyard. Wazamba is a uniquely fantastic fragrance that evokes outdoor adventure and joy.

Wazamba is a predominately labdanum scent on me. It has a boozy apple cider accord that accompanies this note and makes this scent almost gourmandish. I get a bit of inscense in the heart, but as it dries down the inscense fades and Im left with labdanum, opoponox, and apple cider in the dry down. Kind of reminds me of Hermes Ambre Narguile.

Lasting power is average, sillage is close to my skin.

Very unique scent.

Opening masculine with loads of incense and myrrh. Followed by fresh and sparkling apple and I feel loads of lemons as well even they are not listed. The next note that comes is definetely cypress. The scent becomes more and more woody, sweet and warm resins appear and makes this extremely lovely to my nose and perfectly suitable for such a cold evening I have here. I can feel that there are some sugary notes, like apple cider with too much sugar, but it's not as disturbing as it was at the first appearance of the sugar here.
It's not what I would wear though, as I find too sweet. I hoped for something more smoky.

Let me put this mathematically, what my impressions are about this frag

SL's Arabie/Ambre Sultan + Incense/Pine = Wazamba

It is quite likeable.

To me I think it is more enjoyable on a man than on a woman.

I haven't been this excited about a niche release for ages. Pure genius.
A thick, exotic and smoky brew of resins, incense, pine and juicy baked apples. A very unusual mix of familiar scents, unique and intriguing, that envelops you in warmth and comforts your misunderstood nonconformist soul while telling the world very clearly that you're one of those people who have a mind of their own. It's almost a declaration of independence:) Plus an ideal scent for autumn.
I'm a huge Lutens fan, but I think Fille en Aiguilles, which Wazamba is often compared to, pales in comparison.

This is a very interesting incense scent, a must for incense lovers. To me it smells like a cross between CdG Avignon and DK Black Cashmere, with a prominent fir note. The lasting power is very good but the sillage is definitely lower than Avignon's and thus I think more wearable. I like it a lot but already owning Black Cashmere which to me is similar, I don't feel I need a bottle of it right now.

This is in my top 3. I have been searching for a woody piney scent but found Cdg`s Hinoki a bit to turpentiny harsh, DSH Hinoki was abit softer on me and almost perfect, but then I found this one. Softer rounder sweeter. More woody than incensey on me. Ends up in a sweet cool incense pine mix on my skin.

For real orient lovers, this is probably one of the more interesting perfume there to try.

I realised most of the times when you try fragrances labelled as 'oriental' they represent some sort of diluted, Western image of exotic ambience. Sometimes sweet, sometimes a bit spicy, sometimes a bit of incense is added.

This is what in my belief IS real Africa. It is very strong, very harsh, at first I felt as if I were hit with something heavy on the head (not in a negative sense, but it was quite a shock to find such power in such a tiny vial). Wazamba is very raw. This is not a light version of wood and incense, but their essence, and it remains strong for a long time after the application. It is very unusual, for me maybe a bit too unusual and too strong.
While Id love to admire it on someone else, it somehow does not go well with my person.

I've struggled a lot with the incense scents, Avignon and Cathedral in particular with smell of cold wet stone. Wazamba takes it all in a different direction and is much better and much more wearable for it. Not a classic scent nor a classic formula, but the most wearable incense I have tried.

Wazamaba certainly is exotic, unusual.
This is more smell than stricte eau de parfum. Warm, likeable incense complete not associates with church. This is rather smoke autummal fire. Besides incense in Wazamba are many another notes: cinnamon, beautiful sandalwood, burnes apples. Smell is rich, merry, warm, almost hot. Great, smiled oriental scent, specially to wear in autumm and winter. I love it, I want it.