Year: 2009
Notes: Mexican lime, Jamaican rum, mint, cinnamon, cactus sap, prickly pear, Cuban cigar leaf, mahogany, Haitian vetiver
Bay rum and tobacco scents usually don't come around that often but, even then, there's already some tough competition against the old guard: Aramis' Havana (in the designer corner) and Czech & Speake's Cuba (in the niche corner). So, does Nejma's Puro have the potential to dethrone either one of these two so-called classics? Well, no, not particularly...
The composition is a both wishy-washy and muddled mess, with only very subtle traces of lime, rum and mint detected in the opening. For most of its lifespan, one can mostly smell cactus sap, vetiver and cinnamon. With regards to the tobacco, one can hardly detect anything resembling such an accord.
With a resulting drydown that's both flat and nondescript, and an aroma not dissimilar from an aromatic vetiver designer fragrance, it's just a third-rate creation masquerading as something of much greater importance.
Unsurprisingly, projection is minimal with very poor lasting power.
The composition is a both wishy-washy and muddled mess, with only very subtle traces of lime, rum and mint detected in the opening. For most of its lifespan, one can mostly smell cactus sap, vetiver and cinnamon. With regards to the tobacco, one can hardly detect anything resembling such an accord.
With a resulting drydown that's both flat and nondescript, and an aroma not dissimilar from an aromatic vetiver designer fragrance, it's just a third-rate creation masquerading as something of much greater importance.
Unsurprisingly, projection is minimal with very poor lasting power.
