05/06/2021
Susan
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What a glorious ladies FUUUSCHÄÄR ...!!!
Actually, such a fun headline is totally inappropriate for such an excellent and exceedingly exquisite perfume.....
It's kind of like writing, "Long live the KWIIEEEN".....
So please graciously overlook this little faux pas ;-).....
ESQUEL is, according to Xerjoff - and also in my humble opinion - a ladies' fougere.....what ultimately makes it "feminine" is above all its wonderful base....but more on that later.....
As we know, the lynchpin of a fougere is usually lavender.....a scent that usually doesn't have me screaming "HERE".....
With Esquel, however, everything - really EVERYTHING - is different.....
Immediately after the first spray, there is the impression of a fairly classic cologne for about 5-10 seconds......but that changes almost immediately....and I suspect it is the myrtle that makes the crucial difference here......
After this brief first impression, the fragrance immediately becomes wonderfully aromatic, sweet herbal and spicy......even the lavender shows a completely unfamiliar face......it now seems almost amber to me..........since I actually do not particularly appreciate amber (which is not in it at all ;-)..), it surprises me extraordinarily how well I like this "amber lavender" note.....
Immediately join a soft powdery iris and an outstandingly beautiful, earthy, sweetish-resinous and warm-woody nard......a fragrance ingredient that I have only recently consciously come to know and love.....
Both orange blossom and rose remain pleasantly enigmatic.....whereas petigrain and cinnamon are somewhat more prominent.....but at no point as "soloists", but always perfectly harmoniously embedded in the overall action.......
From this stage Esquel now takes his turn towards the "female fougere"......
The fragrance becomes increasingly soft and balsamic.....Opoponax, patchouli and tonka give it a creamy, resinous, yet airy sweetness (not that viscous, clumsy and unpleasant sweetness often experienced in indie resin fragrances ;-)...)
To my mind, it's musk and vetiver that keep the scent from being too heavy and sticky at this stage and truly regulate it masterfully.....
If I were not a "Vielsprüher", the 50ml with a beloved fragrance just last 3-4 months, and ESQUEL would not be so price-intensive, so he would have long moved in with me.....
But what is not, can still become ;-).....
PS: Intensity, durability and sillage are of course just as excellent as the entire fragrance .....
It's kind of like writing, "Long live the KWIIEEEN".....
So please graciously overlook this little faux pas ;-).....
ESQUEL is, according to Xerjoff - and also in my humble opinion - a ladies' fougere.....what ultimately makes it "feminine" is above all its wonderful base....but more on that later.....
As we know, the lynchpin of a fougere is usually lavender.....a scent that usually doesn't have me screaming "HERE".....
With Esquel, however, everything - really EVERYTHING - is different.....
Immediately after the first spray, there is the impression of a fairly classic cologne for about 5-10 seconds......but that changes almost immediately....and I suspect it is the myrtle that makes the crucial difference here......
After this brief first impression, the fragrance immediately becomes wonderfully aromatic, sweet herbal and spicy......even the lavender shows a completely unfamiliar face......it now seems almost amber to me..........since I actually do not particularly appreciate amber (which is not in it at all ;-)..), it surprises me extraordinarily how well I like this "amber lavender" note.....
Immediately join a soft powdery iris and an outstandingly beautiful, earthy, sweetish-resinous and warm-woody nard......a fragrance ingredient that I have only recently consciously come to know and love.....
Both orange blossom and rose remain pleasantly enigmatic.....whereas petigrain and cinnamon are somewhat more prominent.....but at no point as "soloists", but always perfectly harmoniously embedded in the overall action.......
From this stage Esquel now takes his turn towards the "female fougere"......
The fragrance becomes increasingly soft and balsamic.....Opoponax, patchouli and tonka give it a creamy, resinous, yet airy sweetness (not that viscous, clumsy and unpleasant sweetness often experienced in indie resin fragrances ;-)...)
To my mind, it's musk and vetiver that keep the scent from being too heavy and sticky at this stage and truly regulate it masterfully.....
If I were not a "Vielsprüher", the 50ml with a beloved fragrance just last 3-4 months, and ESQUEL would not be so price-intensive, so he would have long moved in with me.....
But what is not, can still become ;-).....
PS: Intensity, durability and sillage are of course just as excellent as the entire fragrance .....
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