11/09/2021
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Montale's got it in the tonsils
Will a Montale ever make it into my real or virtual shopping basket? I doubt it more and more. Because unfortunately, even the simplest and most melodious Montale creations turn out to be little useful perfumes.
So you think, with the three ingredients "roasted almonds", "vanilla" and "smoky notes" you can not do much wrong. Most fragrance houses or perfumers would probably conjure up something rock solid here.
At Montale, however, one prefers to go the more complicated way. At least in the result, because in the recipe I fear rather the favorable to qualitatively underground course. The culprit is a, as you can already read in some comments, quite artificial almond note, which apparently came too intensively in contact with plastic film.
Even the vanilla smells altogether too sweet and more like Dr. Oetker pudding powder. That's just as disconcerting as the slightly animalistic stalky note in this almost gourmand setting. So what can easily spoil one's appetite or the good feeling when wearing.
Only much later, when the oriental almonds, which unfortunately any exoticism is completely lost, have calmed down a bit in the nose, probably the real soul of the EdP comes to the fore. Then mix rather marzipanige almonds and vanilla with really delicate smoky character to a relatively pleasant fragrance, which you no longer expect, but better late than never gets served.
This saves AO from a total crash, but a recommendation does not become from it still far.
So you think, with the three ingredients "roasted almonds", "vanilla" and "smoky notes" you can not do much wrong. Most fragrance houses or perfumers would probably conjure up something rock solid here.
At Montale, however, one prefers to go the more complicated way. At least in the result, because in the recipe I fear rather the favorable to qualitatively underground course. The culprit is a, as you can already read in some comments, quite artificial almond note, which apparently came too intensively in contact with plastic film.
Even the vanilla smells altogether too sweet and more like Dr. Oetker pudding powder. That's just as disconcerting as the slightly animalistic stalky note in this almost gourmand setting. So what can easily spoil one's appetite or the good feeling when wearing.
Only much later, when the oriental almonds, which unfortunately any exoticism is completely lost, have calmed down a bit in the nose, probably the real soul of the EdP comes to the fore. Then mix rather marzipanige almonds and vanilla with really delicate smoky character to a relatively pleasant fragrance, which you no longer expect, but better late than never gets served.
This saves AO from a total crash, but a recommendation does not become from it still far.
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