Encounters 2023

Encounters by Francesca Bianchi
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6.8 / 10 52 Ratings
A new perfume by Francesca Bianchi for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is powdery-woody. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Powdery
Woody
Sweet
Spicy
Animal

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
BlackcurrantBlackcurrant CorianderCoriander OrangeOrange BergamotBergamot LavenderLavender
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Orris butterOrris butter RoseRose AngelicaAngelica CinnamonCinnamon
Base Notes Base Notes
CastoreumCastoreum CedarwoodCedarwood OudOud Peru balsamPeru balsam SandalwoodSandalwood AmbergrisAmbergris BenzoinBenzoin

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
6.852 Ratings
Longevity
8.445 Ratings
Sillage
7.746 Ratings
Bottle
7.740 Ratings
Value for money
6.927 Ratings
Submitted by Spl3xx, last update on 18.04.2024.

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Gandix

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Gandix
Top Review 48  
The secret passions of Barbapapa
When our mermaid showed me the other day the most diverse cotton candy for her picture,
i had to think inevitably of the children's series Barbapapa.
Not only because Barbe a Papa is the French term for cotton candy
(you can think of the apostrophes, I can't find them on my phone, and actually I can't remember them anyway),
but also because that looked just as motley, as the Barbapapas...
Very well...
The pink daddy absorbent cotton has not
made it to the picture.
The tasted certainly after strawberry, that is not in the scent. Therefore, it was rather immediately aufgefuttert...
Yes, would have smelled the times after currants, then she would have been photographed with...

So today then came the scent...
Honestly...
The bibergeile Barbamama has also had better days...
The spark does not want to Barbapapa just jump over....
(And to me somehow also not...)
He smiles then just sweetly their advances away....
He is afraid, because actually they have enough children, a whole Lux - uriöse tropi-fruity-colorful child crowd.
Only Calm they are not.

Suspiciously, Barbamama iridescently raises an eyebrow...
His pink suit somehow smells like strawberry after all...

Seeeejungfrauu.... Spit out the strawberry cotton again..
That was dad's suit...

Such a 'Divine Person'...
Thereby are also only old juices in his hose...
Furiously, she creams her iris fur and cleans up the kids' plastic toys.
What a mess.

But all that plastic calms her down.... The baby is awake and she gives Barbakus kisses on the bepuderte Popöchen.
Barbarella comes home from school,
from far away she smells her lilavender good mood...
Her anger at Barbapapa has evaporated...

Somewhere in the house, a few plastic strawberries are still rolling around...

**

As a brief summary:

On the sprayer, the fragrance smells extremely sweet, and I perceive the fruit predominantly as strawberry.
On skin, he is fortunately not so oversweet,
nevertheless sweet enough that the association with cotton candy fits well.
The typical Bianchi iris fur is clear, and just nothing new anymore.
Just as little, as the clear reference to Divine Perversion with the strawberry, and to Luxe Calme Volupte with the powdered fruits.
What I have here extremely, is a strong plastic note,
but hardly any smoke.
Plastic melts yes also only ;)
Also the sweetness remains throughout the course.
Lavender remains very far in the background.
I would like to have a little more of it...
Oud I smell only very diffuse and only for very few minutes.
Where for me in Byzantine Amber was a foray through their best fragrances, this is a mishmash of their most trivial.
Bad and uninteresting he is still not, but also anything but a highlight.
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MartinGE

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MartinGE
MartinGE
Top Review 18  
A bianchiesque Dior Homme perfume?
In anticipation of vigorous rebuttal, I create this provocative thesis.

When I sprayed on the fragrance yesterday and today, I felt reminded of the good old Dior Homme DNA. For niche fans probably "the deep fall" of an artist, for me: a beautiful moment.

We all know her iris butter from her fragrances, which now evokes associations with Dior Homme perfume in my nose and on my skin at the top note for the first 1-2 hours. A sweet powdery iris note emerges. Amber, benzoin and woods complement the warmth. Nevertheless, arises in conjunction with castoreum also (for me only in the background) a slight animalism from, which we know from some other of their fragrances much more present.

Exactly this (for many known) interaction will perhaps disappoint the niche head.
"She sees herself as an artist, after all. Why such a known DNA?" But wasn't this DNA when it was launched also art? Why not play with a known DNA and give it a personal touch? (because this is still undoubtedly recognizable).

In my opinion, however, it reflects the interplay between Orient and Occident - or as she describes it "East meets West" - in an appropriate way.

In the progression to the base, the players recurring in her fragrances are recognizable, so that the longer the fragrance is worn, it is also more and more recognizable that this fragrance is also a bianchi fragrance.

Since other of their fragrances often oscillate between demanding and difficult, I think that this fragrance is suitable if you want to sniff into this niche brand for the first time. He does not overwhelm the nose in the prelude, but makes in its course some what you can also experience with their other fragrances.

For me, this fragrance is the ideal "beginner bianchi". For fans of their more strenuous works probably a work that chums up to the uniformed mainstream.
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8.5
Scent
Holscentbar

103 Reviews
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Perhaps one of the best of the brand
There are no fake praises or fake ideas, but what I really think.

This job is really well done and looks gorgeous on the skin.

It opens very buttery, with a light touch of citrus, lavender and slightly fruity.

After a very short time this warm and slightly dark oud note emerges, combined with some barely distinguishable spices.

The evolution is wonderful: creamy, buttery with a woody oud base and perhaps some animal notes.

I really find it like a pleasant meeting between two people who haven't seen each other for a while on an autumn day. Everything flows.

Commendable
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