Mystic Experience

Mystic Experience by Initio Parfums Prives, composed by Hamid Merati-Kashani in 2015, is an unusual pairing of coffee and oakmoss. Everyone who describes it reaches for the same five words at once: gourmand, green, woody, musky and amber, which shows it refuses to sit in a single category.

Coffee supplies the roasted, bitter-sweet gourmand side, the smell of dark beans rather than a milky latte. Oakmoss sets against it with a damp, forest-floor greenness that keeps the scent from feeling edible. Sandalwood adds a creamy, smooth wood, amber brings resinous warmth, and musk softens the edges so the combination reads as a single, slightly mysterious accord rather than a list of ingredients.

Shared between men and women, it suits anyone drawn to shadowy, contemplative scents rather than clean or fruity ones. The coffee-and-moss pairing gives it a quietly intense character that feels most at home after dark.

Mystic Experience — unisex fragrance by Initio Parfums Prives (released 2015). Notes: Amber, Sandalwood, Coffee, Musk, Oakmoss. — Parfica open fragrance database