1 year ago
KuraiHi Mitchcraft,
What I think the perfumes you mentioned have in common is a large amount of both vanilla and tonka bean. I agree with you that that can get thick and heavy. Especially when there is some sweetness added, which is also the case with those perfumes.
But you also mentioned it feels like "pollen" and tonka or vanilla do not really resemble a pollen-like feeling. That could be from floral or aromatic notes like orange blossom or clary sage. Clary sage, or actually a synthetic substitute, is a common ingredient in popular perfumes and it gives me the feeling like it sticks to my throat sometimes. Unfortunately it is not always mentioned in the note pyramid or in the ingredients list.
Hope this helps. Cheers!
I don't believe this, i deleted my reply to you as i thought about things in much more depth and when i hit reply got an error and lost all the text i wrote!
OK, i will summarize. If you owned an OG bottle of Versace's Blue Jeans and own a bottle now, it is the thing they removed from that to make it the light fresher fragrance it is today. So if you know what the descriptor for that change is then that is exactly the thing i am trying to describe. Blue Jeans has a Vanilla note in it but it is not the same thick heavy fragrance it was in the 90s, far from it.
I think you could be right about vanilla as it in nature is a rather thick powdery pod which got me thinking it could be the powdery accord we sometimes associated with fragrances and is noted in both Joop and Le Male. However not all vanilla fragrances are inherently powdery such as The Most Wanted Parfum which is vanilla heavy but it is a Bourbon Vanilla note rather than natural forms of vanilla so i presume in the process of making it become a Bourbon Vanilla which i also presume is not a natural state? They have removed the powdery aspect of it?
One other fragrance with this feeling though is Eros which has fresh accords on fragrantica but i wouldn't class a thick heavy kind of fragrance as being fresh but they could be using that to describe the mintyness of it. The reason i know it has the same affect as something like Le Male and Joop though is like those 2 fragrances when sprayed on clothing it will last forever. I have a bath robe that got sprayed with Eros and it is all i can ever smell with it on and it has been put through the wash numerous times lol.
So yeah i think you are right about it being certain types, mainly most natural states of vanilla and somehow they maybe have a way of adding this unnaturally to enhance certain fragrances and when done so is noted as Powdery? Maybe Escentric Molecules sell a fragrance enhancer to act like this to boost weaker frags? If not i bet the wish they could lol