Andalusian Soul The Merchant Of Venice 2018

Andalusian Soul by The Merchant Of Venice

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Andalusian Soul (The Merchant Of Venice)

8.0 / 10 381 Ratings

Andalusian Soul is a popular perfume by The Merchant Of Venice for women and men and was released in 2018. The scent is sweet-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by Mavive. Pronunciation

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Main accords

Sweet

Spicy

Gourmand

Smoky

Creamy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Amber

Rum

Acacia

Heart Notes

Balsamic notes

Labdanum

Smoky notes

Cistus

Base Notes

Vanilla

Amber

Clary sage

Ratings

Scent

8.0381 Ratings

Longevity

8.1320 Ratings

Sillage

7.6313 Ratings

Bottle

8.7309 Ratings

Value for money

7.6174 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 13.04.2024.

Reviews

13 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/18/2019

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 10
Longevity 7
Scent

Mydarkflower
18 Reviews

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Mydarkflower

Top Review 62

"Make a fist!" or "Food that causes violence."

My mama has a mania for cleaning, which naturally included us when we were children (and today the grandchildren, of course).
She ran after us, felt, constantly with a washcloth, cleaned around at us and after any food intake on our part the call "Make fist and go wash hands!"
sounded The purpose behind all this was that on our way to the bathroom for God's sake we should not touch anything and should not stick anything. Light switches and door handles were then operated with the elbow, the faucet with the wrist, towels that had fallen down were lifted with the feet etc.

This behavior has become flesh and blood for me and.... i hate nothing more than to have sticky hands or to stick anywhere at all.
This feeling causes an absolute and immediate washing compulsion in me.
Everything else is no problem: Dusty, full of mud, encrusted or greasy I can stand it the whole day..... but sticky!
Not a second.

An ex of mine once had the insanely great idea - probably after he had seen "9 1/2 weeks" - to bring some momentum into our sex life with his presentation of a food-based meeting I just disgusting, because I think it's sticky - and so in the heat of the moment I poured a glass of honey over my chest and belly.
He had certainly thought about it and also painted certain things, but so quickly he could not see at all, there came first my fist flown and then I was already with a sentence under the shower.
We weren't together much longer after that either.

As beautiful as "Andalusian Soul" is, as tasty and edible it smells of acacia honey and vanilla sauce and as much as I would like to eat it ..... the stuff sticks!
Well, not really, but felt.
As if I had rolled myself naggically in sugar syrup and trickled some of it into my nose.

I can't stand it.
Where's the shower?

03/16/2020

10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

Pollita
224 Reviews

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Pollita

Top Review 34

Expensive Dupe?

This week, my better half had a gentlemen's evening on the programme again. The ideal opportunity for me to intensively deal with my scent samples, to sniff and analyse which beautiful treasures have found their way to me. There is one thing I get stuck on relatively quickly: Andalusian soul from The Merchant of Venice. I'm a big fan of Spain, which is why the name of the fragrance already appealed to me. And also what I sniffed, I liked very much. A vanilla scent with seductive sweetness and a cuddly musk base. But wait! He looks familiar. And then the scales fell from my eyes. That's Tokyomilk's Let them Eat Cake I bought about ten years ago. A lovely fragrance for lovers of fine sweet smells. Anyone who feels at home with the gourmands of Profumum Roma or enjoys fragrances like Hypnotic Poison could also enjoy this fragrance. While the Tokyomilk gets by with only a few ingredients (vanilla and musk are joined by sugar cane and coconut), I find an extensive scent pyramid at the Merchant of Venice. But I can smell mainly vanilla and musk. But musk is not supposed to be contained in the Andalusian sun, but amber in the head and base note, rum, smoky and much more. But I don't find anything of that, respectively my nose. I would have liked to perceive the smoky notes so beautifully described by Serenissima, which I usually like very much in combination with vanilla, but unfortunately, this is not the case.

The fragrance is sweet without being sticky and annoying (provided you like the above) and is a pleasant companion on cool days. I usually don't expect complexity from a gourmand scent anyway, so it's absolutely OK for me that it's rather simple knitted. Compared to Tokyomilk it might have a minimal fragrance development from head to heart, but after half an hour I have exactly the Tokyomilk scent in front of me, as I remember it.

