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09/02/2018
Nofretete
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Nofretete
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10
Late summer evening sun in bottles
This fragrance, which bears the name "Intense", is not characterized by particularly loud notes or strong sillage. But it works like a concentrate: as if one had tried to capture the light and warmth of summer - that which makes plants grow and fruits ripen - to preserve it over winter for the next spring.
The fragrance opens bitter-citric with grapefruit, not juicy, but oily-concentrated like in potpourri. A densifying breath of cedar wood is blowing over it, just freshly pulverized for incense. Add some pepper, rather pink with hints of juniper berries and cardamom.
Then it becomes flowery, but not like rose, but like marigold with its characteristic caramely-brandy skingout, removed like aceto balsamico, delicately spicy - not unpleasant at all, but very unusual. Soon soft rose geranium appears, but only from afar. And again citrus is added, spicy sun-kissed Pomeranze, similar to the grapefruit at the beginning, like brownish English Sevilla orange jam, but pure fruit without added sugar.
Over several hours the floral spice gradually mixes with dark vetiver and a little earthy patchouli. The fragrance becomes rounder and softer.
The interesting effects are probably due to the extensive use of test tubes, but the fragrance does not appear synthetic. It remains always interesting by the beautiful flowing transitions and many nuances and is very atmospheric.
Conclusion: This was a blind purchase out of curiosity because of the strange fragrance pyramid with wood in the head note and citrus in the heart note, plus my favourites Rose, Geranium & Vetiver. Although the fragrance is quite different from what was expected, namely above all spicy, it is by no means disappointing: extraordinary, apart, harmonious.
Unisex, for late summer to autumn, good durability, medium sillage, rather for evenings.
The fragrance opens bitter-citric with grapefruit, not juicy, but oily-concentrated like in potpourri. A densifying breath of cedar wood is blowing over it, just freshly pulverized for incense. Add some pepper, rather pink with hints of juniper berries and cardamom.
Then it becomes flowery, but not like rose, but like marigold with its characteristic caramely-brandy skingout, removed like aceto balsamico, delicately spicy - not unpleasant at all, but very unusual. Soon soft rose geranium appears, but only from afar. And again citrus is added, spicy sun-kissed Pomeranze, similar to the grapefruit at the beginning, like brownish English Sevilla orange jam, but pure fruit without added sugar.
Over several hours the floral spice gradually mixes with dark vetiver and a little earthy patchouli. The fragrance becomes rounder and softer.
The interesting effects are probably due to the extensive use of test tubes, but the fragrance does not appear synthetic. It remains always interesting by the beautiful flowing transitions and many nuances and is very atmospheric.
Conclusion: This was a blind purchase out of curiosity because of the strange fragrance pyramid with wood in the head note and citrus in the heart note, plus my favourites Rose, Geranium & Vetiver. Although the fragrance is quite different from what was expected, namely above all spicy, it is by no means disappointing: extraordinary, apart, harmonious.
Unisex, for late summer to autumn, good durability, medium sillage, rather for evenings.
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