Gentilhomme

Actually, with the description "aquatic", I'm out of it from the start. Also, there is usually no compatibility between me and oud... with the words "actually" and "normally" it is a matter of filler words and they come therefore only a low value of statement to.

Is this fragrance also to be considered like a filler word? I find that by no means and enter, surprised at myself, a fragrance region in which I feel rather uncomfortable.
The venture pays off...

Aigle Impérial serves the role of fresh-woody-spicy genre in Chopard's oud-assafi-quadriga without overflowing aquatics and overly penetrating oud notes.

The top note is dominated for my sense of bergamot and ginger, the matcha tea takes both their bite and already now light oud and incense clouds are perceptible. All in all, a slightly smoky-citrusy opening with small green speckles.

In the heart, more smoke and quite a lot of wood comes into play what seamlessly increases in the base further. The incense has rather a cool and slightly sacred odeur, patchouli and the two oudnoten are tart and dark.

In this fragrance I think of a small Buddhist temple in northern Thailand in the early morning after a violent tropical thunderstorm, so associates for me then with the idea that the listed woods were soaking wet, also a very rudimentary aquatic.

All around a successful fragrance with extremely good durability and pleasant sillage.
Wearable also quite at warmer temperatures. Unisex yes, but...

The entire presentation seems luxurious, but also a little out of time. The flacons of the series are designed in petrol-colored glass, very massive and remind of the fact that the fragrances come as a collection extension of a jeweler, in the classic staircase cut therefore, as it is common, for example, with aquamarines.

Testenswert is the series in any case, although also nothing really groundbreaking or unique is there

These white blossoming agave plants fascinate, maltreat, traumatize and follow me since my earliest childhood. In our family, tuberose scents were somehow always a part of my female relatives.

Grandma on her mother's side used Fracas of Piguet during her life, Grandma on her father's side Crescendo of Lanvin my mother in the 70's and 80's Balahé of Léonard, Chloé and Lacroix' C'est La Vie... I liked these fragrances very much at all and they always gave me a pleasant feeling of security and home.

In those days, 1970-1980, I didn't know what to do with perfumes, I got my first fragrances in 1985, for my 15th birthday as a present... Macassar of Rochas and Ébène of Balmain... Long time ago.

But now back to tuberose, I have been looking for a long time for a tuberose fragrance that you can wear as a man, unfortunately only with very moderate success, mostly the Odeurs favored by me were too feminine (eg Do Son by Diptyque or Moon Bloom by Hiram Green) and / or only with simultaneous intake of an ibuprofen 800retard reasonably wearable ... especially e.g. Histoires de Parfums Tubereuse 1-3

Now, after years, quasi en passant, I have found the tuberose perfume for me: Species Land Marfa by Memo.
This fragrance does not bite me, pinch me or cause headaches or other traumas. Perfectly balanced ingredients envelop you in a velvety creamy aura, without leaving this puffy undertone of these flowers. Sandalwood and cedar give a beautiful woody base that was ultimately the deciding factor to buy this fragrance. The fragrance lasts for a good 10 hours without too much sillage, which I find perfect with this fragrance.

Finally found the tuberose for me and thanks to the charming saleswoman of one of the best perfumeries in the Rhineland I am also open to the brand Memo... the next one will be French Leather or Eau de Memo, we'll see ;-)