Mistersiri
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Mistersiri
A classic.
I am a huge fan of sandalwood in fragrances and I wanted to own one of the all time classics. After weeks of research I ended up trying the new version of Chanel Égoïste, the one with the big, wide bottle. It was very good and I liked it but the drydown felt a little bit flat, so I went up looking for a vintage bottle because I read online that it was way different and that the sandalwood in the drydown was way more prominent.
I waited almost 2 months to get the perfect offering on Ebay and I managed to secure a vintage bottle from around late 90s.
It's simply amazing. The drydown is way richer in this version and I can detect way better the sandalwood, rose and rosewood. The opening is in my opinion less citrusy and a lil' bit warmer due to the prominence of the spices.
I don't know if the woods used here are real or just synthethic but both the sandalwood and the rosewood are just beautiful.
I think it would be best suited for a man in his 30s, especially in cold weather, for classy and elegal situations, but it can be used as a signature for the workplace if sprayed with caution. This stuff is very strong and it lasts at least 8 hours on my skin with moderate projection
I still am not aware if I will reach for another sandalwood fragrance from the past, but at this moment I am more than satisfied with Chanel Égoïste. A timeless classic.
I waited almost 2 months to get the perfect offering on Ebay and I managed to secure a vintage bottle from around late 90s.
It's simply amazing. The drydown is way richer in this version and I can detect way better the sandalwood, rose and rosewood. The opening is in my opinion less citrusy and a lil' bit warmer due to the prominence of the spices.
I don't know if the woods used here are real or just synthethic but both the sandalwood and the rosewood are just beautiful.
I think it would be best suited for a man in his 30s, especially in cold weather, for classy and elegal situations, but it can be used as a signature for the workplace if sprayed with caution. This stuff is very strong and it lasts at least 8 hours on my skin with moderate projection
I still am not aware if I will reach for another sandalwood fragrance from the past, but at this moment I am more than satisfied with Chanel Égoïste. A timeless classic.
Tempo al tempo
“Tempo” is the Italian word for time. I didn’t know why Diptyque chose to give this name to one of its creations, but after three weeks with it I might see why.
I wanted to buy a Diptyque fragrance for months because I am a sucker for their style and their candles: even though I tried many because their offer is massive, I needed up with Tempo wanted something versatile (so not Oud Palao) and a little bit different from what the creamy woodyness I am already used to (Santal Austral by Matiere Premiere has basically been my signature this year and I also have Egoïste by Chanel, so Tam Dao and 34 Bvd. St Germain were off) without breaking the bank (so no Eau Rihla, even though it might be the most beautiful fragrance I’ve smelled from them. Maybe in the future…).
Considering that I love drinking mate I was eyeing Tempo since I became interested in niche perfumery, and when it was time to choose I basically went for the fragrance that thicked as many boxes as possible even though it wasn’t what captured me the most at the time (Eau Rihla) or the one I felt better suited for my personality (34 Bvd St. Germain EDP). However, I was pretty confident that a green-earthy fragrance would have enriched my collection and was happy overall with the purchase.
When I smelled the fragrance more closely, I felt two things. The first was how well blended were all the elements from the citrusy, spicy opening to the earthy but gentle drydown; the second, was that the mate was not the focal point but rather a great enforcer to the patchouli. I wasn’t a big on this ingredient since recently, but I think that Tempo really made me a fan in this iteration: I feel like it’s damp but warm at the same time, and I think that the violet leaves help smoothen it in the drydown.
However, something really unexpected happened like the third day I wore it: something seemed unpleasant once I sprayed it in the morning before going to work, and once I got home I tried to spray it again on my wrist and on a mouillette. I smelled nothing but Martini Extra Dry, and it was a nightmare for me because I have a negative memory associated to it (when I was younger I bought a bottle of it during a summer when I was alone at my parents’ home, but soon I threw it away because its smell became repulsive to me). I think that it might have done with the aromatic profile of the fragrance, but at the time I was upset because it was the most expensive fragrance I’ve ever bought: I even thought about selling it to recover some money and keep buying ambery woody or spicy woody fragrances for the rest of my life.
Luckily, I chose to wait a couple of days, wear my beloved woody fragrances and then try Tempo again on the next week. It worked perfectly, since I don’t smell Martini Extra Dry anymore and I seem to like it every day more.
Tempo, as its name suggests, might have taken some time to truly convince me. But now that it made it, I think that it’s going to be smelled many times on me in the next few years.
I wanted to buy a Diptyque fragrance for months because I am a sucker for their style and their candles: even though I tried many because their offer is massive, I needed up with Tempo wanted something versatile (so not Oud Palao) and a little bit different from what the creamy woodyness I am already used to (Santal Austral by Matiere Premiere has basically been my signature this year and I also have Egoïste by Chanel, so Tam Dao and 34 Bvd. St Germain were off) without breaking the bank (so no Eau Rihla, even though it might be the most beautiful fragrance I’ve smelled from them. Maybe in the future…).