If I had not already owned it, the Andalusian Soul could have become a candidate for purchase. Because I really like the smell. Then I thought about whether I would need the Tokyomilk again and thought, no, you didn't buy it then, so why now? Curious as I am, of course I checked if Let them Eat Cake still exists. And yes, it does. And it is still priced at 39,99 €. For this price I bought it also back then.

Therewith, the joy about the Andalusian Soul is relativized very fast, as here, we have a scent that costs nearly five times as much. Really a fine one, the scent is beautiful and will find its lovers. Of course, the bottle is also an eye-catcher, a thing that is surely an incentive to buy for many people. But my Swabian grandmother says: "You haven't eaten out of a nice bowl yet." Because when I look at the prices of his twin, who already has a few more years on his back, I find that a little bit cheeky.

Just a few thoughts.
Many thanks to Madame Legras for the rehearsal.

12/19/2018

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 10
Longevity 8.5
Scent

DonJuanDeCat
656 Reviews

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DonJuanDeCat

Top Review 20

It snows by the sea too!

Hello folks, today I present a fragrance from "The Merchant of Venice", a fragrance brand named after a work by Shakespeare. Today it's "Andalusian Soul"'s turn, which already reminds us of the summer by its name, because Andalusia and Spain in general is a beautiful destination in summer (yes, there are also other Spanish destinations besides Mallorca... :D).

It's also cold there now, but still you think of beautiful old town places, great landscapes, delicious food (paella!!!) and beautiful beaches with great water (... uuuuand I know that you're thinking NOW that I'll certainly write the following: "Oooh beaches! I'm thinking about hot "bikini babes",... what do you have an opinion about me again?! Tsss... okay, yes admitted, I find "hot bikini babes" great, ... but shows me someone who (or even the) attractive people would not look after, especially on the beach, yes yes, ... at least she's honest and admit it, even if some Hater should think me here for perverted or horny ... especially since they check of fun and humor even less nothing :DD). Anyway, you know what this is all about? That's right One thinks of the (next) holiday, just now, when it is snowing! Snow is nice, but it's raining more and more. Anyway, while I'm typing these lines here.

I, on the other hand, like snow, even if I would have preferred it to have snowed at Christmas, because it just looks more beautiful :)
And although it snowed recently for a few hours, the Schnell unfortunately only stayed for a few hours and disappeared as fast as it had come. Too bad,... somehow I miss the days where the snow had covered the cities for days and everything shone in beautiful white (well and later everything was dipped more in black mud,... but that's part of it :D).

Be that as it may, back to the fragrance: Andalusian Soul not only sounds great by name, but also seems to offer great, fragrant scents, and I hope that the composition of the fragrance is as great as everything sounds!

The fragrance:

Oh, wow, the scent is really "delicious" at first. I smell light acacia, combined with intense vanilla, some rum and amber. On the first nose, the fragrance has a rather sweet, chocolate-like scent (reminiscent of Guerlain's L'Instant pour Homme, but without the anise). Then it becomes more powdery and gets a nice alcoholic note from the rum. Moreover, it is very soft and tender, which comes as usual from the mentioned vanilla, but the balsamic resinous notes intensify this effect even more. Then you notice the smoky character of the fragrance, which doesn't look so bad at all. I think it's a pity that the great top note fades out a bit too fast, which means that the fragrance soon starts to smell like vanilla, while all the other fragrances retreat further into the background. Anyway, I smell another herbaceous note, which must be sage. It may seem unusual on the first smell (so with all the powdery-sweet scents), but it looks quite nice and smells good like all the other scents here (I like sage as a scent anyway!).
Very much much later there is hardly anything left to smell of most of the scents, except of course the vanilla, which still smells strong and very authentic. A beautiful fragrance, which could have let some fragrances appear longer.

