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03/24/2021
Rossiniopera
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Rossiniopera
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For spring evenings... or mornings
This perfume was born the same year as me. I remember it from my teens in the early 90s, a full page ad in a magazine. I knew enough French to translate the name - In April, an evening - how poetic, inspiring... I even started to write a short story with the perfume's name as a title.
I never actually tried it until a few years ago, when I got it in a swap. I was wearing it yesterday, a sunny afternoon in late March. Hazy, sunny, springlike... warm aldehydes on a base of almost smoky cedar wood and a sweet bouquet of freesia, iris and rose. The freesia makes it slightly sweeter than many other of its genre. Oakmoss gives it a cool freshness, like a breeze in the air and soft, blue shadows growing in the sunset. Shifting notes, warm and cool at the same time, just like the weather in spring. The name is well chosen.
Both the bottle and the scent are very 70s style, the elegant side of the decade. Very feminine, and not dated at all. High quality all the way, and just as wearable today. The aldehydic, floral-woody chypres are not my top favourites in general, but En avril is among the best that I have tried within the group.
Really beautiful.
I never actually tried it until a few years ago, when I got it in a swap. I was wearing it yesterday, a sunny afternoon in late March. Hazy, sunny, springlike... warm aldehydes on a base of almost smoky cedar wood and a sweet bouquet of freesia, iris and rose. The freesia makes it slightly sweeter than many other of its genre. Oakmoss gives it a cool freshness, like a breeze in the air and soft, blue shadows growing in the sunset. Shifting notes, warm and cool at the same time, just like the weather in spring. The name is well chosen.
Both the bottle and the scent are very 70s style, the elegant side of the decade. Very feminine, and not dated at all. High quality all the way, and just as wearable today. The aldehydic, floral-woody chypres are not my top favourites in general, but En avril is among the best that I have tried within the group.
Really beautiful.
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