Colonia Fougère Wally

First of all, I would like to wish you a happy new year, which can't be wished often enough. Then, for those who are interested, the note that yesterday (divided into two posts) the appendix to the Laos blog was published. And finally, the request for indulgence for the fact that I begin 2021 with an undemanding commentary on an undemanding fragrance: to two exception perfumes I drag review ideas with me, but the exception kiss of the exception muse has not yet occurred.

To the matter: also the Fougère Cologne of the (also "real" perfumes leading) Italian traditional fragrance house with the small prices Wally is distributed (like the Colonia Pelle di Spagna) in a 500 ml bottle at 34 euros.

Parfumo holds back with the reference, to this fragrance different fragrance pyramids are given, with its own fragrance declaration. I think what matters is what the company homepage says, and that is clear:

Fragrance family: Ambrierter Fougère.
Top notes: bergamot, citrus, green notes.
Heart notes: rose, geranium, lavender.
Base notes: soft woods, ambergris, spicy notes.

The information on the base note reads thereby in the original: legni dolci, ambra grigia, note speziate. Legni dolci means counterintuitively, according to the dictionary, not liquorice (that would be liquirizia), but softwoods.

For me, this fragrance opens with a thoroughly very pleasant accord of green, herbal soap, reminiscent of the classic masculine green 80s fougères. As it progresses, without this green soap fougère disappearing, two poles face each other: As a slightly weaker pole, a tart masculine woody angularity and, as a stronger antipode, a moderately sweet woody hay side (one could also think of light tobacco here) with a slight floral touch. Rose and geranium, two notes I don't like per se in colognes (and tend to be critical of otherwise) don't bother me here, they're well blended. The brown spice notes are especially noticeable at the end and remind me from afar of Old Spice or Tabac Original, but really only as a distant quote, this fragrance remains too green for that.

The scent reminds me of two Czech Alpa scents, between which it stands in a way: The sweetly woodsy, mossy aftershave 378 (which I love) and the rugged, edgy fougère cologne (which is too quirky to be truly beautiful, but which I find intriguing). Unfortunately, most readers won't be able to do anything with this classification because they don't know the reference scents. But I can't help that...

The fragrance is generously splashed (which is easily possible with 500 ml yes) about 2 to rather 3 hours durable, for a cologne very neat.

Overall, this Wally, a green, soapy-herbaceous, somewhat floral, tending to be rather soft, plump, warm Fougèrecologne.

A really significant fragrance, of course, it is not, nor a really great cologne. For that I find it a little too fuzzy and, if I compare it with a print, running at the edges and at times a little round and indecisive. In addition, you can definitely tell that it is a simple, unpretentious fragrance.

From Wally, I would clearly prefer the Pelle di Spagna, and who wants to look around in this inexpensive segment of the male fragrance universe, I would perhaps yet rather recommend both previously mentioned Alpas.

But I find this fragrance somehow cuddly and sufficiently sympathetic, as that I could imagine that I brew up the half measure with pleasure sometime.