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04/13/2021
BrianBuchanan
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BrianBuchanan
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K for overKill
Peaches and cream used to be a thing in perfumery.
This is Maurice Roucel's version from the early 80's. It's a pink floral, thick and creamy with peach and a whiff of tuberose.
There are aldehydes, which lead Michael Edwards to call it a soft floral. Along with moss, they can be used to give an edge to a profile, in the same way that Roucel uses magnolia with its silky petal and dark bitter nuance.
On paper, there's a fantastic range of textures in K : syrupy, fluffy, castor sugar, aldehydes, dusty-woody and waxy ambergris, and as these merge into powdery-versus-sharp, a complex fruity-floral takes the stage. This leads down to a sweet powdery base with a funky animal facet and the mossy chypre note.
It seemed like Roucel set the mould for this type of bosomy floral, one that was still being used by the end of the decade with Spectacular (1989) a similar type of aldehydic tuberose with peach, amber and incense (but not half as good).
K was great stuff, but after a decade of this kind of thing it's no wonder people wanted a break from the erotic charge. There's only so much a guy can take...
This is Maurice Roucel's version from the early 80's. It's a pink floral, thick and creamy with peach and a whiff of tuberose.
There are aldehydes, which lead Michael Edwards to call it a soft floral. Along with moss, they can be used to give an edge to a profile, in the same way that Roucel uses magnolia with its silky petal and dark bitter nuance.
On paper, there's a fantastic range of textures in K : syrupy, fluffy, castor sugar, aldehydes, dusty-woody and waxy ambergris, and as these merge into powdery-versus-sharp, a complex fruity-floral takes the stage. This leads down to a sweet powdery base with a funky animal facet and the mossy chypre note.
It seemed like Roucel set the mould for this type of bosomy floral, one that was still being used by the end of the decade with Spectacular (1989) a similar type of aldehydic tuberose with peach, amber and incense (but not half as good).
K was great stuff, but after a decade of this kind of thing it's no wonder people wanted a break from the erotic charge. There's only so much a guy can take...
