Top Notes
Bergamot
Pear
Lilac
Grapefruit
Cucumber
Hyacinth
Cassia
Mandarin orange
Peach
Plum
Blackcurrant
Heart Notes
Wisteria
Heliotrope
Jasmine
Coconut
Lily of the valley
Black locust
Rose
Base Notes
Amber
Caramel
Musk
Sandalwood
Glycyrrhiza glabra
Tonka bean
Vanilla
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Notes06/09/2021
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As an alchemist on the wrong track
"Alchimie" by Rochas - another stop on my route of discontinued pearls. A flower tornado by Cavallier-Belletrud that could never find its target audience. Or only after it had been tamped down by a few patient perfumas. But which, alas, cannot ignite any passion in me, nor any mourning for its withering...
If you put on "Alchemy", then you know what you get as an overt theme, an opulent florality, but otherwise this tangled wonder elixir is full of debauchery, detours and side buds. This, of course, can irritate, especially the more mainstream testers. So the premature capping of the stocks is hardly surprising. Sometimes you smell mild vanilla, sometimes creamy sandalwood. Very often, however, quite a few flowers wink through in turn, from the staid lilac to the distinguished rose, a broad tableau that cheekily and cheerfully undercut, undermine and exchange each other. Playful and confused, puffy and unclear. A bouquet without rules, a fragrance without a clear direction for me. Even if that sounds too strict. There probably should have been a clear "main character" for me. So it remains with good, but not memorable.
Flacon: 90s kitsch. I like. Kunstwerkig.
Sillage: grumpy and yet comes barely crooked
Durability: 7-9 hours, rather more, at that time one let oneself in this discipline hardly lumpen
Conclusion: a chaotic (but never completely cacophonous!) Mix of powerhouse and showcase lady, of fruitiness and floral dream, of exoticism and Parisian noblesse. Hard to grasp, hard to love for me. Just fine. Fruity free thinker and globetrotter
If you put on "Alchemy", then you know what you get as an overt theme, an opulent florality, but otherwise this tangled wonder elixir is full of debauchery, detours and side buds. This, of course, can irritate, especially the more mainstream testers. So the premature capping of the stocks is hardly surprising. Sometimes you smell mild vanilla, sometimes creamy sandalwood. Very often, however, quite a few flowers wink through in turn, from the staid lilac to the distinguished rose, a broad tableau that cheekily and cheerfully undercut, undermine and exchange each other. Playful and confused, puffy and unclear. A bouquet without rules, a fragrance without a clear direction for me. Even if that sounds too strict. There probably should have been a clear "main character" for me. So it remains with good, but not memorable.
Flacon: 90s kitsch. I like. Kunstwerkig.
Sillage: grumpy and yet comes barely crooked
Durability: 7-9 hours, rather more, at that time one let oneself in this discipline hardly lumpen
Conclusion: a chaotic (but never completely cacophonous!) Mix of powerhouse and showcase lady, of fruitiness and floral dream, of exoticism and Parisian noblesse. Hard to grasp, hard to love for me. Just fine. Fruity free thinker and globetrotter
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