XPEC Original 2002

XPEC Original by XPEC
Bottle Design John Fewster
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7.7 / 10 75 Ratings
A popular perfume by XPEC for men, released in 2002. The scent is spicy-chypreartig. Projection and longevity are above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Spicy
Chypre
Animal
Floral
Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
TuberoseTuberose LemonLemon ThymeThyme
Heart Notes Heart Notes
GingerGinger PepperPepper FennelFennel
Base Notes Base Notes
OakmossOakmoss CedarwoodCedarwood

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.775 Ratings
Longevity
8.862 Ratings
Sillage
8.153 Ratings
Bottle
4.946 Ratings
Submitted by Seglein, last update on 06.02.2023.

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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Bottle
9
Sillage
9
Longevity
10
Scent
Birdee

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Birdee
Birdee
Top Review 16  
Kook's blood relative
Don't you know a family with that one person you keep wondering if their parents really took the right newborn home from the hospital that time?

The one where you think, how is it possible that SHE is related to THEM?

With the legendary great-great-grandma, the tuberose, which sometimes pompously calls itself 'Agave polianthes', which most people only know from hearing smells, but which is reported to be beguilingly beautiful. (Others, however, think it has the charm of a giant, grumpy celeriac, but that doesn't detract from the legend.)

Or with the primordial Fracas, the Resolute, who straight-up slaps her bubblegum opinion into everyone's olfactory organ, regardless of whether it's in the form of partial anosmia or a migraine.
Or with the others named Poison, Loulou, Giorgio or Eden, all of them loudly whooping, funny, plump and not to be over-scented aunts, with whom you like to have your fun.... but then also glad when the door closes behind them and peace returns.

Or all the numerous cousins like Cèdre, MMMM..., Do Son and Truth or Dare, who are, well, the daughters of those aunts.

And let's not forget tragic cousin Mahora, who is constantly squeezing her too-exuberant flesh into too-expensive and too-tight clothes, and who would sooo love to be what this 'relative' is here:
A serious, pale young woman who, with her crisp dryness, obviously never perspires (how does she do it?), who doesn't have an ounce too much on her powerful firm body (how does she do it??), who can sit bolt upright for hours on end (how does she do it???), in a skin-tight, floor-length dress of iridescent powder-pink silk, without the dress getting a single wrinkle (how does she manage... oh, never mind), while nonchalantly mastering the most boring of conversations without letting it shine through how bored she is by it all.

Where does she get this strength?

It is the power that the others shout out unrestrainedly and which thus fizzles out unused. It is the power that lies deep within her and that makes its way outward as acerbic, cool, unrelenting sophistication. It is a quality that none in her family even begin to possess.

Unlike all her related tuberoses, she appears like a completely bloodless flower, only to blossom into a thoroughbred lady as a result.

She lives on her own planet, and perhaps she wonders on many a night, when her crisp, dry skin glistens especially beautifully in the moonlight, as if dusted with a little powdered sugar, and the moss gently fans out its tangy scent to her in special soft billows, how it can be that she is related to all these other tuberose scents. But she would never ask that question aloud, of course, because there is far too much natural nobility in her for that.
She is now once a class of its own.

Yes, and Mahora? Now there she has tried so hard and managed to marry into a highly respected house, only to realize that even the Guerlain name is of no use if you've gotten the wrong genes.

She could puke every time she sees her cousin XPEC
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Bottle
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Meggi

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Meggi
Meggi
Top Review 35  
I'm glad I only tried it now!
No other fragrance was on my watch list longer than this one. When I walked around here in my early perfume days, wondering what was available, XPEC Original - more or less by chance - became the first entry. It was thanks to Jumi that I was finally able to test him. I took the generously measured sample every now and then over the months and gradually emptied it almost completely, yet I hardly have the impression to be able to give sorted thoughts of myself. The following paragraphs are therefore not to be understood as a clear sequence, but should actually merge into each other - ultimately as marginal areas of a large, common whole, in which tuberose finds truly worthy comrades-in-arms.

What a brew! Good thing I only tried it now, with a little more experience. At that time, in 2013, he would have blown me over. He doesn't have to hide from no 80s buzz.

Short glue in front, then dark floral nuances, rubbed off by a bitter, completely unsweet citrus spice emery. An abyss. Hours pass before I'm sure of concrete spices and wonder why I didn't smell the thyme immediately. The fruit note can best be described as a ginger-citrus candy - if that doesn't sound much too good in context. The effect of such a sweet would be similar to that of Madam Pomfrey, the school nurse from Hogwarts, who is in charge of feeding up: it eliminates any cold in an instant, but the cured people get smoke from their ears for a few hours. By the way, I'd be the first one to enthusiastically try such stuff, potion like candy. Second "by the way": It is often to be smelled that tuberose is turned in the direction of fruit candy, presumably in order to trivialize it. Today it is clear that this is not necessarily the case.

A neat location Rosengeranium, which, however, is less scratchy than elsewhere, instead tones in herb-floral, discreetly soaped elegance. All this does not have to be considered at all as decidedly masculine in the sense of perhaps angular. Piguets 44er 'Bandit' (no twin, only object of illustration!) for example is intended for the ladies and still lets the - naturally metaphorical - eggs hang out even more demonstratively than the present candidate.

Dark-bitter wood, on the threshold to charring, softened by a subtle creamy sweetness. The term "peat fire" already fell - fits. Anyway, a diffuse smoky aura, not quite tangible. "Herbaceous-peaty" or "Warm-peaty" would also hit.

In the late morning, the big whole conjured up in the first paragraph seems to finally stand. A soft fruity-floral, deep dark aura on abysmal wood. The thyme is unobtrusive, but clear, citric-rough underlaid. For his part, spiced not only by a trace of fruity sweetness, like a wink, but also by a hint of unwashedness. Only noticeable directly on the skin and by no means as penetrating as in Micallefs 'Emir', for example. In addition a rough leathery grazing association (Castoreum?) as well as a kind of pebble note, as it were, to complete the picture, which presumably originates alchemistically from all of the aforementioned and is to be noticed for hours, although not overflowing, so nevertheless well.

The slow construction of the fragrance scaffold has obviously paid off, because 'XPEC Original' glides through the afternoon with unchanged power. An increasing intensity in citrus makes me think at first of dextrose with an orange flavour, and later on I can guess behind it effervescent powder Citral. That would be an explanation for the fruity, almost sparkling eye wink, which breaks the tip of the floral as well as the animal fraction.

What do we do now? My description sounds like a violent mess even to me. But that's not the case. Since the aforementioned almost a year ago, I have been amazed every time I wear 'XPEC Original' that almost from the beginning, at the latest from the progressive morning on, a barely perceptible veil like chiffon seems to float over the fragrance, a mitigating as well as connecting element at the same time. Only in this cautious taming does the power inherent in perfume become a truly sovereign one, and with that I am in...

...Conclusion: The fact that I am 'XPEC Original' personally not "am" and he does not completely meet my preferences does not change the fact that this is a big litter. The masculine classification should not deter. The fabric is not for little girls, but for real women I imagine it to be wonderful.
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