Considering that I love drinking mate I was eyeing Tempo since I became interested in niche perfumery, and when it was time to choose I basically went for the fragrance that thicked as many boxes as possible even though it wasn’t what captured me the most at the time (Eau Rihla) or the one I felt better suited for my personality (34 Bvd St. Germain EDP). However, I was pretty confident that a green-earthy fragrance would have enriched my collection and was happy overall with the purchase.
When I smelled the fragrance more closely, I felt two things. The first was how well blended were all the elements from the citrusy, spicy opening to the earthy but gentle drydown; the second, was that the mate was not the focal point but rather a great enforcer to the patchouli. I wasn’t a big on this ingredient since recently, but I think that Tempo really made me a fan in this iteration: I feel like it’s damp but warm at the same time, and I think that the violet leaves help smoothen it in the drydown.
However, something really unexpected happened like the third day I wore it: something seemed unpleasant once I sprayed it in the morning before going to work, and once I got home I tried to spray it again on my wrist and on a mouillette. I smelled nothing but Martini Extra Dry, and it was a nightmare for me because I have a negative memory associated to it (when I was younger I bought a bottle of it during a summer when I was alone at my parents’ home, but soon I threw it away because its smell became repulsive to me). I think that it might have done with the aromatic profile of the fragrance, but at the time I was upset because it was the most expensive fragrance I’ve ever bought: I even thought about selling it to recover some money and keep buying ambery woody or spicy woody fragrances for the rest of my life.
Luckily, I chose to wait a couple of days, wear my beloved woody fragrances and then try Tempo again on the next week. It worked perfectly, since I don’t smell Martini Extra Dry anymore and I seem to like it every day more.
Tempo, as its name suggests, might have taken some time to truly convince me. But now that it made it, I think that it’s going to be smelled many times on me in the next few years.
Creamy sandalwood signature-worthy scent
This year for my birthday I wanted to get a versatile scent that I could use opposite to my beloved Bleu de Chanel EDP, especially in colder months. Nothing wrong with BdC, it's just that since I approached the world of artistic perfumery I wanted to wear something more unique and that could match more my personality in order, for me, to get recognized with it.
I was mainly interested in a woody sandalwood fragrance, because I love this note and I am not too much into fougere or amber fragrance.
I live in a small town in Tuscany, but after I visited some locale perfumeries I couldn't find something that really convinced me: many sandalwood I tried (Tam Dao, Mojave Ghost, Santal du Pacifique) were too dry, too floral or just something I didn't feel mine. So, I decided to go to Florence to try some offers from brands that I didn't find in my town: I entered a shop to try Santal Calling by Ex Nihilo, and the super nice salesman suggested me to sample it with Santal Austral by Matiere Première on the skin and on paper. Because they seems pretty similar, I took a week to smell them again and to think about what fragrance I'd prefer the most before making the purchase, and in the end I went with Santal Austral.
First, what I loved about this creation by Matiere Première was his opening: not overly sweet, enveloping and soft enough, I can smell iris and almond milk a lot throughout up to the first five minutes after I spray.
However, the main selling point to me was the drydown, in which this creamy sandalwood blends really well with tonka bean: the result is an impressive, warm white wood scent that feels really relaxing and cozy.
The performance is better than I expected on me: very good longevity (up to 12+ hours, I could smell it after a whole day at work) and decent sillage (I received a compliment after almost 4 hours of 5 sprays on the back and side of the neck, chest area and wrists). I find this perfume versatile (even though I'd only wear this on not too hot evenings in summer) and unisex, even though the Iris here tends to lean more masculine in my opinion.
Santal Austral is a signature worthy scent by a very interesting house, and I am looking forward to wear it a lot from now on.
I was mainly interested in a woody sandalwood fragrance, because I love this note and I am not too much into fougere or amber fragrance.
I live in a small town in Tuscany, but after I visited some locale perfumeries I couldn't find something that really convinced me: many sandalwood I tried (Tam Dao, Mojave Ghost, Santal du Pacifique) were too dry, too floral or just something I didn't feel mine. So, I decided to go to Florence to try some offers from brands that I didn't find in my town: I entered a shop to try Santal Calling by Ex Nihilo, and the super nice salesman suggested me to sample it with Santal Austral by Matiere Première on the skin and on paper. Because they seems pretty similar, I took a week to smell them again and to think about what fragrance I'd prefer the most before making the purchase, and in the end I went with Santal Austral.
First, what I loved about this creation by Matiere Première was his opening: not overly sweet, enveloping and soft enough, I can smell iris and almond milk a lot throughout up to the first five minutes after I spray.
