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Aqualambara 1993

8.7 / 10 12 Ratings
A popular perfume by Diego Dalla Palma for men, released in 1993. The scent is floral-woody. Projection and longevity are above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral
Woody
Green
Spicy
Earthy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Green notesGreen notes AldehydesAldehydes BergamotBergamot CorianderCoriander LavenderLavender RosemaryRosemary
Heart Notes Heart Notes
GeraniumGeranium JasmineJasmine Pine needlePine needle IrisIris Lily of the valleyLily of the valley RoseRose
Base Notes Base Notes
AmberAmber CistusCistus LeatherLeather MuskMusk OakmossOakmoss VetiverVetiver PatchouliPatchouli SandalwoodSandalwood
Ratings
Scent
8.712 Ratings
Longevity
9.111 Ratings
Sillage
8.211 Ratings
Bottle
7.313 Ratings
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Skydiver19

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Skydiver19
Very helpful Review 11  
The Dragon in Mars
You were born in fire. Your body is pure plasma. Your elementary particles disdain the bond, are loners and electrically charged. And the light of your plasma is bright and blinding.
Your name is Mars, your life a single battle. The limit is your home, only in death do you find peace. That is why you are ready to take great risks.
Your life path is often scorched earth, the surviving green responds brightly to you, as protection from burning up in your presence.

When you love, your hot body loves. You do not know much about your soul. This abstract something within you, which has often tried to communicate with you, is a stranger, more a theoretical concept than truly tangible. Yet it has instilled in you a longing that your body understands in the darkness of its cells: Love is dissolution, merging into something greater. Trust.
If your heart could love, it would want to dissolve in the togetherness of love, flow away and emerge as an amalgam of both of you.

Your Y chromosomes desperately wonder: How to dissolve in love with all that material baggage? It is solid; to dissolve, a liquid state is needed! And while this self-questioning occurs, a provocative beauty enters your sphere. She sends you the answer via pheromone courier to your loins, and they know instantly: Erase! What is the point of miserable questioning when the blood calls?
And with the heating bodily juices, your sharp exhalations become increasingly penetrating, as if they wanted to prepare the ground for your pressing plan.

After the boiling of your cells, when you retreat from the boiling point back to normal operating temperature, in the bath of your still sharp sweat, it gradually dawns on you. Now, as the dragon fire within you extinguishes, you can feel it. A breath of love lives within you, sending forth delicate blooms from your leather loins, playing softly with your musk blood and caressing your damp forehead with dry, grassy, blessing rockrose.

You feel a deep trust in life, can surrender to this feeling until it closes your eyelids to a sweet sleep in the arms of your beloved.

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At the beginning of the fragrance adventure, gods throw lightning arrows that crash to the ground with aldehydic brightness. Immediately, green notes are present, which absorb and soften the impact with their counter-light. Herbal rosemary unfolds its aroma and brings soothing lavender into play.

After the storm comes before the storm. A fluid-sharp sequence takes over the fragrance space, swelling, bright, and with a dark message. An untamed will reveals itself, drawing me in its spell; like through a spiral, I land in its center, where nothing distinguishable occurs anymore. Only the clear feeling of no longer possessing a will of my own. Bright and dark roaring, and after a 'battle' of the bodies, the literally gripping sharpness retreats. Not entirely on its own, but with the support of pine needles, which take the speed out of the tornado with their green-ethereal tips.
The storm low 'Mars' (could contain ginger, not listed) is followed by the stable high 'Venus' with distinctive geranium in the transition, followed by sweetly shy lily of the valley, smoothing iris, and tender rose.

The returning calm deeply relaxes after this olfactory 'storm'. A feeling of trust arises and allows for a peaceful settling in a base that could hardly be more dreamlike. The animalistic notes of leather, musk, and amber come together to form a soul-somatic nurturing trio, creating a pleasurable resonance. This becomes finely woody grounded and increasingly tenderly rockrose-like over time, almost blessing.
The contrasting events remind me of an adventure in which one loses control and orientation. When that has been endured and one finds oneself back in their comfort zone, a deeply satisfying feeling arises in retrospect, one that is hard to forget - like everything experienced outside the comfort zone.
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This fragrance adventure was also part of a fragrance package from ElAttarine - once again, a thousand thanks!
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Can777

