Luxor Oud

apparently Alienor Massenet likes her perfumes Massive and Impacting. Imposing and Superimposing. this perfume, launched in 2012, I must have also bought around that time. so the Bottle here in my house is 24 years old, and let's say 20 years. thus it is not only the fact that it is another Alienor Massenet perfume, but also its very age, in which it seems to have become more concentrated. and again immediately I remember the whole perfume with the olphactory blueprint it also made then. I also remember an early comment here that a man asked himself: 'what does Luxor has to do with Oud ?' I had to laugh loud. yet the perfume makes a cohesive impression and with the first [stagnated] whiff, free again, at first I got a WHAPP of the Oud, woody, dry and oud-y. then I got a beautiful fragrance of Rose, although the material used is that from the 'Desert Rose'. I must be sensitive to damascenones... these are the building blocks of this perfume which is also imagined around the theme of 'traveling'. Oud, Rose, Patchouli and Labdanum. they make a Whole, a wholesome rounded perfume. I guess all the fruits and even a dosage of Fruit Notes fly away from my intra nasal aromatic neuroreceptors bc I don't smell any fruits. I have learned that these notes stealthily can enfreshen, enlighten, juicifying the perfume also for me, not smelling any particular fruit. I have worn the perfume for some days now and I clearly remember not only the Scent, but also my appreciation for it. MEMO has a weak spot in my being because the first one, Lalibela, was a gift to me by my straight twinbrother in Paris when we were vacationing there, with his then 12 year old daughter, my niece, who is expecting her child now....