Aventure Il Profvmo 2006

One takes a classic masculine men’s perfume, to which the name Aventure fits perfectly: citrusy opening, floral-spicy heart, oriental base of lightly ambered, woody-leathery incense. One would slice off a nanometer-thin piece of this. The perfume is now completely translucent, visible only from the front as a surface, yet still three-dimensional - somewhat like a hologram. This is roughly how Aventure appears, and its adventure reveals itself not as a macho cliché, but as a fascinating perfumery experiment. The scent has the transparency of a typical aquatic fragrance from the 90s, but, as described above, the DNA of a robust 70s/80s powerhouse perfume. Signora Casoli has a knack for such crossovers, see Aria di Mare, one of the better marine scents, or Vetiver de Java, where the transparency component is significantly higher or lower than in Aventure - here it is most astonishing, and I would love to have a perfumer explain the compositional technique behind this trick. It is not a matter of dosage (that feels different), but rather the use of components like the watery "starfruit" note, white pepper, incense, and vetiver, all of which can have a light but present quality, along with certain scent modulators that help create the lasting airy effect - only these are not the typical shower gel notes of Helional, Melonal, Dihydromyrcenol, and whatever else they are called. Aventure is suitable whenever one wants to smell subtly but still traditionally masculine. On hot summer days, it is thus a perfect olfactory counterpart to a suit made of totally breathable fresco fabric, ideally combining classic style and cooling.