Kutay

Kutay brings in projection on another level. 2 sprays can be enough to fill a room. Genuinely insane how far it projects, even in public settings when there’s wind blowing against you it can be smelt from atleast 2 meters away. It’s genuinely crazy how far this scent projects. Plus it easily lasts above 12 hours. Maybe close to 14 to 15 hours. I found Kutay’s scent to be extremely unique like no other. You get a rich lemon and whiskey start, slowly drying down to a tobacco, caramel and amber smell. One of the most unique and maybe in my opinion the best tobacco scents out there. The oud isn’t overpowering and it isn’t the main note for this scent. The real magic happens with the mix of tobacco and the caramel. It provides such a unique scent, it’s smoky due to the tobacco yet I always do get this saffron scent alongside the whiskey note. It’s hard to explain but it’s genuinely amazing. Kutay reminds me of an Ottamen Empire palace, filled with wealth and authority. This scent can be used in formal occasions like work and meetings but at the same time I do think it can be worn in casual outtings, but may be too powerful for a date night. It’s better for a more open area due to its crazy projection. However be careful when spraying, I tried putting 3 and I just tasted it in my mouth for a while. The price point for this fragrance isn’t too crazy, around the standard niche price but for something this unique and with a beast mode performance I think you get a pretty good bang for your buck. Kutay is slowly shaping up to be one of my most favorite scents as I’m gravitating to wearing this more often now days.

Kutay is a proper potent perfume, and it delivers what it promises. The notes are pinpoint accurate in this perfume. From opening Whiskey accords surrounded by bitter Davana, soothing the edges with lemon. Caramel sweetness in mid isn’t syrupy sweet but perfectly paired to sooth the bitterness. Oud is all around the fragrance but not very loud, it is more woody than fecal, again perfect amount of oud to take the perfume into the heart of it! The projection is sooooo strong your perfume will announce itself before you do. Longevity is insane that even after 8 hours you are not into the drydown. But when it starts to drydown, you get this harsh but beautifully blended tobacco notes, alongside very very light vanillin undertones, and oud also mingles with these tobacco and vanilla notes. Tobacco although here is harsh but very beautiful and you can smell it throughout the whole wear from start to finish. This is a heavenly perfume, i don’t understand why this is so underrated on frag community. I blind bought this gem from a discounter and from my 30+ niche perfume collection, this is by far the most interesting, most well crafted perfume i have. Note: This does NOT smell like Baraonda at any point, i can say this because i have Baraonda too, the whiskey note in the initial spray is little similar but Baraonda’s whiskey note is very soft and warm and photorealistic, whereas Kutay’s whiskey note is very loud and sweet and blended with other ingredients! A proper 10/10 perfume for any collector!

I've had Arabians Tonka and Kouros, some known nuclear fragrances, but this is the only one I'm able to smell just from taking off the cap. One spray and I'm met with a brick wall of oud. It takes about a minute for everything to unfold. Once the alcohol dissipates you'll notice a huge amount of oil concentration on your sprayed area. That's when the whiskey-caramel combo starts to show. It's got maltiness that you don't get with other boozy fragrances. It's at this point when the fragrance is the most exciting. But after around 30 minutes it starts to smell like coconut oil on steroids, which is all but you asked for. I guess the only "safe" phase of this fragrance is the far drydown, where it starts to smell like vanilla with citrus-floral undertone. But, I don't know man. Right now, I can't see myself wearing this unironically, but I can't stop sniffing my arm. Also I got to add, sniffing this through the atomizer now, it smells like straight up whiskey, which I'm in love with, but not in a "I wanna wear it" type of way.

Be mindful a lot of these "reviews" have ulterior motives. Like Wesley Snipes said in the movie Passenger 57, "always bet on BLACK." The inferior quality/performance black bottle narrative is fake news. This fragrance is a bonafide showstopper, box-office compliment magnet. A woman literally approached me outside while with her husband to tell me she caught my sillage & it smelled amazing, she needed to know the cologne name so her husband could get lucky. Then later on the same evening while picking up food the female attendant starts laughing with me & reveals the ladies all the way in the back love my fragrance. By the time she handed me my order several woman rushed up front cameras in hand requesting to take a picture of the bottle. Now I know how Thanos felt when he collected all the infinity stones.

Whoo boy! This here's strong! 2-3 sprays should last you 2-3 days. Don't know what others are talking about weak. Ebay samples maybe? Anyways, Whiskey and Tobacco are dominant here. It's surprisingly not an overly sweet mix, which I expected. Certainly not as sweet as TF TbOud. The Cypriol adds a touch of astringent which is smoothed out with the vanilla and sandalwood, making for a very manly and refined composition. Definitely not blind buy safe, especially for the price, and you'd better not overspray or you will pay. I laquered my coat a week ago. Still smell it everyday...so I bought a full bottle! 🤟