Grasse rose absolute
Patchouli
Frankincense
09/16/2024
Telekinec
477 Reviews
Telekinec
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Rose is an imposter: this is Patchouli Extrait
Beginning reminded me of Sweet Diamond Pink Pepper | 25 without the sweetened notes. With this extrait, we have a beautiful carnal rose at the beginning: sweet like lokoum, but not as sugary as Kayali's version. It feels like the most grown-up, sophisticated version of a rose you can get. With the strength of this extrait, you also don't need much to smell like the flower of love.
Things were fine for the first 30 minutes of the fragrance until patchouli and frankincense started creeping in. Patchouli ends up completely overtaking the rose on my skin. I have the feeling patchouli pulls strong when it's surrounded by few notes. Combined with my skin chemistry (something I've figured out over time), it becomes overpowering. Strong, pungent, earthy, dark, dirty and almost acrid. The edge of the scent smells is comparable to the sting of a cleaning product. There's also a strong spicy note that makes the perfume lean masculine completely to me. Things go downhill from there and never go back up from there. During the drydown, it smells like pulling a green plant from wet soil: earthy, pungent with a mean green agricultural accord.
I'm pretty surprised (and disappointed?) by how this extrait turned out. I was expecting something very beautiful and well-crafted by the masters at Guerlain where the rose would reveal itself in all of its complete facets (previous extrait I've tried did exactly that for their stars). Instead, I'm left with an overwhelming patchouli extrait where the rose was an imposter. In some ways, I'm thankful for it since my wallet will be breathing a sigh of relief, but on the other hand, I'm still puzzled by how everything turned out. Definitely not a blind-buy on this one!
Things were fine for the first 30 minutes of the fragrance until patchouli and frankincense started creeping in. Patchouli ends up completely overtaking the rose on my skin. I have the feeling patchouli pulls strong when it's surrounded by few notes. Combined with my skin chemistry (something I've figured out over time), it becomes overpowering. Strong, pungent, earthy, dark, dirty and almost acrid. The edge of the scent smells is comparable to the sting of a cleaning product. There's also a strong spicy note that makes the perfume lean masculine completely to me. Things go downhill from there and never go back up from there. During the drydown, it smells like pulling a green plant from wet soil: earthy, pungent with a mean green agricultural accord.
I'm pretty surprised (and disappointed?) by how this extrait turned out. I was expecting something very beautiful and well-crafted by the masters at Guerlain where the rose would reveal itself in all of its complete facets (previous extrait I've tried did exactly that for their stars). Instead, I'm left with an overwhelming patchouli extrait where the rose was an imposter. In some ways, I'm thankful for it since my wallet will be breathing a sigh of relief, but on the other hand, I'm still puzzled by how everything turned out. Definitely not a blind-buy on this one!
Telekinec
