Sandalwood
Cedarwood
Eucalyptus
Cypress
Tonka bean
Vanilla
05/24/2024
Tracershy
121 Reviews
Tracershy
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Ambivalent impressions
I really like the other three fragrances from last year's Zara series, so I also wanted to try Evening Safari Drive. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get this perfume on sale last summer and then it was withdrawn along with Full Moon Over the Desert and as it turned out, Evening Safari Drive was the hardest to get. Finally, after almost a year, I managed to get it.
This fragrance gives me ambivalent feelings and I must admit that compared to the other compositions in the series, Evening Safari Drive stands out a bit from the rest, although it is still quite a good scent.
It opens with a green, coniferous note of cypress accompanied by camphor eucalyptus, which fades quite quickly. Almost immediately, the star of the composition welcomes you, i.e. sandalwood, similar to that known from Santal 33 or Energetically New York, where connotations with dill are quite clear. I rarely associate sandalwood with pickled cucumbers and dill, but here, to my surprise, I smell pickles, pickles and similar food inventions. Something else bothers me, sometimes I have the impression that in Evening Safari Drive I smell something sour and stale, which I sometimes feel from people in the summer when their body sweats a lot and they are wearing the same clothes - the sour smell of a sweaty body or clothes that were on such a body.
Fortunately, it does not last long and as the composition evolves, this note disappears. This may be due to the fact that this fragrance has the same sandal as in Energetically New York, but not so bright and fresh, but more like dirty, creamy, darker and warmer.
It is primarily a sandal-cedar composition, the duo of sandalwood and cedar plays the main violin here and it is an overall pleasant and calm mixture. Vanilla and tonka add a little more warmth and light sweetness to the base. I think this fragrance will work best in autumn, it has such a calmness and shimmers with shades of gray and cream.
Longevity is not bad for Zara, the scent lasts about 6 hours on the skin. It is not a scent that screams with a loud projection, it is clearly subdued from the beginning. In the first 2 hours it spreads moderately and then it is close to the skin.
Evening Safari Drive is a good fragrance overall, but as I mentioned, my least favorite from this series. This just goes to show how great this series was.
This fragrance gives me ambivalent feelings and I must admit that compared to the other compositions in the series, Evening Safari Drive stands out a bit from the rest, although it is still quite a good scent.
It opens with a green, coniferous note of cypress accompanied by camphor eucalyptus, which fades quite quickly. Almost immediately, the star of the composition welcomes you, i.e. sandalwood, similar to that known from Santal 33 or Energetically New York, where connotations with dill are quite clear. I rarely associate sandalwood with pickled cucumbers and dill, but here, to my surprise, I smell pickles, pickles and similar food inventions. Something else bothers me, sometimes I have the impression that in Evening Safari Drive I smell something sour and stale, which I sometimes feel from people in the summer when their body sweats a lot and they are wearing the same clothes - the sour smell of a sweaty body or clothes that were on such a body.
Fortunately, it does not last long and as the composition evolves, this note disappears. This may be due to the fact that this fragrance has the same sandal as in Energetically New York, but not so bright and fresh, but more like dirty, creamy, darker and warmer.
It is primarily a sandal-cedar composition, the duo of sandalwood and cedar plays the main violin here and it is an overall pleasant and calm mixture. Vanilla and tonka add a little more warmth and light sweetness to the base. I think this fragrance will work best in autumn, it has such a calmness and shimmers with shades of gray and cream.
Longevity is not bad for Zara, the scent lasts about 6 hours on the skin. It is not a scent that screams with a loud projection, it is clearly subdued from the beginning. In the first 2 hours it spreads moderately and then it is close to the skin.
Evening Safari Drive is a good fragrance overall, but as I mentioned, my least favorite from this series. This just goes to show how great this series was.
BertolucciK
Elysium
