Top Notes 
Frankincense
Lemon
Heart Notes 
Violet leaf
Lily of the valley
Base Notes 
Vetiver
Benzoin
Labdanum
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Violets in Citrusy Incense Mist
This is quite an unusual, anything but everyday, and therefore very interesting opening: incense and lemon in the top note! And it really works so well and excitingly; the combination of both notes truly creates a fresh-bitter-citrusy incense, if such a thing exists. The two occasionally rub against each other in the middle, which adds a bit more tension and variety for my nose. After a few minutes, however, this friction subsides, leaving a bright silvery and still slightly citrus-fresh incense, somehow cold and very dry in my perception, definitely highly interesting and very coherent - what a successful and original introduction to what is yet to come!
The citrus aspect soon recedes, leaving the incense to which a initially weak, somewhat dull and distant violet with lily-of-the-valley support joins, but it quickly gains floral presence and impact. Whether the ominous "violet leaf" is responsible for the dark green-herbaceous character that soon takes hold, or if it is rather the vetiver, I cannot say. What is clearly recognizable, however, is the still unabatedly present, now deeper, dark-warm incense tone alongside which the now almost completely dark violet has developed, reminiscent of something like clove or even a dry-powdery iris - that’s also a great tone! The progression from the first second to here and also further on is, despite the clear development, entirely harmonious, coherent in its sequence, and "works" wonderfully. The guiding image for this fragrance, a walk in the dark dense forest after a warm rain, when the earth and all the lush-earthy nature is steaming and blooming again in the rising mist, is certainly imaginable here.
This is a fantastic fragrance that I experience as a highly appealing and even quite masculine-bitter-dark smoky violet in the incense mist. The house Sinfonia di note was previously unknown to me, and that must change quickly - Viola is moving in now! ;-)
The citrus aspect soon recedes, leaving the incense to which a initially weak, somewhat dull and distant violet with lily-of-the-valley support joins, but it quickly gains floral presence and impact. Whether the ominous "violet leaf" is responsible for the dark green-herbaceous character that soon takes hold, or if it is rather the vetiver, I cannot say. What is clearly recognizable, however, is the still unabatedly present, now deeper, dark-warm incense tone alongside which the now almost completely dark violet has developed, reminiscent of something like clove or even a dry-powdery iris - that’s also a great tone! The progression from the first second to here and also further on is, despite the clear development, entirely harmonious, coherent in its sequence, and "works" wonderfully. The guiding image for this fragrance, a walk in the dark dense forest after a warm rain, when the earth and all the lush-earthy nature is steaming and blooming again in the rising mist, is certainly imaginable here.
This is a fantastic fragrance that I experience as a highly appealing and even quite masculine-bitter-dark smoky violet in the incense mist. The house Sinfonia di note was previously unknown to me, and that must change quickly - Viola is moving in now! ;-)
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