Abraaj Valour

“Perhaps Amouage Interlude is so difficult a fragrance that few people dare to take the plunge and buy and use it. It certainly has personality, but is not versatile, and its nuclear sillage and projection, combined with its steep price, make it a no-no (unless you are a sheik or a drug dealer -I am neither!-). Well, if you feel like having something very, but VERY similar -I compared them side by side and FW did a great job- at a fraction of the cost with a normal projection and 8-hour lasting power, here is your chance. I took it. And it was a great buy. Thumbs up to this Abraaj!”

“My bottle smells very little like Interlude or any other fragrance. It's a brief slug of oregano and pimento draped over transparent woods with musk and a faintly urinous/animalic note that might be some kind of synthetic civet. Unclear. Overall, not terrible and kind of fun. But not recognizable as a clone of anything and not worthy of its own space on the shelf. Edit: three months later and this improved dramatically and is now very wearable. Maybe the best of the Interlude clones (SA Shagaf Oud Abyad is the better Interlude adjacent but it isn't a clone).”