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That could easily have been expensive!
This is the log of my third failed (extensive) attempt to learn to love Le Labo (cool alliteration, right?).
Thé Noir begins with a tremendously exciting, beautiful, mild and yet strikingly powerful, round, distinguished black tea note that I had never smelt before.
After about a minute the scent changes its character completely; a fig framed by flowers now comes to the fore, which has its beautiful sides, but which scars along hard at the border to the muddy soft, warm fruitiness that makes some fig scents so unpleasant for me (but the border is never crossed)
After one hour "Thé Noir" turns again, this time in the Holzig-Erdig-Vetiverige. The teen notes of the first minute seem to reappear at least fragmentarily, Herbes balances himself with the gentle, the whole thing seems modern and unisex and despite the brand's natural image somewhat synthetic (not meant in a negative sense).
Although for the test I took half the contents of a standard 1.5 ml sample ("standard" here is to be understood literally, because Le Labo doesn't give it away, but sells it for 5 Euros for what I remember, but it could also be a little less), or in other words has fouled 10 spray shots, it never comes to a projection worth mentioning, and after 3 to 4 hours the fun (also very close) is over (confirmed by the nose at my side, which has finer olfactory nerves than me): An unacceptable behaviour for an "eau de parfum" of the very high price class.
Despite its durability, if the fragrance were as good as its head (or rather hair-tip) note, it would have become a purchase candidate. That this grade lasts only one minute, i.e. the time that some well-to-do customers take to test themselves in the Le Bono flagship store before pulling out their platinum credit card: a rogue who thinks Arges is doing it.
Thé Noir begins with a tremendously exciting, beautiful, mild and yet strikingly powerful, round, distinguished black tea note that I had never smelt before.
After about a minute the scent changes its character completely; a fig framed by flowers now comes to the fore, which has its beautiful sides, but which scars along hard at the border to the muddy soft, warm fruitiness that makes some fig scents so unpleasant for me (but the border is never crossed)
After one hour "Thé Noir" turns again, this time in the Holzig-Erdig-Vetiverige. The teen notes of the first minute seem to reappear at least fragmentarily, Herbes balances himself with the gentle, the whole thing seems modern and unisex and despite the brand's natural image somewhat synthetic (not meant in a negative sense).
Although for the test I took half the contents of a standard 1.5 ml sample ("standard" here is to be understood literally, because Le Labo doesn't give it away, but sells it for 5 Euros for what I remember, but it could also be a little less), or in other words has fouled 10 spray shots, it never comes to a projection worth mentioning, and after 3 to 4 hours the fun (also very close) is over (confirmed by the nose at my side, which has finer olfactory nerves than me): An unacceptable behaviour for an "eau de parfum" of the very high price class.
Despite its durability, if the fragrance were as good as its head (or rather hair-tip) note, it would have become a purchase candidate. That this grade lasts only one minute, i.e. the time that some well-to-do customers take to test themselves in the Le Bono flagship store before pulling out their platinum credit card: a rogue who thinks Arges is doing it.
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