Imagination Louis Vuitton 2021

Oh yes, I love my life. I deleted my initially shared opinion after realizing that my allergy was probably to blame, and it started shortly thereafter on the same day. My sense of smell was simply gone.

How did I notice it? I took a nap, as my personal therapy was already making my head throb, I'm quite a bad case. And I woke up to a scent on my arm that is indescribably beautiful. Yes, I could bite myself in the backside for that. I apologize to all members who read my post with horror (To me, it smelled absolutely terrible, bitter, cheap, like soap, just ridiculous). No, Louis Vuitton did not pay me for this, I still see no groundbreaking fragrance here, to me it is still worth at most half, nothing more.

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Now my opinion after my nose is back to doing its job at about 80%:

At first, as in my last non-existent review, a slightly bitter but VERY beautiful lemon note came through, I assume that the Calabrian bergamot is at play here. I liked it a lot, but somehow it reminded me of cheap Axe shower gel, which I can't quite pinpoint. It's acceptable, at that point my expectations were still VERY high, as something very deep lurked behind the cheap Axe haze. You could feel that something was brewing, there was a fire on the skin, just before a forest fire, but..

That didn't come at first. Even now with my somewhat functional nose, there was only a bitter, soapy cheap perfume note at first. It felt like sitting in a catapult roller coaster, accelerating to 120 in 2 seconds, and then braking because an old lady is standing on the tracks, and the gust from the roller coaster pulls the old lady's soapy nursing home scent into your nose.

This part describes my old review quite well. But after that, not much happened for me, my nose gave up, I perceived something soft and sweet in the background after about an hour, heavily surrounded by this haze of terrible nursing home soap. At that time, I still didn't know that my sense of smell had pretty much left me.

And now the big twist - After the necessary nap induced by prescription-only, absolutely high-dose antihistamines, I woke up after a pretty crazy dream, and I had an incredible scent in my nose. At first, I thought it was the second sample on my right arm that had been so disgusting at first (Fleur Du Desert by LV), but it still smelled like the crusty armpits of a hypocritical esoteric guru who would lay the fool's card for me if I had bought the scent. Honestly, I get worked up about the scent even with a functioning nose, as if a rabid crystal dealer with sniper training was secretly shooting the cheapest incense sticks, soaked in stale honey, into my nose with an astral crossbow. Anyway, I'm digressing.

It was imagination. Now I understand why the hype is so big, but I still won't be able to support it 100%. This scent became totally warm, soft, indescribably pleasant, and beautiful out of nowhere. You only perceive cinnamon when you closely stroke your nose back and forth, I have the feeling it only comes out through touch, otherwise it stays away. Ambroxan is already more present here, it feels somewhat animalistic, musky, but not nearly as overwhelming as the fanny pack water gun Sauvage. I feel clean with this scent, it combines the feeling of freshly washed skin with a hint of woody sweet notes, fresh laundry, and still something bitter in the background. That's probably where the "green" note comes from, which I often perceive as very bitter and unpleasant. It's slightly spicy, as neroli probably has a hand in it, I perceive some herbs, but only in the most distant way. Now it has really become more masculine, but only "more" masculine. Not masculine, never. A unisex scent that initially leans more towards Molecule ISO soap bubbles, and later becomes more masculine, but still has a unisex touch.

What I still can't confirm is the tea note. Maybe my olfactory bulb isn't quite present yet, but the tea note remains elusive to me.

The scent lasted about 8 hours on me, after 10 hours it is still perceptible close to the skin. The first hour is absolute horror, I believe during that time I wouldn't want to be seen outside. After that, however, it has a super performance for 7 hours (especially for a fresh summer scent!), with a peak that occurs about 3-4 hours after skin contact, and radiates REALLY well, with this beautifully fresh warm composition.

Unfortunately, I haven't gotten any further with the scent yet, maybe that's really it, but I will want to officially test it publicly now, and get opinions from acquaintances of all genders, so I will update the post in 1-2 days.
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Overall, it is absolutely not a scent in the €260 price range. Absolutely not. There are niche fragrances that have many more facets in every respect, bring much more adventure, really tell stories from beginning to end, and cost €40 less, and have 25ml more. Here the beginning is briefly okay, then terrible for an hour, and afterwards the scent calms down & becomes really.. VERY beautiful. But not at that price, never. I know this scent is supposed to be a summer hit, a scent that shouldn't strain the nose too much, and still smells nice. But for such a price, that is more than inappropriate, the name alone is a 70% markup. It's a shame, for less money it would be worth it, I see it more in the higher designer segment of €100 to €140.