Ganymede Marc-Antoine Barrois 2019 Eau de Parfum

Ganymede - I do not want to go too much into the mythology and all the bells and whistles, the previous speakers have already done and this better than I could. Nevertheless I would like to emphasize how beautiful I find the name - Ganymede - what a beautiful sounding name, especially beautiful for a fragrance! Besides the beauty of the sound, the meaning, or rather the legendary history of the name invites to thought games, interpretations and even reveries. Ganymede was probably abducted by Zeus, so something like a surprise adoption - And the largest moon of Jupiter was also called Ganymede. So I already associate two eras with this fragrance - the ancient world and the future in which we inhabit alien planets. These but probably very different eras were successfully worked out by the olfactory facets of Mr. Bisch wonderful.

Now but times in turn...

The flacon - is simple and elegant.
The calligraphy as well as the logo of Barrois paired with the golden base color of the glass bottle unite for me the opulence of ancient hedonism with the simplicity of minimalist modernism, a pinch of stardust and a touch of 1920s Artdeco. How fitting, then, that Ganymede should see its rise in the 2020s.... It almost seems a little like the bottle was designed back then for the perfume of the future. Like those drawings and pictures from the 60s like they imagine the 2000s, you know which ones I mean? Something like Perfume Fiction?!

And the atomizer is stunningly good, even large scale mist - pure love!

The scent - is fresh, woody, floral, cool, spicy, metallic ..... multi-faceted.
What does not read here everything, from "well woody fresh halt" to "smells like Indian curry" and "Magginote", or the medical impressions by the strawflower. And I have to admit - they are all right. For me, however, Ganymede is primarily fruity-floral with a lot of wood. I find it quite masculine, elegant and rounded. The (curry) saffron note is only perceived to a disturbing degree if you sniff directly at the spray point - in the sillage, it contributes to the completion of this unique and complex composition in contrast. Overall, I can understand many previous speakers and their associations - it also has something metallic about it, something futuristic, something that makes you think of Jupiter and the moon Ganymede, of stardust. Is this the smell of the universe, if it had a smell? Anyway, this fragrance is almost a paradox, because I also have the image of an ancient Greek/Roman temple, near a field of strawflowers in my mind's eye. Moreover, it smells somehow synthetic, not cheap, but the smell, it's novel and "spaced out" - as if it unites two worlds.
Nevertheless, or perhaps because of it, he awakens comforting feelings and a certain security and feel-good aura.
He is interesting, complex and mass appeal, a crowdpleaser and interesting nose flatterer. The best of both eras so to say.....