L!ve Lacoste 2014

L!ve wants to take us back to the past. In films, time travel usually happens very quickly - within seconds, eons are bridged to move the actual plot forward. Lacoste has taken this as a model; after all, a long scent development would only slow things down. That's why even Fanta Lime has more to do with lime than the top note of Lacoste. A bit of acidity for a few minutes, that's it. Without any announcement, I would have guessed mandarin. It tends to turn musty and somewhat diffuse-aquatic on me, which elegantly means that the so-called heart note would already be essentially checked off. Dull-synthetic so-called aquatic with the often common plywood charm underneath. Wow, in just one paragraph, two pyramid levels have been celebrated. For me, that's a record.

For about an hour, it looks like L!ve might still make the curve. The woody must recedes, a bearable sweetness emerges, which even has a bit of spiciness to it, possibly clove and its companions. Unsupported, I would have guessed a DIY sandalwood made from cedar, artificial wood, cinnamon, and a bit of eugenol plus something sweet-woody (at least that fits!). Maybe also coumarin. Guaiac? Alright. On a quality scale for guaiac in fragrances, L!ve would, from my humble experience, certainly be at the lower end - the upper end would probably be marked by Bois d’Armenie. Anyway, it doesn't last long, as soon the lab wood pseudo-aquatic takes over, sweetened up. We didn't want to be held back.

So let's finally get to the destination of the time travel: In front of his cave sits cave man Grumpf in the rain, thoughtfully chewing on a heavily chewed piece of licorice. In his hand, he holds a L!ve bottle - the Rubik's Cube for Neanderthals.

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Rubik's Cube was already mentioned in the first comment. I honestly came up with that all by myself - it’s quite obvious.

I thank Tiara for the sample.