Telegrama Imaginary Authors 2019

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6.6 / 10 92 Ratings

A perfume by Imaginary Authors for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is spicy-powdery. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Powdery

Sweet

Woody

Fougère

Fragrance Notes

Talcum

Black pepper

Lavender absolute

Linen

Vanilla

Amyris

Teak

Perfumer

Josh Meyer

Ratings

Scent

6.692 Ratings

Longevity

7.072 Ratings

Sillage

6.675 Ratings

Bottle

7.480 Ratings

Value for money

6.431 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 11/14/2024.

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/06/2023

ScentStudio
147 Reviews

ScentStudio

1

Was mesmerised by it, but now, I don't love it anymore

Telegrama sets you off to a distant place where words from your loved ones can only reach you by paper. The fragrance has a cologne, masculine and herbal opening, which turns into a field of lavender with powdery talc. There is a tingling accord of white pepper and after dry down, vanilla and amyris sweeten up the fragrance turning it rather androgynous.

Telegrama is perhaps the most masculine fragrance in my collection, it is very herbal and I had to revisit it, to truly fall in love with it. On my skin, Telegrama sweetens up after dry down quite a bit as fragrances usually do and it has an amazing transition from start to finish. Once again, Imaginary Authors manage to make a remarkable blend and put a story into a fragrance.

Closing my eyes, I imagine myself walking in a wooden summer house cabin, looking through dusty books on the shelf, one has a bouquet of dried flowers in between the pages. A love story, long forgotten.

Telegrama remains very light despite strong notes of woodyness, lavender, talc and pepper, almost like stepping into an old apothecary. On paper it remains much the same, quite masculine, but on my skin it becomes more gourmand and the warm vanilla is the closing act of the fragrance.

Telegrama is a gem, it is nothing like the other fragrances that I have.
Herbal, strong yet light, masculine yet feminine, it is a perfect late summer fragrance and it invites you to reach for a pen and paper yourself.

02/04/2024

5
Pricing 4
Sillage 5
Longevity 5
Scent

LastWonder
222 Reviews

LastWonder

1

Basic Powdery Scent

When this is first sprayed, I got hit with the spice of the pepper, to me it read a bit like celery. It was interesting and why I kept spraying it, to just get another hit of the bright spice. The scent quickly disappears into a basic powdery scent. It does smell like clean linen that is dried on a line, with a hint of lavender. Its not too powdery, its not "grandma" but it also isn't interesting. Pleasant but boring. It did last about 4 hours on my skin and after the initial spray, it stayed pretty close to the skin.

12/23/2023

Stacia
134 Reviews

Stacia

1

Intimate

One of my favorites from Imaginary Authors. I understand the references to hairspray, air freshener and baby powder and yet, surprisingly, I dig it regardless! I think the lavender part is really done well here and makes it unique. I wear Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker a lot, and when it has almost vanished from my skin at day's end, the leftover drydown smells similar to Telegrama. A drawer of silky underthings. That's the visual I get from this fragrance. Fresh and warm and intimate. The type of perfume that is perfect for people who don't think they like perfume.

10/25/2024

6
Pricing 8
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 9
Scent

Notomys
1 Review

Notomys

1

Smells Like Purple

The most prominent notes in this fragrance for me is the lavender, but it's not a floral lavender. It's not really a natural lavender. It's sweet and frankly smells more like purple than anything remotely found in nature. Telegrama is dry, dry, dry -- almost unpleasantly so, and powdery to the point of being dusty. This description may sound unpleasant, but there is something incredibly intriguing about this smell. It evokes an old fashioned feeling, this is grandma when she was 20 and traveling the world on a grand romantic adventure.

I enjoy the uniqueness of this scent and have been on a lavender kick lately with my collection, so I'm definitely contemplating picking up a full bottle at some point in the future. 2-3 sprays will last 4-6 hours for me and with moderate silage. I'm going to go against the grain and say this fragrance leans feminine to my nose.

Most prominent notes are talc, sweet lavender, black pepper, and linen.

11/21/2020

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Vrabec
62 Reviews

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Vrabec

Very helpful Review 7

Transatlantic flight & lemon ice in road dust

Imaginary Authors I found most exciting since I first heard about them. Similar to zoologists, they follow a unique concept: for each perfume there is a matching short story, the packaging is based on a book. All quite nicely presented, even though the bottles themselves are nothing special. The fragrances I have been able to test so far have always been highly unique and special, even for the niche. But they were not portable.

This one does. Telegrama smells just as unique as it arouses interest, with many nuances of scent that can range from unpleasant to repulsive.
It creates a wealth of association in me like a perfume hasn't for a long time. Actually, it's exactly what I expect from a perfume: first and foremost, it should create emotions and images, and sometimes they fit the story:

"An Argentinean couple, both under 20, are separated against their will. Their only way to keep in touch is to send each other messages. Even this can only be done in a roundabout way and for a long time, fate puts a lot of obstacles in the way of the young couple. On a transatlantic flight the two meet again, but as much as they have longed for it, this reunion could now have global consequences"

At first I do not think of a romantic love affair, there is nothing erotic about the scent. However, the citric here is as powder-dry as the dust that a car whirls up on a gravel road at the height of summer. If one walks along such a road, the taste of this dust hangs in the air. "Telegrama" has a similar note, with a scoop of lemon ice cream slapping into it. The melting gutter flows through the dust. For me, it's like Argentina. The whole thing is amazingly bitter, rather plastic bitter without being biting.
This is mixed with vanillin-flavoured liquorice, which makes one think of the beginning of the 20th century,
In between, pictures appear in my head, from a lumberjack in a wax jacket chasing his smoking chainsaw through the driest fire-prone forests, to red-hot magnesium suffocated in white flower cream.

I would classify the scent somewhere in a citric-metallic smoky direction. Very dry, but not powdery, rather dusty.
I find the sillage and durability much stronger than rated here.
I can't imagine that smell on a woman.
I would not assign it to a specific season, I think that it can have its moments in all of them. Maybe not necessarily in the middle of summer.