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[²He] Helium One of those 2012

7.3 / 10 60 Ratings

A perfume by One of those for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is sweet-spicy. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Sweet

Spicy

Gourmand

Floral

Fruity

Fragrance Notes

Benzoin

Cinnamon

Tobacco flower

Damask rose

Italian bergamot

Liquidambar Vetiver

Vetiver

Clary sage

Gaiac wood Iris

Iris

Patchouli

Perfumer

Sylvie Fischer

Ratings

Scent

7.360 Ratings

Longevity

7.144 Ratings

Sillage

6.244 Ratings

Bottle

6.744 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro · last update on 12/16/2024.

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/23/2014

6Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Drseid
828 Reviews

Drseid

Helium or Tobacco?...

Helium opens with a sweet alcoholic splash of benzoin before quickly transitioning to its early heart. During the early heart the relatively sweet benzoin remains, adding significant warm spicy cinnamon and smooth pipe tobacco to the mix with hints of a balmy chapstick-like accord joining leathery styrax and clary sage in support. During the late dry-down the composition turns much less sweet and relatively dry, as slightly earthy patchouli from the base joins remnants of the tobacco and benzoin as the composition slowly fades. Projection is average and longevity very good at 10-11 hours on skin.

Unlike its sister scent, Sulphur, where the tie-in to the element of the same name is more readily apparent, Helium is a bit of a misnomer as the composition actually has much more of warm spiced tobacco and patchouli focus with no trace of the element to be found. The tobacco which ranges from sweet in the key mid-section to more of a dry leaf during the finish smells quite pleasant marred by the vague balmy chapstick-like accord residing underneath it that makes the composition a bit difficult to enjoy at times. The best part of the composition is the late dry-down as the tobacco turns dry and the patchouli takes over as star through the end. The bottom line is the 110 Euro per 100ml bottle Helium is a odd name for the composition and is far from perfect, but it does smell good, earning a 3 to 3.5 star out of 5 rating and a tepid recommendation. Those looking for this kind of composition should also sample Savile by Keiko Mecheri that occupies a similar space but was one I personally preferred.

03/23/2015

9Scent 10Longevity 5Sillage

Palonera
467 Reviews

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Palonera

Top Review 35

Oh dear... Oh yes!

"Oh dear!" I thought, oh dear.
Gray, crumbly "tear-me-apart" packaging, at first glance not unlike some soil sample that the man beside me spends his day analyzing.
Beneath it, clear, slender, unembellished flacons, marked with abbreviations and symbols that beam me thirty years back into the always strangely oppressive, sharply smelling chemistry lab, where a dusty gray little man busied himself and soon forgot us students.
Somewhere in the background hung the periodic table of elements, nicely red, blue, and yellow, which always remained a mystery to me.
And whose existence faded with my school graduation - at least almost.
Now it catches up with me again, the so un-sensual, strict construct of natural science - of all things, me, the science refugee, at a symbol of sensuality that is unparalleled.
Perfume according to Mendeleev.
Oh dear.
Could this go well?

Helium has the atomic number 2 in the periodic table and is considered the second lightest element after hydrogen.
A noble gas, fragile and fleeting.
So it would be, the scent that bore this name, I thought - delicate and fine and gone with a single breath.
I thought, willfully ignoring contradictory pyramids and ingredients.
A lightweight - quickly grasped, quickly described.
That was a week ago.
Since then I have worn "Helium," day after day, in sun and rain, in cold and warmth, silently so far and in awe of the potency and richness of facets of a scent that deserves many accolades, but certainly not that of triviality.

After a bright, slightly anise-like opening, "Helium" begins a transformation that takes a different path each day, heading in another direction, yet without causing confusion and unrest, for wherever it may go, the common thread is always there.
Ozone, metal, and mineral accords, ethereally woven with warm skin, late summer sun on dusty grain, amber-golden light.
Wild honey, restrained and fine, not sticky, dark, thick.
Guerlain's vanilla, tropical, velvety, dense, yet not sweet, not sultry, not heavy.
Light, airy warmth, tightly woven, dark golden fine fabric.
Dry cinnamon, smoky, almost bitter, bark-brown, hardly related to rice pudding and "Big Red."
Memories of "Tabac," the scent of my childhood, of uncles, grandpas, and officials, which I liked yet also did not.
Sun on my skin, "Tabac" in my aura, cinnamon and tobacco, subtle sweetness.
The next day brings cold, brings rain, brings smoky gray-green and soft musk, delicate and fine and close to the skin.
Always quiet yet perceptible, calm serenity and friendly style.

