12/03/2023
OvidiuPop
21 Reviews
OvidiuPop
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Beautiful Regardless of Time
Before I get started, I want to mention a few things:
1. I have almost a year of experience with the fragrance world by the time I'm writing this review.
2. I don't have the best nose for picking individual notes and the ones that I'm not familiar with, especially in winter season.
The Context
I found out about this one from Kevin Samuels (RIP) from his video about great cheap fragrances, alongside another one from the list that will do a review in the future. I found out about Kevin Samules from a few years ago from Aba and Preach, I watched the videos about him, I moved on, I rewatched those videos in the last part of january, I started to watch more of his content then I watched his videos about fragrances, this is how I got into the hobby of fragrance. I bought this in the last part of the exam session, I also got a sample that I will reveal which fragrance was for in a future review, and I fell in love with it. I wore it for the rest of the semester, summer came, I got more time to document myself with fragrances and I found out that this is the new version. I thought that this was the old version with lavender, vanilla and musk but it was the one with resins instead of vanilla and more types of lavender for a strong opening. Having learnt that I will try in the future to buy the old version and compare them. This context section has been shortened to fit better in the review, my previous version was way too long and I was writing too much around the subject. But one thing for sure was that this was my first fragrance bought and also was my first blind buy that also was a success.
The Scent
At the opening I got an explosion of lavender that it’s spicy, sweet, fresh and a bit woody. This smells like a bourgeois citizen from the late 1800s in england. Just a strong spicy and beautiful barbershop type of smell. In the drydown I get the resins, the opoponax and the styrax with the musk but for a few minutes and sometimes in the full drydown, an hour or so, I’m getting the damask rose. Also in drydown it gets a new accord, which is powdery, and the resins help in forming that side of the scent. This fragrance in high doses it’s too much for the nose. I tried it for two weeks in the travel spray and it was just too much. In the past I was easily wearing this with my suits but now two strays in one place overwhelm me. The truth is I got more familiar with the niche houses and their compositions and now I want my scents to be soft and beautiful.
The Projection
From my whole experience with this fragrance I get a medium to a high projection and scent trail. On a few occasions my colleagues and professors commented on my scent and that’s when I knew in what range this one projects.
The Longevity
This one has about 5 to 6 hours maximum, because of the concentration. But compared to other fragrances that have a higher concentration but with light molecules, this one has a really good run and time span.
The Bottle
This is a really nice shaped glass with a classic look from the 30s when it was first created. The cap it’s metallic and the atomizer is pretty tick and powerful. It doesn’t have control over spray but I’m satisfied overall.
The Perfumer
The nose behind this reformulation it’s Jean Jacques. He is the main nose behind most of Caron’s newest releases and he also made some flankers for Davidoff and Givenchi. He is a pretty experienced parfumer and I would say that he had success in recreating the original formula of Daltroff, even though I have not compared them side by side. But from the interviews I saw about the reformulations, Jacques tried to make the vanilla note with other notes in order to make the whole scent profile more dynamic and complex.
Conclusions
This is a beautiful fragrance that has a great price for it to offer, since the notes listed are not that expensive. In the future I will compare the original formulation with the new one and see if the original was better or not. Next, I will write about Today Tomorrow always for him, which is the first fragrance from a batch that I got in the spring break of this year.
1. I have almost a year of experience with the fragrance world by the time I'm writing this review.
2. I don't have the best nose for picking individual notes and the ones that I'm not familiar with, especially in winter season.
The Context
I found out about this one from Kevin Samuels (RIP) from his video about great cheap fragrances, alongside another one from the list that will do a review in the future. I found out about Kevin Samules from a few years ago from Aba and Preach, I watched the videos about him, I moved on, I rewatched those videos in the last part of january, I started to watch more of his content then I watched his videos about fragrances, this is how I got into the hobby of fragrance. I bought this in the last part of the exam session, I also got a sample that I will reveal which fragrance was for in a future review, and I fell in love with it. I wore it for the rest of the semester, summer came, I got more time to document myself with fragrances and I found out that this is the new version. I thought that this was the old version with lavender, vanilla and musk but it was the one with resins instead of vanilla and more types of lavender for a strong opening. Having learnt that I will try in the future to buy the old version and compare them. This context section has been shortened to fit better in the review, my previous version was way too long and I was writing too much around the subject. But one thing for sure was that this was my first fragrance bought and also was my first blind buy that also was a success.
The Scent
At the opening I got an explosion of lavender that it’s spicy, sweet, fresh and a bit woody. This smells like a bourgeois citizen from the late 1800s in england. Just a strong spicy and beautiful barbershop type of smell. In the drydown I get the resins, the opoponax and the styrax with the musk but for a few minutes and sometimes in the full drydown, an hour or so, I’m getting the damask rose. Also in drydown it gets a new accord, which is powdery, and the resins help in forming that side of the scent. This fragrance in high doses it’s too much for the nose. I tried it for two weeks in the travel spray and it was just too much. In the past I was easily wearing this with my suits but now two strays in one place overwhelm me. The truth is I got more familiar with the niche houses and their compositions and now I want my scents to be soft and beautiful.
The Projection
From my whole experience with this fragrance I get a medium to a high projection and scent trail. On a few occasions my colleagues and professors commented on my scent and that’s when I knew in what range this one projects.
The Longevity
This one has about 5 to 6 hours maximum, because of the concentration. But compared to other fragrances that have a higher concentration but with light molecules, this one has a really good run and time span.
The Bottle
This is a really nice shaped glass with a classic look from the 30s when it was first created. The cap it’s metallic and the atomizer is pretty tick and powerful. It doesn’t have control over spray but I’m satisfied overall.
The Perfumer
The nose behind this reformulation it’s Jean Jacques. He is the main nose behind most of Caron’s newest releases and he also made some flankers for Davidoff and Givenchi. He is a pretty experienced parfumer and I would say that he had success in recreating the original formula of Daltroff, even though I have not compared them side by side. But from the interviews I saw about the reformulations, Jacques tried to make the vanilla note with other notes in order to make the whole scent profile more dynamic and complex.
Conclusions
This is a beautiful fragrance that has a great price for it to offer, since the notes listed are not that expensive. In the future I will compare the original formulation with the new one and see if the original was better or not. Next, I will write about Today Tomorrow always for him, which is the first fragrance from a batch that I got in the spring break of this year.
