Tiane
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Tiane 2 months ago
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Sweet cereal in vanilla butter
Having been very impressed with the Navitus fragrances so far, I was also allowed to test a fragrance from the sister brand - Vivamor Perfumes - for the first time today.
The first fragrance I chose from the Vivamor Discovery Kit was Candy Pop, because I was promised roasted chestnut. I really like the scent of chestnuts and unfortunately I think it's far too rare in perfumes. But unfortunately I don't smell that much chestnut.
At the beginning, the fragrance smells very intensely of caramel and butter, a little vanilla and really very sweet. And surprisingly flat. I would have expected more complexity.
The whole thing reminds me of an e-cigarette liquid that my brother once adored, which had some fancy name. Some pancake or cookie scent. It's definitely like someone has taken a really deep puff of a delicious gourmand liquid and blown it in my face. As if a visible and dense cloud of fragrance molecules has enveloped you. That's okay for a moment, but if it went on like that for longer, it would be a bit stressful.
However, the fragrance quickly becomes less intense and reminds me more of "Lann-Aël | Lostmarc'h". The blatant sweetness recedes a little. The popcorn turns into cereal, but the butter doesn't turn into milk, it remains easily recognizable, as does the vanilla. I also imagine a little apple. But there is little floral, little citrus. Unfortunately, I don't smell bergamot at all throughout the fragrance. I think that would have been really good for the fragrance, a little freshness and an additional, more interesting note to round it off.
After a while, you can also sense an unsweet base. Cedar, perhaps. This unsweet note reminds me of the Navitus fragrances I am familiar with, so perhaps they share the same DNA at their core. The strongest impression remains that of buttery, sweet cereals. So for me, caramel is not necessarily what I associate most with "Caramel Pop | Vivamor Parfums".
Overall, there is something missing here that makes the fragrance even more interesting. I like gourmands. But rather ones that surprise with unusual notes (chestnuts, sesame, peanut,...), that are not sweet and where gourmand notes don't remain among themselves. As I did with "Divine Aphrodisiac | Navitus Parfums", where vetiver joins sesame and peanut.
Caramel Pop is a rather unsurprising gourmand here.
If you simply love buttery sweet cereals with vanilla undertones and don't want to smell anything else throughout the entire fragrance, this is the perfect fragrance for you. I have never smelled anything like it. And what I think the fragrance does really well, especially at the beginning, is to convey compactness and heaviness. Very dense molecules. A little sugar dissolved in butter and heated until all the water has disappeared.
In the end, I am only minimally disappointed. It was a solid enough start to the world of Vivamor.
The first fragrance I chose from the Vivamor Discovery Kit was Candy Pop, because I was promised roasted chestnut. I really like the scent of chestnuts and unfortunately I think it's far too rare in perfumes. But unfortunately I don't smell that much chestnut.
At the beginning, the fragrance smells very intensely of caramel and butter, a little vanilla and really very sweet. And surprisingly flat. I would have expected more complexity.
The whole thing reminds me of an e-cigarette liquid that my brother once adored, which had some fancy name. Some pancake or cookie scent. It's definitely like someone has taken a really deep puff of a delicious gourmand liquid and blown it in my face. As if a visible and dense cloud of fragrance molecules has enveloped you. That's okay for a moment, but if it went on like that for longer, it would be a bit stressful.
However, the fragrance quickly becomes less intense and reminds me more of "Lann-Aël | Lostmarc'h". The blatant sweetness recedes a little. The popcorn turns into cereal, but the butter doesn't turn into milk, it remains easily recognizable, as does the vanilla. I also imagine a little apple. But there is little floral, little citrus. Unfortunately, I don't smell bergamot at all throughout the fragrance. I think that would have been really good for the fragrance, a little freshness and an additional, more interesting note to round it off.
After a while, you can also sense an unsweet base. Cedar, perhaps. This unsweet note reminds me of the Navitus fragrances I am familiar with, so perhaps they share the same DNA at their core. The strongest impression remains that of buttery, sweet cereals. So for me, caramel is not necessarily what I associate most with "Caramel Pop | Vivamor Parfums".
Overall, there is something missing here that makes the fragrance even more interesting. I like gourmands. But rather ones that surprise with unusual notes (chestnuts, sesame, peanut,...), that are not sweet and where gourmand notes don't remain among themselves. As I did with "Divine Aphrodisiac | Navitus Parfums", where vetiver joins sesame and peanut.
Caramel Pop is a rather unsurprising gourmand here.
If you simply love buttery sweet cereals with vanilla undertones and don't want to smell anything else throughout the entire fragrance, this is the perfect fragrance for you. I have never smelled anything like it. And what I think the fragrance does really well, especially at the beginning, is to convey compactness and heaviness. Very dense molecules. A little sugar dissolved in butter and heated until all the water has disappeared.
In the end, I am only minimally disappointed. It was a solid enough start to the world of Vivamor.
