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04/28/2022
Landshark321
523 Reviews
Landshark321
1
Well crafted intersection of sweet, resinous, spicy, fresh, and floral. Excellent.
Chris Collins’ Vide Cor Meum is a sweet and spicy 2021 release that I was instantly drawn to during my last visit at Perfumology. The listed notes are bergamot, thyme, rose absolute, incense, cedar, benzoin siam, vanilla, and woody amber, and that generally feels right, as there are spicy and resinous qualities to it, with a slight but apparent sweetness, along with some woody and fresh tones. The rose is limited but helps explain why this does not drift into gourmand territory, as, along with the thyme, there is a green outdoorsy-ness to the blend. VDC does not call to mind any immediate comparisons as far as other perfumes, but has a slight familiarity to it while nonetheless being intriguing and making me want to smell it over and over again, which is a peculiar juxtaposition but sort of makes sense.
Altogether, it leans ever so slightly more toward being a dark / nighttime fragrance that a fresh / daytime fragrance but it’s very well balanced between both ideas, more or less in that category of fragrance that can be comfortably worn every day through most climates while nonetheless feeling more special and perhaps more contemporary than most signature scents.
I’m not sure it takes the top spot from Danse Sauvage but it’s in a similar category, replacing DS’ more committed booziness with a little bit of floral and resinous touches, but both fragrances are excellently put together and wearable, while straddling the lines of fun vs. serious and comfortable and relaxed vs. formal very well.
Overall, VDC is great, and along with DS, is one of the two fragrances I find most wearable and enjoyable (and therefore would most recommend that everyone try) from the brand.
Vide Cor Meum is available in EDP concentration at a price of $175 for 50ml, the most common pricing for the brand, and is sold at great boutiques like Perfumology, where I’ve done all of my sampling of the line, and they sell spray samples of this and other fragrances that they offer.
8 out of 10
Altogether, it leans ever so slightly more toward being a dark / nighttime fragrance that a fresh / daytime fragrance but it’s very well balanced between both ideas, more or less in that category of fragrance that can be comfortably worn every day through most climates while nonetheless feeling more special and perhaps more contemporary than most signature scents.
I’m not sure it takes the top spot from Danse Sauvage but it’s in a similar category, replacing DS’ more committed booziness with a little bit of floral and resinous touches, but both fragrances are excellently put together and wearable, while straddling the lines of fun vs. serious and comfortable and relaxed vs. formal very well.
Overall, VDC is great, and along with DS, is one of the two fragrances I find most wearable and enjoyable (and therefore would most recommend that everyone try) from the brand.
Vide Cor Meum is available in EDP concentration at a price of $175 for 50ml, the most common pricing for the brand, and is sold at great boutiques like Perfumology, where I’ve done all of my sampling of the line, and they sell spray samples of this and other fragrances that they offer.
8 out of 10
