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The Pulle brings it to the day
Yesterday I had my third Parfumo birthday, bold in luminous colors shown here. And none of you out there have congratulated me! You used to be friends! So last night I decided to toast with myself; and I did so by nibbling on a huge mountain of perfume samples for the first time, which had been standing at my home for a few days. I have exchanged here with an esteemed co-parfumo, he has received from me essentially a half-full bottle of a fragrance he loves very much and no longer produced and has thanked me for it with several fantastillions of hand-picked bottlings and samples, including a considerable number of complete manufacturer sample sets of brands I had never heard of before.
So the first one was "Niral" from "Neela Vermeire Creations". I also did not know this brand yet. According to first researches it is a Franco-Indian or Indo-French thing. It says "Neela Vermeire Creations" on it, but Mrs Vermeire seems to be more like the lady in the background, the actual creations are all from Mr Duchaufour, but ok, "Betrand Duchaufour Creations" would sound less exciting now.
I thought to myself, well, three years after the registration here at Parfumo, I can test whether I've got what it takes to analyze fragrances and I sniffed and tried to recognize the ingredients without having to lense anything beforehand. I came up with something like "Orange with wood and spices: nutmeg and caraway, so a typical woody-fresh spicy men's mixture on the other hand. But the whole thing is somehow "softly and femininely blurred" (well, my very first impressions were even more basal, but I don't have to tell you that here).
Question to Radio Yerevan (probably no one born after 1970 understands this now): "Is this assessment correct?" Answer: "In principle yes, but nutmeg and caraway are actually pepper and cardamom and the orange is an orange blossom. But this is also not an orange blossom, but jasmine."
As brilliant and all-encompassing as I was with the details, as far as the rough directions are concerned, I stick to my initial assessment. We have here a very finely interwoven, violently iridescent and thus to a certain extent just as demanding as mysterious fragrance; unusual, but by no means too spared, but still sufficiently beautiful even for more conventional tastes like mine.
There are indeed elements of a traditional woody (leathery), spicy (fresh) men's fragrance, and (once again) the good Bel Ami from Hermès comes to mind. But inseparably interwoven with it is an incredibly soft, gentle, delicate, powdery world of fragrances, of which I can't even begin to identify individual elements (I only perceive a highly complex "gauze veil" here), but which may well have originated from the iris (yes, I admit it, I didn't recognise the iris, neither before nor after I knew that there was one in it!) and from the bouquet of rose-jasmine magnolia flowers.
Dior Homme" still comes to mind as a fragrance with such a hard and a soft side, which flow inseparably into each other (although I can't see any concrete relationship between the two fragrances, despite the common iris). While "Dior Homme" tends to be more masculine, the unisex "Niral" is more of a women's scent for my purposes - and not only because of the very, very little male bottle.
Since I wore "Sminta" yesterday and wanted to play "Dioressence" today (I postponed this until tomorrow for complex reasons), I'm not suspected of having any prejudices against women's fragrances on me; so there will probably be other reasons why there's no real spark between "Niral" and me (which is not quite in line with the almost ecstatically ecstatic comments and statements here). A very well made, fine and exciting and therefore testable fragrance is this, however, always.
Holscentbar
Danush
