Skydiver92

In my entire perfume career, I have never received so many comments from people around me about a fragrance. It seems to move people. In the elevator, I hear someone take an extra deep breath and then tell me that it just smells really good coming from me. The scent was once in the air in my apartment and visitors had to say when they entered my front door that this smell does something positive to you. When friends browse through my collection, it always ends up in the first ranks. People associate the leather with an expensive handbag, new car seats in a fancy car, the smell of high quality in general. I love this fragrance, it blends perfectly with my skin chemistry. It contains everything I love. It has leather, which makes it a bit edgy, it smells clean because of the sandalwood, but it also smells floral because of the mimosa and bergamot, it's powdery and beautiful.
When you sweat, this fragrance really blossoms and shines. It lasts forever on clothes. The sillage is just right at arm's length. A screamer would not be appropriate for this fragrance.

I like the fragrance best when the juice in the bottle has already matured to a reddish color, then it is at its most intense and unfolds all its magic.

A top fragrance from Byredo and my absolute favorite from the house. So it's no wonder that I've already opened the second bottle.

I love fig scents. They give me the ultimate fresh and vacation feeling like no other fruit. When I'm traveling and feel stuffy because I've been on the train or plane all day and then I'm lying in the hotel longing for the ultimate clean feeling, give me fig and I feel completely renewed. From a purely artistic point of view, I think the Philoskos EDP is unattainable. It is and remains art for me. It is a mystery to me how a cinematic sequence of mown grass, branch, trunk, fig milk and fruit can be so successful. I used up the bottle. Then, for a change, I used up the EDT in no time at all. This is much more figgy and sweeter with less longevity. Although both fragrances are incredibly good, they have not proven themselves as a permanent companion. The 4th and 5th figs I can compare are Ichnusa and Fico di amalfi. With Ichnusa I was too overwhelmed with the punch of Tannenwald, with Fico di amalfi I had a
Washing-up impulse, too much grapefruit hand soap vibes. In Fico nero, I have finally found an overall composition, a linear fig fragrance that has all the components blended and stirred directly into itself, without reeling off a ticked-off succession of scents. For some, this can be disturbing and perceived as "mush", for others this is exactly what they want. I want fig on it, in one go. That's it. I often read that many people find the coconut note in fig fragrances annoying. I actually love this note and was very sad that it came up far too short in Phylosikos EDT. I would have liked the coconut from the EDP for the EDT. In Fico nero, it smells more like a light coconut water, but you can clearly perceive it. The peppery, woody note from Phylosikos EDP, which I find rather annoying, is completely absent here. As I said, Philosykos remains unchallenged as a work of art and I always enjoy looking at it from afar (smelling it when I'm in a perfumery again), but as an everyday companion I've stuck with Fico nero.

Happy to have found my fig fragrance.

Liqueur cherry, pickled, fermented, tipsy, mulled wine red, followed by peppery spicy dry cinnamon à la Big Red chewing gum, along with a bagful of incense (why is this barely mentioned here?). It smells like a church service, then moves into an earthy dark almost dirty patchouli base. The patchouli is so dark, combined with the spicy cinnamon, that it almost reminds me of licorice or black leather. Before I bought it, I was afraid that my favorite Arabesque would become redundant. However, the two fragrances differ in that in Arabesque the plum top note disappears almost completely after a short time, only to turn into a skin-hugging tonka scent. Khaltat Night, on the other hand, is an earthy, dark patchouli fragrance in the base. The cherry note in Khaltat Night, however, lasts and lasts and lasts. Every time you sweat, it is reignited by the heat. I can smell it all day long. That's the biggest difference between the two scents for me and I have to be honest, I wish the plum in Arabesque lasted as long. In fact, I think KN is a cheaper alternative for Arabesque, they are very similar in type. I wear KN when I want something darker and less pleasing smelling. It is dirtier. For me, KN is the perfect scent for a night out at the club, it is noticeable in this environment due to its strength. For me, Arabesque is the perfect beauty where everything is finely tuned. Far too good for a club night, a waste. I see the fragrance at a meeting in a café, to feel comfortable and beautiful. I love them both.

Btw Einstaz is not just relegated to winter time. I also treat myself to this addictive cherry in the height of summer. Who wants to forbid me? ;)

I have been looking for the perfect good mood fragrance, mood lifter, cocktail Caribbean, Sunday stroll fragrance à la Bal d'afrique for a long time. I used it myself regularly for a long time and really liked the fragrance in and of itself, but the performance was not satisfactory for me. For me, it lacked the exuberant energy. That little bit of sunshine. I kept sniffing and thought I had found the long-awaited treasure in Contralto. A fragrance like a scream of joy, there is so much sunshine in this bottle (matching the color of the velour) and yet something prevented me from wearing it. It simply smelled too strong for me shortly after getting up, when my olfactory receptors are at their most sensitive, having just woken up from the odorless resting phase of sleep. I think it is ambroxan that acts as a catalyst here and allows the bal d'afrique formula to project properly. I recently read a statement that every perfume formula has its own olfactory projection optimum and that this good-mood fragrance is basically one of those with a quieter optimum. All good things come in threes. In fact, in Al Rayhan I have found the perfect middle ground (for me) between Bal d'afrique and Contralto. Which shows once again that the price of a perfume is not always congruent with individual tastes. As the saying goes, a lot helps a lot. The fragrance pyramid should not be misleading. I don't perceive the fragrance as artificially sweetened, but rather naturally sweetened with fruit, if that makes sense. I don't smell chocolates or sweets. Rather juicy, tangy fruits like pineapple and mango. I'm usually put off by too much candy store, as I think too often they try to cover up a lack of complexity and sophistication with a side of sweetness (it never works). I find it very exciting and it actually combines everything I was hoping for, namely Bal d'afrique without the vetiver and Contralto without the strong balsamic note. Maybe there are people out there who are also thinking about this fragrance DNA.
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