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This is a dry, dusty iris one might find in a shrinking pool of hot, sandy water left in a wadi in deserts of Nazareth. Which, of course, is the inspiration. It reminds me of Serge Luten’s great (but insanely expensive) Iris Silver Mist; both have a pure iris with not much else (maybe a touch of incense in this one), but Iris Silver Mist has cold, metallic overtones, that this replaces with slightly bitter, green overtones. If you are looking for a slightly sweet iris, like Dior’s Homme Intense or Prada’s l’Homme Intense, (or even further into sweetness, Givenchy’s Gentlemen) you are in the wrong place. Matt’s version of Iris Nazarena is dry and vegetal, like orris roots buried deep under desert sand, which is what makes it so good. I took off one star only because it lacks longetivity on my skin. I’d love to smell this for a full workday, but at this price, a refresher after a few hours is quite reasonable. I’m surprised because generally iris acts as a fixative, but in this perfume it lasts only as long as a citrus.