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A fruity seducer
Altair's a nice scent. Seems familiar somehow, reminds me of something or some of the currently popular sweet and fruity men's fragrances. Anyway, the scent there is unisex.
The fragrance begins with a stylized red-berry accord (berryy, but not juicy and without acidity), paired with a sweet-green-earthy, musty vetiver accord. Musty in the sense of dull, somewhat stale, specifically old school, just like this chord sounds in the classic Givenchy Gentelman, for example. But everything together somehow results in a pleasant combination.
After a couple of hours, the fragrance undergoes a complete transformation: the scent becomes unsweet, vetiver leaves and I perceive the stylized scent of a plum with currant elements. Now I'm not sure which fruit it is (have to test it again), maybe it's a fantasy hybrid, but it smells very noble, dry, fruity, but not sour, seductive and I like this part of the fragrance process better than the beginning.
The durability and silage of the fragrance are very good. The perfume on the back of the hand has withstood the careful washing and disinfecting of the hands and also the showering well. At night, in bed, when I woke up briefly, I noticed a beguiling breeze in half-sleep: Altair. "From a distance", in the Sillage it smells even more beautiful than it smelled at close quarters.
The fragrance begins with a stylized red-berry accord (berryy, but not juicy and without acidity), paired with a sweet-green-earthy, musty vetiver accord. Musty in the sense of dull, somewhat stale, specifically old school, just like this chord sounds in the classic Givenchy Gentelman, for example. But everything together somehow results in a pleasant combination.
After a couple of hours, the fragrance undergoes a complete transformation: the scent becomes unsweet, vetiver leaves and I perceive the stylized scent of a plum with currant elements. Now I'm not sure which fruit it is (have to test it again), maybe it's a fantasy hybrid, but it smells very noble, dry, fruity, but not sour, seductive and I like this part of the fragrance process better than the beginning.
The durability and silage of the fragrance are very good. The perfume on the back of the hand has withstood the careful washing and disinfecting of the hands and also the showering well. At night, in bed, when I woke up briefly, I noticed a beguiling breeze in half-sleep: Altair. "From a distance", in the Sillage it smells even more beautiful than it smelled at close quarters.
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The good old Oud-Rose station wagon
On Thursday I finished testing a pair of the perfumes of the new series "Spirit of Kings". What can I say?
About the series:
Flacons are really corny. What are they supposed to be? A cigar? A bullet? More like a bullet, 'cause they're metal, and they're really heavy. And the round, colored emblems in the middle of tester bottles are already losing their color
The fragrances I tested did not seem innovative to me, but they were all good, balanced and wearable.
Kursa is currently my favorite from the series.
I already have so many oud (or rather patch?) and rose combos in all possible forms and obviously I can't get enough of them and am still fascinated.
Kursa is not a thoroughbred Oriental, is made for European noses, but is very fine and appealing. The fine, bitter oud smoke is in the foreground almost throughout the entire fragrance, while in the background a red rose pampered by the sun blossoms. Its petals are slightly wilted by the heat, they exude a seductive sweetish scent. I have not noticed any trace of acidity or fruitiness, and that's good. Towards the base, after a few hours, the rose gains presence, the smoke evaporates, the scent becomes a bit sweeter (but not a sugar bomb, very restrained) and the mochus is noticeable. At the end of the day, the rose even develops into a cleanly breathed Mochus-Rose Duo
My sons have found the fragrance very beautiful on me, quite independently of each other. Perhaps one day the scent will be mine, who knows. It's already beautiful. I do.
About the series:
Flacons are really corny. What are they supposed to be? A cigar? A bullet? More like a bullet, 'cause they're metal, and they're really heavy. And the round, colored emblems in the middle of tester bottles are already losing their color
The fragrances I tested did not seem innovative to me, but they were all good, balanced and wearable.
Kursa is currently my favorite from the series.
I already have so many oud (or rather patch?) and rose combos in all possible forms and obviously I can't get enough of them and am still fascinated.
Kursa is not a thoroughbred Oriental, is made for European noses, but is very fine and appealing. The fine, bitter oud smoke is in the foreground almost throughout the entire fragrance, while in the background a red rose pampered by the sun blossoms. Its petals are slightly wilted by the heat, they exude a seductive sweetish scent. I have not noticed any trace of acidity or fruitiness, and that's good. Towards the base, after a few hours, the rose gains presence, the smoke evaporates, the scent becomes a bit sweeter (but not a sugar bomb, very restrained) and the mochus is noticeable. At the end of the day, the rose even develops into a cleanly breathed Mochus-Rose Duo
My sons have found the fragrance very beautiful on me, quite independently of each other. Perhaps one day the scent will be mine, who knows. It's already beautiful. I do.
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Angelys Pear v. Poirier d'un Soir. The smell is beautiful!