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Top Review 61  
Tear me apart…!
Come with me into the night. Together we will tear it apart into its fragrant
molecules. Follow with me its trail of aesthetics, of exotic beauty and passion. Clear and fresh like aldehydes is its song. First quiet and then as loud as a scream. Roam with me through fields of juicy, herb-bitter coriander and dried lavender in the darkness. Let us hunt for abandon and sensuality like black jaguars in the shadows of obscure and wild vegetation. Let us satisfy our hunger. Do you smell how the dark storm is coming? It comes deep from within you! Let us break all the flowers on our way through the night like a tornado of pride, floral scraps, and testosterone. Let us grind them on our chests. Adorn ourselves with them like war paint. All the fragrant life juices, all the roses, the fully ripe jasmine, the green-juicy and herbaceous geraniums. All the wonderful flowers of desire. Do you feel the gazes upon you as they follow you? Stealthy, admiring, and dark green with envy and curiosity about what grows out of you. Molecules of darkness wash over us like dirty water. They swirl around us like shadows of black-green antimatter. The path becomes ever more beautiful and pulsating until the earth opens up before us from earthy, damp patchouli and metallic, dark green-smoky oak moss. Look into the abyss with me of leathery elegance, gloomy, sensually bitter musk, and sacred, resinous incense. Embrace me, tighter, ever tighter. Hide me under your chypre-dark wings. And then let us leap into the darkest beauty. And before we land in the smokiest vetiver of the night…..
Tear me apart!

Conclusion
What is passion? What is pride? What is temperament? And can they be captured in a perfume? Diego Dalla Palma could do it! No, Diego Dalla Palma is not Spanish. Diego Valerio Dalla Palma is Italian through and through. Even if the name sounds very Spanish. Diego Dalla Palma is a makeup artist, if not the greatest makeup artist of his time. He has achieved true worldwide fame among his peers and in the world of beauty and fashion with his art. Revered, admired, and celebrated. A genius, a refined spirit, and an icon of beauty, perfection, and ruthless aesthetics. He was referred to by the New York Times as the "Prophet of makeup made in Italy." And rightly so! In 1993, he released his men's fragrance Aqualambara, which roughly means "Dirty Water." The name could not have been better chosen!

Aqualambara
Whoever wears it leaves a devastating trail of passion behind. This is no joke or advertising slogan, but very serious! The perfume is an exotic among exotics. I know nothing even remotely comparable. The scent is an elegant hunter, a black jaguar or raptor. When perceived around you, it feels as if an eerie, floral-dark shadow is passing by. Or the aforementioned flower of evil. However, in the darkest-floral and most alluring masculinity. Mysterious, wild, mysterious, and full of sultry-floral and animalistic testosterone. If it were a color, it would be the blackest black-green. Aqualambara is like a mutating swamp of dark-floral and spicy-animalistic aromas, notes, and chypre-like structures in which one threatens to sink. Aqualambara is engagingly extroverted, shady, and unusually exotic. It is hard, even very hard, to pass by this perfume. But does one even want to? From my own past and present experience, I know that the scent does not fail to make an impact on both genders. It is simply too fascinating! One must be worthy of this perfume, otherwise, it tears one apart. The sillage is not to be underestimated, and the longevity extends over many, many hours. Not a perfume to wear "carelessly." A perfume for the evening, the night, or anything that comes after. Whatever Diego Dalla Palma was thinking when he created this perfume, he succeeded. Aqualambara is passion, pride, and unleashed temperament in liquid form. For me, Aqualambara is the most beautiful and blackest men's chypre I have ever encountered on my journey through the universe of perfumes. And I am more than happy to have it back after almost thirty years. And it has not lost a note of its power and magic. A cathedral or a Moloch of darkest, mindless, lascivious elegance and uniqueness…

If flowers were predators,…. they would surely smell like this!

Arráncame/Tear me apart - Vanesa Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRC9iFBzak8
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Wash yourself
In dirty chypre waters
Aldehyde thunder
In the half-light
Over swaying geraniums
It sparkles
Green moss eyes
Behind poisonous blooms...
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If flowers were predators, they would surely smell like this! Dark green, chypre-smoky-spicy. Lush and brutally elegant. Dark Moloch!
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from greenery under sparkling stars
the head of the dragon rises
dark water whirlpool
poisonous-floral-physical-earthy-smoky
I surrender
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I would place it more in the 80s.
A wonderfully complex scent with everything that makes a vintage heart race. Aldehydes and coriander.
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bright light
green answer
flower objection
with angel tongues
dragon kiss
temptingly sharp
leather victory
moss musk lost
in amber grass
stalemate
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A soul devourer, just as described in the book.
Carnivorous plants that swallow the head in an instant.
Deep dark through dirty musk.
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Complex, virile, all-consuming intense scent sculpture. Rough, almost "rusty" rose texture. Dirty & sophisticated. Antaeus who? Holy Grail!?
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So complex as an 80s scent, but unfortunately with the character of a 90s one: bright floral notes (geranium, lavender), then wood and leather.
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That I get to experience this... Grumpy roses! A wall, an aircraft carrier. Really tough and "in your face."
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9 years ago
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The aftershave is soft-powdery-spicy - I can smell lavender and iris - very nice! And I have two bottles of it!
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