Les Exceptions - Fougère Furieuse Mugler 2014

Well, we know: more or less everything we smell in perfumes is chemistry, molecules copied from nature that fool our brains. Most of the time, fragrance artists strive to be so good at recreating nature that the illusion is perfect. In Fougère Furieuse, it is not the illusion of nature that is perfect, but nature exaggerated to perfection. Jean-Christophe Hérault, Créateur of several Les Exceptions fragrances, has truly created here the perfect DESIGNWALD!

Upon entering this 3-D animation of forest, a mélange of bergamot and rose geranium, green spicy with a slight floral stem note surrounds me. This disappears in favor of a more clearly empo swinging bergamot. I penetrate deeper into the forest, its aura sweetening, gumming up and souring at the same time, marvelling at lush "artificial flowers and neon moss "*. Over hours, the sharpness of the olfactory impression slowly fades, it becomes softer, more delicate, more ethereal.... Most beautiful is this fragrance after 18 hours, my skin feels as if dusted with delicate green powder...

Everything about Fougère Furieuse is waftingly artificially overdosed, a synthetic fragrance at its best, perfectly suited for an olfactorically enhanced 3-D animated cinema screening of "Alice in Wonderland"! Kind of fascinating - though not my world.

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Quote taken from the statement of the highly esteemed Yatagan in his own conciseness (see below).