Âme du Cœur Liquides Imaginaires 2024

This definitely won't be for everyone, but I really enjoy it. I tend to enjoy complicated, hodgepodge fragrances though. If you try it, don't even smell it until you're 5 minutes in. The initial opening is rough. It really had me questioning myself until it settled, but once it did, I fell hard.

The sweet citrus fruits and resinous notes are really spectacular together. I would never have thought to pair them together, but it's a great mix. Then the ginger comes in and ties everything together. The citrus and ginger top notes hang around for hours. It's not a typical fleeting top note conglomerate. I'm guessing they lasted about 5 hours on me.

Once the top wears off and it's just the mid and base notes, it loses much of its charm for me, but it's still enjoyable. It becomes a sweet, resinous, tonka heavy fragrance for the last 3-4 hours.

9/10 for uniqueness and scent. A winner for me.

I was intrigued right from the start. I get the pepper, and I like it. Quickly after comes the citrus and ginger, and the combination starts to evoke the idea of cooking dinner with someone you're attracted to in a hot kitchen, making you hungry for the meal and the taste of your lover at the same time.

The resin and cypress are there too, opening the door for the smoky, creamy, middle notes to shine and hold the spotlight for a while. There is so much earthy-woodiness from this point on, and the pepper continues to weave itself within the tonka, cedar, vanillin in the drydown.

This is not a safe blind-buy by any means, but it is worth sampling at the least. For me, this combination of notes creates an outdoorsy, musky, indulgent skin smell that I find sensually delicious. Like nature and sweaty sex are having a potluck.

This scent is way less woody than I hoped, actually. This is a very pleasant blood orange scent, with some wood and spices in the background. Spices fade quickly though, only orange lingers. It is a pleasant scent but not as complex as some other Liquides Imaginaires fragrances. I hoped for more, considering that Sancti and Bloody Wood are some of my favorites of all time. This one falls short...

Peppery Blood Orange.

The scent is light, mainstream alike (mean old one 90-00). Definetely too peppery and ginger is also too dominant enhancing sourness. It is not a bad scent, average. Brand's has changed its olfactory direction (discontinued old challenging creations like Peau de Bête or Belle Bête), releasing easy to go scents. This one is far better the latest Ame de Felur.
Orange-cocoa-soft woodines with uplifting molecules.

When I first saw the list of this fragrance notes, I was like: WOW, it's gonna be something. I really like and value Liquides Imaginaires as a brand but this one is a fruity disaster. In my opinion, this is not well blended. All I can smell is red orange and pepper. Where are the other notes?! Sorry but this is a big NO for me.