Rickbr
01/14/2015 - 12:16 PM
5Scent

Too similar to Marquis de SADE

Again i face an evolution issue on this Les Liquides Imaginaires wine trilogy. If in Bloody Wood the main problem is the too close to skin evolution and in Dom Rosa my main concern is the functional note out of place, in Bello Rabelo I see a huge similiarity with another brand's creation. The wine inspiration here is very interesting, it's one of the fews i have seen so far were the fruits lack any tart or sweetness on their aroma. They are like the aroma of grapes in one of those dry wines. What comes next is very familiar and left me intrigued because it was an exotic smell very well knowN. At first i thought i was smelling a SL Jeux de Peau version without the bread note, but then i realized that it similarty was too close with the Histoires de Parfums Marquis de Sade. It's an imortelle note without the burnt sugar aspect, with the hay side more intense, mixed in a dry, incensed amber and a subtle hint of vanilla and use of myrrh to slightly reinforce the fruits in the wine. It's a fact that scented pyramids cannot tell you how close to fragrances are, in view of that you cannot know the real elements playing the role of the notes listed (be they natural or synthetic) and neither you know in which concentration they are. But i think it's very weird that those two are so similar when they drydown. I see great ideas on Les Liquides Imaginaires, i see complete fragrances, pleasant aromas but they three lack coeherence. This is a problem in the collection as whole, considering you only have 3 fragrances inspired on wine and one of them is a champagne one instead; it's also a coeherence execution issue, with poor or unoriginal developments. Considering that they are not cheap fragrances, i don't recommend any of the trio.
2 Comments
RickbrRickbr 11 years ago
The bottle and color juices are beautiful Apicius, i just wished a better juice inside of it. Dom Rosa comes very close if it wasn't for the functional aspect on my skin :(
ApiciusApicius 11 years ago
At least the flacon is beautiful ;)