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Not too shoddy
I have bought sample after sample in an attempt to find something, anything, that I liked. I've tried everything from the latest Miss Dior to niche but to no avail. So, despite the rotten reviews the latest formulation of Aromatics Elixir has had from having no staying power to having no scent to etc etc I decided I had better try it myself on the understanding that any Aromatics Elixir was better than no Aromatics Elixir.
I bought the 100 ml with batch code A31 which comes out, according to CheckFresh, as March 2021. I purchased it as dispatched from and sold by Amazon uk i.e. not an unknown seller.
So, was it a successful buy? To my nose, yes, a successful buy and I am pleased that I took the plunge.
Aromatics Elixir seems to have had formula tweaks many, many times and this one is no exception. It no longer says on their website that it has 500 or more ingredients and whether that indicates a reduction or they no longer think of it as being a selling point I don't know.
Taking longevity, one spray on my arm in the afternoon still smells the next morning. That is a very individual thing and I am sure that when people say that this new formula doesn't last then that is their experience. An age ago I did a set of tests with my mum using various aroma chemicals and some of the musks had no smell at all on mum; I couldn't smell them and neither could she but on my skin we both could smell them. My mum is the least smelly person I have ever met; she never used deodorant but never had foul body odour, she never had smelly feet even if her slippers were years old. The less said about my feet the better.
One of the difficulties I have had with the last couple of bottles of Aromatics Elixir is its decent into Marmite/meaty/savoury territory after a few hours wear. I am happy to say that this current batch doesn't do that. No idea what is in a perfume that makes it wear savoury on me but however this has been tweaked it has ended that problem for me. I compare with my other bottles (I now have four on the go) and still have the savoury problem with two of the earlier versions so it is a tweak rather than a phase I was going through
Another change is that the previous bottle I had had a very odd, synthetic, sweet rose overtone. This rendition doesn't come across with the heavy rose note at all. This is much to my preference as although I love rose essential oil there was something about the wrongly sweet rose overtone that was not to my liking.
Overall I would say that this formula (always on my skin so not a set in stone 'this is how it is') is greener, dryer, more mossy, and more woody, maybe a touch thinner and leaves less of a trail but altogether not too shoddy.
I bought the 100 ml with batch code A31 which comes out, according to CheckFresh, as March 2021. I purchased it as dispatched from and sold by Amazon uk i.e. not an unknown seller.
So, was it a successful buy? To my nose, yes, a successful buy and I am pleased that I took the plunge.
Aromatics Elixir seems to have had formula tweaks many, many times and this one is no exception. It no longer says on their website that it has 500 or more ingredients and whether that indicates a reduction or they no longer think of it as being a selling point I don't know.
Taking longevity, one spray on my arm in the afternoon still smells the next morning. That is a very individual thing and I am sure that when people say that this new formula doesn't last then that is their experience. An age ago I did a set of tests with my mum using various aroma chemicals and some of the musks had no smell at all on mum; I couldn't smell them and neither could she but on my skin we both could smell them. My mum is the least smelly person I have ever met; she never used deodorant but never had foul body odour, she never had smelly feet even if her slippers were years old. The less said about my feet the better.
One of the difficulties I have had with the last couple of bottles of Aromatics Elixir is its decent into Marmite/meaty/savoury territory after a few hours wear. I am happy to say that this current batch doesn't do that. No idea what is in a perfume that makes it wear savoury on me but however this has been tweaked it has ended that problem for me. I compare with my other bottles (I now have four on the go) and still have the savoury problem with two of the earlier versions so it is a tweak rather than a phase I was going through
Another change is that the previous bottle I had had a very odd, synthetic, sweet rose overtone. This rendition doesn't come across with the heavy rose note at all. This is much to my preference as although I love rose essential oil there was something about the wrongly sweet rose overtone that was not to my liking.
Overall I would say that this formula (always on my skin so not a set in stone 'this is how it is') is greener, dryer, more mossy, and more woody, maybe a touch thinner and leaves less of a trail but altogether not too shoddy.
DorothyGrace
