Ylang Ylang Lorenzo Villoresi 2013

Now I have arrived at the last scent of the sample set from the Villoresi Vintage Collection.
It has been a very exciting fragrance journey. Since I am not familiar with the original scents, I cannot draw any comparisons. These are not experimental fragrances as the name clearly indicates. I appreciate that all the scents only smell of natural ingredients. They are complex and not something you can quickly test. They all have a development that needs to be awaited. All fragrances are precisely balanced and well-coordinated. Except for the scents "Ambra" and "Incensi," for which I would swap the names to make them consistent for me, the fragrances are exactly what is predetermined by the name and the ingredients. Once again, thanks to Angua for the generous provision of the set.
Ylang-Ylang is often not perceivable to me in fragrances because the scent is often combined with other white flowers. They then dominate, or I cannot distinguish them from Ylang-Ylang because I am distracted and irritated by the often very animalic-smelling other white flowers.
Furthermore, I was able to determine through Ylang-Ylang how my sense of smell has changed over the past two years.
At first, I only perceived a lush floral scent that was uninteresting to me. No, I didn't want to smell like that, too overwhelming.
Then, for many months, during which I tested it repeatedly from time to time, I found it trivial and almost wanted to throw it in the compost. However, it is a lovingly intended gift from someone at a time when I couldn't make much of fragrances, a travel souvenir with the hint that the oil was precious.
And now it has become a reference scent for me. So yesterday, in preparation for today's test, I dripped the oil onto a scent strip, also to see if it might have gone rancid. It hasn't, but now, in contrast to before, it finally developed a dense, overwhelming scent on the strip, typically white floral. I could not and cannot wear this oil as a fragrance.
I finally understood why the oil was presented to me so ceremoniously as something special: it is not an oil flavored with Ylang-Ylang; it is pure Ylang-Ylang oil. But I was also a philistine, my goodness! I wanted to throw it in the compost... I find it impossible in retrospect. I did not know how to appreciate the gift at all.
The Ylang-Ylang tree belongs to the magnolia family, and the flowers yield plenty of blossoms for processing. You can read about this and other details on Wikipedia.
However, this strong floral scent was only dense on paper; a meter away, it smelled creamy of beautiful flowers. And although it is indeed overwhelming up close, it does not smell carrion-animalic.
How is this now implemented in Villoresi's Vintage Ylang-Ylang:
Immediately after application, once the alcohol has evaporated, the strong and uncompromisingly piercing and heavy Ylang-Ylang oil scent greets me. Especially at the wrist, it is almost as strong as my oil.
However, at a distance, it immediately smells finer. After a short time, "Ylang-Ylang" becomes creamier, a bit greener. The other flowers mix in. Very intense, but not like in many fragrances with white flowers: not carrion and animalic. It is just a dense floral scent that smells very intense on the skin but is already a beautiful tropical floral scent 30 cm away.
I cannot perceive any citrus notes throughout the entire development.
Fine green notes follow, which make Ylang-Ylang even more beautiful. Then a soapy creaminess follows that lingers for a while. But that too recedes into the background. "Ylang-Ylang" becomes sweeter and a bit greener-creamy. At the beginning and also in the first phase of the scent development, it was only strict and overflowing with flowers.
Overall, "Ylang-Ylang" becomes more subtle, lighter. Now I also smell beautiful balsamic resins as well as a light woody note, which makes "Ylang-Ylang" appear more robust and slightly bitter-green.
The longevity is good, and the sillage is only very strong at the beginning.
I cannot understand the classification as a unisex fragrance in any way. It is a purely feminine scent.
"Ylang-Ylang is unequivocally a fragrance composition with exclusively exotic and tropical flowers. It is summer now. This scent does not seem so suitable for that. However, that is a problem of ours. Because in the tropical and subtropical regions from where the flowers come, they seem to have no difficulties with it. I think I can enjoy "Ylang-Ylang" in winter and autumn. Because I like it more and more throughout the test. It is now a scent that can be placed in the same category as fragrances like "Le Parfum" by Elie Saab. "Ylang-Ylang," on the other hand, is denser and without animalic tendencies. It is a vintage scent and therefore not a real innovation.