STRANGERS PARFUMERIE
CIGAR RUM INTENSE

2019

PERFUMER
Prin Lomros

mandarin
Dried Fruits
Rum
Coffee
Tobacco
Amber
Seaweed
Oak wood
Tea Rose
Copaiba Balsam
Vetiver
Cinnamon
Raisin
leather

I’ve never smelled the original Cigar Rum, but I have to say, I’m not a big fan of Cigar Rum Intense. It intrigues me, so I wore it 3-4x and emptied my sample, but I can’t say that I like it.

The opening is rather pungent. There’s a slight fecal edge, but like chocolate fecal (think of Rania J T. Habanero or Perris Monte Carlo Vanille De Tahiti). Mixed in with that is the booze. I often don’t pick up on boozy notes well, but here it’s instant and it’s a hefty dose. There’s a weird bit of acidity in here (the seaweed? no idea), and that sourish tinge is probably why I don’t like Cigar Rum Intense as much.

I would say I don’t get the tobacco nearly as much as the booze, or even the leathery aspects. I get way more of a cigar/tobacco scent in the brand’s Burning Ben for example (which I much prefer overall). I do like the leather here; it smells like a high quality smooth leather rubbed with rum-soaked raisins.

I want to like this. There is something there. I just haven’t reached that point yet.