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04/07/2020
Elysium
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Elysium
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On The Turf Bench
Turf benches were among the most distinctive features of medieval gardens, a green place to rest, and are depicted in many paintings and tapestries. Such courts may be rectangular, circular, L-shaped, or U-shaped; the U-shaped type is known as an exedra. The most renowned Russian realist painter, Ilya Repin, created an excellent impressionistic canvas: "On a Turf Bench." The picture was painted in July 1876 in the village of Krasnoe, a picturesque suburb of St. Petersburg. It shows a corner of a garden overgrown with trees, against which, on a bench covered with turf, rest the artist's close friends and family under the shade of trees in a garden. Women are busy sewing, men are reading books, and children play at ease and calmly on the grass. Bright summer greens, openwork foliage of trees, and a calm state of the characters create a feeling of joyful family well-being, delight, and joy. Summer lives in every stroke of this sunlit landscape. The colors are as if mixed with the sun and radiate happiness and the joy of life.
Vague de Folie Verte, similar to all the other six perfumes of the collection, was realized through essential rules, no limits to the quality of the raw materials used, minimalist packaging with paper, wood, and glass from eco-sustainable sources. The only protagonist is the fragrance that describes and enhances, in its deepest essence, an authentic and shared passion for the Art of Perfume. Antoine Lie, who has created perfumes for Armani, Paul Smith, and Ralph Lauren, was inspired by wild nature and looked for the creation of an emotion close to the thrill, provoking the sensation of speed, movement, whirlwind.
Amid the six Eau de Parfums in the collection, I fancy Vague de Folie Verte precisely for that summery, greeny, balsamic, and aromatic nimbus that surrounds its fresh glow—the allies are the green notes that we don't usually dare touch them. An overdose of them until they made a green, medicinal perfume, close to an elixir of madness!
On my skin, Vague de Folie Verte acts like green, fresh, and aromatic perfume. It embraces you with a wave of green madness that reveals aromatic facets of absinthe and star anise. It has a fairly sunny start, bright green turning to yellow, with an apparent minty note on me, which refreshes the whole. I'm talking about it, because I haven't seen it in the composition which tells us about absinthe and star anise, but on me, it's not aniseed at all, it looks like mint.
The heart bleeds with milky, aromatic, and resinous accords featuring the green notes of blackcurrant bud and bitter galbanum combined with the fig leaves. The galbanum imparts a fresh, natural green chypre tone to the scent. I seem there is a touch of something floral, warm, exotic, delicate, and sweet floral aroma, and I bet Arabian jasmine sambac is in the heart, so intoxicating with its amazing fragrance, turning sweeter in the drydown, yet not as sweet as Jasminum grandiflorum absolute.
The base, whose freshness remains, includes oakmoss, vetiver, and white musks. As the grass notes fade, the herbal aspects take over, and what remains is something along the lines of a minty sage with a soft, peppery effect. Fresh, vegetal, green, clean musk and woods are the notes I get. The dry down brings out more of the musk and vetiver, and it's not a dirty musk but just fresh and clean. Under a few aspects, it reminds me of the clean smell and vibe as Le Labo Gaiac 10.
Vague de Folie Verte is an amazing and confusing fragrance. It has very green, overdosed notes. Slightly vegetal, somewhat crisp, and green, this one plays a series of grass notes against some minty and herbals for a reasonably realistic and bright stem effect that goes a bit teal. If I had not been told the notes for this fragrance, I think I would never have found it. Le Cercle Des Parfumeurs Createurs describe it as the most masculine of all. It is cold, but it has a great warm spot, it is not strong, but it has a strong personality.
Under the surge of the wind, the grass bends, undulates, hypnotizes. The large trees around form an untidy crown of leaves and woven wood. A shiver that tastes as the madness of raging nature.
The performance is pretty good, longevity is about several hours on me, for a spring or better summer lazy day.
Stay safe; stay well.
-Elysium
Vague de Folie Verte, similar to all the other six perfumes of the collection, was realized through essential rules, no limits to the quality of the raw materials used, minimalist packaging with paper, wood, and glass from eco-sustainable sources. The only protagonist is the fragrance that describes and enhances, in its deepest essence, an authentic and shared passion for the Art of Perfume. Antoine Lie, who has created perfumes for Armani, Paul Smith, and Ralph Lauren, was inspired by wild nature and looked for the creation of an emotion close to the thrill, provoking the sensation of speed, movement, whirlwind.
Amid the six Eau de Parfums in the collection, I fancy Vague de Folie Verte precisely for that summery, greeny, balsamic, and aromatic nimbus that surrounds its fresh glow—the allies are the green notes that we don't usually dare touch them. An overdose of them until they made a green, medicinal perfume, close to an elixir of madness!
On my skin, Vague de Folie Verte acts like green, fresh, and aromatic perfume. It embraces you with a wave of green madness that reveals aromatic facets of absinthe and star anise. It has a fairly sunny start, bright green turning to yellow, with an apparent minty note on me, which refreshes the whole. I'm talking about it, because I haven't seen it in the composition which tells us about absinthe and star anise, but on me, it's not aniseed at all, it looks like mint.
The heart bleeds with milky, aromatic, and resinous accords featuring the green notes of blackcurrant bud and bitter galbanum combined with the fig leaves. The galbanum imparts a fresh, natural green chypre tone to the scent. I seem there is a touch of something floral, warm, exotic, delicate, and sweet floral aroma, and I bet Arabian jasmine sambac is in the heart, so intoxicating with its amazing fragrance, turning sweeter in the drydown, yet not as sweet as Jasminum grandiflorum absolute.
The base, whose freshness remains, includes oakmoss, vetiver, and white musks. As the grass notes fade, the herbal aspects take over, and what remains is something along the lines of a minty sage with a soft, peppery effect. Fresh, vegetal, green, clean musk and woods are the notes I get. The dry down brings out more of the musk and vetiver, and it's not a dirty musk but just fresh and clean. Under a few aspects, it reminds me of the clean smell and vibe as Le Labo Gaiac 10.
Vague de Folie Verte is an amazing and confusing fragrance. It has very green, overdosed notes. Slightly vegetal, somewhat crisp, and green, this one plays a series of grass notes against some minty and herbals for a reasonably realistic and bright stem effect that goes a bit teal. If I had not been told the notes for this fragrance, I think I would never have found it. Le Cercle Des Parfumeurs Createurs describe it as the most masculine of all. It is cold, but it has a great warm spot, it is not strong, but it has a strong personality.
Under the surge of the wind, the grass bends, undulates, hypnotizes. The large trees around form an untidy crown of leaves and woven wood. A shiver that tastes as the madness of raging nature.
The performance is pretty good, longevity is about several hours on me, for a spring or better summer lazy day.
Stay safe; stay well.
-Elysium
Elysium
