Onthamara
Prin (2022)

In my opinion, here you have the best use of Siberian Deer Musk in perfumery, so far. I'm a long advocate and lover of the original EO2 parfum, but this one is better. More complex, has more balls, and better blended. Oh, did I mention it's half the price and at a higher concentration? Yes.
Onthamara uses two core materials that lead the composition as a duet, the musk and the amber fossil. They marry beautifully here, the musk with it's animalic, earthy, chocolatey and pissy facets, perfectly tamed by the smokiness, dryness, leathery, and sweet facets of the amber. Around these, you have other notes dancing around, rounding everything. Woods, spices, tobacco. At the end, you get this multifaceted smoky, ambery, musky perfume, that makes people get close to you, and dances around like a hypnotic aura for hours and hours. Perfectly dosed dirtiness, never too much to offend, just enough to intrigue. I love it so much, I had to get a backup. Top 3 ever Prin releases for me, and quite possibly my favorite from him.

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The word Onthamara is created from two Thai words translated, "darkness, devil". The intention of the perfumer to go dark in the creation of this scent is revealed in the name.

Onthamara is a scent built around a well hidden through line of amber, olibanum, rosewood and labdanum. However the pleasantries of these incense and amber notes are hidden by bitter opening notes which make a dry, dark fugue of violet leaf, artemsia, black tea, camphor and dry, burnt animalics of hyrax, wood smoke and castoreum. The bitterness and hardness of these opening notes initially repels and pushes you back before it levels out. I was repulsed by this bitterness at first but after some time it evolves into a leather like patina with some depth.

The warmth of the oud, amber, and incense notes eventually overcomes the bitter "hard" character of the opening and after an hour or so Onthamara emerges from its hidden darkness into a masculine, wood and leather scent that has a resonant timbre.. The story line of Onthamara is hidden in darkness and frightening contrasts, but I like the perfume results even though it was quite a journey to get to "like" and therefore I strongly recommend careful testing before springing for a purchase. To appreciate this perfume you will need to welcome a bit of darkness into your world. A cautious warning before a carefully considered thumbs up rating.

A slightly animalic resin and incense scent, smoky and a bit rank. It's really nice, the only Prin that isn't too much for me. The animalic notes are still very strong, keeping with the usual Prin vibe, but the melted warm resins blend very nicely with smoky pine tar and a twang of castoreum. If Herne the Hunter had a Day Off scent, this would be it. Slumberhouse Norne would be his working scent.