Montale's Black Aoud

if i didn't know better, i'd swear a group of obsessive women dreamed this fragrance into existence. i can find no mention of it on any retail site - it's as though Makeup Alley perfumistas invented it out of sheer force of will. i also cannot find where i put the sample... i know where it was, and where i left it, but not where it is. i had to go look at my notes from Sara to make sure i wasn't lapsing into some alternate dimension of perfumes that didn't exist in reality. that said, this was an odd scent. it smelled like a garage on me. damp concrete and metal, with an oily undertone, and the leather seats of a very well-kept motorcycle. i could almost smell the Armor-All. it wasn't a bad scent - i rather liked it. it was just not something i wanted to wear on my skin. i did feel very butch wearing it, though. or maybe a little like Jo in Facts of Life. and if they added the smell of gasoline to it, i would have hoarded that vial like a madwoman. ;)