Top Notes 
Mandarin orange
Violet absolute
Mint
Heart Notes 
Lebanon cedar
Orris concrete
Gaiac wood
Jasmine
Pomegranate
Base Notes 
Bourbon vanilla
Amber
Benzoin
Yemenite frankincense
03/12/2023
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Almost all of us are familiar with the regularly mentioned tips on what to do when a fragrance is too intense, too controversial for the workplace, too dominant over time, or simply too extreme for a date - AND yet one still wants to wear the scent. Yes, there are indeed those crazy enough to insist on wearing a fragrance instead of choosing another, more tolerable one, or simply not wearing any at all, and they are probably only here among us.
In such a case, one should spray into the backs of the knees under clothing, on the belly beneath the same, give a spray into the air and walk through the mist, just dab, or even spray onto a feather and then gently stroke it on the wrists or behind the ear.
Personally, I have managed so far by not fully pressing the spray mechanism and applying that half or quarter spray to my décolletage or transferring it from one wrist to the other.
Those times are over, because now I have Avant Le Jour.
I received a well-filled, large bottle via blind swap, and of course, I curiously sprayed a full spray onto my left wrist, which I then pressed to the right:
Bright, spicy-tinged, slightly citrusy flowers with a fun, light fizzing powder effect form the opening that makes me smile cheerfully. It's amusing and something different, this fizzing powder effect!
Quickly, the citrus note recedes, more and more vanilla emerges, and now I also detect a fine iris note that peeks out from the initially nonspecific floral scent. This is a fragrance I like; it is very sweet, which is not usually my preferred direction, but here it fits, and the sweetness is pleasant, neither burnt nor with a piercing candy-like note, but a dry sweetness.
It's a pity that the fizzing powder impression fades after about 15 minutes; that was really something special. The citrus note is also gone after about 15 minutes, and Avant Le Jour becomes a powdery-sweet vanilla-iris scent. That's still nice.
However, Avant Le Jour now gradually starts to annoy me more and more. An artificial undertone in my nose comes more to the forefront. Over the next few hours, it steadily increases, and now the vanilla takes on a stuffy, smoky-woody character, resembling cheap scented candles from the hardware store, which I always refer to as hardware store vanilla. It smells as if large quantities of cheaply scented vanilla candles are stored alongside equally large quantities of impregnated particle boards. What a shame! Behind this unpleasant accord, I can still perceive the pleasantly dry, sweet, powdery iris, but unfortunately, that does not dispel the constant feeling that the scent is annoying and that I need to wash it off soon.
So I did, and I thought I would just pass it on.
The next morning, when I threw on my fleece jacket and headed to work, I noticed a wonderful, fine, vanilla-powdery, and elegantly fragrant, slightly sweet iris scent, light as a feather and putting a smile on my face. Time and again throughout the day, a hint of it wafted to my nose, and I wondered what that fragrance could be. Which scent had I worn with this, actually freshly washed jacket? It could only have been Avant Le Jour from the day before.
In the meantime, this assumption has been confirmed, and I have worn Avant Le Jour several more times, experimenting with the amount and method of spraying:
Spraying into the air and walking through the mist turns Avant Le Jour into a noble, delicate, iris-powdery feel-good fragrance of the highest class throughout the entire duration. Any concentrated spraying on one spot, no matter how small the spray, produces hardware store vanilla over time.
Here are five things to say:
1. I suspect cedar is turning vanilla into hardware store vanilla.
2. Many thanks to whoever kept the idea in my mind early on here at Parfumo that some fragrances are better sprayed into the air and then walked through.
3. Avant Le Jour stays.
4. It will never run out with my spraying method.
5. Thank you, dear Gerdi, for the fine fragrance!
In such a case, one should spray into the backs of the knees under clothing, on the belly beneath the same, give a spray into the air and walk through the mist, just dab, or even spray onto a feather and then gently stroke it on the wrists or behind the ear.
Personally, I have managed so far by not fully pressing the spray mechanism and applying that half or quarter spray to my décolletage or transferring it from one wrist to the other.
Those times are over, because now I have Avant Le Jour.
I received a well-filled, large bottle via blind swap, and of course, I curiously sprayed a full spray onto my left wrist, which I then pressed to the right:
Bright, spicy-tinged, slightly citrusy flowers with a fun, light fizzing powder effect form the opening that makes me smile cheerfully. It's amusing and something different, this fizzing powder effect!
Quickly, the citrus note recedes, more and more vanilla emerges, and now I also detect a fine iris note that peeks out from the initially nonspecific floral scent. This is a fragrance I like; it is very sweet, which is not usually my preferred direction, but here it fits, and the sweetness is pleasant, neither burnt nor with a piercing candy-like note, but a dry sweetness.
It's a pity that the fizzing powder impression fades after about 15 minutes; that was really something special. The citrus note is also gone after about 15 minutes, and Avant Le Jour becomes a powdery-sweet vanilla-iris scent. That's still nice.
However, Avant Le Jour now gradually starts to annoy me more and more. An artificial undertone in my nose comes more to the forefront. Over the next few hours, it steadily increases, and now the vanilla takes on a stuffy, smoky-woody character, resembling cheap scented candles from the hardware store, which I always refer to as hardware store vanilla. It smells as if large quantities of cheaply scented vanilla candles are stored alongside equally large quantities of impregnated particle boards. What a shame! Behind this unpleasant accord, I can still perceive the pleasantly dry, sweet, powdery iris, but unfortunately, that does not dispel the constant feeling that the scent is annoying and that I need to wash it off soon.
So I did, and I thought I would just pass it on.
The next morning, when I threw on my fleece jacket and headed to work, I noticed a wonderful, fine, vanilla-powdery, and elegantly fragrant, slightly sweet iris scent, light as a feather and putting a smile on my face. Time and again throughout the day, a hint of it wafted to my nose, and I wondered what that fragrance could be. Which scent had I worn with this, actually freshly washed jacket? It could only have been Avant Le Jour from the day before.
In the meantime, this assumption has been confirmed, and I have worn Avant Le Jour several more times, experimenting with the amount and method of spraying:
Spraying into the air and walking through the mist turns Avant Le Jour into a noble, delicate, iris-powdery feel-good fragrance of the highest class throughout the entire duration. Any concentrated spraying on one spot, no matter how small the spray, produces hardware store vanilla over time.
Here are five things to say:
1. I suspect cedar is turning vanilla into hardware store vanilla.
2. Many thanks to whoever kept the idea in my mind early on here at Parfumo that some fragrances are better sprayed into the air and then walked through.
3. Avant Le Jour stays.
4. It will never run out with my spraying method.
5. Thank you, dear Gerdi, for the fine fragrance!
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