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May men wear white-flowered flowers?
The question which fragrances men or women prefer to wear leads to endless discussions about attributions, gender identities or gender roles. I will simply relieve the discourse at this point and postulate that this is not necessary, so I will not write anything about it here and will not discuss it either.
With one exception: the question of what you feel comfortable with. For me personally, a boundary is often only crossed when a fragrance has a strong dominance of white flowers: tuberose, jasmine, ylang ylang, gardenia, tiare, lily of the valley, narcissus, orange blossom... I suppose it's the same for most men. Conversely, for me this also means that fragrances containing the above-mentioned notes are a particular challenge for perfumers and particularly attractive for tolerant wearers (this is not a generic masculine here). In other words: If it is possible to integrate a strong white-flowering note into men's fragrances without immediately having to think of a women's fragrance, then a small, bulky work of art has been created. In the past I had therefore often dealt with men's fragrances that contained a noticeable but masculine interpretation of tuberose (see my comments on Afteliers Cepes & Tuberose, Barutis Voyance, especially Jardin d'Écrivains Marlowe) and my special collection "Tuberose XY":
<font color="#ffff00">-=https://www.parfumo.de/Benutzer/Yatagan/Sammlung/Cust8=- proudly presents
I am especially grateful to Terra for the request in his latest blog which fragrances with classic white flower components (jasmine, ylang, orange blossom etc.) are suitable as men's fragrances for the summer. For myself (and for those interested) I have also created a - naturally manageable - collection for this variant, namely "Weißblüher XY":
https://www.parfumo.de/Benutzer/Yatagan/Sammlung/Cust16
More tips can be found in Terra's exciting blog.
By the way, this thread excludes the most classic of all variants, the kölnisch water with its high Neroli content. Of course, there would be many more fragrances in this Cologne segment with white flower notes, which can be wonderfully worn by men. I myself love this fragrance archetype very much! Here and now he should not interest us either.
One of the fragrances that I spontaneously located in the above-mentioned Weißblüher XY collection is Acqua di Parmas Chinotto di Liguria, which I was grateful to Couchlock for bringing to my attention with a sample.
For me, this fragrance is one of the most interesting representatives of men's white flower fragrances (for the summer), because it explores the marchness of jasmine, which plays the role of the white flower, to the limit of what is compatible with men's fragrances. The jasmine is dammed up above all by a bitter-sour note, which probably comes from Chinotto (see ingredients), a bitter orange variety, as I know in the meantime. Responsible for the masculine part would perhaps also be the spicy green note, which reminds me a little of Maitre Parfumeur et Gantiers almost lost Baimé (but fortunately in my collection). There, however, the kitchen herbs are so pronounced that I removed them from the above collection. Baimé is actually almost better suited for winter.
Can anything else be said about Chinotto di Liguria? Actually only that he will certainly polarize, which can already be seen from the comments and statements made so far, and that I personally like him very much. For men who are open minded, a clear test recommendation - like almost all of the blue AdP series!
With one exception: the question of what you feel comfortable with. For me personally, a boundary is often only crossed when a fragrance has a strong dominance of white flowers: tuberose, jasmine, ylang ylang, gardenia, tiare, lily of the valley, narcissus, orange blossom... I suppose it's the same for most men. Conversely, for me this also means that fragrances containing the above-mentioned notes are a particular challenge for perfumers and particularly attractive for tolerant wearers (this is not a generic masculine here). In other words: If it is possible to integrate a strong white-flowering note into men's fragrances without immediately having to think of a women's fragrance, then a small, bulky work of art has been created. In the past I had therefore often dealt with men's fragrances that contained a noticeable but masculine interpretation of tuberose (see my comments on Afteliers Cepes & Tuberose, Barutis Voyance, especially Jardin d'Écrivains Marlowe) and my special collection "Tuberose XY":
<font color="#ffff00">-=https://www.parfumo.de/Benutzer/Yatagan/Sammlung/Cust8=- proudly presents
I am especially grateful to Terra for the request in his latest blog which fragrances with classic white flower components (jasmine, ylang, orange blossom etc.) are suitable as men's fragrances for the summer. For myself (and for those interested) I have also created a - naturally manageable - collection for this variant, namely "Weißblüher XY":
https://www.parfumo.de/Benutzer/Yatagan/Sammlung/Cust16
More tips can be found in Terra's exciting blog.
By the way, this thread excludes the most classic of all variants, the kölnisch water with its high Neroli content. Of course, there would be many more fragrances in this Cologne segment with white flower notes, which can be wonderfully worn by men. I myself love this fragrance archetype very much! Here and now he should not interest us either.
One of the fragrances that I spontaneously located in the above-mentioned Weißblüher XY collection is Acqua di Parmas Chinotto di Liguria, which I was grateful to Couchlock for bringing to my attention with a sample.
For me, this fragrance is one of the most interesting representatives of men's white flower fragrances (for the summer), because it explores the marchness of jasmine, which plays the role of the white flower, to the limit of what is compatible with men's fragrances. The jasmine is dammed up above all by a bitter-sour note, which probably comes from Chinotto (see ingredients), a bitter orange variety, as I know in the meantime. Responsible for the masculine part would perhaps also be the spicy green note, which reminds me a little of Maitre Parfumeur et Gantiers almost lost Baimé (but fortunately in my collection). There, however, the kitchen herbs are so pronounced that I removed them from the above collection. Baimé is actually almost better suited for winter.
Can anything else be said about Chinotto di Liguria? Actually only that he will certainly polarize, which can already be seen from the comments and statements made so far, and that I personally like him very much. For men who are open minded, a clear test recommendation - like almost all of the blue AdP series!
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