Steffen Schraut Eau Légère Parfumée Steffen Schraut 2008

Here we have another fragrance that some might say: “Hmm, never heard of it!”. But that doesn’t matter, as this scent is nothing special and doesn’t even smell good. Therefore, it might be better to have never heard of it. But now to the scent description:

The scent:
The beginning is fruity, I think, but in a very unpleasant, piercing way. It has something of cheap soap that has already been a bit worn out. I can’t quite determine whether it smells like apricot or peach, and I don’t really want to smell it deeply either, as the scent (for me) smells terrible.
In the heart note, it becomes a bit sweeter, yet the not particularly pleasant fruity notes from the top note remain quite strong. You can smell a bit of jasmine and other floral notes.
In the base, the scent loses some of its intensity, which softens the piercing, mushy-smelling fruity notes. Now the scent becomes a bit gentler due to the vanilla, which, however, does not smell particularly great in combination with other fragrance notes in this scent. Additionally, the perfume becomes a bit woodier. Of course, you can still smell the fruity notes, but the slightly musty scent seems to linger.

Longevity and sillage:
I don’t want to make a reliable statement about the longevity. After a rather short time, I washed the scent off, as it didn’t smell pleasant to me.
The sillage is rather average, but still somehow feels like one has over-applied it. This may sound paradoxical, but it’s due to the scent being so piercing.

The bottle:
The bottle is a simple, white, cylindrical “can” with a black cap. The name of the fragrance is on the bottle. Even though the bottle is nothing special, it is the best part of this scent here.

I really did not like this fragrance. As if it weren’t enough that it doesn’t smell good, it also feels like one has over-applied it to suffocate everyone in the vicinity.
I don’t know what one could do with such a fragrance. For me, it fits more into the category of “fragrances that the world doesn’t need”. So I cannot recommend a test here, and a blind buy even less so. Save yourselves the scent and spare your (and others’) noses.

Unfortunately, I cannot determine either the price or a source for "Steffen Schraut Eau Légère Parfumée".
The pyramid suggests something like a chypre.
But this is also not a scent that can captivate me. Again a fruity fragrance, and this time it is not just indifferent. Rather, "Steffen Schraut Eau Légère Parfumée" comes at me in an unpleasantly penetrating way right from the start. This note, which I cannot initially describe, is maintained throughout the entire long duration. I perceive it as a waxy sweet scent. The fruits are clearly reminiscent of dried fruits, sweet-sour and somewhat fermented-tobacco-like. Then follows a floral mixture that lies beneath the dominant dried fruit scent and the waxy sweet creamy-paste-like scent. When I think of the base, I see sandalwood. And thus, it is probably the sandalwood that somewhat creams the fruity scent.
However, I find "Steffen Schraut Eau Légère Parfumée" overall a bit intrusive, although the vanillin in the base takes away some of the penetrance. Of course, like many fruity fragrances, "Steffen Schraut Eau Légère Parfumée" is not without synthetic ingredients, which are perceptible to me and give the scent good longevity. But since the sillage remains quite close to the body, the fragrance is not too conspicuous and is definitely a candidate for fruit fragrance lovers who enjoy it creamy "seasoned".