Opoponax

Impérial Opoponax

Les Néréides

That's exactly how I imagined it; that's the sentence I wrote under my notes when I first tested it 15 months ago. After initial doubts about his sweetness nine months ago the bottle with the two putt angels was allowed to move in at my place.
My Impérial Opoponax EdT starts immediately powdery, in the beginning still bitter - citric, almost slightly bitter. Sweet, though. In my notes, after the first quarter of an hour, the adjectives resinous, powdery, spicy, warm, opulent, but not intrusive, soft are written Afterwards it becomes quite sweetish, remains at the same time dry - powdery. I can't say whether a honeyed jasmine or even a very sweet hawthorn plays a major role here. Cause I don't smell any of it one at a time. Rather Opoponax has a wonderful cuddly and enveloping effect on me. A real vanilla rises into my nose, warm and sunny, or is it rather the slightly chocolate benzoin, which is so similar to vanilla? At the same time an ambered wood powders dry - velvety with it. The sweetness is well balanced in the meantime, the whole scent calms down and gets an earthy depth. It remains dry - powdery - resinous - woody, quite oriental in direction.
Then the fragrance develops even softer, almost creamy - powdery, which I then attribute to benzoin. Again and again a spicy - warm smoke swath glides past from the myrrh, that does well and is simply beautiful. Sweetie's totally okay now. This soft balsamic base of myrrh and benzoin gives me inner peace, optimism and balance. This may sound boring like pink cotton wool for over-excited nerves, but believe me, there are also many sensual and pleasurable - bewitching elements there.
I like to drill my nose into my forearm the next day to enjoy the last bits and pieces. Impérial/Opoponax is not a scent for every day, but it is wonderfully suitable for the coming season.