At first, there is a light scent of fresh green salad leaves, but after a minute, it becomes spicy. For the first fifteen minutes, I think of sauna infusion, a scent that is very pleasant and medically calming for me, and I start to enjoy it.
Unfortunately, that doesn't last, unfortunately. It changes after ten minutes; now it resembles many T.Tirenzi fragrances, slightly animalistic, sweaty - others write in their statements and reviews about the same scents: fruity.
Behind the sweaty note is something spicy warm and very soft, actually pleasant. I keep bringing my nose to my arm, making a great effort to recognize something... maybe there is some pepper in the spices?
To me, it smells strongly of cumin, which is the sweaty note, but what is the soft note that really makes a very nice impression behind it?
Three hours later, the scent becomes weaker, almost skin-close; now the sweaty note is weaker, but still quite dominant, and now it smells, in my opinion, really high-quality. It also reminds me of scents from Sospiro; unfortunately, I can't recall which one or which scents, but I also perceive this sweaty note with Sospiro - and others describe the scents quite differently, as fruity.
After six hours, still very noticeable, but unchanged. Almost from the beginning, aside from the first ten minutes - there is no development, the scent remains the same.
After seven hours, it is still well noticeable and now it is more pleasant, so * cough * there is a well-groomed attractive man who is sweating a bit in his fresh elegant clothing (that can happen) and still appears appealing because of this scent.
Does that mean I think the scent is more for men? Difficult, but I would - sorry to all women - not find this sweaty scent pleasant on a woman.
So yes, I would rather recommend it for - oops, it's called Madame Butterfly - so what now? Exactly, right, everyone wears what they like - I was just trying to describe my feelings somehow.
Madame Butterfly II would not make me happy, even though I equate it in its quality with other high-end brands, but this direction is not to my taste.
What rating should I give the scent now? For my personal taste, only an 8, but actually, it should get an 8.5 or 9.
So now - really just now - I go to the perfume page of this fragrance and look at the notes. I wrote the text simply in a writing program beforehand.
Then the following will surely happen; I read the notes and slap my hand to my forehead: of course, yes exactly, I recognize that now, of course, that's how it smells ;-)
I know that my review is not helpful because I can't recognize 99% of all fragrance notes well and can't describe what I perceive well, but I have been here at Parfumo for so long and finally want to write something :-)
Addendum: until I fell asleep around 11 PM, the scent on my arm was clearly noticeable, but as unchanged as it had been hours before. And when I woke up in the morning, there was a hint, a very weak, delicate, soft hint still there. But maybe I just smelled so nice when waking up ;-) … Counter-test on the other arm: no delicate scent hint, so it wasn't me after all ;-)
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So now, a day later, I looked at the pyramid - I am already happy that I recognized one note, the pepper. Well, that's a start :-)
But I would have never recognized all the other notes. This test was also a lot of fun for me.