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Isis Agonist 2013

7.7 / 10 154 Ratings

A popular perfume by Agonist for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is sweet-gourmand. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Sweet

Gourmand

Fruity

Spicy

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Green tangerine

Black pepper Cistus

Cistus

Ginger

Ylang-ylang

Heart Notes

Caramel

Heliotrope Peach

Peach

Aniseed

Nutmeg

Base Notes

Benzoin

Vanilla absolute

Labdanum

Amber

Lorenox™

Musk

Perfumer

Fabrice Pellegrin

Ratings

Scent

7.7154 Ratings

Longevity

7.9123 Ratings

Sillage

6.8122 Ratings

Bottle

8.0116 Ratings

Value for money

6.310 Ratings

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Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/28/2024

Clauditza
17 Reviews

Clauditza

1

cozy boozy unique

Bought it for the beautiful name and what the ancient Egyptian goddess means - back then did not know about the modern group mentioned often in the news.
This is just gorgeous! The overall impression is a multifaceted intense caramelized amber. It is so seem-less in the blending that you cannot pick out the individual notes. If I would have to compare it with something I would say is unique but in the same time I would say ok, it has something from Lira, something from Grand Soir...it has something but still, I can not say I would replace it with something else since is so unique.
Excellent for special occasions and evenings out. Also great when you feel like you could use a good comforting lonely night scent. Longevity and sillage are stellar! This is worth every penny!

06/26/2016

9.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Sweetsmell75
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Sweetsmell75

Top Review 39

I breathe in... I breathe out... and the sun rises!

Somehow, Isis was on my watchlist :)
The beautiful comment from Palonera sealed the deal, and Isis landed untested from the watchlist to the wishlist, coinciding with a great Souk offer from a lovely perfumer that I couldn't pass up :)
But Isis is not a bargain, and then blind?
I quickly gathered some information about the fragrance that was already reserved for me, and a dear scent fairy even filled a small sample and sent it to me right away. I want to sincerely thank everyone involved :)
Actually, I could have saved all that... Isis is simply divine!
I breathe in... I breathe out... and the sun rises! This beautiful fragrance is an absolute mood lifter. Isis caresses the soul and envelops me in golden rays. She embraces me and kisses my skin.
About the scent:
Isis starts sweet-citrusy. As it develops, it becomes bright and clear with a green hint that is not intrusive and reminds me of the awakening of spring. The notes of the pyramid are hard to filter out here. However, the interplay of these notes already creates a harmonious scent picture.
A fresh peach is now also perceptible. No overripe or mushy fruit. It smells fresh-fruity and simultaneously sweet. Slowly, caramel comes into play, taking away some of the freshness from the fragrance. Anise and heliotrope? Hmm... in combination with nutmeg, that could be responsible for the now recognizable spiciness. From here on, Isis is for me a sweet-oriental gourmand!
With amber and vanilla surrounded by balsamic notes, we move into the base. Isis now provides warmth and becomes deeper and sensual.
A hint of musk is now also noticeable, accompanied by woody notes. But where do they come from... Lorenox? I had to Google again... Lorenox™ is a fragrance ingredient that is said to have woody, amber-like, and leathery facets. And that definitely aligns with my scent perception.
I find the longevity to be completely fine at 8-9 hours. Isis is well perceivable but not overpowering...
you are surrounded by a beautiful, bright scent aura.
Unisex? No!
Isis is a very feminine fragrance, and I can't imagine it on any man, no matter how hard I try.
Isis is always wearable. Especially when one longs for sun and warmth.
The bottle is typical for Agonist and beautiful. The scent pyramid is displayed on the front of the bottle.
Conclusion:
I breathe in... I breathe out... and the sun rises. Isis ... you brighten and lift the mood. Sweet-oriental-gourmand. Beautiful!
Isis... you divine fragrance... I never want to be without you again. Highly recommended!!!

09/24/2015

8Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

Palonera
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Palonera

Top Review 38

against the cold

Sometimes coming home hurts.
A little bit, at least.
Especially when the place you are returning from was flooded with laughter, light, and zest for life, with sun, sparkling turquoise, and salt on my skin.
With white sails and foaming spray, friendly faces and laughing eyes, rugged islands and endless blue.
Time was a side issue, stress a foreign word, the soul free as it was last at eight, nine, ten.
For two weeks, fourteen wonderful days.
And then back over endlessly long roads, for hours, for days, metal against metal - sky blue mutates to rain gray.
Gray are also the people at the borders, who weren’t there when we headed south - gray the clothes, gray the faces, smiles seem to have been forgotten somehow.
How long was I gone - just two weeks?
How different the world seems since then, how cold - and it’s not just the thermometer that makes me shiver.

When my feet are cold, warm socks help, when my beloved is chattering his teeth, a broad chest, alternatively the bathtub.
But what to do when it’s not the body that is freezing?
When the warm golden sun of autumn may still reach the skin, but no longer the eyes, not the blood, not that strange something called the soul?

Someone listened to my thoughts, directed my gaze and my hand.
"Isis".
The goddess of the Nile.
It’s warm there, very warm - even I know that, having never been there.
I don’t know more, neither about divinity nor scent.
I spray...

