Calypso

L'interdit Rouge is not a girl. She is a grown-up lady, a full-fledged woman.

While her younger sister, L'interdit Intense, dances the night away in a club, she sits in her velvet red robe at the opera, occasionally throwing a mysterious smile at the gentleman behind her. He follows her through the crowd at intermission, but only sees her put down her champagne glass and dive into the night barefoot.
Barefoot not because, like Cinderella, she's hoping for a prince to carry her shoes after her.
Barefoot because they were a nuisance to her.

L'interdit Rouge is mysterious, dark, tame on the skin - but tamed rather than well-behaved.

The sharp blood orange opening is slowly captured by the ginger spice and then gently enveloped in a tuberose-jasmine embrace; the orange blossom dances to it.

Grounded by woods and an almost incense-like patchouli, this creates a rounded composition that evokes associations of a dark autumn or winter night for me.

Rarely has a bottle or its color hit a fragrance so well!

... or little sister of "Infusion d'Iris (Eau de Parfum) (2007) | Prada" and "Aqua Allegoria Nerolia Bianca | Guerlain" .... but from the beginning:

Have me a restflakon bought over the Souk, because I - actually - no new Irisduft let alone a Neroliduft need. From the former I have meanwhile already some and always fall back on my beloved Infusion d'Iris, from the latter I have the beautiful Aqua Allegoria Nerolia Bianca, which refreshes me on hot summer days. With Neroli connects me rather a love at third sight, as it sometimes becomes bitter on my skin and seems a bit scratchy, but not with the Aqua Allegoria Nerolia Bianca.

But now to "Iris & Néroli | Jeanne en Provence" :

The fragrance starts with a fresh but unbitter Neroli, very slightly soapy (but what I like) and then goes quite quickly into a clean, powdery, unsweet Iris, which reminds me strongly of "Infusion d'Iris (Eau de Parfum) (2007) | Prada".
In the further course or drydown, the neroli takes itself more and more back and beckons only a little from afar, so to speak from the back ranks of the fragrance theater.
Instead, the iris now enters the stage and has thrown for it mighty in shell and - not only the little nose - dusted with slightly sweetish, but still pleasant orange powder.
She dances thereby on the sandalwood parquet, until she sinks down exhausted on the musky cloud.

The durability is also neat, but must test that tomorrow again more extensively.

The bottle is surprisingly heavy and made to a high standard (apart from the cap perhaps), but pretty with the fluted glass.

Overall, the fragrance really does not have to stand behind its "big sisters" - it is finely tuned, very pleasant and in the price actually unbeatable

Maybe it's due to hay fever, I don't really know, but I don't get the much-vaunted, much-maligned coconut here after a citrusy opening. For me: fortunately! Much more I smell a - not sooo sweet, rather pleasantly fruity - berry miscellany, at the beginning the scent reminds me strongly of wild strawberries, as they grew in my aunt's garden, at the very back under the trees..... mhm!
In any case, I'm happy about this beautiful exchanged summer scent, which actually does not correspond to my prey scheme (I'm not the fruity faction), but brings me good mood..... Summer Vibes! And in the drydown it becomes nice and creamy - delicious! This season it may stay in any case!

... there's a bit of Narciso-like clean musk in there...."
But that's how my nose can be deceived!

But from the beginning: the fragrance starts with a hint of freshness from the mandarin, then the creamy-fresh freesia takes over. On cocoa I would never have come, if I had not later read the fragrance components. Maybe it is but also on my skin.
The fragrance wraps the wearer in a pink fluff cloud of clean powder, as if freshly showered and snuggled in a thick towel, and thus lives up to its name!
I love this lightness, which is nevertheless present, as the perfume never becomes sweet, but retains a slight florality.
The classic Jil Sander bottle also reflects exactly that: clear shapes, but here in delicate powder pink.
Surprised I was by the durability: Could the fragrance sprayed in the morning even late in the evening still smell on my skin, on the clothes even the next day still.
The fragrance remains true to its Jil Sander DNA (used to have the black and white Simply variants until they unfortunately got on my nerves and I gave them away), is a fragrance for daytime and also certainly pleasant for work.

The scent components still make me wonder:
I could swear that there is a little musk peeking around the corner!

Yes, I know, actually it is idle to write a comment about a discontinued fragrance, but just see it as an obituary.
After I already own the normal Sensuous for some time and like it sometimes more, sometimes less (the woody notes are nice and creamy, but sometimes also quite synthetic), I now wanted to get to know the dark sister of the perfume. Of course - how could it be otherwise - the perfume had long since been discontinued (I often feel this way when I come across something interesting while researching). Nevertheless, my hunting instinct was aroused and so I got hold of a restflakon.

At the first spray, a short, heavy but velvety rose scent comes to me, like looking up at a window where a lady in a velvet dress has just scurried past before you even get to see her properly.
Maybe it's the queen of the night, too? I have indeed once as a teenager with my aunt, a passionate botanist, a real queen of the night smell, but could not say that I recognize the fragrance here.

After that, the "melted woods" (melted woods) are washed up and wash in their olfactory wave also a dark, juicy patchouli. For a moment, I even think I detect an oud note, but it's probably that wood-patchouli combo that's now fused with the rose notes of the beginning.
And then suddenly a surge of honey douses these notes, lingering for a bit, but then dissolving into the whole.
What remains is a dark, sensual, aromatic fragrance, which with niche names and marketing would certainly find many fans again today ;)