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Lo siento, querida Señora Carner...
I usually write comments (or more recently reviews) exclusively about fragrances that I think are great. I like to make the effort, research the background and try to put my enthusiasm into words. But fragrances that I find solid, bore me or even sometimes awful, I just feed off with a statement. But as in real life out there, there's always a first time, and here it is. I'm reviewing a fragrance that I honestly find difficult, to put it that way. But before I come to the fragrance itself a few sentences about the brand and the name.
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Carner is a perfume house from the Catalan capital Barcelona. Anyone who has ever been to the city will know that it is quite amazing. The Mediterranean soul is palpable at every turn, which coupled with time-honored history, culture and architecture make the metropolis a really exciting, lively and vital destination. I have been there twice myself and can only recommend a visit to everyone. Only one thing should be clear: Proud Catalans are the inhabitants there, accordingly, it is their customs and traditions also to respect...
Behind the perfume house is Sara Carner, a young entrepreneur from the region whose family has a long tradition in the production of Spanish leather goods. Her passion for fragrances, discovered as a child, led her to study at New York's Columbus University, which led her to an international career in the cosmetics industry, and so in time - in 2010 - her perfume house was born.
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Palo Santo is the first fragrance that I was allowed to get to know from the house of Carner. If you call a fragrance "sacred wood", then the expectation is not quite so low I claim times. But I just wanted to be surprised and deliberately left out the fragrance pyramid before testing. And what I heard right at the beginning was a smell that let me immediately warped my face and where I had to swallow briefly.
At the beginning I perceive namely a stuffy, slightly sour and sweetish-artificial note. Looking at the pyramid, I noticed that, among other things, milk is a main ingredient. Yes, milk. I rubbed my eyes and read again. That's right, milk! Very unusual and takes some getting used to, in my opinion. And that's how I feel about the scent overall.
A real course or even a development I have not noticed with him. Rather, to this initial artificial sweetness quickly joins a mixture of wood with just that milk. Imagine that milk is poured over a piece of wood and that this wood is left in the blazing sun for a while. This is my personal association.
It must be this mix of milk, artificial wood and the tonka bean that makes this scent so difficult for me. The rum note that is present in the top note doesn't make things better; on the contrary, I think. I usually quite like fragrances that contain this note, but in this overall composition here, I find it incongruous.
In fairness, I must mention that it becomes a little more "bearable" to the base, but the emphasis is really on a little. Because there I perceive a very delicate hint of cedar, and this unpleasant artificial sweetness leaves the stage so slowly.
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When and where to apply this fragrance, everyone who likes it (and these are not a few according to the reviews here) should decide for themselves. Since I can and will - as otherwise actually - make no recommendations. I for my part would say that you should at least be careful with the dosage, because he already radiates at 1-2 spritz quite well.
Conclusion:
Sara Carner draws her inspiration for her fragrances from moments in life, as they say. They are to tell stories of true feelings and experiences, of encounters and activities.
Where and how she was influenced for Palo Santo, I don't need to know. It is certainly not my fragrance.
I thank Serres74 for the testing opportunity. But this wood was not sacred to me.
Lo siento, querida Señora Carner.
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Thank you for reading!
Top Notes 
Davana
Rum
Heart Notes 
Milk
Paraguayan gaiac wood
Venezuelan tonka bean
Base Notes 
Atlas cedar
Dominican amyris
Haitian vetiver
Lmr4j3ire
Rosymel
Emorandeira
NicheOnly
IlonaLakritz
Pio
Ninamariah
Pyroo
Agegshdhd
