Mortel Trudon 2017

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8.1 / 10 89 Ratings

A popular perfume by Trudon for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is resinous-spicy. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Resinous

Spicy

Woody

Smoky

Fresh

Fragrance Notes

Somalian frankincense

Black pepper

Cistus

Myrrh

Nutmeg

Benzoin

Mystikal®

Pimento

Virginia cedar

Perfumer

Yann Vasnier

Ratings

Scent

8.189 Ratings

Longevity

7.878 Ratings

Sillage

7.075 Ratings

Bottle

7.672 Ratings

Value for money

6.824 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 22.04.2024.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/21/2024

PeteRalon007
50 Reviews

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PeteRalon007

4

Gothic firebugs

Background: Perfumos send me samples, I then test the perfumes sent without any knowledge and describe my response - that of an inexperienced dilettante.

Today, I am greeted by an ethereal scent of fresh, green herbs from what is probably an organic garden, and I think I can also detect a hint of balsam. And a fresh, pungent note of soft incense. Sounds paradoxical, but it is. Overall, the fragrance creates warmth, but doesn't really get into the steamy sauna corner, but rather barricades itself in the sacred abscissa of a Gothic church. What is it doing there? There he calmly tinkers with wood, probably putting together a nicely balanced spice rack with pepper, salt, nutmeg and vanilla. There seems to be a little room for musk and my beloved myrrh too, so just put it on the shelf. But I really couldn't say which perfume it might be. I'm guessing niche, because it probably won't be by Christina Aguilera. It seems to be more of a fragrance experience for cozy days with rain, as a signature it doesn't do enough Palermo and doesn't get the gold chain out from under the silk shirt.
So I seek advice from the expert, who has been visiting the Waldkindergarten for a week now. According to her, she now even knows the differences in taste between woodlice and firebugs! I wonder what they taste like? Like incense? So I hold the test strip in front of her snub nose. She smiles, runs off and comes back with an artifact of my "Haamit" from the Erzgebirge forgotten in the stairwell:
A little smoker. Oh well.

07/23/2023

7
Pricing 6
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Loulou31
89 Reviews

Loulou31

2

Holly beauty

I know mortel for a few years now, and it is a perfume that I still appreciate enormously.mortel is a sweet but mysterious incense, with a religious depth without falling into the dusty church side .ii gives to the one who wears it an undeniable charisma, the resins give it a very elegant spicy side .. My favorite of the brand

06/16/2021

Perregrin
3 Reviews

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Perregrin

8

Bright, pleasantly dry incense

A very nice, bright incense fragrance that comes rather dry and not too sweet. From the bouquet much less sacral than other fragrances, rather resinous and warm. I personally don't like cloying tones in incense perfumes, which this one definitely doesn't have. Mortel is made interesting by an herbaceous note that makes it nicely playful. Compared to Heeley Cardinal less sacral, to Unum LAVS less papal and more reserved and more unisex in character.

10/17/2017

6
Bottle 3
Sillage 6
Longevity 8
Scent

StellaDiverF
213 Reviews

StellaDiverF

1

Human (therefore mortel) Tenderness vs. Cold Church Stone

The opening moment of Mortel on my skin, is dominated by the bracing earthy spiciness of black pepper, flanked by the warmth of pimento and the nutty roundness of nutmeg. The spices are hard to miss, but they are not sharp or aggressive at all. Instead, they induce a fuzzy warmth to the opening of Mortel.

During the first half hour, the frankincense and myrrh are already on the stage. But they're firmly wrapped in this warm cashmere shawl of spices, and don't have the aloof church incense vibe as CDG Avignon, Heeley Cardinal, etc. This fine-tuned warmth of spices manage to bring a human element to the otherwise cold frankincense and myrrh, without setting the resins on fire.

With time, the spices gradually loses the warmth and turn into an uplifting aromatic sheen over the cold resins. Complemented by this aromatic brightness, the frankincense and myrrh now fully display their shimmery, cool woodiness and date-like creaminess respectively. But again, they are never sharp as frankincense and myrrh sometimes can be. Instead, they form a diaphanous, pellucid skin scent of incense, cool but never aloof.

Mortel has a close-to-skin sillage almost right from the beginning, and it lasts around 6 hours on my skin. While I don't particularly mind its performance, I do agree that it's probably the weakest in this department among the five new releases of Trudon.

And this overall weak performance did impact my initial assessment. As I was smelling them together for the first time, Mortel was easily overwhelmed by its siblings and I didn't think much of it. It was until later, when I wore it on its own, that I started to grasp its lovely nuances.

While Mortel doesn't pack the same icy punch as CDG Avignon or Diptyque L'Eau Trois, it makes up for it by showing a tender heart. I especially appreciate its transition from earthy warmth to an aromatic coolness prompted by the spices, which feels like watching orange melt glass slowly cool down to a crystalline craft.

Although I suspect that fans of hardcore incense fragrances might find it a bit too soft, I do think Mortel is solidly made, and its "human (therefore mortel)" tenderness might even distinguish itself from other austere, cold-like-church-stone incense perfumes. I'd definitely recommend it as a more approachable incense fragrance.