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Luminous and Uplifting Ylang
I LOVE YY from Bogue Profumo.
An uplifting composition that brings me so much joy wherever I smell it. This is your carefree Southeast Asian holiday trip, hopping on one of those scooters that look beyond unsafe, without a shirt and helmet on, taking your chances, gutsy after having too many cocktails and a good time. Or your vanilla custard topped with caramelized sugar dessert served with a cup of coffee and a banana on the side. Could you do both at the same time?
It makes me think of those sorts of things. Because it smells like that to me. It is an all-out Ylang-Ylang perfume where the canvas is the flower and everything else is drawn on it. I don't vibe with this particular floral note, but here, it is done to perfection. Lush, meaty, a bit damp, with a prominent banana-like facet. It's present from start to finish. There is some cooling verdant quality in the opening paired with a juicy grapefruit note. The heart is all about the Ylang but with some peculiar accords embellishing it that I can't pin down. There is an almost burnt sugary quality to it, as well as a roasted coffee accord. And of course, the banana-like facet. It feels like an exotic desert. The dry down is all about the benzoin, which steers in a prominently powdery-vanillic direction. It is delicious without coming off as gourmand, savory, or juvenile. Rather sophisticated with an edge and an exotic flair.
Suppose MEM is a study in Lavender, Il Dieci in Sandalwood, and RISK on the Gulf Area Oud aesthetics. In that case, YY is a study in Ylang-Ylang, one that would find much appreciation even among those who don't particularly care for this ingredient.
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An uplifting composition that brings me so much joy wherever I smell it. This is your carefree Southeast Asian holiday trip, hopping on one of those scooters that look beyond unsafe, without a shirt and helmet on, taking your chances, gutsy after having too many cocktails and a good time. Or your vanilla custard topped with caramelized sugar dessert served with a cup of coffee and a banana on the side. Could you do both at the same time?
It makes me think of those sorts of things. Because it smells like that to me. It is an all-out Ylang-Ylang perfume where the canvas is the flower and everything else is drawn on it. I don't vibe with this particular floral note, but here, it is done to perfection. Lush, meaty, a bit damp, with a prominent banana-like facet. It's present from start to finish. There is some cooling verdant quality in the opening paired with a juicy grapefruit note. The heart is all about the Ylang but with some peculiar accords embellishing it that I can't pin down. There is an almost burnt sugary quality to it, as well as a roasted coffee accord. And of course, the banana-like facet. It feels like an exotic desert. The dry down is all about the benzoin, which steers in a prominently powdery-vanillic direction. It is delicious without coming off as gourmand, savory, or juvenile. Rather sophisticated with an edge and an exotic flair.
Suppose MEM is a study in Lavender, Il Dieci in Sandalwood, and RISK on the Gulf Area Oud aesthetics. In that case, YY is a study in Ylang-Ylang, one that would find much appreciation even among those who don't particularly care for this ingredient.
IG:@memory.of.scents
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