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When I first smelled Addict, I was probably around 17. At the time, I thought the scent was so great that I remembered it for years. As it is with 17 years, the price was simply unaffordable and "shopping on the Internet" was somehow not yet an option for me. Then came fragrances like Hypnotic Poison and other scents that interested me a bit more at the time and Addict kind of faded into oblivion - although I could still remember it being AWESOME. I just always thought that I "used to" just liked and somewhat romanticize on everything that "somehow smells like vanilla".

Well, I have underestimated my nose! Now, at 34 years, I have tested again Addict 2002 after such a long time and must say: I was right :D

Once again a fragrance by Thierry Wasser (slowly I feel persecuted ;)) and anything but "halt somehow something with vanilla". This is a very, very beautiful, really round and incredibly elegant fragrance - and I count vanilla greats like Shalimar (EDT, EDP, Vintage-edt, all three "Routes", Spiriteuse Double Vanille) to my collection. Admittedly: a little proud I am already on my good teenie smell ;)

But enough self-congratulation! Addict already starts beautifully, with a perfect balance of warm balsamic notes and florals. It's voluminous and heavy, but never too overpowering. I like the base so much that I can hardly keep my nose off my wrist. The tonka bean, which sometimes comes across as almost a bit too titzy and sticky for me, has been nicely dosed here and doesn't interfere at all. I am really impressed!

Again, a very unconventional, powerful fragrance from Lush.

Directly when spraying on you / woman should not inhale under any circumstances, because Sikkim Girls is really very intense and can sensitive noses already times umhauen.

After a few minutes I dare to sniff then, with closed eyes. The following head cinema runs off:

We (a few other people, some I know, some I don't) are on a beach. We are looking out to sea. Behind us is a dense bush, in which all kinds of tropical bushes and trees grow. It is evening and pleasantly warm, so there is no need for more than a light shawl over our shoulders. The air is just humid enough that it doesn't make it hard to breathe. It cares for sun-kissed skin and carries to us the beautiful scents found in the small tropical forest behind us: jasmine, frangipani, warm-wet greens, yellow blossoms, wood bark, drenched roots. Salt and sandy, resinous notes also envelop us.

The fragrance can not come up with scent progression or complexity. Here, however, I appreciate exactly the reductiveness, which allows the notes (in which many of my favorite players are represented) but beautiful to emerge. I think he smells very authentic and is excellent for balmy summer evenings.

My at least as good half and I go, if not just eh-scho-wiss'n is (these lockdowns are really screaming), at least 1x a year to Italy. And he knows exactly that a visit to L'Erbolario is a must, which is why we visit the shop in Udine on our way home at the latest. Once "Ibisco" went with me to Vienna, and I could start a direct comparison with Guerlain's fragrance twin, which I already called my own at that time. And what can I say? The similarity is striking! Of course, Guerlain scores with a little more "sophistication" and the nobler bottle, but Ibisco is actually the more pleasant for my nose (and I say that as a Guerlain hardliner!)

I find it a bit fresher, cooler, more Bergamoty and "clear" and somehow carefree - maybe because it's a bit simpler and therefore better suited to summer and also fits well in autumnal weather. The coriander comes out very strongly here, as does elemi. I also detect citrus notes, especially bergamot (but that's on board with almost all my favorite scents anyway).

The shelf life is not sooo the madness, but at € 22, - / bottle is absolutely bearable for me

Mmmh - it's just getting to be summer, and I'm in the mood for hot chocolate and a fire in the fireplace!

I knew neither fragrance nor brand; a dear Perfuma generously let me have it.
Indeed, I smell milk, vanilla, and resinous. Most of all, however, cinnamon, and wonder yet that does not appear in the listing of fragrance notes. But no matter!

I let a little time pass. Milk says goodbye, cinnamon remains. It joins roasted almonds, without becoming too sweet. And - (it annoys me a bit myself to constantly compare, aaaber): I think of "Candy" - only in not so sweet.

It cinnamon so along, until vanilla and benzoin become wider and wider and, very close to the skin, spread winter mood. Stop! It's spring! Off in the closet, we'll see us in December ;)

I love Guerlains in principle. Also with Jicky it was love at first smell, because: I love lavender, like's animalic and when it's neat "vanüllt". But, there is a "but" ;)

Since the fragrance pyramid above really describes pretty much what I smell (except for the rosewood), I'll only briefly go into the base, which makes Jicky a bit "difficult" for me. This one is almost a little TOO animalic for me and, like many civet/musk-heavy perfumes on me, hits in a direction that I, well, don't necessarily like, namely (NOTE: I really don't want to offend anyone, and it'll probably be my skin, but it's unfortunately what I perceive): Men's room 8-(

I love everything else about Jicky and "dig" animalic, this somewhat "special" note makes it a "home only" candidate for me though. On men I imagine Jicky very exciting, because he goes neither in the too ladylike, nor in the herbaceous-scratchy-aftershavige direction.

All in all, an interesting, unusual fragrance with extremely high recognition value: who has smelled Jicky once, recognizes him probably always again - and from head to base!