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Not your average "green" perfume
A different kind of Green fragrance. That is how Mal-Aimé feels to me. It strikes me as a bone-dry, herbaceous, earthy perfume rather than your standard vegetal green. It feels like the juice dried up inside the shrubs. It also has this strong salty and musky aroma, which, alongside the earthiness, are most likely facets showcased by the main ingredient, the Fragrant Inula plant. The nettles come strongly in the opening, almost abrasive, but soon tame down. The blackberry accord is non-existent on my skin. It's just super dry and shrub-like, earthy, warm, salty, and musky for the whole time. I love it, but it's easy to see how it might be very challenging to wear and enjoy for most people. It might be Marc Antoine's most unique and most challenging perfume. Not the way Ruade, Tabac Tabou, or the cumin-loaded Oeilleres is, but in how vividly it evokes the aroma of sun-scorched meadows. For me, it is a deeply nostalgic scent, like all well-made agrestic perfumes. It makes me think of roaming the fields in Summer, napping and rolling in hay, and eating cooked baby nettles (an incredibly delicious local dish). Green? Not really. I think of it as herbaceous, earthy, arid, with zero sweetness. The salty and musky facets make it more alluring and interesting. Not only a highly unique and creative perfume but also a time portal in place and time for the right person. A must-try for agrestic perfume lovers.
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