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Yes, it's amazing how long this summer beauty has passed me by.
Amidst the many rather mediocre, unnatural summer scents, "Bergamote 22", already 14 years old, is a true, clean, floating beauty.

Bergamot is really the creamy, delicate centre, softened by orange blossom and a micro-bud of vanilla at the back. Somehow a simple, but high quality and simply well cut white T-shirt comes to my mind as an association and clothing counterpart. There are so many motives (which I tend to do myself), but in the end a clear, redundant T-shirt that drifts into a slim-fit doesn't distract from the wearer so much

And that's how I detect that Le Labo smell. Airy, clear, citric, not carrying too much olfactory ballast, but without being banal.
Good shelf life and simply an adorably creamy bergamot for the summer.

Strange that this already 20 years old Malle has not yet appeared on my radar screen, he has been receiving much, much praise here at Parfumo for a long time now.

"Musc Ravageur" is in fact a rather magnificently composed autumn and winter scent, which is repeatedly attested a somewhat chubby, macho-like, slightly grubby attitude at the bottom. Yes, a certain self-confident broad-leggedness is not to be denied to the Malle, although I don't find it so wicked (maybe I am simply used to too much with just under 1000 written comments...;-) )

The musk is pithy, no question, the prelude also needs some getting used to, especially in the first few minutes a quite brute mixture of lavender, tangerine and cinnamon. Luckily the whole thing soon balances out, vanilla peels out, "Musc" becomes cuddly, voluminous, also a bit gourmand, in its core also animalistic ambergris.

I would strongly recommend a careful dosage, and outside it may be less than 5 degrees Celsius (which is undoubtedly becoming more and more difficult in times of climate change...). On the whole, the scent is very well balanced, the cinnamon (fortunately) fades into the background after a few minutes, the musky vanilla and amber are the bosses in the ring for a long time.

At times I feel strongly reminded of Kurkdjian's "Grand Soir", which I also appreciate very much in deep winter, supplemented by the massive, alpha-like musk jewelry.

Yes, not everyone can and will like it in its thoroughly obtrusive basic gesture, but qualitatively it is already a heavy gun.

I'm quite a Tauer fan, right from the start. Especially the Arabic/oriental creations are partly absoulte gems.

I am not able to say what one could expect to find in a reorientation towards the Swiss Alps, at least the list of ingredients above reads appealingly unusual.

What Schoork has already broken down in great detail below and provided with a few quality question marks, I would like to round off a bit here. Yes, I can understand that about the violet. As a floral ignoramus, I am not able to judge whether it is a lily that has slipped a bit (which is at the top), but I do notice something very violet-like in the centre

So I feel a little bit like a more airy version of Kurkdjian's "APOM" or even a somewhat powdered version of "Sculpture Homme", although here really more emphasis was put on a herbal foundation (although a somewhat aseptic one).

The 8.3 points above also seem a bit overhyped to me, because somehow I don't manage to really get into this somewhat cyber veiled bed sheet scent. The basic tone isn't bad at all, this truly cleanly powdered one in combination with "Veilililien", but behind it, above it, there's indeed a covering synthetic, milk-like veil lurking, which forces the fragrance into a stylistic unity and absoluteness, which comes across planar and doesn't allow any changes even for hours.

No, the alpine scent does not come close to his brilliant creations of past years and seems to me somewhat project/conceptual, does not dock with me emotionally. It's a pity.

Yeah, I could use Faust as a quote-unquote. I already know a mountain full of animalistic grenades, but this over 40 years old, unfortunately out of stock Aigner extends the range again with a huge, stylistically completely independent firecracker.

Complex and multifaceted, as the above list of aromas shows. At the same time spicy and herbal, sweet with a hint of sweetness, soap clean, but essentially also very musky, this is how "Super Fragrance" presents itself.

Tarragon, sage and lemon in the prelude, well-balanced, shifting into the slightly ethereal herbal, a light, almost somewhat incense-like sacral, cool note blends in. Sandalwood and especially musk really bang into it after about 10 minutes, a special animalistic basic tone (probably the above mentioned, never before smelled costus) does the rest.

Against all this elemental force of animal origin, a rather discreetly muscled vanilla/amber faction lingers somewhat laboriously in contrast.
Yes, it's an animal that is compositionally round, but for me personally it exudes an overly affected musky exuberance and almost stumbles into the splits because of its broad legs. I'm more inclined to "kouros".

The previous speaker Lacrimalus brings with the marshmallows at the campfire an interesting association to "By the fireplace", the Margiela fragrance actually succeeds in a comfortable balancing act between gourmand "indoors" and rather plant-wilderness-like "outdoors" aromas

The smoky, campfire-like quality is present, but actually very finely and elegantly woven into the aroma.

The basic theme is a special edition marshmallow arranged in a somewhat pre-Christmas style, which integrates a spice note (especially clove and chestnut) into the usual vanilla-floury sweetness, again with a subtle, slightly tart juniper underlay to counterbalance the basic sweetness

The pure vanilla appears a little later more clearly, peels out after a good half hour and is qualitatively good, natural, cuddly.

Pleasant creation, ideal for the period between October and March.