Sånd ånd fragrance 2020 Parfum
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Jack POT!
Yes, ladies and gents, this is the real deal.
If you, like me, ever secretly wanted a fragrance featuring a banana accord, but just assumed, due to a glaring absence of such an accord in perfumery, that it must be laughably synthetic and thus reserved for ambient spray at a gorilla enclosure, well, no.
Behold! the creative nose behind this scent has given us, not only wearable scent but, a credibly high end daily driver. It's clearly niche, no mistakes about that, but it's not "what is that???!!!" niche.
Contrary to other reviews I seen on this, the banana accord is integral to the whole and is not just a fleeing top note. In fact, as it settles more of the banana shines thru, along with benzoin, cardamom and sandalwood. As quirky as it sounds, it's truly not.
Keep in mind, your mileage may vary. We all smell what we smell.
Anyway, I just got this in and am wearing this as I jab at the letters on my phone. I have to give it a few more wearings, but, yes, this will ALWAYS stay in my collection... and (foreseeably) worn a whole lot.
UPDATE: The late dry down has me thinking (in the moment) that this is the best dry down I've smelled on ANY fragrance. It's like this very smooth coconutty, sandalwoody, cardamom-y, benzoin-y, banana aroma. And to top things off, there's this faint but adequate, amber hint in the background that's playing peekaboo.Yeah, this is gourmand done right. If you can even call it a gourmand, as weird as that may sound being as I just listed off all those food notes. But, yeah, this may be neck in neck with Fougere Emeraude for best 2024 discovery.
If you, like me, ever secretly wanted a fragrance featuring a banana accord, but just assumed, due to a glaring absence of such an accord in perfumery, that it must be laughably synthetic and thus reserved for ambient spray at a gorilla enclosure, well, no.
Behold! the creative nose behind this scent has given us, not only wearable scent but, a credibly high end daily driver. It's clearly niche, no mistakes about that, but it's not "what is that???!!!" niche.
Contrary to other reviews I seen on this, the banana accord is integral to the whole and is not just a fleeing top note. In fact, as it settles more of the banana shines thru, along with benzoin, cardamom and sandalwood. As quirky as it sounds, it's truly not.
Keep in mind, your mileage may vary. We all smell what we smell.
Anyway, I just got this in and am wearing this as I jab at the letters on my phone. I have to give it a few more wearings, but, yes, this will ALWAYS stay in my collection... and (foreseeably) worn a whole lot.
UPDATE: The late dry down has me thinking (in the moment) that this is the best dry down I've smelled on ANY fragrance. It's like this very smooth coconutty, sandalwoody, cardamom-y, benzoin-y, banana aroma. And to top things off, there's this faint but adequate, amber hint in the background that's playing peekaboo.Yeah, this is gourmand done right. If you can even call it a gourmand, as weird as that may sound being as I just listed off all those food notes. But, yeah, this may be neck in neck with Fougere Emeraude for best 2024 discovery.
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