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05/29/2020
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The riot squad ends gently
I usually like more extreme scents but Beaufort is one of those things; sometimes the creations are too overwhelming. Iron Duke, on the other hand, I find extremely wearable and I would like to explain why.
Unfortunately I can't tell you an anecdote about how the postman came and pressed the scent into my hand, we both danced for joy until deep into the night, my wife spontaneously prepared a barbecue etc pp. How it is like when a perfume comes in the mail. I only had a bottle at hand to evaluate for me whether a purchase must / can take place here or not.
First of all the Duke gives off a dirty leather smell for me and very intense. The leather is not a rough, somehow raw looking leather, it is just fine with different nuances. Personally, the prelude reminds me sublimely of fresh tar.
Relatively quickly the leather gets smoother and finer features which nevertheless appear rather dark. The leather smell is now stronger, but it flows out more channelled and not groundbreaking as before. A fine spiciness covers the leather, personally the scent reminds me of juniper, is partly a bit fresh but can be neglected in my perception. A light smoke also blows around the leather. This smoke is neither sacral nor cold, but rather arose like an embers and now envelops the leather. This could be the tobacco, which freshly ignites its ashes and lets them wrap around the leather. This mixture has something, but it is very daring and for most people not wearable.
So if the fragrance is really meant to be a tribute to the Duke of Wellington, then it should probably tell about the warlike life of the Duke, who was victorious in many famous battles. So does this scent radiate the hardness of war? Does it tell us about battles that may have a generally gloomy tenor, and which here come close to the scent?
Now, of course, the fragrance changes and becomes much more pleasing, in my opinion even too pleasing after the start. The uncompromising nature of the opening is diminishing, Iron Duke is becoming more diplomatic. It remains intensely aromatic but used with caution. Rum is supposed to be added to the perfume and I can imagine it from here. This is not sweet rum, but because of the intensity it is the self-distilled one. A tender sweet note also comes up. Without having read this now, I would have rather tipped on resins, which are slightly sticky and progress in interaction with woods and appear very tidy, very dosed. Nobody falls off the chair here. Likewise the scent soon reminds me of Aqva Amara and not because it smells so, there are worlds in between. But many people know this metallic tasting tangerine(?); here it also smells ferruginous. Finally Iron Duke surprises easily because it becomes warming and honeyed for me, at least that is my perception. Could very well be beeswax or maybe even honeydew from the trees.
Enormously versatile, as Beaufort shows here. Unfortunately, the end doesn't catch up with me that much and I also wonder if this variability is what will confront the interested parties with the crucial question: what do I think about a purchase? I have clarified this one for me because - with all due respect - Iron Duke is a good perfume, but I lack the final touch to be able to say: the fragrance really stands out.
Unfortunately I can't tell you an anecdote about how the postman came and pressed the scent into my hand, we both danced for joy until deep into the night, my wife spontaneously prepared a barbecue etc pp. How it is like when a perfume comes in the mail. I only had a bottle at hand to evaluate for me whether a purchase must / can take place here or not.
First of all the Duke gives off a dirty leather smell for me and very intense. The leather is not a rough, somehow raw looking leather, it is just fine with different nuances. Personally, the prelude reminds me sublimely of fresh tar.
Relatively quickly the leather gets smoother and finer features which nevertheless appear rather dark. The leather smell is now stronger, but it flows out more channelled and not groundbreaking as before. A fine spiciness covers the leather, personally the scent reminds me of juniper, is partly a bit fresh but can be neglected in my perception. A light smoke also blows around the leather. This smoke is neither sacral nor cold, but rather arose like an embers and now envelops the leather. This could be the tobacco, which freshly ignites its ashes and lets them wrap around the leather. This mixture has something, but it is very daring and for most people not wearable.
So if the fragrance is really meant to be a tribute to the Duke of Wellington, then it should probably tell about the warlike life of the Duke, who was victorious in many famous battles. So does this scent radiate the hardness of war? Does it tell us about battles that may have a generally gloomy tenor, and which here come close to the scent?
Now, of course, the fragrance changes and becomes much more pleasing, in my opinion even too pleasing after the start. The uncompromising nature of the opening is diminishing, Iron Duke is becoming more diplomatic. It remains intensely aromatic but used with caution. Rum is supposed to be added to the perfume and I can imagine it from here. This is not sweet rum, but because of the intensity it is the self-distilled one. A tender sweet note also comes up. Without having read this now, I would have rather tipped on resins, which are slightly sticky and progress in interaction with woods and appear very tidy, very dosed. Nobody falls off the chair here. Likewise the scent soon reminds me of Aqva Amara and not because it smells so, there are worlds in between. But many people know this metallic tasting tangerine(?); here it also smells ferruginous. Finally Iron Duke surprises easily because it becomes warming and honeyed for me, at least that is my perception. Could very well be beeswax or maybe even honeydew from the trees.
Enormously versatile, as Beaufort shows here. Unfortunately, the end doesn't catch up with me that much and I also wonder if this variability is what will confront the interested parties with the crucial question: what do I think about a purchase? I have clarified this one for me because - with all due respect - Iron Duke is a good perfume, but I lack the final touch to be able to say: the fragrance really stands out.
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