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01/14/2019
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A slimming scent?
Hello there!
Today I write to Piment Brûlant of L'Artisan. When I saw the name, I thought that this could be a rather peculiar fragrance, as I had confused the term Brûlant with Brûlée and therefore expected a peppery crème brûlée (*börks*)... yes yes, as if you wouldn't even confuse several French terms! D
No, the scent actually has nothing to do with the well-known dessert (which I still haven't tried to this day, by the way...), because Brûlant means "hot" or "glowing", so you should be prepared for a sharp scent. Didn't I? It wouldn't be too bad, because it is said that spicy food or chilli peppers are supposed to stimulate the burning of fat in the body, so that it would help to lose weight, which is certainly quite welcome, especially now that Christmas is over. And with all the snowfall at the moment, you like to encapsulate yourself at home, wrap yourself in blankets and spend the evening with treats, don't you? D
Pooh... I still have cookies lying around...!!!
But let's see how the scent smells here, as much as I like spicy food, as little I like peppery scents in scents normally....
In the further course of the scent, the chilli goes more and more over to pepper, and this begins to smell somewhat intensively. However, this doesn't last too long, because soon the intensity of the pepper drops to a quite pleasant level, so that it doesn't really smell pungent, even if you should continue to perceive it quite well. The green notes become stronger and continue to remind me of fresh peppers or (not hot) peppers. These notes are also very pleasant and smell quite good.
Towards the end one still smells pimento or pepper, but the fragrance is a little softer, since the green notes have largely disappeared and instead one smells softer notes with a light, slight sweetness, i.e. vanilla and tonka bean. However, the sweet scents do not last soo long for the time being, so that one soon smells again rather of pepperoni and paprika as well as pepper. Only in the very late base are the peppery notes so weak that sweet scents like vanilla can be smelled again.
Soo... that was now the "Glowing Carnation Pepper" as it is written here on Parfumo as a translation of the fragrance name. Well, first of all, I don't find the scent "glowing", because it doesn't have this sharp scent, which sometimes emanates from hot chili peppers, where you think about putting on gloves instead of touching them with your bare hands when handling the very nasty sharp species and then later accidentally scratching either the eye or ... somewhere else :D
Of course you can now say that this is a perfume and therefore should smell more "perfumed" instead of etching away the fine (... and long??? :D) nose hairs, but also the pepper scent is not soo strong here. Okay, this one is quite well smellable and that over the entire course of the fragrance, but there are scents which smell much more pungent of pepper (and therefore also more unpleasant) than this fragrance here and where the name of the fragrance would therefore be more appropriate.
And quite later, when a leeeichte sweetness germinates, the fragrance reminds of these disgusting chili chocolates. You know, this kind of chocolate that you don't give someone for loving them or for wanting to make them happy, but where the person is more of an enemy and you want to give him or her something weird :DD
Anyway, I think the fragrance in general is okay. It doesn't smell bad now, but it doesn't smell very good either, so that I now don't know what I could use it for. I personally didn't like it that much during the day (otherwise you could use it during the day especially in spring and autumn), and it's not at all suitable for the evenings because it's quite unspectacular. Well, it's leisure time, but well... everyone has to know that now.
I would recommend it for testing, but there are much more beautiful scents to buy from L'Artisan
Today I write to Piment Brûlant of L'Artisan. When I saw the name, I thought that this could be a rather peculiar fragrance, as I had confused the term Brûlant with Brûlée and therefore expected a peppery crème brûlée (*börks*)... yes yes, as if you wouldn't even confuse several French terms! D
No, the scent actually has nothing to do with the well-known dessert (which I still haven't tried to this day, by the way...), because Brûlant means "hot" or "glowing", so you should be prepared for a sharp scent. Didn't I? It wouldn't be too bad, because it is said that spicy food or chilli peppers are supposed to stimulate the burning of fat in the body, so that it would help to lose weight, which is certainly quite welcome, especially now that Christmas is over. And with all the snowfall at the moment, you like to encapsulate yourself at home, wrap yourself in blankets and spend the evening with treats, don't you? D
Pooh... I still have cookies lying around...!!!
But let's see how the scent smells here, as much as I like spicy food, as little I like peppery scents in scents normally....
The fragrance:
The scent begins with a mix of very light green notes, then a scent that reminds slightly of paprika (but is much less juicy), a little cloves and the indicated chili notes. However, the chilli is not as hot and "glowing" as the name suggests. But if you smell it, you might think that you would be sniffing one, not spicy, but still piquant pepperoni, one of these varieties that you can eat pleasantly with a meal without burning your tongue right away (although I like to eat quite spicy, even if you should not taste the actual taste of the dish for a short while if you eat too spicy food with some dishes :D). In the further course of the scent, the chilli goes more and more over to pepper, and this begins to smell somewhat intensively. However, this doesn't last too long, because soon the intensity of the pepper drops to a quite pleasant level, so that it doesn't really smell pungent, even if you should continue to perceive it quite well. The green notes become stronger and continue to remind me of fresh peppers or (not hot) peppers. These notes are also very pleasant and smell quite good.
Towards the end one still smells pimento or pepper, but the fragrance is a little softer, since the green notes have largely disappeared and instead one smells softer notes with a light, slight sweetness, i.e. vanilla and tonka bean. However, the sweet scents do not last soo long for the time being, so that one soon smells again rather of pepperoni and paprika as well as pepper. Only in the very late base are the peppery notes so weak that sweet scents like vanilla can be smelled again.
The Sillage and the shelf life:
The Sillage is mediocre. Despite peppery notes, the fragrance is not really intense or even pungent, but remains rather weak most of the time, so that you can smell it more closely. The shelf life is about six to seven hours, that's okay. The bottle:
The bottle is heptagonal and has a narrow vertical stripe as a label on the front. At least this was still the case with the older flacons. The new bottles are also heptagonal, but are no longer completely clear, but have black accents, which also looks quite nice. However, I don't like the white, simple etiquette as much as the old, colourful etiquette anymore, but apart from that L'Artisan offers very nice bottles. Soo... that was now the "Glowing Carnation Pepper" as it is written here on Parfumo as a translation of the fragrance name. Well, first of all, I don't find the scent "glowing", because it doesn't have this sharp scent, which sometimes emanates from hot chili peppers, where you think about putting on gloves instead of touching them with your bare hands when handling the very nasty sharp species and then later accidentally scratching either the eye or ... somewhere else :D
Of course you can now say that this is a perfume and therefore should smell more "perfumed" instead of etching away the fine (... and long??? :D) nose hairs, but also the pepper scent is not soo strong here. Okay, this one is quite well smellable and that over the entire course of the fragrance, but there are scents which smell much more pungent of pepper (and therefore also more unpleasant) than this fragrance here and where the name of the fragrance would therefore be more appropriate.
And quite later, when a leeeichte sweetness germinates, the fragrance reminds of these disgusting chili chocolates. You know, this kind of chocolate that you don't give someone for loving them or for wanting to make them happy, but where the person is more of an enemy and you want to give him or her something weird :DD
Anyway, I think the fragrance in general is okay. It doesn't smell bad now, but it doesn't smell very good either, so that I now don't know what I could use it for. I personally didn't like it that much during the day (otherwise you could use it during the day especially in spring and autumn), and it's not at all suitable for the evenings because it's quite unspectacular. Well, it's leisure time, but well... everyone has to know that now.
I would recommend it for testing, but there are much more beautiful scents to buy from L'Artisan
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