...and stand for a moment in the center of bright golden rays, gently surrounded by green, soft and cool and friendly like a dawn deep in the south.
The sun is still half-hanging on the horizon, the air is still as smooth and weightless as silk, dew pearls on the grass and fruits shimmer cool-matt moist in the leaves.
But shortly thereafter, they become lemon tarts, so creamy and fluffy-light like biscuit.
A hint of powdered sugar and finest porcelain, the table set in the garden under the old tree.
It’s warm there and peaceful, a little out of time.
It gets warmer by the hour and softer, sensually sweet and mysteriously familiar - I have to ponder for a long time until "Tempore Donna" comes to mind and with it the penny drops.
So naturally feminine, unpretentious and approachable, like that Italian woman, the goddess Isis also shows me her supple-soft side, wrapping me in a butter-soft cashmere plaid and turning gray once again into amber-terra cotta, aquamarine, and matte white and dull green.
And here and there, a smile begins to bloom.

PS: Franfan - thank you!

08/15/2014

8Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Pluto
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Pluto

Top Review 27

This sniffing, like with dogs....

Yesterday we were sitting together on the couch, watching the news and testing fragrances. No, not true, I was testing and my husband had to test Gold because I wanted to know how it smells on men's skin. I can only spray something on him after prior notice; I had already reported that the poor guy had a nightmare in which I was lurking behind the door with an oversized perfume sprayer to spray him. After I kept holding out my right and left arm to him and asking "And?" only to sniff his arm shortly after, he looked at me and dryly said: "This sniffing, like with dogs."

And now to Isis. The dear Lotti sent me a generous sample of this fragrance, thank you very much for that. At first, I couldn't read the writing and was puzzled. Nothing helped, I had to ask her. Isis, an agonist, oh, oh, I thought. Black Amber, the first agonist I tried, had shown me the cold shoulder, up to here and don't come too close. Isis was on my watchlist, so I became curious once again through a comment. I refrain from studying the fragrance ingredients and boldly attempt a blind test. Sweet, juicy orange, a bit peppery, and after a few minutes, bittersweet chocolate, that's how Isis greets me. Very intense, but not in a piercing way; the sillage seems to be quite present. A fruity-green, spicy gourmand develops on my arm, I find the scent quite tempting, at least my nose keeps returning to my wrist. This fragrance is appealing and bright, but also a bit strange in its mix of fruity sweetness, bittersweet chocolate, and green sharpness. Towards the base, it becomes a bit earthy; I can still sense vanilla.

I rate the longevity as medium to strong, as well as the sillage. At work, the scent would bother me; I find it quite intense and would prefer to wear it in my free time or in the evening. Unisex yes, but only for gentlemen who like it sweet.

Isis is interesting, no question. However, I believe that it could also annoy me after "longer wear," so this fragrance is not a candidate for purchase for me. But now and then, I will gladly wear it.

08/19/2016

5.5Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

First
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Top Review 19

First top, then -unfortunately- flop.

It is always a double-edged sword to write a rather critical comment, and I would like to preface that my feelings are, of course - as always - highly subjective. Since Isis also takes on a highly interesting development, I do not want to squeeze what I have to say about Isis into a small statement. That would certainly not do justice to Isis.

For me personally, the critical comments are often the most helpful. I can read what others did not like and assess whether I might be similar in that regard. If there are only very positive comments about certain fragrances, I often suspect that this can only be one side of the coin, as there are surely people who do not like every fragrance. Then I ask myself: Should I perhaps belong to those who do not like it? In such moments, I wish someone had already expressed their differing perception. Therefore, I find it important that those who do not like a fragrance also comment on it.

But it’s not that bad at all. It’s not that I don’t like Isis. On the contrary, Isis begins with a wonderfully bright, fresh top note that simultaneously exudes a spicy warmth. This top note is truly extraordinary and exceptionally well done, so at that moment, I thought: I have to have this! It seems that the blend of the very naturally scented tangerine and the cistus has perfectly matched my taste.

As it develops, Isis becomes increasingly warmer, while the spiciness remains, partly even intensifies, while the tangerine quickly disappears. With the heart note, something fruity comes to the forefront, but I do not recognize it as peach; rather, it becomes a sweet-fruity conglomerate. At this point, I think to myself that I am not particularly fond of undifferentiated sweet fruits as a focus in a fragrance. The sweetness now takes on a strange sharpness. This is supposed to be caramel. I would have preferred a recognizable fruit that is integrated into more than just sweetness; I do like that. My initial enthusiasm is thus waning a bit. Gradually, heliotrope also emerges. I like a bit of it, but heliotrope becomes slightly too much for me. Here, it is at the limit. It essentially forms the bridge to the base.

After perhaps three hours, the fruity notes have completely vanished, and the base fully emerges. Unfortunately, this is again a deterioration for me. It contains a form of -now inevitably artificial- musk that I find unpleasantly stuffy. Now the fragrance seems very artificial to me, and the vanilla is also artificial.

The only thing that keeps me from washing off the fragrance is the labdanum. It feels natural and spicy, which I really like. Nevertheless: surrounded by thundering artificial vanilla and stuffy musk substitutes, as well as a remnant of heliotrope, Isis has unfortunately reached its low point for me. By the way, I do not notice any amber at all. Perhaps what I find so enormously unnatural is supposed to be amber or Lorenox™?

For friends of sweet fruits and for those who may have a different perception of artificial scent compounds, Isis is surely a good and modern fragrance with a very interesting development and certainly stands far above the ubiquitous, currently offered vanilla-sweet fruit cocktail. With the fresh top note, Isis fits well into the summer months, while the heart note and especially the base hint at winter cuddling.

Personally, I would only want to wear the very harmoniously balanced, naturally appearing, and simultaneously interesting top note. Unfortunately, it fades too quickly while the entire Isis shows very good longevity of well over 9 hours.

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