Terror & Magnificence is exquisitely dark and unforgiving. The birch tar is a smidge industrial and dominates the composition. The distant smell of burning villages mingles with leather, stone, and deep, dried tobacco. It isn't a gentle scent. Harsh, but it still manages to be refined, polished-- or maybe sharpened?-- and menacingly elegant. An excellent blind buy as I wanted something in the mood of Matiere Premiere's Falcon Leather. (This isn't a Falcon Leather clone, by any means.)

If Vlad the Impaler had a signature scent, this would be it.

Unisex, leaning masculine. Moderate projection, excellent longevity. I showered hours ago and I can still smell it on me.