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02/01/2021
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Perfume or deodorant?
Dutch fashion brand BALR., founded by former footballer Demy de Zeeuw, ventured into the perfume world a few years ago. In the meantime, the brand, which calls itself a "luxury lifestyle brand", has released four men's fragrances, with the super-creative names "Homme", "1", "2" and "3". Looking at the fragrance pyramid of BALR.2, it sounds like a chic men's fragrance at first. At 55€ for 50ml and 80€ for 100ml, the perfume is already priced at the higher-priced designers.
BALR writes on its website about the fragrance, among other things: "From driving the fastest cars to sailing the Mediterranean on a stylish yacht, every experience gets better when you wear BALR" - sounds like something for wannabe celebrities and not exactly elegant... Furthermore it says: "[...] this Eau de Parfum mixes bright aromas with warm base notes and leaves an impression you won't soon forget." - well, we'll see in the end...
The composition, which I smelled immediately after spraying it on, surprised me to zero. A brand that has a sporty background and calls itself a Luxury Brand probably can't do better than 0815 shower gel scents. And BALR.2 totally lived up to that expectation! It totally reminds me of Adidas perfumes I wore every now and then as a teenager. Fresh, uncomplicated, synthetic and somehow smelling like "sports". Basically, could have named this fragrance "Sport", then you'd know what you were getting into right away before you bought it.
The scent progression is as monotonous as the name. From the beautiful to look at fragrance pyramid is in my nose a nasty mishmash that smells like everything and nothing and does not change with time. The durability is poor for an EDP on my skin, more than four hours was not in it.
So? - No, with BALR.2 I certainly do not want to cruise the seas of the world with my imaginary luxury yacht or turn fast laps in my sports car. If I could ever afford something like that, I'd be poor if my scent taste was only good enough for BALR.2. This has absolutely nothing to do with luxury fragrance. The supposed warm base notes only leave me with an impression that I want to forget this perfume as soon as possible. Lucky that I have only one bottling of it
BALR writes on its website about the fragrance, among other things: "From driving the fastest cars to sailing the Mediterranean on a stylish yacht, every experience gets better when you wear BALR" - sounds like something for wannabe celebrities and not exactly elegant... Furthermore it says: "[...] this Eau de Parfum mixes bright aromas with warm base notes and leaves an impression you won't soon forget." - well, we'll see in the end...
The composition, which I smelled immediately after spraying it on, surprised me to zero. A brand that has a sporty background and calls itself a Luxury Brand probably can't do better than 0815 shower gel scents. And BALR.2 totally lived up to that expectation! It totally reminds me of Adidas perfumes I wore every now and then as a teenager. Fresh, uncomplicated, synthetic and somehow smelling like "sports". Basically, could have named this fragrance "Sport", then you'd know what you were getting into right away before you bought it.
The scent progression is as monotonous as the name. From the beautiful to look at fragrance pyramid is in my nose a nasty mishmash that smells like everything and nothing and does not change with time. The durability is poor for an EDP on my skin, more than four hours was not in it.
So? - No, with BALR.2 I certainly do not want to cruise the seas of the world with my imaginary luxury yacht or turn fast laps in my sports car. If I could ever afford something like that, I'd be poor if my scent taste was only good enough for BALR.2. This has absolutely nothing to do with luxury fragrance. The supposed warm base notes only leave me with an impression that I want to forget this perfume as soon as possible. Lucky that I have only one bottling of it
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