Floating veils, shifting from cream and gold to amber and terracotta to deepest brown and foggy gray-green.
Masculine, feminine, human, sensual.
Not cold at all, not hard, no rejection, no denial.
Perfume according to Mendeleev.
Can this go well?
Oh yes.
Oh yes!

PS: Inspired by Ergoproxy: Thank you, dear universe!

10/27/2015

7Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 14

Late Chemical Decadence

Helium. A noble gas. Inert, as its shell is completely filled with electrons. Other elements strive for this state as well - some more urgently, some more calmly - forming bonds to "feel" filled with electrons or to get rid of some. And all just to act like a noble gas.

In table salt, sodium chloride, sodium willingly throws its lonely, surplus outer electron at chlorine's elemental feet. The latter eagerly snatches it up to fill the only gap in its outer shell. An ionic bond has formed.

Two hydrogen atoms, each with one electron, want a second one each, then their shell is full. An oxygen atom shamelessly wishes for two more to add to its six outer electrons, so it can count: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 - Hooray, I am a noble gas! Together they are now a water molecule.

Helium doesn't need such things. Broad, sluggish, and well-stuffed, it is even too phlegmatic to cheer. Late chemical decadence. Why late? Well, about 14 billion years after the Big Bang…

I tested 2He Helium together with its sibling 1H Hydrogen, of course, the two scents could hardly be more different, I am undoubtedly with the highly esteemed Palonera. Perhaps a look at the periodic table of elements is not entirely wrong, where hydrogen and helium form a lonely tooth on the left and right, respectively, at the very top and face each other.

I had the thought that some aspects in 1H Hydrogen may be laid out, which in 2He Helium are somewhat filled in, deepened, such as the fruit. That each additional electron, proton, and neutron smells so intensely… But that is merely a brain fart that undoubtedly does not withstand conceptual scrutiny. An equation like “Bergamot from 1H plus Benzoin from 2He = candied orange from 2He” seems silly, even though I stand behind the corresponding scent impressions. Yet the differences simply outweigh.

2He is quite a wild hodgepodge: non-alcoholic mulled wine or children's punch kicks off the start. After a few minutes, creamy resin shines through, refreshed by mint. I perceive a bright caramel note. Red grape juice? Apple juice? The latter is generally an important component of - children's punch. So I stick with that. I notice more sweet-sour. Bitter almond with candied fruit comes to mind. A fruit-honey gourmand, another sudden thought. Flower honey. Later rose. Fruit candy rose. At some point, I eagerly nod to the indication ‘pipe tobacco’. That fits well, it is sweet. Dried fruit. Plum jam with cinnamon. And again we are back to gourmand. A fruit-tobacco scent has emerged.

From the fifth hour on, 2He gradually takes a turn towards patchouli. This had already hinted much earlier, as after three hours the tobacco sweetness had slightly roughened. After eight hours, the new line is clearly noticeable. I personally find the combination of fruit and patchouli somewhat unfortunate, it makes the scent quite dry. However, since the children's punch note continues to blast away relentlessly, a steadfast downer might be appropriate. Not that we end up with a children's headache along with a subsequent children's hangover.

By the way, this would indeed be a timid hint at the manufacturer's kinship between 1H and 2He: This kind of dust layer that settles over the scent towards the end of the progression (although much less pronounced in 1H). Moreover, both have a comparatively slow let’s-call-it scent development. Nevertheless, 2He makes quite a racket in contrast to its colleague. To spread so much unrest would be completely foreign to a helium atom.

In this respect, the only further interpretation left in this case is the statement of the perfumer, who had a kind of spiritual journey in a gas balloon in mind. Strange things seem to be happening up there in the gondolas.

