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This is how Time bends, Mr. Einstein!
I’m a vintage perfumes lover, and fortunately, thanks to a friend of mine I was able to get a tester of this discontinued beauty.
When we consider vintage masculine Vetiver scents, we tend to assume they all have some kind of connection with Guerlain’s masterpiece of 1964, but this is absolutely not the case.
This one is a different and brighter take on the note. After the initial blast of aldehydes, I can fell a lot of flowers blossoming amidst the fruitiness of oranges, lemon and bergamot (lots of bergamot). Jasmine, Iris, Ylang and a very smooth Rose, with a hint of clove to spice it up… just heaven. A base of Cedar, Sandalwood, labdanum and vanilla, give it a rounder effect.
After 4 hours on my skin it is still projecting, and I keep being reminded of something else I’ve smelled a lot this summer… yes… Bortnikoff Amber Cologne! No, it doesn’t have any vetiver, and this one lacks the ambergris, but they are very, very similar to my nose. So, once again, this one is an absolute BANG!
Excellent projection and performance, a bright fragrance for all year round, very classy, I would recommend it for all genders.
If you find it, don’t let it escape!
9/10
When we consider vintage masculine Vetiver scents, we tend to assume they all have some kind of connection with Guerlain’s masterpiece of 1964, but this is absolutely not the case.
This one is a different and brighter take on the note. After the initial blast of aldehydes, I can fell a lot of flowers blossoming amidst the fruitiness of oranges, lemon and bergamot (lots of bergamot). Jasmine, Iris, Ylang and a very smooth Rose, with a hint of clove to spice it up… just heaven. A base of Cedar, Sandalwood, labdanum and vanilla, give it a rounder effect.
After 4 hours on my skin it is still projecting, and I keep being reminded of something else I’ve smelled a lot this summer… yes… Bortnikoff Amber Cologne! No, it doesn’t have any vetiver, and this one lacks the ambergris, but they are very, very similar to my nose. So, once again, this one is an absolute BANG!
Excellent projection and performance, a bright fragrance for all year round, very classy, I would recommend it for all genders.
If you find it, don’t let it escape!
9/10
A Vanilla Oriental… without vanilla?
Imagine that you are in one of those beautiful and arid beaches in Greece… above you a scorching sun… the dry wind carries with it the smell of dry earth, dry flowers… the only thing that can keep you cool, besides the blue of the sky and the ocean, is the best vanilla ice cream that you’ve ever eaten (without vanilla eheheh):
The opening of Immortelle by Manos Gerakinis carries with it the soft and warm scent of a slightly sweet (brown sugar is not so sweet) and spicy (clove) cinnamon. The Queen of the ball (immortelle) enters a few seconds later: beautiful, regal but discrete as true royalty should be, ruling without imposing herself, moving with admirable grace and subtlety between her subjects. As she starts to dance, she is flanked by her escorts (santal and patchouli), warning us not to be fooled by her frailty. Her smile is warm, sweet, gentle, but with character.
- Excellent Longevity
- Good projection, without being overwhelming – like an aura that creates a cocoon around you
- Amazing quality of ingredients
One of my new loves!
The opening of Immortelle by Manos Gerakinis carries with it the soft and warm scent of a slightly sweet (brown sugar is not so sweet) and spicy (clove) cinnamon. The Queen of the ball (immortelle) enters a few seconds later: beautiful, regal but discrete as true royalty should be, ruling without imposing herself, moving with admirable grace and subtlety between her subjects. As she starts to dance, she is flanked by her escorts (santal and patchouli), warning us not to be fooled by her frailty. Her smile is warm, sweet, gentle, but with character.
- Excellent Longevity
- Good projection, without being overwhelming – like an aura that creates a cocoon around you
- Amazing quality of ingredients
One of my new loves!
Perfumery and art: ELDO's Secretions Magnifiques
"-Oh my God, mama, what a singular odor,- said the young woman to her mother, not noticing where it came from, - but, smell it mama... it's an odor I know... (...)
