Bayadère Les Voiles Dépliées 2011

"Bayadere" or "Temple Dancer" is, in my opinion, a fitting name for this spirited and "vivid" fragrance...
Here, one encounters floriental, feminine power in high concentration - a fully floral, robust, slightly soapy scent bouquet that allows itself to almost entirely forgo anything sweetly harmonious...
...only the late-perceptible, but long-lasting vanilla base reveals itself as a concession to the qualities of softness and gentleness.

(...it seems to me that this (fragrance) dance does not merely seek to please, to ingratiate, or to attract attention, but is uncompromisingly directed towards "higher" aspirations...given its inner strength and purity, its effect on the "outside" seems almost secondary...)

Throughout the entire fragrance development, I perceive a ripe, dark, and very spicy rose note as dominant...in conjunction with patchouli, the bouquet gains significant depth and weight....and in the background, clove and ylang-ylang form the exotic framework of an intriguingly ambivalent olfactory experience...

(The comparison to "Cinnabar" would not have occurred to me...I find "Bayadere" to be distinctly more floral, transparent, and in this sense more reduced than the classic spice thoroughbred..;-)...