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Flash Commentary: Lavender Lust
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Lavender plays in this fragrance unquestionably the main role, but the opinion that one smells here except lavender actually not much, I can not agree at all. For me, an extraordinarily refined, extremely high-quality seeming, modern, unconventional and exciting lavender composition, which is on the verge (but just on the verge) to tip over into the overloaded or strained clogged. But it doesn't and stays on the cheerful and wearable side. In addition to the lavender, we encounter in particular a cassis theme, a palette of Indian and oriental K-spices, a bold bouquet of flowers and a good dose of nose-wiping benzoin. Very daring (definitely not a somehow "classic" fragrance!) and very beautiful.
NAME
Thanks to Google & Co, I was able to determine that the name "Calme & Volupté" (the translation given here "calm and pleasure" is a bit weak, "volupté" is rather desire, sensuality, [sexual] pleasure) is taken from the song-like poem "Invitation au Voyage" (invitation to travel) by Charles Baudelaire (from the cycle Fleurs du Mal), where the refrain of the song says that at the imaginary destination to which he would like to set off with the you addressed in the poem, there is only "ordre et beauté, luxe, calme et volupté". To me, the name seems only conditionally well chosen, since the fragrance is not at all sultry-sensual at the start, but rather cool and awake. Later, it becomes warmer and, well, with the appropriate imagination, a bit sultry. Overall (considered as a whole) for a lavender fragrance already rather a little heavier and more lush, but not a fragrance for harem fantasies.
COMPANY + PARFUMEUR
I have never heard of the brand Godet. There are a lot of fragrances listed here in the database, half released circa 1900-1925, the other half after 2010, which speaks to an old company that sort of went to sleep at some point and then was revived by heirs or whoever, perhaps similar to Schwarzlose Berlin. A perfumer is not specified, which I find a pity, because with this really innovative fragrance design, one wonders if perhaps a promising young talent is at work here.
PRICE + GENDER
On the company's website, the fragrance is listed at 145 euros per 100ml, so for my terms in the upper middle class. The declaration as unisex is completely convincing for me. A flowery-spicy lavender fragrance can now really wear each*r.
Lavender plays in this fragrance unquestionably the main role, but the opinion that one smells here except lavender actually not much, I can not agree at all. For me, an extraordinarily refined, extremely high-quality seeming, modern, unconventional and exciting lavender composition, which is on the verge (but just on the verge) to tip over into the overloaded or strained clogged. But it doesn't and stays on the cheerful and wearable side. In addition to the lavender, we encounter in particular a cassis theme, a palette of Indian and oriental K-spices, a bold bouquet of flowers and a good dose of nose-wiping benzoin. Very daring (definitely not a somehow "classic" fragrance!) and very beautiful.
NAME
Thanks to Google & Co, I was able to determine that the name "Calme & Volupté" (the translation given here "calm and pleasure" is a bit weak, "volupté" is rather desire, sensuality, [sexual] pleasure) is taken from the song-like poem "Invitation au Voyage" (invitation to travel) by Charles Baudelaire (from the cycle Fleurs du Mal), where the refrain of the song says that at the imaginary destination to which he would like to set off with the you addressed in the poem, there is only "ordre et beauté, luxe, calme et volupté". To me, the name seems only conditionally well chosen, since the fragrance is not at all sultry-sensual at the start, but rather cool and awake. Later, it becomes warmer and, well, with the appropriate imagination, a bit sultry. Overall (considered as a whole) for a lavender fragrance already rather a little heavier and more lush, but not a fragrance for harem fantasies.
COMPANY + PARFUMEUR
I have never heard of the brand Godet. There are a lot of fragrances listed here in the database, half released circa 1900-1925, the other half after 2010, which speaks to an old company that sort of went to sleep at some point and then was revived by heirs or whoever, perhaps similar to Schwarzlose Berlin. A perfumer is not specified, which I find a pity, because with this really innovative fragrance design, one wonders if perhaps a promising young talent is at work here.
PRICE + GENDER
On the company's website, the fragrance is listed at 145 euros per 100ml, so for my terms in the upper middle class. The declaration as unisex is completely convincing for me. A flowery-spicy lavender fragrance can now really wear each*r.
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