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01/08/2012
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Asphaltblume
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Prunus Parade
This was another blind buy - I recalled vaguely that back when they were new I quite liked the Les Belles de Ricci fragrances, but not enough to buy one. I also liked the reviews I found on the web for this one. And the weird flacons, half cat half turd but colourful and with a coronet...
Well, but there was somerthing I overlooked when I shopped this blindly: The smallprint on the covering box said "recharge vaporisateur"... so when I returned home with my loot and opened the box I thought indignantly: Scandal! Fraud! this is a fake!", when what I lifted from its casing was no bright blue turd with crown, but a naked glass bottle with just an ugly little plastic sticker telling of its content. But no, there is "Nina Ricci" coined into the bottom of it. It's supposed to be like that, I hadn't read the smallprint.
So, on to the contents. The atomizer is great, an even, rich and very fine cloud of scent settles on my underarm and reeked of booze. Hootch.
After that had evaporated I could smell citric notes and the pencilly scent of cedarwood. This might only be good enough to eat for compulsive gnawers of pencils. Nothing sweet, creamy, almondy here. The prelude is not even really juicy. Sour fruit and pencil shavings, ain't that great.
But then a sweet redolence is blazing a trail to my expectant nose! Peach, sweet and velvety and with a hint of hydrogen cyanide in its pit. Prunus persica. And it brought kinfolk along - Prunus dulcis and Prunus avium, almond and cherry. The slightly bitter gean or wild cherry, though.
Now this is nice, marzipan with the related stone fruits. Sweet, juicy, delicious. Of course there is a vein of vanilla running through it as well, only I tend to mix it in with the marzipan.
After that there isn't much more to come. The marzipan scent becomes more pronounced and then just coasts along until it fades away. It takes it sweet time for that, still projecting after 8 hours, after 12 it's detectable only from up close.
This is a rather simple but really friendly gourmand fragrance. Peachy :-)
Well, but there was somerthing I overlooked when I shopped this blindly: The smallprint on the covering box said "recharge vaporisateur"... so when I returned home with my loot and opened the box I thought indignantly: Scandal! Fraud! this is a fake!", when what I lifted from its casing was no bright blue turd with crown, but a naked glass bottle with just an ugly little plastic sticker telling of its content. But no, there is "Nina Ricci" coined into the bottom of it. It's supposed to be like that, I hadn't read the smallprint.
So, on to the contents. The atomizer is great, an even, rich and very fine cloud of scent settles on my underarm and reeked of booze. Hootch.
After that had evaporated I could smell citric notes and the pencilly scent of cedarwood. This might only be good enough to eat for compulsive gnawers of pencils. Nothing sweet, creamy, almondy here. The prelude is not even really juicy. Sour fruit and pencil shavings, ain't that great.
But then a sweet redolence is blazing a trail to my expectant nose! Peach, sweet and velvety and with a hint of hydrogen cyanide in its pit. Prunus persica. And it brought kinfolk along - Prunus dulcis and Prunus avium, almond and cherry. The slightly bitter gean or wild cherry, though.
Now this is nice, marzipan with the related stone fruits. Sweet, juicy, delicious. Of course there is a vein of vanilla running through it as well, only I tend to mix it in with the marzipan.
After that there isn't much more to come. The marzipan scent becomes more pronounced and then just coasts along until it fades away. It takes it sweet time for that, still projecting after 8 hours, after 12 it's detectable only from up close.
This is a rather simple but really friendly gourmand fragrance. Peachy :-)
