Young Hearts (Pure Essence) 2019

Young Hearts (Pure Essence) by Bruno Acampora
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8.6 / 10 22 Ratings
A popular perfume by Bruno Acampora for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is green-spicy. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Green
Spicy
Woody
Resinous
Floral

Fragrance Notes

BergamotBergamot Birch leafBirch leaf Fir balsamFir balsam JasmineJasmine PinePine GalbanumGalbanum AmberAmber MuskMusk OakmossOakmoss PatchouliPatchouli RoseRose SaffronSaffron

Perfumer

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8.622 Ratings
Longevity
8.919 Ratings
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8.219 Ratings
Bottle
6.219 Ratings
Submitted by Maggy4u, last update on 05.11.2023.
Interesting Facts
This perfume is one of the winners of the Art & Olfaction Award 2020 in the independent category.

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JustusJones

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In the enchanted forest - or: Young hearts chase adventure
First of all, welcome to my first review. And of course I had to write directly not only to my probably favorite fragrance, but also the, with the most beautiful name: Young Hearts - what a picture!

For three and a half years, I now deal with fragrance and I still do hard to smell out individual notes, if they do not jump a present in the olfactory bulb. Even more so, I also usually do not think it necessary to be able to, after all, I'm not a perfumer, but someone who likes to enjoy adventures in flacons to spray on.

The first time this fragrance ran across my path about a year and a half ago. Enclosed in an order from my best friend was an inconspicuous little glass tube, which, as we sobered to discover, was not even filled to a quarter. The viscosity of the brew made us wonder, and when we finally dared to pull out the plastic stick, a cloud of fragrance exploded into the room that we hadn't expected and couldn't get out of the room for the rest of the day - and with just a few drops on the back of my hand.

Young Hearts smells like walking through a dense mixed forest, yet dominated by conifers, and discovering a dew-damp rose book in a sun-drenched clearing. It's morning and the overnight rain has washed the scents from woods, mosses and grasses and launched them into the cool air. Young Hearts is an enchanting walk through a magical forest in which you can be completely immersed, which swallows you and from which you take a piece back out. The scent progression underlines the image excellently. It starts with a slightly tangy scent of needles and something mossy, after half an hour the rose suddenly blooms, which for my nose also doesn't want to leave for the whole fragrance. Fortunately for me, it stays juicy and never becomes sweet or soapy. Woody and balsamic notes linger in the background, giving the scent a wonderful depth, but without ever drifting into resinous or even smoky. The fragrance embodies a mood of departure - perhaps also by its name; it has rough edges and is anything but a casual contemporary that only wants to please.

Young Hearts is an adventure, a journey in the bottle that brings a smile to my face every time I smell it. Thank you Miguel Matos for this fragrance, which I can not rate other than the full 10 points, also for the durability and sillage.

The only drawback in my opinion is the bottle: Visually, the really makes something, the black coating and the green lettering look great, also the cork closure has something, however, this is not the most stable and wears off after some use. Here is in the handling so something care is required.
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The stroke of genius
As I have already written in my short statement, Bruno Acampora succeeded in a small stroke of genius with the signing of Enfant Terrible Miguel Matos and the subsequent release of the perfume line "Acampora Fifty Four"
Whether and how these wild creations have a positive effect on the business of the traditional company, I do not like to judge.
Nevertheless, I am very happy that companies nowadays still have the courage to dare something and not to be totally meaningless or to ingratiate themselves with the mass market (yes, "Wilgermain" especially you.... please feel addressed; "Caron" and "Le Galion" only have to be ashamed of themselves at certain points and visit the "Silent Stairs") to sink!

Apparently the jurors of the Art&Olfaction Awards 2020 saw it the same way and awarded the perfume in the category "Independent"

Note in passing: Although this award means nothing in my eyes and especially nose, if you look at the other winner "Nimbis" of the Art&Olfaction Award 2020 in the category "Artisan".

I don't know what the jury rode in on, but it's a mystery to me
Here, it is not the "courage" for something new that is rewarded, but simply the "courage" to be so different that it must be art again.
Prepotent narrow-mindedness is what I would call it
As a blueprint of Henkel, Bayer and BASF what is possible in the "chemistry kitchen" today ....OK (Orto Parisi don't get angry, you will win again, I'm sure...submit "Fantomas") but as a scent of "falling stars", it is more than questionable to deliver something like that.

Art is art and actually one should be glad that new things appear at all, but in this category there were sooooo strong scents that I honestly doubt my nose.

Well, anyway, enough cross-referencing, back to the star of the story, "Young Hearts"!
Here, however, I have to agree with the jury and join in the adulation!

Miguel Matos so far best fragrance point!
Why?
Because he has not only succeeded in breathing new life into the often declared dead Chypre (others have done so before) but also in making the Chypre interesting again for a young generation, without however completely offending the old lover of this genre! A balancing act that was successful without losing oneself in irrelevance.