Juicy, overripe pears are the theme of this new fragrance creation by Nikolai.
The composition is not new. From the beginning it reminds me strongly of another fragrant pear dedication I already have in my possession - "Poirier d' un Soir" by Miller Harris. The same sweet, overripe pear juice on the verge of spoiling the fruit. If I didn't know what kind of scent I was wearing, I would have tapped on Poirier in the first second.
However, a direct comparison (but also an exact smelling) reveals fine but not unimportant differences. Where "Poirier" appears sweeter, stickier, darker, more chocolaty, where it presents itself as a dessert, "Angelys Pear" reveals itself as more airy, lighter, less sweet and only very discreetly chocolaty, as if the window had been opened and a lot of fresh air had been let in. The air is obviously a sea breeze and at the base the fragrance even seems interestingly light and salty.
I like "Angelys Pear" much better than "Poirier", which I bought blind and which often seems too dense, too much, too sticky to me. The "Poirier" likes the lightness and airiness that "Angelys Pear" brings. "Angelys Pear" seems to be much more wearable and interesting.
"Angelys Pear" has a great durability (all day) and a nice, rather mediocre airy sillage, it seems to me. So the scent is also suitable for the office
Anyway, I don't think the scent is new, but it's a good one (better than the original, if you can put it that way ;) ). Test it, if you like poirier...
The composition is not new. From the beginning it reminds me strongly of another fragrant pear dedication I already have in my possession - "Poirier d' un Soir" by Miller Harris. The same sweet, overripe pear juice on the verge of spoiling the fruit. If I didn't know what kind of scent I was wearing, I would have tapped on Poirier in the first second.
However, a direct comparison (but also an exact smelling) reveals fine but not unimportant differences. Where "Poirier" appears sweeter, stickier, darker, more chocolaty, where it presents itself as a dessert, "Angelys Pear" reveals itself as more airy, lighter, less sweet and only very discreetly chocolaty, as if the window had been opened and a lot of fresh air had been let in. The air is obviously a sea breeze and at the base the fragrance even seems interestingly light and salty.
I like "Angelys Pear" much better than "Poirier", which I bought blind and which often seems too dense, too much, too sticky to me. The "Poirier" likes the lightness and airiness that "Angelys Pear" brings. "Angelys Pear" seems to be much more wearable and interesting.
"Angelys Pear" has a great durability (all day) and a nice, rather mediocre airy sillage, it seems to me. So the scent is also suitable for the office
Anyway, I don't think the scent is new, but it's a good one (better than the original, if you can put it that way ;) ). Test it, if you like poirier...
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Chapeau! A noble water.
Experimentum Crucis became the second fragrance I tested in the ELDO anniversary series.
And I must say, chapeau! I am positively surprised.
What a beauty this fragrance is!
Scent pyramid in my head I expected everything else than what this scent actually is! What I expected was a lovely fruit rose scent that drifts in a mainstream direction (smelled about 1000 times) through fruit and patches. Nothing of the sort is the case.
First minutes after spraying the perfume still smells sweetly fruity and rosy. Litchi comes out, in my opinion, very well in the first minutes. Very nice and pleasant, girlish I would say, but nothing unusual yet. And here comes the big but!
The fragrance settles on my skin as the most exquisite, noble, subtle, balanced skin scent I have ever smelled!
The description "cream powder" is the most likely to apply to him. Outside in windy weather, the fragrance has a cool and cooling effect on the skin, it appears subtly green, as if a very discreetly creamy rose and some herbs under a wafer-thin layer of mochus were involved. Inside, it looks a bit warmer, as if powdered iris is also involved (but perhaps this warmth is generated by patchouli, which has been applied very subtly here. (At least in my feeling).
This fragrance is the play of the most subtle shades. Always appropriate, never boring. Like a cool silk on your skin. He never screams, he seduces!
All components are super blended with each other, so that one has rather a total work of art in front of one's nose, from which one can hardly smell the single components (and yes, the scent is quite linear).
A fragrance for well-groomed people who don't want to burden anyone with their scent, but still have an incredibly attractive and subtle scent aura around them. A fragrance for notorious Chanel (e.g. no. 19 Poudre, which I like very much). Porters, it seems to me. 100% office suitable and suitable for all seasons.
The shelf life is truly great (all day), the silage is rather discreet to very close, the bottle and presentation a feast for the eyes!
A fragrance to fall in love and melt away!
And I must say, chapeau! I am positively surprised.
What a beauty this fragrance is!
Scent pyramid in my head I expected everything else than what this scent actually is! What I expected was a lovely fruit rose scent that drifts in a mainstream direction (smelled about 1000 times) through fruit and patches. Nothing of the sort is the case.
