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Augusto
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So - so, so, so, so ... so Iris
To start with, even if it is a bit distracting: For all those who liked Iris Rebelle from AC, but found her much too weak, like me: Try this one. That's how it gets substance! - And now please forget again.
At Montale, we get: Fresh iris! And the one with the famous carrot, as if one had just broken a fresh young carrot apart and with the cracking of the carrot a little juice splashes into the face. The name Iris Rebelle would have fitted to this, which comes with power and is nevertheless the typical carrot iris at the beginning refined with some citrus and fresh green. All ravishingly woody at the same time. Wood with light grey grain.
After about a quarter of an hour, the fragrance has settled and remains. He's just passing a Haaspraynote - luckily, because AugustA doesn't need it at all.
Slightly creamy, but not buttery, the scent remains and remains and remains. I catch myself thinking about what you could layer with, this iris is so puristic. Puristic, not powdery. After hour two still no powder.
The charms that Iris can play out in combination with other flowers and especially woods are completely absent from this fragrance. That almost surprises you, because you are inclined to supplement the fragrance in your thoughts, to imagine what it is about, but what is not there. Blank, open field. But that is precisely the attraction of the composition. Pure fresh iris, little that completes the chain of associations - no noble elegance, no austerity, no powdery sensuality, no dreamy melancholy. And yet - after all, all this belongs to the iris.
The iris: rainbow, goddess, dazzling, wind shape, always a bit beyond. Although root, not flower, it eludes direct access. Spherical. Woody and dry. Here you can find them as directly as possible. This iris scent is whole - naked. Not ideas of nudity or anything like that. But naked irises, uncovered by other fragrances or fragrance concepts. I couldn't even say who the scent would suit, not too young old or man or woman or what. No stylized target group scent, no green and no Oriental either. An iris as you know it, but so far only in combination. When I notice this, the scent has caught me and it can stay the way it is for hours.
Whatever he does first.
Then, after about 3 hours the fragrance becomes imperceptibly softer, musk changes the surface and gives something pile, very soft pile. The Pure is now a bit creamier and more sensual after all. The musk is tender and soft, does not (!) remind of detergent or soap, but gives the iris an impression that reminds of skin warmth and evokes a touch that was not present in the scent before, precisely because it was so naked. Now it's more haptic. I guess the perfumer didn't want to put much more on it.