Comptoir Sud Pacifique; a company with a sure hand for sweet scents of every shape and color. Whether it's the cooked-milk-vanilla "Vanille Extreme" or the silk chocolate of "Amour De Cacao," they have mixed all sorts of delicious things. And this here? Is this a wood scent? I wait and take a sniff.
The opening surprises me with a nice, almost juicy freshness. Can they also do bergamot well? The small citrus wave is already confidently rolling onto a calm almond beach within the first two minutes. Unlike many here, I have to think more of gentle marzipan than smoky vanilla. And, oh dear, a violet has already crept up behind me. It adds a delicately shallow sweetness to what I just called almondy, which drives me completely crazy over time. It’s quite vexing: hardly do I cross my tolerance limits with a jolt and order a fragrance that has a flower listed in its pyramid, and my anti-floral tendencies are annoyingly confirmed. The violet sings and twitches and rises in its vehement delicate cuteness above everything that started beautifully in the scent. The gradually rolling wood is very nice, but overall too pale to create many contrasts. Since those would have been necessary, the scent ends up a bit flustered and overly sweet.
So for me, this was the first disappointment in the range of this nice fragrance workshop. But that’s okay, I’ll stick with it anyway. :)
Du Armer - so ist es oft: Gerade jene Komponenten, die wir gar nicht mögen, beanspruchen auf unserer Haut den breitesten Raum und spielen die lauteste Geige. Versuch es mal mit dem "Barbier des Isles", der fällt auch aus dem CSP-Rahmen.
Palonera 12 years ago