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03/16/2021
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The world in the bottle of the Corsican
Marc-Antoine Corticchiato. The Corsican has the gift of starting his fragrances often hard and painful.
Here we have a right haymaker right in the face with pure immortelle - wild, herbal, spicy, dry. That harsh curry herb note which eats into the nose.
The haunting goes (really!!) only a minute, then comes wonderfully fresh and airy lavender notes and a bit of licorice / anise. The scent immediately shifts to a Mediterranean herb garden. Airy, spicy, fresh. Tea joins in - freshly brewed, somewhat bitter black tea with a malty note.
Up to here, a great Mediterranean herbal scent. It follows the transformation à la Corticchiato.
Damp, steaming hay bales. In addition, a dark, heavy tobacco note, which really works wonderfully with the hay. A great unit. The whole lays absolutely skillfully under the spiced Assamtee and gives a dark, damp, spicy ambiance. The tobacco is effectively earthy in nature.
We are hereby no longer at all on Corticchiato's Corsica, but the fragrance made me think of the Eastern Oriental Hotel in Penang / Malaysia. In the 1920's, many Illustre guests descended here, from Rudyard Kipling, Karl May, to William Somerset Maugham and so on.
Hermann Hesse wrote from here:
"In Penang, on a hot humid glorious evening, the swelling life of an Asiatic city struck us for the first time...We gazed with amazement at the colorful phenomena of alley life in the Hindu city, the Chinese city, the Malay city. Wild, colorful bustle of people in the always crowded alleys, nightly sea of candles..."
At the latest now, when the oak moss & patchouli pop off, then we have arrived in deepest Malaysia. They complete the exotic framework, the scent seems dense, damp, spicy, earthy, vibrant, exotic, foreign. Camphor-like and also unsweet, black cacaonuacs spread. Like a night in tropical Penang.
Even a night in Penang passes once in a while and the merciless tropical morning sun dries the lanes. The drydown sticks with spicy tobacco, hay, patchouli and the revived curry herb from the beginning. But all a little drier.
Durability is about 10 hours, the sillage is relatively strong - not too much is the motto here.
I find the fragrance very exciting. The balance is very nicely done between Mediterranean & exotic. Typical for Corticchiato. The whole works for me at no time too heavy or too dark, but is nicely loosened up by the herbs and the bright, shimmering lavender. The tobacco is not smoky or ashy at any time, but is dark, moist tobacco leaves with some earth to them.
At times, the fragrance is somewhat reminiscent of Lutens "Borneo 1834".
Here you must not be averse to the special scent of immortelle - the herb, which is infamous as "curry stew", was used here optimally and it fits like a right haymaker on the nose. For fans of exotic spice scents & tobacco, this is a trip to faraway lands.
Very evocative, so to speak!
Here we have a right haymaker right in the face with pure immortelle - wild, herbal, spicy, dry. That harsh curry herb note which eats into the nose.
The haunting goes (really!!) only a minute, then comes wonderfully fresh and airy lavender notes and a bit of licorice / anise. The scent immediately shifts to a Mediterranean herb garden. Airy, spicy, fresh. Tea joins in - freshly brewed, somewhat bitter black tea with a malty note.
Up to here, a great Mediterranean herbal scent. It follows the transformation à la Corticchiato.
Damp, steaming hay bales. In addition, a dark, heavy tobacco note, which really works wonderfully with the hay. A great unit. The whole lays absolutely skillfully under the spiced Assamtee and gives a dark, damp, spicy ambiance. The tobacco is effectively earthy in nature.
We are hereby no longer at all on Corticchiato's Corsica, but the fragrance made me think of the Eastern Oriental Hotel in Penang / Malaysia. In the 1920's, many Illustre guests descended here, from Rudyard Kipling, Karl May, to William Somerset Maugham and so on.
Hermann Hesse wrote from here:
"In Penang, on a hot humid glorious evening, the swelling life of an Asiatic city struck us for the first time...We gazed with amazement at the colorful phenomena of alley life in the Hindu city, the Chinese city, the Malay city. Wild, colorful bustle of people in the always crowded alleys, nightly sea of candles..."
At the latest now, when the oak moss & patchouli pop off, then we have arrived in deepest Malaysia. They complete the exotic framework, the scent seems dense, damp, spicy, earthy, vibrant, exotic, foreign. Camphor-like and also unsweet, black cacaonuacs spread. Like a night in tropical Penang.
Even a night in Penang passes once in a while and the merciless tropical morning sun dries the lanes. The drydown sticks with spicy tobacco, hay, patchouli and the revived curry herb from the beginning. But all a little drier.
Durability is about 10 hours, the sillage is relatively strong - not too much is the motto here.
I find the fragrance very exciting. The balance is very nicely done between Mediterranean & exotic. Typical for Corticchiato. The whole works for me at no time too heavy or too dark, but is nicely loosened up by the herbs and the bright, shimmering lavender. The tobacco is not smoky or ashy at any time, but is dark, moist tobacco leaves with some earth to them.
At times, the fragrance is somewhat reminiscent of Lutens "Borneo 1834".
Here you must not be averse to the special scent of immortelle - the herb, which is infamous as "curry stew", was used here optimally and it fits like a right haymaker on the nose. For fans of exotic spice scents & tobacco, this is a trip to faraway lands.
Very evocative, so to speak!
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