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Notes08/04/2020
Taurus
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Don't fly so high, my little friend
Eau d'Ikar may be a summery scent, but it's more of an unconventional kind. Maybe the theme "Icarus" or "The Fall of Icarus" is too serious and too preloaded for a simple refresher. I don't think that the Greek myth needs any further explanation on perfume - it should be too well known from schooldays.
However, one wonders whether the much mastic resin in this creation, spread on all three levels of the pyramid, should reflect more or the wax, because somehow it definitely belongs to the story, just like the feathers, which you probably can't present olfactorically as pleasing.
Be that as it may, Eau d'Ilkar starts with rich citrus nuances, directly paired with this tart mastic resin note. This makes the men's fragrance directly rather masculine, spicy, woody, creamy and at the same time ponderous. It is easy to hear the carrot seeds, which I already know from Mark Birley for Men. That's ok.
But a few beats of the wings further on you think you're temporarily sniffing out something medical. Anyway, this makes Eau d'Ilkar look a little exhausting and I can imagine that from this point on many people jump off or even fall into the bottomless pit and turn their backs on the fragrance.
Again a few bars later, Eau d'Ilkar becomes more metallic, which in principle fits the sun, the linchpin of the saga, quite well. Well, what is missing at the end, consequently, would be a brute sea note, about which one surely thought, but which would have been felt as disturbing and driving away. It's probably not so easy to integrate this as a base note.
So the end is rather average with a few splashes of vetiver, sandalwood and, appropriately, cistus.
Thus Eau d'Ikar is a rather unusual and discreet summer scent for the evening, a welcome alternative to the citric-aquatic freshness monotony, but with a narrow ridge for polarizing without being directly offensive. And as Icarus' father Daedalus said: don't fly too high because of the heat of the sun and not too low because of the sea humidity. So don't go to extremes: Eau d'Ikar is ideal for that without drifting into mediocrity. However, it's not quite my personal case either.
However, one wonders whether the much mastic resin in this creation, spread on all three levels of the pyramid, should reflect more or the wax, because somehow it definitely belongs to the story, just like the feathers, which you probably can't present olfactorically as pleasing.
Be that as it may, Eau d'Ilkar starts with rich citrus nuances, directly paired with this tart mastic resin note. This makes the men's fragrance directly rather masculine, spicy, woody, creamy and at the same time ponderous. It is easy to hear the carrot seeds, which I already know from Mark Birley for Men. That's ok.
But a few beats of the wings further on you think you're temporarily sniffing out something medical. Anyway, this makes Eau d'Ilkar look a little exhausting and I can imagine that from this point on many people jump off or even fall into the bottomless pit and turn their backs on the fragrance.
Again a few bars later, Eau d'Ilkar becomes more metallic, which in principle fits the sun, the linchpin of the saga, quite well. Well, what is missing at the end, consequently, would be a brute sea note, about which one surely thought, but which would have been felt as disturbing and driving away. It's probably not so easy to integrate this as a base note.
So the end is rather average with a few splashes of vetiver, sandalwood and, appropriately, cistus.
Thus Eau d'Ikar is a rather unusual and discreet summer scent for the evening, a welcome alternative to the citric-aquatic freshness monotony, but with a narrow ridge for polarizing without being directly offensive. And as Icarus' father Daedalus said: don't fly too high because of the heat of the sun and not too low because of the sea humidity. So don't go to extremes: Eau d'Ikar is ideal for that without drifting into mediocrity. However, it's not quite my personal case either.
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