Oliban

Oliban

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Oliban 27 days ago 1
6
Bottle
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Spirit of light ...
A beautiful olfactory building, a masterpiece of spiritual and sensory emotion...
A chapel erected for the elevation of the Spirit. A false solinote...
A magnificent balance and, an artistic articulation of the notes. Righteous.
The notes are:
Bright and powdery, sharp and clean.
Carnal and sweet.
Smoky and greens.
A high-quality Olibanum incense, the likes of which I have very rarely smelled.
A creation full of elegance. Everything is subtly highlighted.
Unisex and mid-season.
For fans of resinous smells ...
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Oliban 3 months ago 3 1
9
Bottle
6
Sillage
6
Longevity
6
Scent
A pear sorbet...
It is a clean, conventional "creation" with an obvious lack of inspiration ...
This realization, this retouch with a lack of originality, is perfect for the summer and hot periods to come! Why not!
This retouch is sorely lacking in desire, lack of breath, even with notes of fresh herbs... it’s almost tasteless!
Excuse me ! I’m going to be obnoxious! Stop!
Catherine Nagel inflicts us, once again, a touch of "Air Wick Active Fresh"!
It’s still the big gap at Hermès! Between, the sublime creations of Jean-Claude Ellena and the warmed marmalades of Christine Nagel, there is only a cauldron!
It’s like a spring concentrate in a garden with pears! Just pears against a gray granite wall!
It smells good! But...
Good hold and a medium sillage.
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Oliban 4 months ago 1
9
Bottle
8
Sillage
7
Longevity
10
Scent
Fiery Leather...
I'll happily wear it as a "depraved socialite"!

It takes off on an intense, aromatic note of distilled wormwood. A beautiful "forbidden liqueur", green, fresh and very slightly aniseed. It's not unpleasant! But it is evanescent!
An airy liqueur, full of freedom, an invitation to go wild. A fiery intoxication that keeps me off balance!

I'd love to take a walk around this barn, to get some fresh air on a night full of stars and promise. This barn lined with woods, birches and their resins weeping invisible wisps of smoke.
I've tasted some of that elixir! The one that lifts us to happy, ephemeral love.
I'd like to dare! I'd like to enter that stable... And join...
I'm still hiding near a few lilac bushes whose flowers are about to bloom!
Because it's still cold, at the very end of winter. And I'd like to lie down in these dry hay fibres, my frail body in search of softness. Waiting for the gentle rays of the sun...
And with them, the tender, delicate, green and pink notes of this lilac. The slightly aniseed and powdery scents. Bathed in a lovely tonka bean.
Finally, the arrival of fine weather...
The promise of new adventures, in the strong arms of Arthur R!

Now I'm a long way from the salons of Paris, far from those salons with their polished leather armchairs, full of smoke smothered in their imposing stone hearths! Which I'd love to return to next winter!
But without Rimbaud!
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Oliban 4 months ago 1
9
Bottle
3
Sillage
3
Longevity
2.5
Scent
A big disappointment!
A monolithic bottle as I like them… Minimal, refined and beveled!
And that’s it!
An opening on a red and crunchy apple barely ripe, zested by a tonic mandarin.
If, the note of whiskey is represented in the olfactory pyramid, it is a young and lively whiskey (neither malted nor peaty). Dry !

Then, a note of leather appears; that of a leather so light that one can see through it. There, I could say: it is a real work of binder, shoemaker, with excellent mastery to produce such leather? Well no! As for the note of violet? A very synthetic facet!

Finally, the base notes, a mixture of dry, powdery and soapy notes.
Neither oak, nor vanilla, nor even cistus.
No texture, no body.
A soapy amber.
Zero tenacity! Like that of a shower gel. A trail so discreet, like that of a soap.
A perfume that has the soul of.... a rinse water.

That being said, the price is very reasonable. It can very well suit young men in the making!
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Oliban 4 months ago 1
6
Bottle
9
Sillage
10
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Fumoir!
Fumoir ,
Je n'attendais, absolument, rien de ce "fumoir" !
Il est lumineux, ambré, cuiré, fumé, voir cendré et assez "dark" sur la fin!

Et, pourtant, il a fonctionné comme un philtre d'attraction avec élégance et puissance !
C'est une invitation galante que j'ai reçu, une entrée avec un bon whisky malté, comme un Glenmorangie (je déteste le whisky !) et pourtant ! Celui-ci, est de ceux que l'on déguste, une fois dans sa vie.

Un whisky aux notes épicées de cumin poudré par la note de poivre mate.
Les notes boisées apparaissent assez rapidement (le flip pour moi, presque en hyperventilation). Mais, non ! C'est bon!

Des notes boisées matures, de bois de bouleau, vieux et sec, écoulant le reste de sa vie dans une résine proche de la myrrhe (celle qui sent bon la résine de commiphora myrrha !). Certains y sentiront une note de vinyle, j'y sens la myrrhe ! Un cuir épais mais souple.

Des notes boisées foulées par les bottes en cuir faites sur mesure, pour un jeune écuyer anglais, élégant, séduisant, séducteur timoré . Un très beau cuir de cellier.
L'attraction fonctionne !
Je ne décèle pas la note de rose ! Mais, ce cavalier doit la porter très près de son cœur. J'y accéderai ! C'est certain !
Il dégage une telle sensualité, sombre, ténébreuse ! C'est doux et légèrement suave comme le tabac à pipe mélangé à des cristaux d'ambre !
Il ne dégage rien d'animal (dans le sens bestial !). Ceci dit, si je rencontre à nouveau ce cavalier, cela pourrait être très torride !
Et finir, sur un lit de copeaux de bois brûlé aux essences de charbon tièdes.
Ici, resteront nos nuits, nos étreintes de braises, refroidies. Et, finir cette union dans une volute de cendres.


C'est un parfum clivant, on aime ou pas.
Difficile à porter au quotidien. Et, je n'y verrai pas l'intérêt ! Quoique…
IL est majestueux. Puissant. Il offre une belle évolution qui prend son temps.
Séduisant solennel. Plutôt le soir, pour une rencontre, une nuit, pour soi...pourquoi pas!
Il est tellement loin de mon univers olfactif et, si agréablement proche de ce que, je souhaitais qu'il possède et m'offre.
C'est une splendeur!
Une oeuvre d'art? Un tableau de Pierre Soulage sauvé du feu...
À tester
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