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01/14/2019
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The Dark Presence
I've never smelled the classic before. "Byzance" from 2016 is a reformulated version. Yet she has a strong vintage vibe attached to her: it's an old-fashioned perfume.
I never thought I'd like a perfume of this type. And yet, it has happened. The bottle suggests the imaginative color of the ultimate fragrance experience - I see this fragrance gray-violet. It's a dark violet presence stretching out its pens everywhere. You inhale them, you breathe them on-the perfume breathes with you and everyone within a radius of at least two meters smells them on you.
You can't want to be a greymouth wearing that perfume. He radiates iron strength, severity and character - he is a heavyweight.
Despite the comparison with "Ysatis" by Givenchy, which I read in a perfume blog (as if "Byzance" were something like a dupe of "Ysatis") I don't see any direct parallels. On the other hand I have to think of "Nohiba" by E. Coudray: these two fragrances have absolutely the same DNA for my nose.
But I couldn't wear "Nohiba": it's much too heavy for me, much too smoky; I even smell like old cigarette smoke when I wear "Nohiba", which I can't stand because I'm not a smoker.
With Byzance, it's different. I wore these last week, I wear them today. And above all I smell clove, which is in the foreground of all the unsweet flowers in the background and remains present for my nose throughout the whole process. Dur fragrance is spicy, soft, warm, round, narcotic.
Yeah, I know there's no carnation listed in the pyramid. That is probably the cardamom together with lily of the valley, which produce a strong carnation association with me. I don't smell any lemon and although the fragrance lasts for a very long time, and even the next day, lasts and radiates constantly strong, I don't smell any given base, respectively the base fragrances (like mochus, vanilla, iris, sandalwood and patchouli) are probably already present in the whole fragrance process and well worked in
"Byzance" is like from another time, completely different than the smells usual today. The fragrance takes its own place and is definitely and absolutely worth a test.
I never thought I'd like a perfume of this type. And yet, it has happened. The bottle suggests the imaginative color of the ultimate fragrance experience - I see this fragrance gray-violet. It's a dark violet presence stretching out its pens everywhere. You inhale them, you breathe them on-the perfume breathes with you and everyone within a radius of at least two meters smells them on you.
You can't want to be a greymouth wearing that perfume. He radiates iron strength, severity and character - he is a heavyweight.
Despite the comparison with "Ysatis" by Givenchy, which I read in a perfume blog (as if "Byzance" were something like a dupe of "Ysatis") I don't see any direct parallels. On the other hand I have to think of "Nohiba" by E. Coudray: these two fragrances have absolutely the same DNA for my nose.
But I couldn't wear "Nohiba": it's much too heavy for me, much too smoky; I even smell like old cigarette smoke when I wear "Nohiba", which I can't stand because I'm not a smoker.
With Byzance, it's different. I wore these last week, I wear them today. And above all I smell clove, which is in the foreground of all the unsweet flowers in the background and remains present for my nose throughout the whole process. Dur fragrance is spicy, soft, warm, round, narcotic.
Yeah, I know there's no carnation listed in the pyramid. That is probably the cardamom together with lily of the valley, which produce a strong carnation association with me. I don't smell any lemon and although the fragrance lasts for a very long time, and even the next day, lasts and radiates constantly strong, I don't smell any given base, respectively the base fragrances (like mochus, vanilla, iris, sandalwood and patchouli) are probably already present in the whole fragrance process and well worked in
"Byzance" is like from another time, completely different than the smells usual today. The fragrance takes its own place and is definitely and absolutely worth a test.
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