The scent is too bulky for that, has too many edges and corners... but on the other hand it shows a hint of "coolness" (which can even be taken literally), as galbanum, pine, saffron, fir balm and birch leaf create a deep dark, ethereal and cooling aura!
Jasmine gives light floral speckles, which loosen up the fragrance a bit, just enough not to make everything sink into total darkness.

Next on the scene is the rose, which knows exactly where its place is and submissively blends in with the tangy green. It appears as dark red as I have rarely smelled and gives the fragrance even more depth, but also something vulnerable.

The patchouli, oakmoss and musk trio, gives lovers of classic chypre fragrances what they crave and start purring with pleasure:
Animalics
Not bad, not fecal and not assaulting...just enough to enjoy and to want to know more about where this d(h)hereditary smell comes from!

The base of patchouli, oakmoss and musk lasts (a restrained rose is also very easy to perceive) almost 24 hours on the skin and lets you sniff again and again at the sprayed area.
The fragrance has an excellent silage and an extreme durability (and this already at "only" the tested perfume concentration, the Extrait version might be even more substantial)

Over 6 hours I was accompanied by a dark, green, bitter, floral scent of forest with a pleasant coolness and then slowly ending in a very long chypre base!

It should be said quite clearly that also younger noses should sniff here please, in order not to miss a great fragrance, which expands the scent horizon beside the usual Parfums de Marly and consorts!

The name "Young Hearts" was not chosen in vain.
For young and old, who have remained young at heart, a true celebration!
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Forest Disco
It is initially strange that the somewhat aging, traditional Italian company Bruno Acampora, founded in the mid-1970s, has taken the risk of launching a seven-scented series called "Acampora 54", which evokes the glamorous pre-Aids disco era of the excessive and legendary New York nightclub "Studio54". As soon as one knows that Bruno Acampora himself was a regular guest on the dance floor of Studio54 and somehow belonged to the sprawling haze of Andy Warhol, the connection becomes a little more obvious. According to this, fragrance number one also bears the name "Bruno" as a homage to its founder.

In the visuals that belong to the series (which includes a video entitled "Acampora 54" on YouTube, which I think is lukewarm rather than hot), Disco Inferno is celebrated in a rather orderly, tame and easily digestible way in chic images with pretty young people, including the inevitable disco ball.

To commission a Miguel Matos, self-taught perfumer and Fragrantica reviewer with a penchant for experimentation (see the "Scents of Fail"), to create the fragrances was probably the more daring step. This choice has turned out to be a possibly right one, at the latest after his "Young Hearts", part of the series, was chosen as the winner in the Independent category of the annual Los Angeles "Art and Olfaction Awards" in the middle of the month.

Young Hearts it is.

At the heart of the fragrance are the resins and balms of deep green boreal pine forests with their majestic radiance and tranquility. This has nothing to do with excessive nightclubbing, but it is at least as beautiful. The fragrance returns to this strong, calming mood over and over again during its many hours of fragrance development. The concentration of scent in the Extrait, which I'm testing, is sheer madness. A few molecules, dabbed onto the arm with the plastic stick from the specimen, and the scent can be perceived throughout the room. My family, contrary to other habits, commented loudly on all the scents (including "Robin" and "Relight my fire", and a small note below), which is unusual enough in itself, since my scent preferences don't usually bother anyone at home, so there are hardly any comments on scents. I have to say that I use scents sparingly, as I find a second shell of scent around me rather unattractive for outsiders. This time it was different, the booth smelled like a Scandinavian witch's forest. And just to be clear: Young Hearts was the clear favourite of all.

Young Hearts have a density and quality and urgency of aromas that I have so far only known from Annette Neuffer and some perfumes by Francesca Bianchi. The opening is a veritable green explosion of galbanum, bergamot and coniferous forest aromas, with bergamot ensuring that the overall impression remains fresh without drifting into galbanum-typical oily-bitter realms. The distinct presence of galbanum and, next to it, oakmoss, which forms the backbone of the fragrance along with the coniferous forest balsams, creates affinities with galbanum-infused chypre like Scherrer and Bandit, but looks much more modern compared to these old giants (both of whom I like very much).

In the course of time, other aspects become clearly visible: leathery, cool saffron, which creates a dusty, spicy grounding and darkening, and a deep dark red rose, over which other floral northern lights wander. Dark patchouli (this time without chocolate/hippie or flowerpot colouring) remains discreetly in the background, until finally, after more than 6 hours in the fragrance, the oak-mossy base comes up with what I think are clearly animalistic, but very attractive aspects through musk. Musk has a warm, sexy, somewhat grubby quality, which suits the drydown very well.

The fragrance combines warm and cool aspects, boreal freshness that plays with intimacy and skin warmth, as if you were snuggling up in a warm sleeping bag under the stars somewhere in Scandinavia's forests. And that is incredibly attractive and cosy and peaceful and beautiful.

Meanwhile, the others are welcome to wander around the clubs.

PS: I have only tested three of the 54s, and during the "Relight my fire" the dancing leg itched a lot. A retro floral-aldehyde firecracker, as if Grace Jones had just pulled up in a taxi. Gimme, gimme, gimme!
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