However, the main selling point to me was the drydown, in which this creamy sandalwood blends really well with tonka bean: the result is an impressive, warm white wood scent that feels really relaxing and cozy.
The performance is better than I expected on me: very good longevity (up to 12+ hours, I could smell it after a whole day at work) and decent sillage (I received a compliment after almost 4 hours of 5 sprays on the back and side of the neck, chest area and wrists). I find this perfume versatile (even though I'd only wear this on not too hot evenings in summer) and unisex, even though the Iris here tends to lean more masculine in my opinion.
Santal Austral is a signature worthy scent by a very interesting house, and I am looking forward to wear it a lot from now on.
Great tea scent
It's been months since I started collecting fragrances, and for my first niche perfume I wanted a tea scent considering that I love drinking it and I feel it's becoming a recognizable trait of my personality.
After testing many of them I ended up buying Tea for Two by L'Artisan Parfumeur, and I don't regret it at all.
I love the scent because it's smoky yet so delicate and sweet, due to the strong presence of honey and ginger. I don't feel that the tea note it's quite like lapsang souchong, because this kind of tea is more dry and way stronger than how the fragrance interacts with my skin. It's more like a chai latte in my opinion, and I totally love it because I don't see myself wearing a more earthy/greener tea in this season.
Even though I admit that the fragrance has not a great projection (consider it's still an EdT), I don't agree with many of the complaints about the longevity: it lasts 5 to 6 hours on my skin, and I think that this is fine considering that tea is not a strong note per se and that many of its competitors don't exactly have better performance (except for Gris Charnel, that I consider too feminine for me).
The bottle is very nice and I consider it an upgrade over the former version, the pricing is fair for a niche fragrance that smells so unique.
Not a huge compliment getter so far, except for a girl I'm really close to, because it's not loud and I didn't wear it a lot due to the fact that it's more of a special occasion fragrance, but it's so damn good that I don't care a lot to be honest.
It's by far the nicest fragrance I have and I suggest buying it if you love sweet tea and you want a cozy, unisex scent for the winter. Merry christmas everybody!
After testing many of them I ended up buying Tea for Two by L'Artisan Parfumeur, and I don't regret it at all.
I love the scent because it's smoky yet so delicate and sweet, due to the strong presence of honey and ginger. I don't feel that the tea note it's quite like lapsang souchong, because this kind of tea is more dry and way stronger than how the fragrance interacts with my skin. It's more like a chai latte in my opinion, and I totally love it because I don't see myself wearing a more earthy/greener tea in this season.
Even though I admit that the fragrance has not a great projection (consider it's still an EdT), I don't agree with many of the complaints about the longevity: it lasts 5 to 6 hours on my skin, and I think that this is fine considering that tea is not a strong note per se and that many of its competitors don't exactly have better performance (except for Gris Charnel, that I consider too feminine for me).
The bottle is very nice and I consider it an upgrade over the former version, the pricing is fair for a niche fragrance that smells so unique.
Not a huge compliment getter so far, except for a girl I'm really close to, because it's not loud and I didn't wear it a lot due to the fact that it's more of a special occasion fragrance, but it's so damn good that I don't care a lot to be honest.
It's by far the nicest fragrance I have and I suggest buying it if you love sweet tea and you want a cozy, unisex scent for the winter. Merry christmas everybody!
The one that started all... Upgraded.
Hi everybody! This is my first review on this site, I am not even an english native speaker and I am kind of a newbie in the fragrance world, so please keep that in mind before judging me.
I started thinking about fragrances with a little bit more awareness in the last month, after I was searching a gift for a friend: since then, I had some very basic perfumes in my collection that my relatives gave me in the past ten years. My collection is nothing exceptional with very popular designer fragrances, but there has always been one that stood up amongst the others and that was my go-to when I had a very special occasion like a date or a job interview.
When I was 18 years old, I asked my parents a perfume as my birthday gift. I went to a local shop and smelled for the first time Bleu de Chanel EDT: it was 2013, so it was the only concentration available. I immediately fell in love with that: it was fresh yet elegant, and I was captured by the citrusy notes in the opening and the scent I had on my skin after about half an hour.
However, I think that in the beginning I was too young to truly appreciate it, and I noticed that it wasn't my most complimented fragrance because my peers liked more fragrances like One Million and Eros: however, I wore it very often because it reminded me of my 18th birthday, and I ended up finishing the bottle.
As soon as I discovered that I would have liked to go more in depth in the frag game, I knew that I had to get another bottle of Bleu de Chanel, because it was the first "real" quality fragrance I had and I felt ready to consider it my daily driver now that I am not a young student and that I like wearing fragrances in my workplace.
