3
Where's the niche?
A review in anticipation of my 2024 rankings, Mystic Bliss finishes the year as the 2nd worst overall release with the lowest rating handed out this year. In many ways, Mystic Bliss has many of the same weak points as my worst release in 2023, that being Kilian's Blue Moon Ginger Dash: we are talking about designer-quality products with no performance, blending or value upside.
The scent opens with some promise: the mint and the fig bring a lively fruity-green top to Mystic Bliss that might make some think this is a contender for the top release of the year. However, the evolution is where the true colors of this scent are revealed. In terms of structure, the scent is intensely designer in its quality and smells very much synthetic. The core of the fragrance is made up by the masculine-aromatic heart with the clary sage and geranium, offering up some chemical-like nuances as well. The fig & mint notes fade out fairly quickly, leaving a very generic product that is being compared to products from brands like Hugo Buss and Jean-Paul Gaultier.
It feels like a tale of two stories with Mystic Bliss, given the opening felt like a high-quality product that would sit somewhere between Matiere's Parisian Musc Eau de Parfum and various Le Labo fragrances. Ultimately, the blend never improves after the highlighted top accords fade into obscurity. The performance on the product is very much poor: it has intimate sillage with the aromatic DNA lasting around 4 hours tops. I believe it was designed as a unisex fragrance for the spring & summer seasons. Even with this scent retailing for €155/100ml, I cannot, in good faith, rate the value for this type of slop more than a 1/10.
The scent opens with some promise: the mint and the fig bring a lively fruity-green top to Mystic Bliss that might make some think this is a contender for the top release of the year. However, the evolution is where the true colors of this scent are revealed. In terms of structure, the scent is intensely designer in its quality and smells very much synthetic. The core of the fragrance is made up by the masculine-aromatic heart with the clary sage and geranium, offering up some chemical-like nuances as well. The fig & mint notes fade out fairly quickly, leaving a very generic product that is being compared to products from brands like Hugo Buss and Jean-Paul Gaultier.
It feels like a tale of two stories with Mystic Bliss, given the opening felt like a high-quality product that would sit somewhere between Matiere's Parisian Musc Eau de Parfum and various Le Labo fragrances. Ultimately, the blend never improves after the highlighted top accords fade into obscurity. The performance on the product is very much poor: it has intimate sillage with the aromatic DNA lasting around 4 hours tops. I believe it was designed as a unisex fragrance for the spring & summer seasons. Even with this scent retailing for €155/100ml, I cannot, in good faith, rate the value for this type of slop more than a 1/10.