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A diamond in the rough - elegant and delicately bitter pleasure
With this perfume, the long search for a pleasant patchouli fragrance is over for me.
Patchouli is a difficult fragrance to find.
Quickly too tart or mixed with all sorts of sweet ingredients and thus adulterated. An alternative would have been only the patchouli fragrance of Etro, no matter in what concentration. However, this was a little too tart for me. For men possibly worth a test. I would have had to layer Etro's scent with Via Verri to get a bit more freshness. Layering is interesting, but not usually my cup of tea. However, the fashion of Etro, with bohemian touch goes well with the strongest note here : patchouli.
This patchouli scent is quite authentic and also resembles a patchouli - oil that I bought as a souvenir in Morocco, but Prada Amber has of course been refined and is not a real soliflor. Bitter orange, tangerine and bergamot give the necessary freshness and let the perfume not too heavy.
In the base it becomes woody and resinous.
Labdanum and benzoin in top form.
Almost cuddly. Reminds of the feeling of touching the silky fur of an oriental cat.
Natural elegance.
It also becomes delicately bitter. Here resonates a hint of cocoa, dark chocolate in very high-quality form, but this note has been included even in the patchouli oil from the holiday. So here is no gourmand experience possible.
A very mature fragrance, which has not taken all the rough edges from the patchouli. Elegant, but not too much.
Ultimately, I associate patchouli namely also with the hippie culture.
These were often not so unwashed, as it is often insinuated.
They produced fabulous rock music, were experimental lifers, often even from good homes. It's a time, sadly, that I didn't live to see.
What I miss is a floral touch.
But this would have possibly not fit into the concept. Who knows.
Nevertheless, a very successful Oriental, which does not get too warm.
Rather a winter scent. However, it is due to initial coolness also still portable, if it is a little sunnier. The flacon I find good. Heavy. Simple. Pleasant feel.
Only the name confuses me a bit, but amber may also be included and just not noticeable to my nose.
Somehow, however, it could also tarnish, since little sweetness is in play here- a rough diamond is Prada Amber. At least for me.
Have fun testing and love greetings
Patchouli is a difficult fragrance to find.
Quickly too tart or mixed with all sorts of sweet ingredients and thus adulterated. An alternative would have been only the patchouli fragrance of Etro, no matter in what concentration. However, this was a little too tart for me. For men possibly worth a test. I would have had to layer Etro's scent with Via Verri to get a bit more freshness. Layering is interesting, but not usually my cup of tea. However, the fashion of Etro, with bohemian touch goes well with the strongest note here : patchouli.
This patchouli scent is quite authentic and also resembles a patchouli - oil that I bought as a souvenir in Morocco, but Prada Amber has of course been refined and is not a real soliflor. Bitter orange, tangerine and bergamot give the necessary freshness and let the perfume not too heavy.
In the base it becomes woody and resinous.
Labdanum and benzoin in top form.
Almost cuddly. Reminds of the feeling of touching the silky fur of an oriental cat.
Natural elegance.
It also becomes delicately bitter. Here resonates a hint of cocoa, dark chocolate in very high-quality form, but this note has been included even in the patchouli oil from the holiday. So here is no gourmand experience possible.
A very mature fragrance, which has not taken all the rough edges from the patchouli. Elegant, but not too much.
Ultimately, I associate patchouli namely also with the hippie culture.
These were often not so unwashed, as it is often insinuated.
They produced fabulous rock music, were experimental lifers, often even from good homes. It's a time, sadly, that I didn't live to see.
What I miss is a floral touch.
But this would have possibly not fit into the concept. Who knows.
Nevertheless, a very successful Oriental, which does not get too warm.
Rather a winter scent. However, it is due to initial coolness also still portable, if it is a little sunnier. The flacon I find good. Heavy. Simple. Pleasant feel.
Only the name confuses me a bit, but amber may also be included and just not noticeable to my nose.
Somehow, however, it could also tarnish, since little sweetness is in play here- a rough diamond is Prada Amber. At least for me.
Have fun testing and love greetings
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