The Sillage and the shelf life:

The Sillage has turned out quite well, only a few sprayers are enough to fragrance the whole room with it. This means that in my opinion he will be good to smell for a longer period of time.
Actually I should divide such scents by the durability, how long you can smell the actual scent, and how long you only smell the vanilla :D So the "actual" scent can be smelled for four hours, but the vanilla seems to stick endlessly long, because I could smell this scent the next morning quite well on my arm :D

The bottle:

The bottle is very beautiful, as you are used to with the brand. It has a vase-like shape and has different yellow-orange shades, making it somehow summery, although the scent is more of a winter scent. The transparent lid is straight at the bottom and curves outwards. At the neck you can see as always the name of the brand as well as a cord with a tassel, which hangs on it as a nice decoration.

Hm, Andalusian Soul is really an excellent fragrance! But a nagger, as I sometimes am, I have to make a small point of criticism about this as well. That's not so bad now, but I think that the vanilla wins the upper hand a bit too fast. What I mean to say is that vanilla quickly becomes quite intense and most of the other fragrances are a little overshadowed. The top note with the amber and rum could therefore have radiated a little longer. Apart from that, the fragrance is wonderful because it has a nice powdery, soft and sweet scent. In addition it has a nice, but light smoky character.

All in all a beautiful fragrance that can be used well in autumn and winter. And as is so often the case, this scent actually always works. During the day you should possibly dose it less, so that it doesn't get on the nerves of other employees, fellow students or who else is there in the long run, in the evening when going out you can give the smell to yourself but really so that you come across tasty :))

Aaah, Andalusian Soul... somehow now I have to think about Gazpachos. These actually quite simple, but nevertheless very tasty vegetable soups, which come across especially in summer cold very well (but they can also be eaten warm, as far as I know!).

Soo, I hope it snows here again soon. Somehow this doesn't seem to please my cat (Attention, now a little cat story follows!) at all. Normally after breakfast he goes out a little bit before he goes to bed... but recently after the first contact with an evil snowflake he almost panicked and ran back into the apartment (and then dozed off immediately) :D

10/31/2018

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Serenissima
608 Reviews

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Serenissima

Top Review 16

Longing for El Andalus - captured in a flacon

The last sunny day in October reminds us of the forthcoming November.
Even though this month, as often in the last years, is not only grey in grey, it is still a bit on all our minds: the seemingly endless summer is over, the Advent season with its lights and promises (I don't want to remind you of calories!) still seems far away.
The days are dark and short, the year rushes me fast steps towards its shortest day.

That's why I'm going to sunny Andalusia today - El Andaluz!
The scent magicians of "The Merchant of Venice" have succeeded in capturing the fragrant, light-flooded evening above the Alhambra above Granada.
Captured in a bottle that already satisfies the first longing for all that harmony and warmth.
The glassblowers of Murano have again put a lot of effort into transforming an impression into a glass work of art - they have succeeded!

"Alhambra", the Red Castle, sits picturesquely in front of the always slightly snow-covered peaks of the Sierra Nevada!
I'm afraid it's almost impossible to get into the right mood for "Andalusian Soul" without these commonplaces.
Although in "The Merchant of Venice" the old Malaga is mentioned as the centre of this thoroughly feminine fragrance.

And yet the Albhambra lion's yard is very much alive in front of my nose: the famous fountain with the seven lions; the pleasant peace after the tourist streams have left this place ("Come on! Follow the yellow umbrella, please!"), the audibly rippling water that promises purity and coolness. The charm of the reddish and multi-faceted buildings surrounding the courtyard in the slightly subdued evening light.
From there you can visit the numerous gardens, some of them enchanted, where jasmine, roses and myrrh float balsamily through this evening atmosphere.

