03/16/2018
QuercusAlbus
72 Reviews
QuercusAlbus
2
Some Distinction
Got tripped into buying this through being a bit greedy trying too hard to bag bargains. Thought it was less than half-price and bought it and only then discovered it was EDT! Beware! the packaging of the two 'eau de-'s are identical!
Still, I've through this effectively gotten a small bottle not only without the 'small amount premium' on unit cost, which as we all know is brutally steep on perfumes, but actually with a 10% reduction on it.
As you see, I am not at all chary about talking about the price! I have become quite notorious in perfume boutiques for absolutely refusing to play the silly vain game of appearing not to care about the price, and asking at once what it is, and not tolerating a tardy answer.
I'll just say all that once - here, now. It's particular relevance here is that my slight emarrassment has distorted my judgement of this brew, and I must search within so as not to lapse into deceiving myself that I like it more than I really do. I agree on the whole with what seems to be a concensus amongst reviewers heee & elsewhere, that it is a pleasantly floral (yes, I do think it is primarily peony), and airy and aquatic with a soft muskiness. Sometimes I think it is run-of-mill boring soft floral, but then I'll think "no, it does have some distinction". On balance I think it does have some distinction, but not a _very_ great deal. Also, I keep catching myself trying to convince myself that the muskiness is 'whoozy-swoony-er', but at dayend I can't - it's a _soft_ _quiet_ musk. One notable strong-point of it is that insofar as it _does_ last, the aroma is consistent, in that there is no degenerating into any metallic rancidity, or any other of the various alarming or mischievous things that perfumes are sometimes wont to do.
The upshot is that I do think it's fine, and that I _shall_ enjoy it.
{ ... about 10 days later ... }
I've recently given this an excurration - or run-out, if that be preferred - and my opinion of it is very greatly improved. I think my ¯overcompensating¯ the tendency to represent to ones-self that a purchase with which one is somewhat disappointed is better than it actally is was distorting my faculty of discernment.
Sometimes I think the 'fume-houses use sly little tricks to get uw to buy more. (Oh! how ¯conspiracy theoretickal¯!) In this case, it is making the EDT look fræ a distance indistinguishable fræ the EDP, so that uw rush into purchase thinking uw've bagged a bargain. Narciso Rodriguez puts the pale-pink bottle in the black box, & the black bottle in the pale-pink box. I personally don't mind so much, provided the merch' is properly good; and in this case it ^certainly^ is. This is a ^lovely^ airy-watery-woody-lightlymusky-lightlyflowery 'fume. And what I wrote about ~Ivoire~ by Balmain also strongly applies here: this 'fume has a robusticity way beyond what its innate delicacy might lead one to expect.
{ ... a few days later ... }
Think I got confused: this one's innately an EDT isn't. Must've been getting it mixed-up with the original ~Eau d'Issey~. Still it transpires that I could have gotten the 90ml fraæ Amazon™ for considerably lower unit cost. Still, I got it in °real-time° - actually in my hand - didn't I, and there is quite justifiably a premium on that. Right! the subject's closed! I got myself a ^very^ good deal there - probably nearly as good as I thought it was at the very first - or even better, considering how much it transpires I like the stuff! And if I fancy making a bigger commitment of it, which I might now, I know where to go.
Still, I've through this effectively gotten a small bottle not only without the 'small amount premium' on unit cost, which as we all know is brutally steep on perfumes, but actually with a 10% reduction on it.
As you see, I am not at all chary about talking about the price! I have become quite notorious in perfume boutiques for absolutely refusing to play the silly vain game of appearing not to care about the price, and asking at once what it is, and not tolerating a tardy answer.
I'll just say all that once - here, now. It's particular relevance here is that my slight emarrassment has distorted my judgement of this brew, and I must search within so as not to lapse into deceiving myself that I like it more than I really do. I agree on the whole with what seems to be a concensus amongst reviewers heee & elsewhere, that it is a pleasantly floral (yes, I do think it is primarily peony), and airy and aquatic with a soft muskiness. Sometimes I think it is run-of-mill boring soft floral, but then I'll think "no, it does have some distinction". On balance I think it does have some distinction, but not a _very_ great deal. Also, I keep catching myself trying to convince myself that the muskiness is 'whoozy-swoony-er', but at dayend I can't - it's a _soft_ _quiet_ musk. One notable strong-point of it is that insofar as it _does_ last, the aroma is consistent, in that there is no degenerating into any metallic rancidity, or any other of the various alarming or mischievous things that perfumes are sometimes wont to do.
The upshot is that I do think it's fine, and that I _shall_ enjoy it.
{ ... about 10 days later ... }
I've recently given this an excurration - or run-out, if that be preferred - and my opinion of it is very greatly improved. I think my ¯overcompensating¯ the tendency to represent to ones-self that a purchase with which one is somewhat disappointed is better than it actally is was distorting my faculty of discernment.
Sometimes I think the 'fume-houses use sly little tricks to get uw to buy more. (Oh! how ¯conspiracy theoretickal¯!) In this case, it is making the EDT look fræ a distance indistinguishable fræ the EDP, so that uw rush into purchase thinking uw've bagged a bargain. Narciso Rodriguez puts the pale-pink bottle in the black box, & the black bottle in the pale-pink box. I personally don't mind so much, provided the merch' is properly good; and in this case it ^certainly^ is. This is a ^lovely^ airy-watery-woody-lightlymusky-lightlyflowery 'fume. And what I wrote about ~Ivoire~ by Balmain also strongly applies here: this 'fume has a robusticity way beyond what its innate delicacy might lead one to expect.
{ ... a few days later ... }
Think I got confused: this one's innately an EDT isn't. Must've been getting it mixed-up with the original ~Eau d'Issey~. Still it transpires that I could have gotten the 90ml fraæ Amazon™ for considerably lower unit cost. Still, I got it in °real-time° - actually in my hand - didn't I, and there is quite justifiably a premium on that. Right! the subject's closed! I got myself a ^very^ good deal there - probably nearly as good as I thought it was at the very first - or even better, considering how much it transpires I like the stuff! And if I fancy making a bigger commitment of it, which I might now, I know where to go.
