07/20/2021

Carlitos01
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Carlitos01
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5
Not my Soul mate
[short review]
Today I woke up a bit sour and perhaps my state of mind has been reflected in this brief analysis. However, I was determined to test this perfume for the first time. Hopefully, I did it seriously.
Upon spraying, I felt a synthetic whiff of fruity notes together with amber and musk. However, they seemed to be somewhat dry and boring. They arrived with a smoked vanilla praline blending that felt quite artificial. All the way throughout the evolution, it was easy to feel a reasonably strong agarwood background, but it looked like a strange kind of oud mixed with nuts and dried fruits, very medicinal, and with noticeable nuances of leathery patchouli. There was also a salty sensation certainly coming from the ambergris note.
The overall result is an intense perfume, with very identifiable medicinal oud and earthy patchouli notes, and an ethereal salty amber. It looks like an M7 flanker to me, but a notoriously synthetic one.
I think Dominique Ropion knows how to do much better when creating oriental fragrances. Eventually, the budget became too short for series production. One feels that the concentration was generous enough, but the choice of ingredients was at least poor. I've seen the same thing happen to other perfumes, and many of them were more expensive than this one. Several Middle East houses make better versions of easy to use oriental oud perfumes and at more affordable prices. Costume National has already done better as well.
Maybe Soul may be nicer than what I'm letting you perceive by my words. Maybe the problem is that I wake up a bit sour. Soul is certainly on the level of an averagely executed woody and spicy oriental perfume. But those synthetic and medicinal accords just cannot convince me. I just have to pass this one.
Music: I Should Have Known Better by Jim Diamond
Today I woke up a bit sour and perhaps my state of mind has been reflected in this brief analysis. However, I was determined to test this perfume for the first time. Hopefully, I did it seriously.
Upon spraying, I felt a synthetic whiff of fruity notes together with amber and musk. However, they seemed to be somewhat dry and boring. They arrived with a smoked vanilla praline blending that felt quite artificial. All the way throughout the evolution, it was easy to feel a reasonably strong agarwood background, but it looked like a strange kind of oud mixed with nuts and dried fruits, very medicinal, and with noticeable nuances of leathery patchouli. There was also a salty sensation certainly coming from the ambergris note.
The overall result is an intense perfume, with very identifiable medicinal oud and earthy patchouli notes, and an ethereal salty amber. It looks like an M7 flanker to me, but a notoriously synthetic one.
I think Dominique Ropion knows how to do much better when creating oriental fragrances. Eventually, the budget became too short for series production. One feels that the concentration was generous enough, but the choice of ingredients was at least poor. I've seen the same thing happen to other perfumes, and many of them were more expensive than this one. Several Middle East houses make better versions of easy to use oriental oud perfumes and at more affordable prices. Costume National has already done better as well.
Maybe Soul may be nicer than what I'm letting you perceive by my words. Maybe the problem is that I wake up a bit sour. Soul is certainly on the level of an averagely executed woody and spicy oriental perfume. But those synthetic and medicinal accords just cannot convince me. I just have to pass this one.
Music: I Should Have Known Better by Jim Diamond