Masculine Signature Collection

Kalan 2019

Dekaya
06.08.2019 - 05:17 PM
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10
Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
7.5
Scent

The Ferrari of the Marlys?

Honestly, the bottle had me from the first second on. If Kalan had gone out of the first 20 evaluations with 2.5, I would still have taken him directly. My skin gets along extremely well with PdMs and I have consistently had good experiences with the brand so far, smelled about 8 out of the house and owned 6.

With the colour of the bottle I expect the direction of the fragrance. With the existing association to a Ferrari one would have had here a perfect direction also fitting to the strengths of the house. Prolific, sweet and powerful, in any case the playful direction, something above the pleasant, so that you just don't know if you like it or not and then you are polarized according to the motto: Is too much show for me, or do I find horny. Just like looking at a Ferrari.
And the teaser video about Kalan had also given me hope that this direction would be taken.

But what comes out with the actual fragrance can't be described any differently than disappointing. Not because Kalan smells bad, but simply doesn't find any connection at all to what he could (should?) be. Red as a signal color and color of romance or whatever you associate, followed by a sour, herbaceous scent. Hardly sweet, hardly proliferous, not attractive, not marly.
He is not unpleasant, that what was created is not badly done and something in it also has a good charm. But with that medical, sour note, I personally don't get warm yet.

And maybe that's why it's the Ferrari, a car that sounds big and attracts attention, everyone knows it and most people dream about it. But when you sit in it, you understand that it's just the name and the direct competition makes it a lot better.
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