First minutes after spraying the perfume still smells sweetly fruity and rosy. Litchi comes out, in my opinion, very well in the first minutes. Very nice and pleasant, girlish I would say, but nothing unusual yet. And here comes the big but!
The fragrance settles on my skin as the most exquisite, noble, subtle, balanced skin scent I have ever smelled!
The description "cream powder" is the most likely to apply to him. Outside in windy weather, the fragrance has a cool and cooling effect on the skin, it appears subtly green, as if a very discreetly creamy rose and some herbs under a wafer-thin layer of mochus were involved. Inside, it looks a bit warmer, as if powdered iris is also involved (but perhaps this warmth is generated by patchouli, which has been applied very subtly here. (At least in my feeling).
This fragrance is the play of the most subtle shades. Always appropriate, never boring. Like a cool silk on your skin. He never screams, he seduces!
All components are super blended with each other, so that one has rather a total work of art in front of one's nose, from which one can hardly smell the single components (and yes, the scent is quite linear).
A fragrance for well-groomed people who don't want to burden anyone with their scent, but still have an incredibly attractive and subtle scent aura around them. A fragrance for notorious Chanel (e.g. no. 19 Poudre, which I like very much). Porters, it seems to me. 100% office suitable and suitable for all seasons.
The shelf life is truly great (all day), the silage is rather discreet to very close, the bottle and presentation a feast for the eyes!
A fragrance to fall in love and melt away!
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A great smell. I like
I love rose scents in all their variety. That much is certain. So of course I had to test the scent, which I did on three days. What can I say? The perfume convinced me and made me on my wish list.
But the first test was full of inhibitions. From the flacon lid it smelled very strong and penetratingly of a really crass Rose-Oud mixture, and then I actually thought that this was the usual Rose-Oud station wagon that is so common these days. ELDO is now also working in this direction? Boring. Not worth the test. So it took another 2 months until one day I decided to finally spray the fragrance on my skin. Such a great bottle! And rose in it!
And what can I say? On the skin, it is not so crass at all, but soft and cuddly. First a green rose bergamot appears. The rose is green, but not fresh, but aromatic, like in herbal and spice malt. Every now and then I smell something that reminds me of leather, but even more of a horse stable with the sweaty horses, so a distinctly animal note (oud?), but a discreet and well-behaved one.
The duet of Rose and Leder(Oud) starts now. The rose now smells restrained, dusty-sweetish (cocoa?) and the "leather" (oud) seems herbal-aromatic to me. The whole thing reminds me remotely of my beloved Mon Nummero 10/ L'Artisan. Very nice. And I'm now enjoying the fragrance to the fullest.
The base is simply dreamlike: soft, well balanced, slightly animalistic, balsamic, for lying down. (And surprisingly, reminds me somehow of "La Femme Boheme" by Edward Bess, whom I love very much. Although there is clearly jasmine in the game. and the scent pyramid looks different ;-)
The shelf life of the fragrance is about 8 hours and the Sillage found quite mediocre, which is an advantage with this rich and somewhat provocative composition.
I like the scent a lot and I'm already excited about "Spice Must Flow", which I absolutely have to test as long as it still exists in the great perfumery in the Kettenbrückengasse in Vienna.
But the first test was full of inhibitions. From the flacon lid it smelled very strong and penetratingly of a really crass Rose-Oud mixture, and then I actually thought that this was the usual Rose-Oud station wagon that is so common these days. ELDO is now also working in this direction? Boring. Not worth the test. So it took another 2 months until one day I decided to finally spray the fragrance on my skin. Such a great bottle! And rose in it!
And what can I say? On the skin, it is not so crass at all, but soft and cuddly. First a green rose bergamot appears. The rose is green, but not fresh, but aromatic, like in herbal and spice malt. Every now and then I smell something that reminds me of leather, but even more of a horse stable with the sweaty horses, so a distinctly animal note (oud?), but a discreet and well-behaved one.
The duet of Rose and Leder(Oud) starts now. The rose now smells restrained, dusty-sweetish (cocoa?) and the "leather" (oud) seems herbal-aromatic to me. The whole thing reminds me remotely of my beloved Mon Nummero 10/ L'Artisan. Very nice. And I'm now enjoying the fragrance to the fullest.
The base is simply dreamlike: soft, well balanced, slightly animalistic, balsamic, for lying down. (And surprisingly, reminds me somehow of "La Femme Boheme" by Edward Bess, whom I love very much. Although there is clearly jasmine in the game. and the scent pyramid looks different ;-)
The shelf life of the fragrance is about 8 hours and the Sillage found quite mediocre, which is an advantage with this rich and somewhat provocative composition.
I like the scent a lot and I'm already excited about "Spice Must Flow", which I absolutely have to test as long as it still exists in the great perfumery in the Kettenbrückengasse in Vienna.
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