Eqel

I expected more from this due to the good reviews recieved , but I got a very average perfume at first sight . Fresh , a bit synthetic feeling and a non destacable performance . Next .

I consider Mirto di Panarea to have a much better quality altough i can't smell it after the initial 15 minutes .

Hard to improve the opening ; it does not smell anything at all to alcohol, from the beginning a smooth tobacco, similar to Avant Garde (obviously clearing the quality distances) or Volutes or Fumerie, is clearly visible.

it is said that the Brandy chord that uses part of an absolute that is worth $ 19,000 per kilo ... I do not know , for me with the alcoholic notes it always happens to me the same, I do not smell alcohol, I guess they give texture, background, character but I do not smell Brandy to be honest .

The perfume seems to me rather linear , also like almost all tobbacos it has sweet nuances (it is not a very obvious candy or a very obvious tonka since the protagonist is tobacco and the two mentioned ingredients make an accompaniment function, perhaps the brandy also favor that soft sweetness.

And well, it may have traces of woods and orange blossom but in much less intensity. Now in the deep drying maybe I also dare to say that it is less sweet and it may be that mildy salty .

With two sprays I smell it well for about 7 hours it has even given me two compliments, one newly put and another at 45 minutes approx.

I do not usually aceept or join these prices and there are similar things out there, but I must admit that the perfume is very good.

Recently , it seems that I am exigent . This perfume doesn't suit me . The powdery note reminds me to anothers where I didn´t like . Here this note along with the leather are not so prominent compared to other perfumes , but I feel both don´t pair well with the vanilla . Vanilla doesn´t feel like cloying neither resinous , it´s rather balsamic , soft and powdery . This is feeling ( as always ) is far from the complexity of a vanilla pod but it´s nice anyway . I think almond here is used to give that powdery texture like many perfumes do . And finally , I can also smell in a small dosage a body of notes that Cecile usually uses in order to achieve her style or signature : heliotropo , frangipani etc ... as a mixture instead isolated .

It has a good performance but it´s not for me .

I expected more resemblance to its flankers but , it differs a lot .

Although it doesn´t declare grapefruit , according to fragrantica the wood of pear tree is a note that tries to evoke the fruit and the wood and the truth is that I could notice a sweetness during all its development that doesn´t seem to correspond only to the amber . According to the official website , this note of pear wood also confers an "African" leather aroma , but being honest , I see little leather ...

Woods and spices give the serious and formal counterpoint in the background ( I perceive it rather linear ) since what dominates throughout his life is that sweetness halfway between the warm and the fresh, a quality that is very pleasant and makes the perfume to my liking even it isn´t any paragon of quality.

The performance, I believe that influenced by the fact that I made a split and took off many mls in 5 minutes, I smelled it without problems for many hours, but as I say, this is usually normal when you have the bottle in less than half. in 5 minutes hehe.
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Excellent performance for this perfume that is sold on Spanish Supermarkets given its smell, which above all reminds Kouros at first, then it looks more like Antaeus. Except for an initial flash of laurel, I smell more like the mixture of the two perfumes that I say. It is like more herbal and rough , the other two seem somewhat more polished and soothing.
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