Preludio d'Oriente by Calé Fragranze d'Autore

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Preludio d'Oriente Calé Fragranze d'Autore 2008

7.2 / 10 51 Ratings

A perfume by Calé Fragranze d'Autore for women and men, released in 2008. The scent is smoky-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky

Woody

Spicy

Oriental

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Lemon

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Frankincense

Chamois leather Mugwort

Mugwort

Base Notes

Patchouli

Oud

Sandalwood

Perfumers & Creative Guidance

Maurizio Cerizza
Silvio Levi CEO [Calé]

Ratings

Scent

7.251 Ratings

Longevity

7.238 Ratings

Sillage

6.132 Ratings

Bottle

6.937 Ratings

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/19/2012

9Scent 5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Drseid
828 Reviews

Drseid

3

Sublime Incense...

Preludio d'Oriente opens with just the faintest trace of bergamot, quickly combining with what starts out as a relatively subdued clove-like incense. The incense grows and grows throughout the heart of the scent, until it is quite strong, obscuring almost all of the supporting notes save a smooth leather accord that appears in the background until the dry-down. Once the base notes arrive, the incense aggressively recedes and a very nice patchouli and sandalwood tandem takes its place, with only the faintest hint of the incense remaining now as support. Projection is above average and longevity is average.

I immediately loved Preludio d'Oriente. Its clove-like incense is just really sublime smelling, and is near reference caliber. The patchouli and sandalwood dry-down is somewhat unexpected after the incense taking center stage from the start, if just a tad unoriginal. Unoriginal the dry-down may be, but it definitely works here. I would say Preludio d'Oriente is right behind my reference incense, Incense Oud by Kilian, joining greats like CdG's Avignon as "must try" scents in the incense category. In some ways, it can be argued that Preludio d'Oriente is a more "complete" scent than either of those two greats. I'll not take up that debate, rather encouraging incense lovers to experience all three of them. In the case of Preludio d'Oriente, I give it an excellent 4 to 4.5 out of 5 stars.

01/25/2012

8Scent 5Longevity 2.5Sillage

hedonist222
26 Reviews

hedonist222

Helpful Review 1

Preludio d'Oriente

Preludio d'Oriente is an incense perfume. A very intimate smoky resinous concoction. This immediately reminds me of Avignon by Comme des Garcons and Bois d'Encens by Armani. The incense is deep, velvety and enveloping.

This is a well crafted and high quality perfume. My only complaints are projection.
Sillage may be high, who knows and who cares right?
My chief concern is projection. If I'm wearing a perfume, its primarily for me to smell and if I'm wearing 30 sprays, as I am now!, I want to be able to constantly smell it. I do but why does it require 40 sprays to the chest/neck area to achieve this when it requires 15 to 20 for other perfumes? This explains why I call it intimate at the beginning of this article.

Is what you smell worth owning and spraying 30 sprays to smell it constantly?
Yes it is. I highly recommend this Preludio d'Oriente..

05/14/2017

9Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 23

Milan, Easter Sunday 2017

An elevator quickly took us up, and through a narrow, winding corridor, we reached the outside, onto the roof of the Milan Cathedral. Marble, marble, marble - yellow-white and, even up close, not losing any of that monumental quality that leaves the viewer in awe from the ground.

Tentative, hesitant steps. After a few or a few dozen of them, I no longer remember exactly, organ sounds and the singing of the morning mass emerge from an opening at my feet, the tones woven into the scent of greenish-light incense.

And suddenly, I step out onto a large, open space in dazzling sunshine and squint my eyes at the city lying all around under a radiant blue spring sky. An almost surreal experience.

In a similarly atypical or surreal context, Preludio d’Oriente presents the smoke. Brightly spiced incense with greenish hints emerges from a delicate veil of citrus fruit. From the latter, only a slight sting remains in the background, while now a creamy, throat-lozenge-like, hinted leather note wafts in, which, to stay in Italy, reminds me of Cuoio by Pal Zileri, but just as well of various others from this corner. A sweet-dark fruit makes its presence known, or rather, makes its return. A mandarin on the verge of over-ripeness. For the little "sting," mugwort seems plausible by now, although I would hardly have recognized it on my own.

And behind all of this hovers a sensually unsacred, almost honey-like sweetness in the smoke. It announced itself after just a few minutes and gains weight as it progresses.

Soon, the fragrance moves in a surprisingly rough, dark woody direction. The smokiness recedes, while the sweetness holds its ground. Earthy patchouli further dims the scent. It must have played a role in the wood theme from the very beginning. The leather hint has become a fantasy bordering on (once again) patchouli.

