Von Sierstorpff - The Scent of a Gentleman Von Sierstorpff 2008
Top but Flop
Aristocracy with a dirty tang.
On Basenotes I read about this fragrance respectively the "house" as "The German Creed" since Creed uses every bit of "history" to sell their fragrances. The campain for Von Sierstorpff was also underlaid with some facts and some more story/myth.
The Perfume totally vanished. Sometimes one can still find a bottle, but even the website is for sale.
The Scent of a Gentleman begins with citric notes, the strongest of them is once again bergamotte, escorted by neroli, although its not on the list. Rather unusual for me is the mandarin note. Wile bergamotte is fading, eucalyptus is thankfully disturbing the flowery notes and the sweetish mandarin.
The cardamom in the heart reminds me a bit of Chanels pour Monsieur.
After quite a while (I allmost forgott which perfume I'm wearing) the base is reached. Some parts, especially the tobaco, are earlyer "smellable" the other notes follow. The base got a kind of fringy start. But in the end, I only smell a warm, slightly woody base, with no dominating notes.
The sterling silver capped bottle without any label looks really nice and also feels that way.
I still like the perfume but only because of the eucalyptus and its dissonant contribution to the scent. Imagine the fragrance without eucalyptus... it would be boring.
On Basenotes I read about this fragrance respectively the "house" as "The German Creed" since Creed uses every bit of "history" to sell their fragrances. The campain for Von Sierstorpff was also underlaid with some facts and some more story/myth.
The Perfume totally vanished. Sometimes one can still find a bottle, but even the website is for sale.
The Scent of a Gentleman begins with citric notes, the strongest of them is once again bergamotte, escorted by neroli, although its not on the list. Rather unusual for me is the mandarin note. Wile bergamotte is fading, eucalyptus is thankfully disturbing the flowery notes and the sweetish mandarin.
The cardamom in the heart reminds me a bit of Chanels pour Monsieur.
After quite a while (I allmost forgott which perfume I'm wearing) the base is reached. Some parts, especially the tobaco, are earlyer "smellable" the other notes follow. The base got a kind of fringy start. But in the end, I only smell a warm, slightly woody base, with no dominating notes.
The sterling silver capped bottle without any label looks really nice and also feels that way.
I still like the perfume but only because of the eucalyptus and its dissonant contribution to the scent. Imagine the fragrance without eucalyptus... it would be boring.
2 Comments
FrieMo 14 years ago
I got my Bottle for 60€ (in a real store) and another Bottle (also the expensive one) for about 30€ on eBay.
PBullFriend 14 years ago
This sounds wonderful, FrieMo. I'd never heard of it before. Sadly, it's selling for 250 Euros, so I guess I'll never get to smell it! http://www.amazingrhinecountyneuss.com/business-marketplace/personal/von-sierstorpff.html