L'Eau de L'Âme Balma Venitia 2023
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Invitation to linger
If you search Google for "Balma Venitia", surprisingly, the first and foremost results that appear are for a winegrowers' cooperative of the same name in the Rhone Valley. This makes interesting reading for wine lovers. But if you want to find out more about this new label, you can contact ALzD directly.
Balma Venitia gets sympathy points for the fact that only three fragrances were launched at the start. Ten or more in one go is apparently no longer a rarity and leads me to a refusal attitude on principle.
As a glance at the watch lists shows, the new releases in question have apparently found little resonance or approval in the community. This is somewhat surprising, as the perfumer Marie Duchène certainly has something to show for her work.
However ... I have to admit that I fell in love with the opening. Fresh, tart, creamy, slightly sweet and spicy, all at once. Wormwood (herb) and rosemary could be responsible for the special twist here. To avoid disappointment, this is not spectacular or revolutionary, but simply very pleasing and skillfully arranged. In my opinion, Hermes also offers such a melange, albeit in a completely different way, with Un Jardin à Cythère, for example. The projection should take place (at most) within half an arm's length, in other words it is rather restrained. After an hour, the fragrance glides - unfortunately already - into a skin-hugging, warm woody drydown without completely losing its creaminess.
One or the other could perhaps accuse this fragrance of cultivated boredom. Anyway. For me, it is a fragrance that invites you to linger longer on the wearer's neck. Provided, of course, that he/she wants to.
Balma Venitia gets sympathy points for the fact that only three fragrances were launched at the start. Ten or more in one go is apparently no longer a rarity and leads me to a refusal attitude on principle.
As a glance at the watch lists shows, the new releases in question have apparently found little resonance or approval in the community. This is somewhat surprising, as the perfumer Marie Duchène certainly has something to show for her work.
However ... I have to admit that I fell in love with the opening. Fresh, tart, creamy, slightly sweet and spicy, all at once. Wormwood (herb) and rosemary could be responsible for the special twist here. To avoid disappointment, this is not spectacular or revolutionary, but simply very pleasing and skillfully arranged. In my opinion, Hermes also offers such a melange, albeit in a completely different way, with Un Jardin à Cythère, for example. The projection should take place (at most) within half an arm's length, in other words it is rather restrained. After an hour, the fragrance glides - unfortunately already - into a skin-hugging, warm woody drydown without completely losing its creaminess.
One or the other could perhaps accuse this fragrance of cultivated boredom. Anyway. For me, it is a fragrance that invites you to linger longer on the wearer's neck. Provided, of course, that he/she wants to.
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