Omega
Mendittorosa (2012)

it's a gentle vanillic, iris butter with a tinge of floral. It does have a sheer note, however it's, subtle in it's demeanor.

For a far fetched comparison, reference cud be made to different companies des sens & bois.. Or a burberry touch.

Full marks for the delicate yet firm compostion. Very understated yet confident.

Omega opens like confetti. A sweet, powdery vanilla with jasmine facets. It soon falls into overly crowded synth dry-woody territories in which resins and faux oud mash up with iris-y kind of elements while the overly present vanilla still remarks its presence.

Meh.

Omega opens with a brief vanilla sweetened jasmine floral before quickly moving to its heart. As the composition enters its early heart the jasmine all but fades, leaving the syrupy, moderately sweet vanilla remaining in support of an emerging strong synthetic smelling Oud wood with hints of cumin spice. During the late dry-down the synthetic woods vacate, leaving the vanilla now losing most of its earlier sweetness all by itself save faint hints of the jasmine remnants to finish off the composition's development. Projection is on the low side of average and longevity below average at about 5 hours on skin.

Omega started off pretty decent with its early jasmine presentation, but things went downhill fast when the perfumer rolled out the near certainly norlimbanol derived synthetic smelling Oud Wood. This stuff dominated the rest of the composition's facets as it almost always does, making for an unimpressive mid-section to the perfume's development. The late dry-down while more pleasant is near-equally unimpressive as it pretty much consists of relatively dry vanilla with a hint of jasmine. Like most of the Mendittorosa compositions (save the superb Le Mat) it just doesn't have the structure needed to hold things up, and the composition again folds like a house of cards, providing terrible performance metrics, especially considering this is supposed to be an extrait concentration. The bottom line is the 185 Euro per 100ml bottle Omega is a bit of a synthetic smelling mess, earning a "below average" 2 to 2.5 stars out of 5 and a mild avoid recommendation ignoring price. If price were taken into account the avoid recommendation would be much stronger.

Omega strikes soon for its incredibly smooth, resinous and musky/vanillic woodiness. The woody agarwood resin soon projects its feel in the air (and this is soon evident) but any trace of medicinal and astringent aggressive spark is flying around as the woodiness appears soon encompassed by a warm embrace of balsams (mostly vanilla), resins and mossy labdanum in a way an uncompromising spicy sweet softness envelops elements and senses in a sort of chill out bliss. The softness is really spicy and projects by soon a deep fruity/floral aura with a notable spicy (i suppose cinnamon and nutmeg) iris-violet combo in the air. I detect mostly iris and violets over several further floral (may be fruity) elements in a really pleasant floral velvety musky/powder effect (typically iris featured). A sort of Puredistance M without the leather and the woody/animalic final complicacy jumps on mind but Omega is more smooth, vanillic, iris centered, less articulated and more florally intense (the intensity from violet/iris offers a different perception than a softer, more delicate, almost lemony rosey touch). The dry down is enveloping but overly linear in its creamy/spicy dominant vanilla. Longevity and projection are in the average on my skin.