Rasasi
Rasasi
191 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The plum and pineapple arrive with surprising tartness, immediately trampled under black pepper's sharp heel. Lime provides a bright counterpoint, but there's a discordant quality here—this opening feels deliberately unsettled, almost deliberately uncomfortable, as if the fragrance is establishing dominance before the softer notes negotiate.
The woody triumvirate of gaiac wood, patchouli, and vetiver consolidates control around the third hour, grounding the fruit notes with earthy authority. The patchouli turns slightly roasted, almost soil-like in its mineral depth, whilst vetiver adds a crystalline dryness that prevents any saccharine drift. The fruit notes don't vanish; they're simply tethered now, contained within a woody framework.
Pralin and tonka bean dissolve into something almost smoky and burnt-almond in character, the vanilla contributing only a whisper of cream rather than overt sweetness. What remains is a sophisticated shadow—woody, lightly spiced, gently sweet—a fragrance transformed from its confrontational opening into something genuinely wearable and deeply masculine.
Entebaa pour Homme announces itself with a cheerful aggression that immediately confounds expectations. The plum and pineapple combination in the opening is genuinely unusual—rather than the expected tropical sweetness, these fruits arrive with a tart, almost fermented character, immediately complicated by black pepper that crackles across the palate like a warning shot. This isn't fruit for the sake of fruitiness; it's fruit with attitude, the pineapple's acidic bite kept honest by lime's citric snap.
What's remarkable is how quickly the composition pivots toward structure. As the gaiac wood, patchouli, and vetiver emerge, they don't soften the fruity opening so much as recontextualise it—suddenly that plum reads less as dessert and more as the darkened skin of stone fruit, something slightly overripe and complex. The patchouli here is earthy and slightly roasted rather than incense-heavy, working in tandem with vetiver's mineral coolness to create a woody skeleton that prevents the fragrance from becoming cloying.
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