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01/04/2014
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A waste
A few weeks ago I read that Christine Nagel has become the new in-house-perfumer at HERMES and I thought I might as well check out some of the work she did for less known brands in the past. That's how I stumbled upon "Byblos Essence" from 2008. The advertising-blurp told the clients to "be in rapture". But am I? No. Was Christine Nagel told to compose a fragrance which smells like a cross between "Kenzo Amour" and "Cool Water Woman"? She seems to have merged marine-aquatic and balsamic-woody notes, thus creating a fragrance of contrasts which don't appeal to me. "Byblos Essence" is a weird aquatic floriental, rounded off by heavy amounts of vanilla and musk. Decent staying-power, very lovely flacon (best part of this product).
I hope HERMES will grant more artistic freedom to an outstanding nose like Christine Nagel. My assumption: Byblos must have been working on a very tight budget and very muddled ideas ("Give us a scent which smells like all the blockbusters of the last ten years and use as many cheap aromachemicals as possible"). A waste of talent.
I hope HERMES will grant more artistic freedom to an outstanding nose like Christine Nagel. My assumption: Byblos must have been working on a very tight budget and very muddled ideas ("Give us a scent which smells like all the blockbusters of the last ten years and use as many cheap aromachemicals as possible"). A waste of talent.
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