I thank you deeply for the sample.

12/22/2013

9Scent

Bertel
236 Reviews

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Bertel

Helpful Review 7

Nocturnal Meditation in a Hot Air Balloon

My expectations for “[2He] Helium” were, probably simply because of the name, initially those of radiant lightness and brightness. I was far off the mark - Alberto Borri relates Helium to hot air balloons, to a meditative journey in calm, silence, and reflection high above all the usual noisy hustle and bustle. It seems to be night during this, and the flame that heats the helium has a distinctly smoky quality. “I thought of a meditative scent, of a Zen atmosphere,” says Borri.

I find it absolutely fascinating how “[2He] Helium” really “unfolds” with a jolt, impulsively and intensely, at the moment of spraying, with a “wwwuppp!” it is immediately fanned out, shimmering forcefully and letting its facets sparkle darkly; it’s truly wonderful :-) Unlike Morgaina, I do not perceive it in any way as a cheap little brother compared to the very blatant and one-dimensional “Tobacco Vanille,” but rather, on the contrary, as a significantly better, more complex, multi-layered, deeper, and richer large relative, fortunately quite distant. With a distinctly noticeable rose at the beginning, bergamot, later sage and strong cinnamon, and above all the vetiver that phenomenally supports the smokiness of the tobacco, the fragrance offers significantly more facets; moreover, in my opinion, all the ingredients here are of the highest quality, orchestrated masterfully by Sylvie Fischer (so far surprisingly only appearing with rather terrible fragrances for Beckham or Mandarina Duck...).

In its dark, velvety, appealing light gourmand character, it is a very seductive fragrance that is likely to find many fans, although it is not my type. Nevertheless, it is magnificent and highly recommended!

05/14/2013

6Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Morgaina
51 Reviews

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Morgaina

Why does this smell so familiar to me?

Last night I tested four fragrances from Nu-be (after all, my husband has two wrists too). I sprayed “2He Helium” on my left wrist with two spritzes, sniffed, “Hmmm good, delicious, gourmand.” I waited a moment, smelled again: “I know this, what does it remind me of?” Not a summer scent, very clearly honey, a bit of tobacco, later a hint of cinnamon and vetiver.
Clearly, someone has “copied” from Kilian and Tom Ford or should I say “sniffed”? “Tabacco Vanille” and “Back to Black” were probably the big influences and role models for this fragrance. It’s evident that role models are often unattainable, as the little “2He Helium” clearly lacks the “Aha effect.” Compared to the two great masterpieces, it’s just a new, simpler scent that doesn’t change or develop much.

For those who find “Tabacco Vanille” and “Back to Black” too pricey and who enjoy gourmand fragrances in winter with sweet honey and pipe tobacco, the significantly cheaper “2He Helium” (100 ml for about €110) is a great choice.

However, for those who know the two excellent fragrances, I can only advise: Stay away from Helium!

...As Oscar Wilde once said: “I have a very simple claim and taste - I am already satisfied with the best.”

Statements

12 short views on the fragrance

Pollita

3 years ago

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Like a Swabian plum jam. Unbelievable, but that was my first impression. Sure, pipe tobacco can smell like this too, but I'm indulging here.

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Floyd

5 years ago

7.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Do you see the clove
In a cinnamon bark coat?
Gathering herbs for pipe tobacco
For the creamy woods
That flow in rivers
Of sweet benzoin

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ParfumAholic

1 year ago

8Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

I don't know what the scent has to do with helium (but chemistry was never my top subject in school), but what I do know is that this +

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CharlAmbre

2 years ago

8Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Juicy, delicious tobacco, soaked in vanilla fruit juice and potent cinnamon, gracefully curls up on colorful, warm velvet.

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Ergoproxy

6 years ago

8.5Scent 10Longevity 5Sillage

A lovely gourmand with a focus on vanilla and cinnamon, without becoming too heavy, sweet, or cloying. And I don't really find it edible.

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Seejungfrau

9 years ago

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Floating through time and space in a hot air balloon!
Starts with cinnamon apple and warm sweet spices
Becomes light blue and airy "up there" and flies away...

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