Lôant Collection - Lôant by Santi Burgas

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Lôant Collection - Lôant Santi Burgas 2013

5.6 / 10 27 Ratings

A perfume by Santi Burgas for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is synthetic-sweet. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Synthetic

Sweet

Spicy

Woody

Floral

Fragrance Notes

Ambroxan

Cashmeran

White musk Amber

Amber

Nutmeg

Perfumer

Blanca Dalmau

Ratings

Scent

5.627 Ratings

Longevity

8.921 Ratings

Sillage

7.620 Ratings

Bottle

7.124 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20 · last update on 04/28/2022.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/21/2013

7Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Coutureguru
237 Reviews

Coutureguru

2

Something different for a change ...

The Lôant discovery collection has made it to me down here on the southern tip of Africa as it does the rounds of a sample pass initiated here at Parfumo by Franfan20 (thanks very much for this opportunity!!). These were forwarded to me by the lovely Cryptic ... and I have to say "so far so good!"

I'm not totally sold on a collection that can be blended willy-nilly by the hand that applies it ... this is the same objection I have to the Tom Ford collection but I'm not here to continue that rant :).

Lôant is touted as the 'molecular connector' of the collection, presumably then the one that would bring a combination of the others together as a heart note. I actually find it really good just on its own ... a sort of amped up Molecule 01 that actually smells like something ... chemical, but definitely appealing to my nose. The combination of Ambroxan and Cashmeran here is quite subtle but definitely present, bearing very little resemblance the Cashmeran bomb called Alien ... which I happen to adore! I must admit to liking the sour/bitterness experienced by Silverfire below :) ... I chalk it up to "different strokes" LOL.
I have Lôrose on my other wrist, and when I hold the two together the mix becomes rather appealing!

The only thing that doesn't float my boat is the rather hefty €85/50ml price tag. A mix of just three of these pops them into rather inaccessible territory ... at least for me.

Update:

7 or so hours in and a single spray of Lôant is still radiating beautifully off my right wrist. I'm afraid I'm feeling a little hooked :) ... it seems the sillage and longevity here are quite worthy of the price tag. I'm still not convinced that it would be better layered ... I'm loving it as a 'stand alone' ...

08/10/2013

2Scent

Silverfire
134 Reviews

Silverfire

2

Sour Flower Meets Isopropyl Alcohol

For the first two hours of its out-of-the-bottle life, Loant is aromatic isopropyl alcohol. You get occasional whiffs of a character, but that doesn't reveal itself in full until the two hour mark. Then you breathe in and discover pencil eraser and sour flower -- yuugh! It’s like a flower with jagged leaves, more feminine than masculine, but it may be too weird or edgy for some. Its projection is about 3 feet, so it has a presence. You won't be able to escape it. It will follow you around like a deranged doctor in a bad slasher flick.

I do have to hand it to Santi Burgas on both the presence and duration of Loant. At eight hours it's still going strong, and I get whiffs of it even at fourteen! If you want to smell like sour flowers dipped in isopropyl alcohol all day long, this is your go-to scent.

05/21/2015

2Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Drseid
828 Reviews

Drseid

Cashmeran, Just Cashmeran...

Loant opens with a blast of a vague synthetic blonde woody accord with a hint of underlying white floral jasmine. Moving to the early heart the vague synthetic blonde woody accord picks up even more steam, easily dominating the gentle nutmeg spice that joins the jasmine in subtle support with the overall effect showing a slightly boozy scotch-like facet to the synthetic woods. During the late dry-down the synthetic blonde woods remain the sole star, shedding their subtle floral and spice support through the finish. Projection is outstanding, as is longevity at over 15 hours on skin.

Another Santi Burgas sample, another disappointment... Loant can best be described in one word, cashmeran. Cashmeran is near certainly the source driving the synthetic blonde woody focus of the composition, and outside of it there really isn't much to talk about. On paper nutmeg spice comes more to the fore, but on skin it is pretty much all cashmeran, all the time. The only thing adding to the composition beyond the synthetic blonde woods is a slightly metallic white floral accord that comes off more prominent on skin than on paper, but always takes a back seat to the woods. I *will* say that the composition has some extremely impressive performance metrics, as the synthetics project and last big time. That said, if you are like me and really dislike the heavy use of cashmeran in compositions, excellent performance is a major negative. A friend recently reminded me that each of these Santi Burgas compositions is meant to be combined with others for a more complete experience and maybe Loant would improve if used with the others. That said, the cashmeran is so strong here, I can't imagine anything I could pair it with (Santi Burgas or otherwise) that would entice me to want to wear this stuff. The bottom line is the 89 Euro per 50ml bottle Loant is a cashmeran bomb plain and simple, and in the opinion of this writer that is a very bad thing, earning the composition a "very poor" 1 star out of 5 and an extremely strong avoid recommendation except for lovers of the primary ingredient who will near surely enjoy Loant immensely.