- Young lady - said the abbot stroking his belly and softening the sound of his voice, - there's small harm in that; we are standing under a chestnut tree and we, naturalists, admit in our botanical studies that it's flower...
- Well, what about it's flower?
- Well then, little lady, it smells like Sex!"
Marquis de Sade "The chestnut flower"
For a long time I've been questioning myself what could be the interest/utility in creating a perfume that almost nobody would wear, almost everybody talked badly about... why the effort, the investment? After all we all want to smell good! And when a scent brings other people the urge to vomit...
Finally I tested this criation by Etat Libre D'Orange, and was reminded of this text by Marquis de Sade. It also brought back to my memory the supposed dialog between Picasso and Hittler's partisans, when confronted by the "aberration" of his Guernica, to the question «did you made THIS?», answered: «No, YOU did IT».
Most living beings use natural body odor as means for pleasing potential procriation partners. Human beings are the few that use artificial scents whith the intent to mask their natural body odor. With Secretions Magnifiques the perfumer tries to give back to the human animal something that is characteristic of it - it's natural smell.
As Mr. Kant would say, the creator making use of it's «teckné», using what nature gives him, finds a way to recreate and interpret reality, life itself.
The "perfume":
Floral, very floral, I cannot find in it anything like puke or sweat, just a slight and fleeting metalic note we could associate with blood (hummm, but very unlikelly). And, yes, A LOT of chestnut flowers! - for those of you who have smelled it, you can realize how correct was Sade's little joke: yes, it smells like sex!
Heavy sillage and imense longevity, it sticks to the skin as if it were part of it, as if it was something natural to the body itself :)
I can understand why people wear it, not regularly, certanly, but as something for special occasions.
Why "perfume"? I perceive it more as a conceptual creation, artistic, that we may or may not like, but that with no doubt expresses a touch of creative GENIOUS.
A piece of olfactory art.
I'm so glad I sampled it!
- Young lady - said the abbot stroking his belly and softening the sound of his voice, - there's small harm in that; we are standing under a chestnut tree and we, naturalists, admit in our botanical studies that it's flower...
- Well, what about it's flower?
- Well then, little lady, it smells like Sex!"
Marquis de Sade "The chestnut flower"
For a long time I've been questioning myself what could be the interest/utility in creating a perfume that almost nobody would wear, almost everybody talked badly about... why the effort, the investment? After all we all want to smell good! And when a scent brings other people the urge to vomit...
Finally I tested this criation by Etat Libre D'Orange, and was reminded of this text by Marquis de Sade. It also brought back to my memory the supposed dialog between Picasso and Hittler's partisans, when confronted by the "aberration" of his Guernica, to the question «did you made THIS?», answered: «No, YOU did IT».
Most living beings use natural body odor as means for pleasing potential procriation partners. Human beings are the few that use artificial scents whith the intent to mask their natural body odor. With Secretions Magnifiques the perfumer tries to give back to the human animal something that is characteristic of it - it's natural smell.
As Mr. Kant would say, the creator making use of it's «teckné», using what nature gives him, finds a way to recreate and interpret reality, life itself.
The "perfume":
Floral, very floral, I cannot find in it anything like puke or sweat, just a slight and fleeting metalic note we could associate with blood (hummm, but very unlikelly). And, yes, A LOT of chestnut flowers! - for those of you who have smelled it, you can realize how correct was Sade's little joke: yes, it smells like sex!
Heavy sillage and imense longevity, it sticks to the skin as if it were part of it, as if it was something natural to the body itself :)
I can understand why people wear it, not regularly, certanly, but as something for special occasions.
Why "perfume"? I perceive it more as a conceptual creation, artistic, that we may or may not like, but that with no doubt expresses a touch of creative GENIOUS.
A piece of olfactory art.
I'm so glad I sampled it!
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