Desert Sermons

I ordered 10 or so samples at once, all with a similar profile- woody, spicy, oudy, incense, churchy, etc. This one, so far, has been my favorite, with Avignon and Lavs getting farther and farther behind the more I wear it. It is a sweet, warm woody, not that off-putting stinky barnyard woody (ahem, Reliqvia?). The honey really comes through on dry down, which marries the resin, wood, amber and incense notes in a really sophisticated way that is so intoxicating. I can't stop smelling my arm. Totally buying a full bottle.

it’s a beautiful gourmand 10/10

The scent is very sophisticated, unique, and enjoyable for me. it reminds me of rain in the desert.

Great resinous amber with a lite gourmand vibe. Like dark chocolate and honey stored in wood box that once held incense. Lasts for ages.

Very nice spice resinous fragrance with some sweetness from the honey notes

Smells like a monestery out in the desert, a sublime union of incense, wood and fire. Extremely powerful, although I think I went nose blind to it due to frequent use, so be mindful that less is more. Really intresting to later this with archanist

This fragrance will never not be in my collection. Absolutely amazing scent and excellent longevity, 12+ hours.

Purchased DS on a hunch and boy am I glad I did! This is one of the most mysterious but intoxicating scents in my collection. My wife LOVES how this dries down on my skin. One of the best!!

Toskovat' has been one of, if not the most popular new niche fragrance brands taking the internet by storm. Many Instagram fragrance pages have a Toskovat' fragrance featured in nearly every post, or every suggestion to a person asking for recommendations. While I think some of their fragrances are masterpieces with nearly unanimous agreement (ex. Ichigo Ichie, Age of Innocence), others fall into a strange category where reviewers write overly verbose descriptions of otherwise much more simplistic and straightforward fragrances - Desert Sermons, to me, falls into the latter category.
It's sweet - very sweet - to the point where the dryness of a desert completely leaves the mind. Incense notes are present, but I was hoping for maybe some more complexity on this front in terms of maybe some dry herbaciousness, or otherworldly Spice notes other than the currently present frankincense, labdanum, vanillin, and benzoin, that could shift one's mind towards Arrakis, instead of Dubai. I'd like to see this fragrance evolve into a different reformulated direction, since many of David's other creations show his ability to conjure up his inspiration's imagery with an uncanny accuracy. Unfortunately, for me, this doesn't quite do the same.
It's a good, competent, sweet, slightly spicy fragrance - but falls short of anything else, at least to me.

I am very happy with this purchase, and my personal introduction to the fragrance house. It starts off with a strong burst of hospital bandages which comes off as both off-putting, yet intriguing. It then dries down to become a rubbery sweet cinnamon pastry-like smell mixed with a clean incense. I can best describe this fragrance dry down as smelling like the boozy dried fruits of Amouage’s Jubilation XXV mixed with a slightly dirtier Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille. Incredible perfumery.

My only complaint is that the other few times I have purchased fragrances from Scent Split, I’ve always received a handful of complimentary samples, but this time I just received a half empty women’s fragrance sample.