"Andalusian Soul" opens with one of those subtle acacia nuances that cannot deny its relationship to mimosa. Golden amber spice is accompanied by rum, rich and golden brown and very fragrant,.
A somewhat different entrée than expected; not sweet and soft, but rather spicy and a little tart.
The crumpled cistus itself and its spicy Labdanum resin underline the tendency to spice. I love both of them very much, so this fragrance is very welcome to me.
Sage adds a little scent to this somewhat unusual mixture, which is now surprisingly soft thanks to the delicate scent of orange blossoms: a magical effect is created.
Even if rosemary, this somewhat rough-bodied journeyman, cannot be prevented from adding its spicy needles. It does not disturb, it only underlines a harmonious whole!
This very pleasant spice gets an equal opponent by a powerful, but very skillfully dosed vanilla gift. They've earned each other!
Rum, bitter-spicy blossoms and resins in addition now still creamy sweet vanilla: what do you want more?
Amber also sets clear scent and felt light accents here once again.
This Andalusian soul now opens itself to me with a lot of warmth and tenderness; appeals to all senses very positively.

Due to my lack of body heat, "Andalusian Soul" seems to have a completely different fragrance than the sweet gourmandise announced here.
I discover a slightly resinous, smoky and spicy fragrance that gradually develops towards warm sensuality through vanilla and amber.
However, in the end the delicate delicacy of the orange blossoms is lost; it is somewhat overrun by the base note.
Through my experiences with "Andalusian Soul" I can imagine this fragrance also well on a gentleman; if he takes this fragrance development, which I notice with me.
Because the feminine accent already predominates here.

I don't have to mention my affinity for Venice anymore and it's well known that these fragrance artworks of "The Merchant of Venice" have long since found a place in my hungry soul's scent.
"Andalusian Soul", however, awakens the longing for El Andaluz and Morocco, which is always dormant in me and which I have not yet been able to justify. She's there, pulling in that direction all the time!

Therefore this smell will probably be allowed to move in one day nevertheless with me.
"Andalusian Soul" conveys dream images full of these typical subdued colours and sets the mood for a fantastic journey; a tour guide in a fantastically beautiful Murano bottle: wonderful harmony!
I will take good care of the few drops of this "flying carpet" of my dreams!

06/16/2020

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

RedVanilla
36 Reviews

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Very helpful Review 16

Vanilla ice cream with rum raisins or the curse of the Caribbean!

Yeah, I just broke my legs from your rum supply. Honestly, that's what you get for being so good-natured. You give a stray pirate shelter and it smells like the worst pirate's dive. Oh, and now this is not supposed to be your rum, but my new perfume, or I would have sprayed myself generously with it. What cheek! I would never do that
Where did I put the bottle? In the bathroom. (Which, by the way, Jack uses far too rarely!) But leave me alone now I have to write a perfume review, I have to concentrate and there's no sniffing or drooling around on my wrist. Go play with your pirate friends and let me write in peace now. If you leave now, we will search for your Black Pearl together tomorrow
So finally he's gone and I can concentrate on the essentials. So Andalusian Soul begins with a wonderful rum note, the kind of rum that has matured for decades in old barrels and now has developed a heavy and delicious aroma. Acacia and amber add to this scent perception very nicely. This impression remains superficially for almost half an hour and this scent is already something special and surely there will be people here who do not want to smell like after a longer stay in a pirate's dive. I personally like this rum aroma very much. It's just something different After this first scent impression has vanished, the vanilla, as always, does not want to wait any longer and prepares its big entrance and this with great power. This vanilla takes no prisoners and brings a powerful sweetness into play, whereby the rum is still easy to perceive and smells simply delicious together with the vanilla. Together both main components remain for me nevertheless 8 to 10 hours and thus one has here nevertheless a longer smell experience. The environment also perceives the scent very intensively, because the silage is very room-filling for a few hours.

So now I have to look where I have placed my new perfume exactly. The bathroom was right, but where did it go? Oh, there's a note from Jack. What does it say? I went for a drink with my friends and took your perfume with me to test it myself and share it with my friends. I didn't want to smell of seaweed and gunpowder anymore, but to make a fragrant impression on the ladies. If there is anything left over, you will get the rest back. Best regards, Jack
So you've heard that from the goblin man? This rascal is stealing my new perfume for himself and his worn-out gang of pirate friends. I can't believe I got my hands on the worst pirate ever. I'm going to capsize his beloved Black Pearl and keel him for sure. Well, sniff, I think I have some vanilla ice cream in the fridge and there must be some rum raisins somewhere.

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