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Blue-crystal cool beauty
Lavender as a fragrance is certainly not for everyone. When used in scented laundry bags or pot pourris, it has something old-fashioned about it - and some people remember their grandparents' bathroom with lavender water always at hand. I don't have these associations, neither did my grandmother - since I am the youngest of a whole series of children and my parents became parents late, I only met one grandparent - use lavender water nor were there scented sachets in our household.
I only knew lavender as a plant - and I loved its smell even as a small child. With my mother I shared a love for fragrant plants and during long walks (which I hated like the plague as a child!) she drove us away with smelling and sometimes tasting everything that was blooming and growing there. Herb gardens were and still are the fragrant heaven for me, monastery gardens also often contain - sometimes old - rose varieties and in combination these are spots of earth from which it is very difficult to move me away again. My husband and my sons can tell you a thing or two about it on trips together, which are unfortunately becoming increasingly rare as the two boys grow up.
Lavender is at the top of my list of plants that I can't walk past without running my fingers along to take the scent with me - and in addition, this very special blue is one of my favourite colours in the garden. And so, at the top of the list of things I would like to do in my life is a visit to Provence when lavender is in bloom.
Until then, I console myself with lavender water and with perfumes that are dominated by lavender. The purer the lavender scent and the closer it gets to the plant, the happier I usually am. And "Lavanda Imperiale" fulfils my longing for it. That's why I find the description under the fragrance as flowery-green also to be fundamentally wrong: it should clearly and without any doubt be flowery-blue!
The beginning is fresh and tart with a touch of citric, but does not stand for itself, but is immediately wrapped in lavender, lavender and even more lavender. The fact that the pyramid contains ylang-ylang and sage astonishes me a little. Because my simple nose would not have smelled one or the other. When I concentrate on it after reading it, I have the feeling that the lavender is perhaps a bit sweeter than in nature - perhaps because of ylang-ylang, the bitter freshness of sage remains completely hidden from me. Lavender itself has a certain kind of astringency, and everything I smell in "Lavanda Imperiale" supports my imagination of what a fully blooming, purple-coloured field of lavender should smell like in the hot summer sun.
And since the lavender in my garden is sprouting freshly, I make another comparison - and am amazed: the scent that sticks to my skin when I gently rub the fresh shoots between my fingers is practically identical to the scent of "Lavanda Imperiale" that has been on my wrist for some time now. I get into a brooding mood, because the description as "green" has its justification again - but for me this is only a purely philosophical question.
"Lavanda Imperiale" I have only worn as a sleep scent so far - and the bottle is already half empty. Now that I'm dealing with it in detail through the commentary, I almost have a guilty conscience, because this fragrance is really lovingly crafted and deserves to be enjoyed during the day as well! For work it would be out of question for me, I simply prefer to wear more complex fragrances. But on a beautiful day like today, when I plan to work a little in my mini-garden, it will now accompany me even when the sun is shining. And I am absolutely sure that I will enjoy it very much!
Top Notes 
Bergamot
Ylang-ylang
Heart Notes 
Lavender
Base Notes 
Sage
Bielwenass
