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Cyclamen
Snowdrop
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Plum
Black tulip
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White chocolate
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Tulip Mania
Black Tulip. A typical fantasy title. We know that tulips do not have a scent. So that’s not worth much. But the Shay & Blue fragrances piqued my interest, and so I ordered a sample of "Black Tulip" along with a bottle of "White Peaches" from Essenza Nobile. The pyramid reads well: No musk, no jasmine, no gardenia, and no other problematic candidates. Instead, it features the rather rare cyclamen in fragrances, which I really like, even in nature. Unlike tulips, some cyclamens have a very intense scent, quite peculiar and uniquely herb-powdery. I absolutely love that! Then there’s plum - one of the fruit notes in fragrances that has never struck me as negative or unpleasantly fermented, but rather soft, lush, and wonderfully vibrant, and then - white chocolate! Yes, I am still searching for a fine chocolate scent that is a bit less brutal and intensely overwhelming than Montale's Chocolate Greedy. White chocolate also differs from darker varieties. So that was one of the samples I requested.
Then I read the existing statements and the comment from Franfan20, and I should have suspected it already; this confusion, this tulip mania that the fragrance would evoke in me, was indeed very contradictory: Sometimes squeaky-piercing, sometimes powdery, sometimes herbaceous, sometimes floral, then again without flowers, plummy, and then again not... so what is it now?
And I will give you my preliminary conclusion upfront: It’s all true! This fragrance literally leads you by the nose!
Tulip - yes, that’s somewhat right, because some things in this scent simply do not smell, you can’t detect them. For example, I do not smell any plum, not any fruit at all. Others do not smell any flowers, but I intensely smell cyclamen, which is dreamy! But that’s not all. I have had the sample for a week now and have worn it fascinatedly for at least 6 of those 7 days. And each time I smell something different.
What is fixed for me is only:
1. Presence of cyclamen.
2. Absence of plum.
On the first day, I smelled the piercing note and suspected a hidden jasmine component. Then the whole thing transformed into a wonderfully powdery cyclamen scent with subtle white chocolate, just as I had hoped.
On one of the following days, I found the heart note to be marked by something oddly uncheerful; I feared it could be a secret addition of gardenia. This time, the chocolate came late and even more delicate.
Another time, I distinctly thought I could detect saffron in the top note. That hadn’t been there before. Fortunately, there was neither a jasmine nor a gardenia hint present.
Today, I again have a slight saffron nuance followed by wonderfully intense white chocolate.
Only cyclamen is always present.
At the end, a fine, dry wood note also appears quite regularly, sometimes more and sometimes less distinctly, which reminds me just a little of that subtle and extremely dry scent of Beach Hut Woman. And that, in turn, made me wonder if there isn’t a perfectly balanced and artfully integrated hint of cashmeran in Black Tulip.
Well. The crazy thing is: I love this cyclamen, and I hope with each use that the white chocolate will come out as clearly and yet unobtrusively as it did a few days ago. And then I look forward to the dusty, dry praline-cyclamen-powder-wood finish.
What else my led nose smells is obviously at the mercy of the daily whims of Black Tulip.
One last question remains: Do snowdrops have a scent? I believe not. In any case, I don’t remember ever smelling snowdrop fragrance. But maybe that’s because I usually don’t walk around with my nose close to the ground in January. They are probably included in Black Tulip, as you can’t smell them there either.
I sold a fragrance in the souk. The money will now be used for an order at Essenza Nobile: "Black Tulip". This time I am taking "English Cherry Blossom" as a sample. From Shay & Blue.
Then I read the existing statements and the comment from Franfan20, and I should have suspected it already; this confusion, this tulip mania that the fragrance would evoke in me, was indeed very contradictory: Sometimes squeaky-piercing, sometimes powdery, sometimes herbaceous, sometimes floral, then again without flowers, plummy, and then again not... so what is it now?
And I will give you my preliminary conclusion upfront: It’s all true! This fragrance literally leads you by the nose!
Tulip - yes, that’s somewhat right, because some things in this scent simply do not smell, you can’t detect them. For example, I do not smell any plum, not any fruit at all. Others do not smell any flowers, but I intensely smell cyclamen, which is dreamy! But that’s not all. I have had the sample for a week now and have worn it fascinatedly for at least 6 of those 7 days. And each time I smell something different.
What is fixed for me is only:
1. Presence of cyclamen.
2. Absence of plum.
On the first day, I smelled the piercing note and suspected a hidden jasmine component. Then the whole thing transformed into a wonderfully powdery cyclamen scent with subtle white chocolate, just as I had hoped.
On one of the following days, I found the heart note to be marked by something oddly uncheerful; I feared it could be a secret addition of gardenia. This time, the chocolate came late and even more delicate.
Another time, I distinctly thought I could detect saffron in the top note. That hadn’t been there before. Fortunately, there was neither a jasmine nor a gardenia hint present.
Today, I again have a slight saffron nuance followed by wonderfully intense white chocolate.
Only cyclamen is always present.
At the end, a fine, dry wood note also appears quite regularly, sometimes more and sometimes less distinctly, which reminds me just a little of that subtle and extremely dry scent of Beach Hut Woman. And that, in turn, made me wonder if there isn’t a perfectly balanced and artfully integrated hint of cashmeran in Black Tulip.
Well. The crazy thing is: I love this cyclamen, and I hope with each use that the white chocolate will come out as clearly and yet unobtrusively as it did a few days ago. And then I look forward to the dusty, dry praline-cyclamen-powder-wood finish.
What else my led nose smells is obviously at the mercy of the daily whims of Black Tulip.
One last question remains: Do snowdrops have a scent? I believe not. In any case, I don’t remember ever smelling snowdrop fragrance. But maybe that’s because I usually don’t walk around with my nose close to the ground in January. They are probably included in Black Tulip, as you can’t smell them there either.
I sold a fragrance in the souk. The money will now be used for an order at Essenza Nobile: "Black Tulip". This time I am taking "English Cherry Blossom" as a sample. From Shay & Blue.
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