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01/29/2012
Ineverwas
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5
Splendid Immortelle
One of the most compelling perfumes that have been released in the past 15 years and a potentially long lasting love story that may remain in my top 10 for years to come.
The notes used in this composition are unusual, refined and perfectly matched with each other. The main ingredient is obviously the immortelle, a dry-herbal-dusty accord with a burned sugar aspect that's both special and quite strange. Immortelle Marilyn amplifies the dusty, dry aspect to the maximum, by adding powdery musk, bitter hazelnuts, rooty iris, dry leather and a touch of savory raspberry. Finally, a soft, feminine ylang-ylang and a creamy amber round off the scent, turning it into a modern, innovative and sophisticated feminine.
Immortelle Marilyn is quite spectacular and overall unique - it has a facet that makes it resemble Mugler's Womanity (a certain sweet-salty dustiness, most obvious in the opening), but where Womanity tuns marine and juicy, IM goes on to create a fantastic nutty, arid, almost desiccated effect that's the very essence of immortelle and which I find endlessly provocative and attractive.
Not your typical feminine and yet more classy and ladylike than many feminine creations today. Strange, exceptional and evocative of both the delicate fragility and the unforgettable presence that characterized Marilyn Monroe.
A brilliant creation.
The notes used in this composition are unusual, refined and perfectly matched with each other. The main ingredient is obviously the immortelle, a dry-herbal-dusty accord with a burned sugar aspect that's both special and quite strange. Immortelle Marilyn amplifies the dusty, dry aspect to the maximum, by adding powdery musk, bitter hazelnuts, rooty iris, dry leather and a touch of savory raspberry. Finally, a soft, feminine ylang-ylang and a creamy amber round off the scent, turning it into a modern, innovative and sophisticated feminine.
Immortelle Marilyn is quite spectacular and overall unique - it has a facet that makes it resemble Mugler's Womanity (a certain sweet-salty dustiness, most obvious in the opening), but where Womanity tuns marine and juicy, IM goes on to create a fantastic nutty, arid, almost desiccated effect that's the very essence of immortelle and which I find endlessly provocative and attractive.
Not your typical feminine and yet more classy and ladylike than many feminine creations today. Strange, exceptional and evocative of both the delicate fragility and the unforgettable presence that characterized Marilyn Monroe.
A brilliant creation.
