12/22/2023
OvidiuPop
21 Reviews
OvidiuPop
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Sweet Amber
A little disclaimer before everything, I ran out of this fragrance around 3 months ago, so when it comes to scent I will try to describe what I’ve remembered when I used to test this one out.
The Context
This is another sample that I received for my birthday alongside the other Oriflame samples that I’ve written about and this one when I got it was in a little plastic capsule inside the flier paper. I opened it and I was surprised that this was a 1 ml sample. Now, when it comes down to decants I think that making decants so small it’s a bit of a waste of time and plastic for distributing a fragrance quantity that is too small to be experienced in a proper way. No atomizer whatsoever and also the fragrance itself is not expensive. I could order a 50 ml or 100 ml bottle any day of the week without a problem. But, anyway, I had an idea about this one the feminine version a month prior while doing research for the fragrance house and I opened at one point the big hitters page for Avon and I often saw that weird shaped bottle. Then when I received it I thought to myself that this fragrance could be something great, at least for the Avons standards. In the evening I tried this and It did not impress me that much.
The Scent
This is an ambery. Sweet and synthetic type of creation that portrays a refined sweet man that it’s trying to be as appealing as possible. This is in my vision the type of person who would fit him the best. In the opening I get a synthetic amber with some sweet component and that is, according to the notes listed, supposed to be the mandarin orange. I do not get the citrus part of the fragrance but the sweet part comes hand in hand with the amber. In the drydown the amber is in the center and the other notes surround it. One interesting note is the canella winterana, which is just wild cinnamon. I can’t tell where it sits in the drydown. I do not know how this one should smell like. The other herbs are just light, nothing is overtaking the amber. Also, I do not detect tha patchouli, and with that note I am more familiar now than 5 months ago.
The Projection
This is a moderate projection. Walking in a room this one is pretty easy to detect. The synthetic part of this fragrance is the one that helps with that.
The Longevity
I get around four to five hours with this one. The first two are with good projection then it becomes a body scent.
The Perfumers
The noses behind this creation are Caroline Sabas and Jacques Huclier, both french. Caroline worked for most of her career on celebrity fragrances but she made a flaker for Fragrance du Bois, which is a luxury brand that I’m really familiar with. And Jacques is a senior perfumer who worked for Tierry Mugler and made a fragrance for Ex-Nihilo, another brand that is on my radar. They both work for similar companies to Avon, meaning less artistic expression and more mass appealing, but it is what it is, as long as the compositions are well made I can’t comment on that.
Conclusions
I ramble for good length in this review, so I will keep it short to bring my points to the front. This fragrance is well made, it has a sweet amber design, but it is pretty synthetic, and all that potential is locked up in a box. It lasts for a good amount of time and performs well. It’s a shame really. But if this was the initial design and direction, then I say that they made a pretty good job in the end.
Thank you so much for reading my review. In the last few days I was too lazy to write another review because I got too comfortable and stubborn. On the other hand it is almost Christmas, so nobody is coming home to read my reviews on this platform, they have a lot of things to do at this time. You can imagine that. The next review will be on my last sample from that time period when I received all of those at the same time. It will be Invictus Aqua, the one that I used the most from that batch.
The Context
This is another sample that I received for my birthday alongside the other Oriflame samples that I’ve written about and this one when I got it was in a little plastic capsule inside the flier paper. I opened it and I was surprised that this was a 1 ml sample. Now, when it comes down to decants I think that making decants so small it’s a bit of a waste of time and plastic for distributing a fragrance quantity that is too small to be experienced in a proper way. No atomizer whatsoever and also the fragrance itself is not expensive. I could order a 50 ml or 100 ml bottle any day of the week without a problem. But, anyway, I had an idea about this one the feminine version a month prior while doing research for the fragrance house and I opened at one point the big hitters page for Avon and I often saw that weird shaped bottle. Then when I received it I thought to myself that this fragrance could be something great, at least for the Avons standards. In the evening I tried this and It did not impress me that much.
The Scent
This is an ambery. Sweet and synthetic type of creation that portrays a refined sweet man that it’s trying to be as appealing as possible. This is in my vision the type of person who would fit him the best. In the opening I get a synthetic amber with some sweet component and that is, according to the notes listed, supposed to be the mandarin orange. I do not get the citrus part of the fragrance but the sweet part comes hand in hand with the amber. In the drydown the amber is in the center and the other notes surround it. One interesting note is the canella winterana, which is just wild cinnamon. I can’t tell where it sits in the drydown. I do not know how this one should smell like. The other herbs are just light, nothing is overtaking the amber. Also, I do not detect tha patchouli, and with that note I am more familiar now than 5 months ago.
The Projection
This is a moderate projection. Walking in a room this one is pretty easy to detect. The synthetic part of this fragrance is the one that helps with that.
The Longevity
I get around four to five hours with this one. The first two are with good projection then it becomes a body scent.
The Perfumers
The noses behind this creation are Caroline Sabas and Jacques Huclier, both french. Caroline worked for most of her career on celebrity fragrances but she made a flaker for Fragrance du Bois, which is a luxury brand that I’m really familiar with. And Jacques is a senior perfumer who worked for Tierry Mugler and made a fragrance for Ex-Nihilo, another brand that is on my radar. They both work for similar companies to Avon, meaning less artistic expression and more mass appealing, but it is what it is, as long as the compositions are well made I can’t comment on that.
Conclusions
I ramble for good length in this review, so I will keep it short to bring my points to the front. This fragrance is well made, it has a sweet amber design, but it is pretty synthetic, and all that potential is locked up in a box. It lasts for a good amount of time and performs well. It’s a shame really. But if this was the initial design and direction, then I say that they made a pretty good job in the end.
Thank you so much for reading my review. In the last few days I was too lazy to write another review because I got too comfortable and stubborn. On the other hand it is almost Christmas, so nobody is coming home to read my reviews on this platform, they have a lot of things to do at this time. You can imagine that. The next review will be on my last sample from that time period when I received all of those at the same time. It will be Invictus Aqua, the one that I used the most from that batch.
