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09/15/2020
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Juozas Statkevicius has been on my watch list for years, but he is not easy to get. So I was all the more enthusiastic, when a blind test sample, which Sniffsniff sent to me very generously and friendly, turned out to be just that rarity in the end.
Just to be clear, I didn't even realize it was an incense scent. I suspected patchouli as the main ingredient; as well as prominent vanilla and amber, and thus I wasn't too bad at identifying the sub-notes because of the relationship between benzoin and (resinous) amber, only that I missed the main note.
That says a lot about how I perceive Juoza's Statkevicius: as a rather warm, earthy, spicy, medium-brown fragrance. To avoid the misunderstanding that it is a sticky cuddly gourmet candle, which is actually not the case at all (the incense actually draws in a dry and cool framework, which prevents it from tipping over into the praline-like), I would rather describe it as "smooth and mild" than "soft and sweet".
My incense detection deficit may be related to the fact that since the release of this fragrance in 2004, incense has been smoked into the nose of perfume users in a much more frontal, concentrated and sacred manner. One is perhaps already a little blunted, and such mild, very portable votive works sail under the incense burner.
I find Juoza's Statkevicius to be extremely linear; in particular, the patchouli-vanilla-resin triad indicated in the base note seemed to me to predominate just a minute after application. Durability and projection are just right, namely solid but not overwhelming.
Mr Statkevicius, as previous commentators have already noted, is a Lithuanian fashion designer who, because a proper couturier needs a fragrance, had this fragrance, named after him, tailored by the French nose Fabrice Pellegrin. It is produced (it has, by the way, always stayed with exactly this one fragrance), as far as I know, at least in France, and probably only sold in Lithuania. If you can call it a "Lithuanian" scent is a matter of taste, similar to the "Lietuvos Kvapas", which I like very much.
I had expected more revolutionary, more experimental and more dynamic after the pre-comments; in this respect I was a little bit disappointed - as was my immediate pre-recension. But also a well-composed, evenly flowing comfort (not to be confused with slackness) has its charms
On the website of Master Juozas, the fragrance is also briefly introduced, claiming that it is characterized by its "ambery". The word does not exist in any English dictionary, but its ambiguity is quite understandable, it can mean "ambrity" as well as "amberiness" - and thus fits both the amber country Lithuania and this ambry-looking, brown and warm shining fragrance.
Conclusion: A really beautiful adulation ambery.
Just to be clear, I didn't even realize it was an incense scent. I suspected patchouli as the main ingredient; as well as prominent vanilla and amber, and thus I wasn't too bad at identifying the sub-notes because of the relationship between benzoin and (resinous) amber, only that I missed the main note.
That says a lot about how I perceive Juoza's Statkevicius: as a rather warm, earthy, spicy, medium-brown fragrance. To avoid the misunderstanding that it is a sticky cuddly gourmet candle, which is actually not the case at all (the incense actually draws in a dry and cool framework, which prevents it from tipping over into the praline-like), I would rather describe it as "smooth and mild" than "soft and sweet".
My incense detection deficit may be related to the fact that since the release of this fragrance in 2004, incense has been smoked into the nose of perfume users in a much more frontal, concentrated and sacred manner. One is perhaps already a little blunted, and such mild, very portable votive works sail under the incense burner.
I find Juoza's Statkevicius to be extremely linear; in particular, the patchouli-vanilla-resin triad indicated in the base note seemed to me to predominate just a minute after application. Durability and projection are just right, namely solid but not overwhelming.
Mr Statkevicius, as previous commentators have already noted, is a Lithuanian fashion designer who, because a proper couturier needs a fragrance, had this fragrance, named after him, tailored by the French nose Fabrice Pellegrin. It is produced (it has, by the way, always stayed with exactly this one fragrance), as far as I know, at least in France, and probably only sold in Lithuania. If you can call it a "Lithuanian" scent is a matter of taste, similar to the "Lietuvos Kvapas", which I like very much.
I had expected more revolutionary, more experimental and more dynamic after the pre-comments; in this respect I was a little bit disappointed - as was my immediate pre-recension. But also a well-composed, evenly flowing comfort (not to be confused with slackness) has its charms
On the website of Master Juozas, the fragrance is also briefly introduced, claiming that it is characterized by its "ambery". The word does not exist in any English dictionary, but its ambiguity is quite understandable, it can mean "ambrity" as well as "amberiness" - and thus fits both the amber country Lithuania and this ambry-looking, brown and warm shining fragrance.
Conclusion: A really beautiful adulation ambery.
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