10/21/2023
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The best of several gourmet worlds
Admittedly. I am a gourmand type. Anyone who knows me, who looks at and analyzes my collection will have understood that relatively quickly. Even if the summer is my preferred season and I love the summer - from a fragrance point of view, the sweet, heavy, eye-catching, room-filling scents fulfill me much more than the - yet usually quite one-dimensional, fresh-fruity-citrus scents for the warm days. Especially since it is also financially much more difficult to get a special summer fragrance (such as Elysium pour Homme Parfum) than a convincing gourmand.
Where we would now finally be on the subject.
Red Temptation Winter. As the name suggests, this is about the cold season. And how. So impressive that after 8 months I have once again taken the time to write a review.
Sure, the Red Temptation series of Zara is always oriented to Baccarat Rouge 540 Eau de Parfum. Whether it's the eau or the extrait, it's always a foundation for the range. Accordingly, my anticipation to test this fragrance was low. I've never seen it on Parfumo until now, nor have I heard of it, so it can't be that special. I mean, I like the BR DNA, but you've just smelled it all a thousand times before. How one can be wrong..
So I spray my way through the Zara fragrance world in the beautiful Portuguese Albufeira and finally arrive at Red Temptation Winter. While my first association with the complete Red Temptation Women Eau de Parfum range is the cotton candy known from BR, here is something different. There is no cotton candy recognizable.
Much more, this is something else, only the saffron seems familiar. Instead, a really different Christmas feeling comes up. So much more than the Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum . Speculoos can be detected in the approach. And especially delicious, crunchy, roasted almonds. It feels like a wonderful Christkindlmarkt in Bavaria.
Saffron and patchouli are really present from the beginning and remain so over the complete course of the fragrance. But this sweet, burnt almond note characterizes this fragrance, this Zara-unusual own creation. Of course, you still notice a bit that it is inspired. But not only from the Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum, no it is also Instant Crush with the party, also this heavy, spicy sweetness of Arabians Tonka I want to hear. But it is somehow the best of all these gourmand worlds.
A bit of chocolate patchouli joins the scent after about half an hour and it all adds up to an absolute Christmas dream for 20, I repeat TWENTY EURO.
And of course we must not ignore the performance. Because it has - especially for this price - also completely in itself. The fragrance keeps on the clothes SEVERAL days, also has a decent scent tail at the start and is perceptible on the skin its 10-12 hours. With Silage I would say are here also 5-6 hours really very impressive in it.
Of course, this fragrance has no enormously varying scent progression as you know it, for example, from Profumum Roma, Montale, Roja or anything else for fragrance houses. But does that really always have to be? Isn't it also enough to have a fragrance that is perfect from front to back and hardly changes at all? For people of all genders who feel comfortable in spicy-sweet scents, who have an affinity for BR DNA, who like to be approached and who like the smell of roasted almonds:
You MUST at least give it a try. I am not a fan of Zara myself. Be it the politics, how employees are treated, the general fast fashion theme or whatever else. But he is so incredibly easy to like and just the best of different Gourmand worlds combined.
Where we would now finally be on the subject.
Red Temptation Winter. As the name suggests, this is about the cold season. And how. So impressive that after 8 months I have once again taken the time to write a review.
Sure, the Red Temptation series of Zara is always oriented to Baccarat Rouge 540 Eau de Parfum. Whether it's the eau or the extrait, it's always a foundation for the range. Accordingly, my anticipation to test this fragrance was low. I've never seen it on Parfumo until now, nor have I heard of it, so it can't be that special. I mean, I like the BR DNA, but you've just smelled it all a thousand times before. How one can be wrong..
So I spray my way through the Zara fragrance world in the beautiful Portuguese Albufeira and finally arrive at Red Temptation Winter. While my first association with the complete Red Temptation Women Eau de Parfum range is the cotton candy known from BR, here is something different. There is no cotton candy recognizable.
Much more, this is something else, only the saffron seems familiar. Instead, a really different Christmas feeling comes up. So much more than the Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum . Speculoos can be detected in the approach. And especially delicious, crunchy, roasted almonds. It feels like a wonderful Christkindlmarkt in Bavaria.
Saffron and patchouli are really present from the beginning and remain so over the complete course of the fragrance. But this sweet, burnt almond note characterizes this fragrance, this Zara-unusual own creation. Of course, you still notice a bit that it is inspired. But not only from the Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum, no it is also Instant Crush with the party, also this heavy, spicy sweetness of Arabians Tonka I want to hear. But it is somehow the best of all these gourmand worlds.
A bit of chocolate patchouli joins the scent after about half an hour and it all adds up to an absolute Christmas dream for 20, I repeat TWENTY EURO.
And of course we must not ignore the performance. Because it has - especially for this price - also completely in itself. The fragrance keeps on the clothes SEVERAL days, also has a decent scent tail at the start and is perceptible on the skin its 10-12 hours. With Silage I would say are here also 5-6 hours really very impressive in it.
Of course, this fragrance has no enormously varying scent progression as you know it, for example, from Profumum Roma, Montale, Roja or anything else for fragrance houses. But does that really always have to be? Isn't it also enough to have a fragrance that is perfect from front to back and hardly changes at all? For people of all genders who feel comfortable in spicy-sweet scents, who have an affinity for BR DNA, who like to be approached and who like the smell of roasted almonds:
You MUST at least give it a try. I am not a fan of Zara myself. Be it the politics, how employees are treated, the general fast fashion theme or whatever else. But he is so incredibly easy to like and just the best of different Gourmand worlds combined.
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