09/03/2013

5Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Palonera
467 Reviews

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Palonera

Very helpful Review 13

Goodness, Goethe!

I am a bit embarrassed, but it can no longer be denied:
I am an Ambroxan junkie.
Whenever I discover the robust A-word in a fragrance pyramid, my eyes light up, my nostrils flare with eager anticipation, and the yet-to-be-tested scent bursts through wide-open doors.
I have no idea when this started, but this penchant has surely fueled my passion for Sentifique's "Testostérone" as well as the positive perception of seemingly demure waters like "Dangéreuse" from the same house or Rodriguez's "Essence" - wherever my nose detects an "ambroxanic" undertone, it is delighted and can only with great difficulty be brought back to a rational-analytical level.
And so my fate seemed sealed at the first glance at the ingredient list of "Lôant"...

One spray to the left, one spray to the right, a joyfully uncontrollable deep breath - and I am knocked to the ground.
Goodness, Goethe!
For a few moments, I am completely confused, my scent synapses are dancing pogo, and I am searching for the asthma spray I haven't used in years.
It bites and stings and scratches and rages - a wild beast seems to have escaped from the spray, literally taking my breath away, and I have nothing to counter its apparent omnipotence.
Ambroxan - concentrated many times stronger than I have ever perceived before, and clearly too strong for me.
I flee outside into the fresh air, hoping to ally myself with the wind as the natural enemy of the scent and to dial down the intensity to a bearable level for me, but I hope in vain:
Nothing, absolutely nothing can stand against "Lôant," against the overpowering dominance of the dark-spicy, strictly animalistic, that swallows every other note.
For more than 24 hours, every breath is soaked with Ambroxan, an extensive shower including hair wash with "Lôant" beads off like a little drizzle, the scent claws itself into skin, hair, and clothing as if it never wants to let me go.
Insanity.

It may be due to my skin that "Lôant" gains such intensity - in fact, I cannot imagine that any of the scents from the head and base notes of the ambroxanic supremacy could even remotely hold their own.
Not on me, not with me.
The statement that "Lôant" has merely a minimal personal scent cannot be confirmed for me - in fact, this fragrance proves to be the most assertive of all I have tested from the series, and after this overdose, I will be avoiding all explicitly ambroxan-containing scents for a good while.

07/22/2013

5Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

Yatagan
416 Reviews

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Yatagan

Helpful Review 10

The Great Crawling - Part 1

What fascinated me so much about the Loant series that I wanted to test the fragrances (a heartfelt thank you to Franfan20 for sending the sample set!)?
It is the ant on the bottles that immediately captivated me. The word "ant" is likely related to the Old High German word for "diligent." Anyone who has ever dealt with the crawling and bustling of an anthill will be able to understand my fascination.

The perfect interplay of these insects through communication via scent substances fits well with the idea of a fragrance series that can be newly combined through layering, theoretically not only in combination of two fragrances (base scent: Loant with one of the other fragrances: top notes: Lojazz, Lorose, Lobitt, - base notes to round off the base note: Lovann, Lotree, Lomusk), but also in the combination of several fragrances or fragrance components. A bustling multitude of numerous, combinable individual components, theoretically expandable and thus infinitely branching.

As already mentioned several times, layering is not a new concept. Particularly well-known are the fragrances from Etro, which partly pursued this concept; this idea was already found with the traditional English brand Crown (the successors are the fragrances of Anglia Perfumery), which also recommended combining their colognes and perfumes.

I myself have occasionally tried a combination of citrusy bright scents with heavier fragrances (particularly nice: Annick Goutal Eau d'Hadrien with Lords by Penhaligon's) and achieved interesting results. Surprisingly often, fragrances can be combined; surprisingly rarely does the overlay of one fragrance by another create an olfactory cacophony.

In principle, Santi Burgas leaves open whether the Loant series is suitable for layering or alternatively for wearing the individual fragrance. Personally, I believe that the fragrances only reveal their true character through layering.

Loant, for example, the base scent of the series, does not seem really suitable for wearing without a top (Lojazz, Lorose, Lobitt) or base note (Lovann, Lotree, Lomusk). The scent comes across as synthetic, sharp, unbalanced, and only slowly develops into something more harmonious. Especially the jasmine, which also appears again in Lojazz (Arabian jasmine), strikes me as penetrating, piercing, and not floral-soft. While I often have issues with jasmine, this note seems particularly unpleasant to me here. I can perceive very little amber or ambroxan; this fragrance simply lacks the softness, roundness, and harmony. Furthermore, the presence of the synthetic fragrance compound Cashmeran, a polycyclic musk compound that should actually no longer be present in fragrances, is not very reassuring.

However, I was surprised when I tested the fragrance in combination with the other fragrances from the Santi Burgas line...(see there)

The great crawling could begin.

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