Top Notes 
Bergamot
Grapefruit
Heart Notes 
Peach
Jasmine
Rose
Violet
Base Notes 
Oakmoss
Patchouli
Woods
Sandalwood
Tonka bean
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10
Not a Flash in the Pan, but a Quiet Creep In
Only 5.0 for this new perfume from Chabaud? Well, in my opinion, this rating is really undeserved. While it didn't excite me in the sense of "Wow, how wonderful, I need to have it right now, even if it costs me my last shirt," that can also be pleasant. Such spontaneous passions can indeed turn out to be a flash in the pan, burning brightly for just a short time. Rather, it has quietly, yet very sustainably, crept into my heart and enchanted me.
I admit that the theme is not incredibly original. Venice. How many fragrances have already been dedicated to this city, I don't want to count. But Venice has something. Some special aura that makes it simply impossible not to engage with it. And then there’s this play with fiction and reality. This exaggerated beauty that can sink at any moment, and at the same time the dirt in the alleys. The masks and the people. Escapism, Saturnalian mood, deception, and a play with illusions.
A start with citrus fruits and then a very calm floral bouquet that wraps around you like a second skin. Just as the paint on the masks is actually against any natural skin, yet still somehow appears natural, the flowers are certainly not a second skin, but here they manage to create that image.
A slightly morbid violet that picks up the black of the gondolas, combined with rose and jasmine. Jasmine is also not overwhelming but youthful and fresh.
The base has aspects of sandalwood, tonka, and patchouli, with the latter being hardly earthy, but simply soft.
In short: Not spectacular, but just so beautiful. Spontaneously, the following poem by C.F. Meyer came to my mind:
On the Grand Canal
On the Grand Canal lie
Deeply the evening shadows,
Hundred dark gondolas glide
As a whispering secret.
But between two palaces
Glows in the evening sun,
Flaming it casts a bright
Wide stripe on the gondolas.
In the purplish light
Loud voices, bright laughter,
Persuasive gestures
And the blasphemous play of eyes.
A small, short stretch
Drives life passionately
And fades in the shadow over there
As an incomprehensible murmur.
Here too, we have no news, nothing daring, and the theme is quite familiar. We also have the play with light and shadow, as in the perfume and in its name. Well-known, but it still speaks to us, and will always speak to us.
Above all, it is simply beautiful, without being loud or flashy. And such things have the potential to slowly but surely steal my heart. Lumière de Venise has definitely succeeded.
I admit that the theme is not incredibly original. Venice. How many fragrances have already been dedicated to this city, I don't want to count. But Venice has something. Some special aura that makes it simply impossible not to engage with it. And then there’s this play with fiction and reality. This exaggerated beauty that can sink at any moment, and at the same time the dirt in the alleys. The masks and the people. Escapism, Saturnalian mood, deception, and a play with illusions.
A start with citrus fruits and then a very calm floral bouquet that wraps around you like a second skin. Just as the paint on the masks is actually against any natural skin, yet still somehow appears natural, the flowers are certainly not a second skin, but here they manage to create that image.
A slightly morbid violet that picks up the black of the gondolas, combined with rose and jasmine. Jasmine is also not overwhelming but youthful and fresh.
The base has aspects of sandalwood, tonka, and patchouli, with the latter being hardly earthy, but simply soft.
In short: Not spectacular, but just so beautiful. Spontaneously, the following poem by C.F. Meyer came to my mind:
On the Grand Canal
On the Grand Canal lie
Deeply the evening shadows,
Hundred dark gondolas glide
As a whispering secret.
But between two palaces
Glows in the evening sun,
Flaming it casts a bright
Wide stripe on the gondolas.
In the purplish light
Loud voices, bright laughter,
Persuasive gestures
And the blasphemous play of eyes.
A small, short stretch
Drives life passionately
And fades in the shadow over there
As an incomprehensible murmur.
Here too, we have no news, nothing daring, and the theme is quite familiar. We also have the play with light and shadow, as in the perfume and in its name. Well-known, but it still speaks to us, and will always speak to us.
Above all, it is simply beautiful, without being loud or flashy. And such things have the potential to slowly but surely steal my heart. Lumière de Venise has definitely succeeded.
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