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Setzen - Vier!
User "OPomone" rated the fragrance with a really bad 2 without any comments or further explanatory context, which - translated into our school grading system - still meant a 6, albeit a good one.
I wouldn't go that far or better, but I also wouldn't rate it much higher, just with this school grade of 4, so barely sufficient.
This is primarily due to a clear deviation from the theme: The fragrance smells of everything possible, just not of jasmine and even less of oud. Oud is not even listed in the official fragrance pyramid on the manufacturer's webpage. It's puzzling, what drives the manufacturer to name the fragrance "Aoud - Jasmin," mind you with oud even in the first position?
The top note starts unexpectedly disharmonious and with a delicate dissonance, which does not seem to be intentionally constructed - in the sense of "art must provoke" perhaps - but rather banal, like a craft weakness. The pretty cool rose is overshadowed by a sticky sweetness that, by the way, does not smell like honey. These two act side by side, appearing disconnected. "Green leaves" are also mentioned, and yes, there could be a slight (synthetic) leaf sap green underlying it. Its purpose remains unclear - it is not a bridge between the rose and the sweetness.
But it gets better and more harmonious; a initially delicate and later even pronounced powderiness and velvety vanilla softness (probably from the heliotrope) soothingly and reconciliatively envelops the flickering top note, the sticky sweetness recedes, and now there is a longer beautiful phase with delicate floral powder. All good? Somehow still not, because: Where is the jasmine? I still smell rose and - newly added - the glassy-scented freesia, but no jasmine. And the whole thing is so cautious, so unoriginal, so generically set that the inclined tester begins to wonder who would want to buy and wear this fragrance. And why.
The base is also unable to bring anything new to the theme in any way: amber, musk, and also tobacco have been smelled a hundred times, nice but nothing special, the originally inclined tester has been yawning for quite some time now and is really looking forward to finally being able to try a new fragrance. Something exciting.
What do we have here now? A very conservative fragrance, dangerously close to "madamish," with an irritatingly incomplete top note and a regrettably uninspired and arbitrary remainder. The promised main actors have been completely omitted.
The longevity is just okay, nothing more. It's not a sillage monster either, but that's rather rare for an extrait anyway.
What should be the reason to buy this fragrance, especially since it comes from the high-priced "Collection privée" series, in stark contrast to the otherwise extremely moderate prices at Galimard?
I wouldn't find one.
I wouldn't go that far or better, but I also wouldn't rate it much higher, just with this school grade of 4, so barely sufficient.
This is primarily due to a clear deviation from the theme: The fragrance smells of everything possible, just not of jasmine and even less of oud. Oud is not even listed in the official fragrance pyramid on the manufacturer's webpage. It's puzzling, what drives the manufacturer to name the fragrance "Aoud - Jasmin," mind you with oud even in the first position?
The top note starts unexpectedly disharmonious and with a delicate dissonance, which does not seem to be intentionally constructed - in the sense of "art must provoke" perhaps - but rather banal, like a craft weakness. The pretty cool rose is overshadowed by a sticky sweetness that, by the way, does not smell like honey. These two act side by side, appearing disconnected. "Green leaves" are also mentioned, and yes, there could be a slight (synthetic) leaf sap green underlying it. Its purpose remains unclear - it is not a bridge between the rose and the sweetness.
But it gets better and more harmonious; a initially delicate and later even pronounced powderiness and velvety vanilla softness (probably from the heliotrope) soothingly and reconciliatively envelops the flickering top note, the sticky sweetness recedes, and now there is a longer beautiful phase with delicate floral powder. All good? Somehow still not, because: Where is the jasmine? I still smell rose and - newly added - the glassy-scented freesia, but no jasmine. And the whole thing is so cautious, so unoriginal, so generically set that the inclined tester begins to wonder who would want to buy and wear this fragrance. And why.
The base is also unable to bring anything new to the theme in any way: amber, musk, and also tobacco have been smelled a hundred times, nice but nothing special, the originally inclined tester has been yawning for quite some time now and is really looking forward to finally being able to try a new fragrance. Something exciting.
What do we have here now? A very conservative fragrance, dangerously close to "madamish," with an irritatingly incomplete top note and a regrettably uninspired and arbitrary remainder. The promised main actors have been completely omitted.
The longevity is just okay, nothing more. It's not a sillage monster either, but that's rather rare for an extrait anyway.
What should be the reason to buy this fragrance, especially since it comes from the high-priced "Collection privée" series, in stark contrast to the otherwise extremely moderate prices at Galimard?
I wouldn't find one.
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For all the reasons you skillfully elaborate on in your comment ;-)