Élixir Absolu Élisire 2015

No no no, awful.
A powdery flowerbomb, smells like a granny's apartment. If you like "classical" hyperfeminine scents this one is for you. Such a generic scent for this pricepoint. Why even come up with a scent like this that already exists in 500 other versions? You can find a scent like this for more than half this price. Ridiculous.

The description on the sample packaging could probably be translated here as “The Beautiful or the Beauty in the Fable” or something similar,… well, if I’m right about this. Presumably, a mythical creature like a fairy or elf is meant here, but don’t animals usually play the biggest role in fables?

Then cats could also be meant! Yaaa, now you must smile because I called cats beautiful, right? :D
But well, they are beautiful animals, even as they get older. Although Haydut, my tomcat, looked cuter when he was a young kitten… now that he’s older, at least he looks more dignified, whiter, smarter… … oh, who am I kidding… he looks, especially with his disdainful gaze, like a sultan or pasha ruling over the whole city. Everyone is afraid of him, he always gets his way, he’s a real tough guy, but woe betide him if he hears a loud noise or encounters many people, then he quickly runs and hides cowardly under my bed :DD

But I’m digressing again,… so Élixir Absolu is one of the fragrances from the Elisire Wanderpaket, and I must unfortunately say that I didn’t like the beginning of the scent very much, as it was a bit too stuffy and humid for me at first and a little in the middle, but you ladies might actually like it quite a bit!

The scent starts with fresh bergamot and slightly sour-sweet roses. Soon, other floral notes mix into the fragrance, which seem a bit humid and therefore somewhat heavy; I think this must be mainly due to the ylang-ylang. This is soon accompanied by a slight stuffiness (possibly from the mimosa?), which personally bothers me in floral scents, as I find it unpleasant, but that doesn’t mean that this scent wouldn’t appeal to you ladies.
But: Actually, you only have to “endure” these humid-stuffy scent notes for about ten minutes; after that, they disappear, and the scent becomes sweeter. It remains floral, but please don’t ask me what exactly one smells,… I often have no idea about floral notes…
There’s tiaré again, but somehow I always think of tiramisu :DD Anyway, moving on…
The mentioned sweetness comes from the vanilla with a bit of amber; I’m not so sure about the musk. Additionally, you can again perceive the light rose in the base. I could only faintly smell sandalwood and patchouli; if they are present, they are only in the background, but without looking at the fragrance pyramid, you probably wouldn’t even recognize or perceive them.

The sillage is above average, so you don’t have to be very close to smell the fragrance. A small scent cloud is also left behind.
The longevity is okay, as the scent lasts seven to eight hours, but towards the end, it is already noticeably weaker.

The bottle is rectangular, the sides are beveled, and the fragrance liquid is pink. As always, there’s no label to be seen, which might have disturbed the beautiful bottle. The cap is, as always, excellently designed, as it looks like a gemstone. Overall, a very beautiful bottle.

Okay, despite my initial concerns (that the scent wasn’t very pleasant for me), it has developed excellently. The only negative here is actually that the scent doesn’t really differ from the beautiful, sweet-floral scents of other well-made perfumes and therefore doesn’t stand out. The only difference would basically be the great bottle that you get with this scent.

But that doesn’t matter, because as long as a scent smells good, it’s not a bad thing if it resembles other scents; it’s just a pity that it doesn’t offer anything new.
The scent is fresh and thus suitable for spring and summer. It is marked as unisex here, but I think that, in my opinion, the scent could actually be a pure women’s fragrance.
Be that as it may, the scent can be used both as a daytime fragrance and for going out on warm days.

So, and now a little quiz question about beauty: What is more beautiful: a cat or a tomcat? He he he, that’s a mean question, isn’t it? Oh, I can already see it coming, the question will split the whole forum apart, mu ha ha ha :DDD
But one thing is for sure: With these little rascals, at least the hairstyle is ALWAYS on point, so these little rascals always look good… *sigh*

*miau*

One after the other:
I discovered the Élisire fragrances here on Parfumo and was drawn in by the beautiful bottles, so I sent an email to Élisire asking for a sample set and received a personal response from Franck Salzwedel that he would send me one. Now that's what I call (customer) friendliness!
A few days later, it arrived in my mailbox with a handwritten note from Franck.

You can imagine how happy I was! I immediately applied Élixir Absolu to one wrist and Poudre Désir to the other (comment to follow).
I then safely placed my new treasure out of reach of my children in my "to-do" sample box.

You think so?!

This morning, it was my turn to sleep in, and as I lay in bed, I suddenly heard my husband complaining: "Oh no, did you really spill perfume here?!"
I jumped out of bed and made a dive into the living room. All five Élisire samples were scattered on the table, all except one intact. But Élixir Absolu was gone. The entire 1.5ml soaked into the pajamas of my two-and-a-half-year-old.

But now comes the interesting part: Although I wasn't so convinced when testing it on my own wrist, my child smells simply amazing.

Bergamot and mandarin give the flowers a nice sprightliness, so the scent doesn't come off as too cheesy. I would name rose and magnolia as the dominant flowers, while I don't perceive the mimosa at all (and that's probably for the best in my case).
Directly on the wrist, I found the scent too sweet, but the cloud emanating from my little rascal's pajamas feels rather fresh and cheerful.

For having consumed the entire sample, the scent is not at all overpowering, and now, four hours later, it is still clearly noticeable, yet subtle.

In the base, I recognize mostly musk, amber, and vanilla, but the citrus notes hold their own as well.

Overall, Élixir Absolu is a successful and truly beautiful fragrance, but compared to the other four in the line, it lacks that certain something.

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Even though I am happy that my son shares my passion for fragrances, I wish I could take the sample situation as calmly as Mokka.
I am a bit sad about the now incomplete state of my discovery set because I would have liked to pass it on. So if anyone has a sample left or can sell me a small decant, I would be very, very grateful!