I considered every concentration of BdC, and ended up with the Eau de Parfum. I had noticed doing some researches that many reviewers consider it the best version in a quality-price ratio, and after testing all of them in a local store I can totally agree.
It has a slightly different opening from the EDT, because to me it's less citrusy and fresh and a little bit more enveloping and richer, because I could smell slightly more notes than in the EDP. But as soon as I waited for the fragrance to dry down, I discovered a bigger difference: for instance, the EDP lasted longer on my skin (about 8 hours) and had better projection (my brother noticed it after 4 hours), and the woody notes (especially the sandalwood) and the incense were way more prominent and interesting than the experience I had with the EDT.
I also tried the Parfum, but the opening seemed too much woody to me and I thought it was less versatile than the EDP.
As you might have already understood, I love the scent of Bleau de Chanel Eau de Parfum. It smells very natural, fresh and elegant, and I worship the woody scent of the dry down.
As far as the performance and the compliment factor, I need to test it over time but as of now I am totally happy: it lasts well on my skin as I wrote earlier, and the girl I went out with last week told me I smelled great. The bottle is amazing because it feels elegant and expensive with its dark blue color, its shape and its packing; I think that the magnetic cap a great addition, and I can't find many better bottles from designers.
I don't know about US, Australia or other european countries, but in Italy you can have some discounts even on Chanel fragrances if you wait for the right offer: I found a 100 ml bottle at 88 euros on Marionnaud, and I think that it is a very fair price considering the whole package. I know that without the discount it might seem expensive and very close to niche fragrances, but considering that it wasn't very hard for me to find a 25% discount (and I read that sometimes you can even get 30%) I think that the value might considered very good.
I don't know if my newly discovered passion for fragrances will last long, but I am pretty confident that this EDP version of Bleu de Chanel will forever be one of my favorites.
I started thinking about fragrances with a little bit more awareness in the last month, after I was searching a gift for a friend: since then, I had some very basic perfumes in my collection that my relatives gave me in the past ten years. My collection is nothing exceptional with very popular designer fragrances, but there has always been one that stood up amongst the others and that was my go-to when I had a very special occasion like a date or a job interview.
When I was 18 years old, I asked my parents a perfume as my birthday gift. I went to a local shop and smelled for the first time Bleu de Chanel EDT: it was 2013, so it was the only concentration available. I immediately fell in love with that: it was fresh yet elegant, and I was captured by the citrusy notes in the opening and the scent I had on my skin after about half an hour.
However, I think that in the beginning I was too young to truly appreciate it, and I noticed that it wasn't my most complimented fragrance because my peers liked more fragrances like One Million and Eros: however, I wore it very often because it reminded me of my 18th birthday, and I ended up finishing the bottle.
As soon as I discovered that I would have liked to go more in depth in the frag game, I knew that I had to get another bottle of Bleu de Chanel, because it was the first "real" quality fragrance I had and I felt ready to consider it my daily driver now that I am not a young student and that I like wearing fragrances in my workplace.
I considered every concentration of BdC, and ended up with the Eau de Parfum. I had noticed doing some researches that many reviewers consider it the best version in a quality-price ratio, and after testing all of them in a local store I can totally agree.
It has a slightly different opening from the EDT, because to me it's less citrusy and fresh and a little bit more enveloping and richer, because I could smell slightly more notes than in the EDP. But as soon as I waited for the fragrance to dry down, I discovered a bigger difference: for instance, the EDP lasted longer on my skin (about 8 hours) and had better projection (my brother noticed it after 4 hours), and the woody notes (especially the sandalwood) and the incense were way more prominent and interesting than the experience I had with the EDT.
I also tried the Parfum, but the opening seemed too much woody to me and I thought it was less versatile than the EDP.
As you might have already understood, I love the scent of Bleau de Chanel Eau de Parfum. It smells very natural, fresh and elegant, and I worship the woody scent of the dry down.
As far as the performance and the compliment factor, I need to test it over time but as of now I am totally happy: it lasts well on my skin as I wrote earlier, and the girl I went out with last week told me I smelled great. The bottle is amazing because it feels elegant and expensive with its dark blue color, its shape and its packing; I think that the magnetic cap a great addition, and I can't find many better bottles from designers.
I don't know about US, Australia or other european countries, but in Italy you can have some discounts even on Chanel fragrances if you wait for the right offer: I found a 100 ml bottle at 88 euros on Marionnaud, and I think that it is a very fair price considering the whole package. I know that without the discount it might seem expensive and very close to niche fragrances, but considering that it wasn't very hard for me to find a 25% discount (and I read that sometimes you can even get 30%) I think that the value might considered very good.
I don't know if my newly discovered passion for fragrances will last long, but I am pretty confident that this EDP version of Bleu de Chanel will forever be one of my favorites.
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