More and more, the sweet-smoky-woody aspect of Preludio d’Oriente reminds me of the certainly more opulent (and younger) Calling all Angels by April Aromatics, one of my smoky favorites. However, the Calé is not only quieter but also darker in tone.

In the early afternoon, the patchouli reveals even chocolatey ambitions, which mix very nicely with the honey sweetness. However, it does not become gourmand, as on one hand, the potentially edible is not sufficiently isolated, and on the other hand, the "sting" before, which now seems to have a more woody origin and is probably also based on patchouli. Beautiful! While Preludio may have a rather discreet sillage - in terms of exploring the depth of patchouli, it does not hide.

Within the seventh or eighth hour, there is a noticeable decline in the already low intensity. Creamy sandalwood leads the fragrance to a friendly and pleasant conclusion.

I like this very much. Even if Preludio requires a bit of attention for an appropriate appreciation from halfway through, as it does not wish to push itself to the forefront. This is something that distinguishes the fragrance - to revisit the introduction - from the aforementioned cathedral just a little.

I thank Ernstheiter for the sample.

Updated on 05/15/2017

02/25/2010

7Scent 7.5Longevity

Apicius
1328 Reviews

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Apicius

Very helpful Review 11

Frankincense and Patchouli

This fragrance starts off very beautifully. I smell a fine, sweet mandarin and citrus note over a lot of frankincense. This gives a nice depth right from the beginning. However, the frankincense is not pure but somewhat altered. I read "gem leather." Now, I usually don't like leather scents. They often have something rotten about them. Here, it is well integrated into the fragrance and does not spoil it. I think it is mainly the frankincense and patchouli that characterize this scent. The indicated oud is not perceivable as such but certainly contributes to the pleasant aroma. Dry sandalwood comes forward a bit when the citrus notes fade after a few minutes. Something spicy also becomes noticeable now. After half an hour, the initially very prominent patchouli begins to integrate into the fragrance. I believe that after a while, I sense something creamy, vanilla-like lurking in the background (tonka bean?). Initially unisex, the fragrance later develops in a more masculine, rugged direction.

Preludio d’Oriente is a perfume that truly evokes thoughts of the mysterious scents of the Orient. The combination presented here is nothing new. I have smelled something similar before - perhaps Spicy by Micallef. In any case, it is the same style. Thus, it is not a fresh, light perfume. On the contrary, it is very heavy, a deep, dark winter scent that radiates a lot of warmth without drifting into the sweet direction. Preludio d’Oriente definitely has something of a sultry eroticism, especially at the beginning of the scent development. One should wear it rather sparingly and with care. I say this also because I unfortunately do not tolerate patchouli very well. When it becomes the main component of a perfume, I get headaches and feel nauseous. Here, it occasionally comes quite close to my patchouli tolerance limit.

Conclusion: A high-quality and typical representative of an extraordinary fragrance direction.

12/25/2011

6Scent 7.5Longevity

Turandot
841 Reviews

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Turandot

Very helpful Review 11

Not Gothic, but Romanesque

If we are to associate incense scents with churches, then Preludio d`Oriente reminds me not of cool, high Gothic churches, whose naves are illuminated by the sunlight streaming through colorful windows, but rather of dark, squat Romanesque or even Carolingian church fortresses with meter-thick walls.

The citrus-fruity top note completely disappears for me. Immediately after application, the incense takes over the direction. However, it is not a cool, clean incense like, for example, in the Incense series by Comme de Garcons, but a soft, somewhat musty incense where mugwort and soft suede can certainly evoke a slightly dirty note.

Whether this fragrance contains oud, I cannot say, but patchouli is undoubtedly present, as well as dry sandalwood, which further intensifies the gloomy impression. Now some may think that I should like this, and I do, but only for sniffing. As a perfume, it is too dry and dark for me and makes me want to cough. I prefer it greener, mossier; then it can also be dark and smoky.

The comparison with Shaanan is quite justified. Preludio d`Oriente does remind me somewhat of cult fragrances, incense resins for the Rauhnächte, and similar traditional rites to drive away evil spirits during the longest nights of the year.

Just two more notes:
1. The scent does not strike me as oriental at all. A Celtic shaman could also use it.

2. I do not believe that leather notes in perfumes can be classified according to the animal they are supposedly derived from. I do not think that chamois leather with "a"!!!) as a scent note differs significantly from other types of leather.

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