L'Immensité Louis Vuitton 2018
2
Superbly well done aquatic freshy, but a tad boring
L'immensité is a very well done, but quite unimaginative offering by Louis Vuitton. It is a classic aquatic/fresh masculine perfume, in my humble and widely uninformed opinion, probably one of the best in that category. However, I don't know how to reconcile those two views: on one hand, it smells amazingly nice, it is very well blend, but on the other hand, it doesn't offer anything new or surprise you in any way. While the marketing for L'immensité by Louis Vuitton speaks of "flying through a limitless horizon" (darn that weird designer marketing!), in reality the perfume smells a tad boring. It evokes pictures of casually well-dress men refreshing after golf or that man reading The Economist in the Air France Business lounge with the brown shoes and the polo shirt. You know, that man who doesn't really have a hobby except expensive watches exclusively bought from Jura in Switzerland and talking about his job, probably in commodity trading or at a venture capitalist fund. He is a bit boring, but darn he smells nice!
The perfume opens with a reinvigorating and fresh burst of grapefruit, transported by the ginger. On my skin, it soon gets more watery, a smooth transition into a fresh citrus with a nice ginger background. While no floral notes are given in the official description, I do get some floral notes in there, maybe a light geranium. There is, however, a very strong citronella note as it dries down, different from the citrus opening. On the dry down, it stays very fresh and aquatic (thanks to the ambroxan) the notes of amber and lambdanium gives a slightly resinous, salty and musky scent, the ginger still lingering in there somewhere.
True to marketing, it leans very heavily masculine, and while I sometimes enjoy wearing more masculine scents, I feel this one has such a classic masculine freshy smell that I would be overstepping some invisible lines wearing that for other purposes than sampling it (but that's just me though). It is extremely potent - testing this at home, first on a blotting stripe, and made the mistake of placing it slightly on another sample: that poor paper sample of Another 13 did not stand a chance and is forever contaminated by the gingery freshness of L'immensité. On my skin, I got excellent longevity (upwards of 8-9 hours) and sillage seems quite good too - according to my roommate, you could smell it immediately when I entered a room.
But it smells so nice... I wouldn't mind smelling that everyday on my partner! However, considering the price point, I don't think my gift budget would ever accomodate such a bottle.
The perfume opens with a reinvigorating and fresh burst of grapefruit, transported by the ginger. On my skin, it soon gets more watery, a smooth transition into a fresh citrus with a nice ginger background. While no floral notes are given in the official description, I do get some floral notes in there, maybe a light geranium. There is, however, a very strong citronella note as it dries down, different from the citrus opening. On the dry down, it stays very fresh and aquatic (thanks to the ambroxan) the notes of amber and lambdanium gives a slightly resinous, salty and musky scent, the ginger still lingering in there somewhere.
True to marketing, it leans very heavily masculine, and while I sometimes enjoy wearing more masculine scents, I feel this one has such a classic masculine freshy smell that I would be overstepping some invisible lines wearing that for other purposes than sampling it (but that's just me though). It is extremely potent - testing this at home, first on a blotting stripe, and made the mistake of placing it slightly on another sample: that poor paper sample of Another 13 did not stand a chance and is forever contaminated by the gingery freshness of L'immensité. On my skin, I got excellent longevity (upwards of 8-9 hours) and sillage seems quite good too - according to my roommate, you could smell it immediately when I entered a room.
But it smells so nice... I wouldn't mind smelling that everyday on my partner! However, considering the price point, I don't think my gift budget would ever accomodate such a bottle.