Hirondelle

Such contrasting reviews arouse my interest. Shalimar and its X Flanker accompany me for a while, some I find successful, others superfluous. I immediately bought this fragrance, which I actually rarely do (and especially for the proud price of 145 CHF!). And two days later purchased another flacon.

I can not get away from it. At the same time I have many fragrances that are more complex, more durable, more interesting. Much I also had to think of Ellena, who resists the claim that a good perfume would be defined, among other things, by a good shelf life. He is much interested in Japan and in the typical Japanese volatility, or transience of the beautiful (which thus also explains, at least in part, that durability is not a particularly great strength of his fragrance compositions, although some of his fragrances always strike a certain chord with me).

This Shalimarflanker will thus certainly be in the sense Ellenas and gradually I can actually make friends with this attitude.

Yes, you have to re-spray a lot, the scent escapes quickly, but at the same time you want it again and again. Yes, he is actually quite simple knit, no particular course, no complexity. What there is to say in relation to the fragrance factually has already been said, but: he has something that triggers a hunting reflex in me, a long time has not driven me a perfume into insomnia, and that too without an understandable explanation. Also, I had resolved to write more factual reviews, but here just happens something that simply can not be explained "factually", you have to experience it.

I am extremely grateful for this flight of fancy, like a day with a person who means a lot to you and whom you will not see again for a long time, a certain simultaneity of joy and melancholy, since this fragrance is limited, go hand in hand with each other.

Sometimes I think that with some things it would be better not to know everything, or not to reveal everything. It's like when your partner tells you a story about an ex-girlfriend that you wouldn't have liked to know about, but that still sticks in the creases of your brain, and you can't get rid of it... And yet it is the totality of all our partner's experiences that makes him so attractive to us. Transferable to perfume? Of course!

Violet Ida totally blew me away, warm, powdery, but somehow special. Something was different, but nothing that would have stuck out disturbingly. Iris, heliotrope, all wonderful, tested, bought, loved(, married...). And then I went on Parfumo.

Carrot.
Seriously?

But the first overall intuitive impression (bottom-up) was wonderfully harmonious - how does that go together with vegetables?! First of all, I pay tribute to Mr. Nardin, because when you compose a perfume through the top-down process, you have to be able to imagine the intuitive bottom-up process of a tester smelling a perfume from scratch. Have that vision that he totally hit the mark with me. And when you think about all the taste associations I have with carrots, suddenly it's not so far-fetched that this note blends pleasantly into this pot pourri extremely harmoniously. Carrot soup in winter (with crème fraîche ...and a hint of ginger). Delicious. Also, this creaminess of the finely pureed soup, it's as if this tactile component has been translated into olfactory. Grandmother's sweet carrots with roux (by the way, one of her house daughters, i.e. young girls in home economics training in the sixties noted "sweat soup" instead of "roux"). Slightly stale kitchen smell, but still just before it tips over into the unpleasant.

Wow. The scent is a dream when sprayed on. Also has something slightly scratchy, biting (carrot herb!?). The scratchy disappears quickly, however, it could have remained quietly, because quite soon the fragrance is round, soft, a tad too mainstream, also it flies then quite soon, there remains a bit of vanilla ambra, but no longer reminiscent of the dream top note. In the top note, however, is near perfection.... mostly thanks to the carrot! It would have benefited from a little more grounding as it progressed, perhaps some pink pepper, raspberry leaf, or a tiny touch of vetiver or cedar, or mysoresandwood or just more iris (there is no such thing as iris overkill for me), Mr Nardin might have gone over it once with Anatole Lebreton. Together, they would then have served up the perfect mix of Incarnata and Violet Ida.

All in all, however, he is wonderful, has just something of a secret (vegetable) garden, of which you better do not know everything, if you want to completely wallow in fascination.

Yes, I know, an Oriental, but if I should imagine a dark powder smell: et voilà! For a long time I only knew the Flanker Habanita l'Esprit, which for a long time was one of my closest favourites and daily companions. At that time I only got a taste of Habanita in Grasse and postponed our getting to know her until later.

In Nice I allowed myself a small bottling this year and now, in the first days of September, the already clearly cooler become: It's a dream! If this perfume didn't exist, it would have to be invented.
Why dark powder now? I often find powdery scents heavy and very flattering for the skin, especially when there is a lot of iris. At the same time these fragrances vary for me somewhere on the scale "clean" to "bed sheets that have not been changed for some time".

This one, it has already been tinted, then has something of very sensually rumpled bed sheets (already for a few nights...), a shot of rum or liqueur went there still beside it, the smoke of cigarillos with vanilla aroma still rakes between bed and curtains. It is a scent of well-being with a certain pinch of daring, wickedness and something like that should be done first! A little angel, a little whore, a little mama - WOW! I could imagine that the original might have been a bit more scratchy, more angular in a positive sense, in the course of time this fragrance might well remain a bit more scratchy to my taste.

Besides, despite the fact that it has been reformulated, the fragrance has a strong vintage touch, which is great!
Also I can understand the connection to Habanita l'Esprit, even if in my opinion they are two completely independent fragrances, but nevertheless they belong together, the bright one (someone wrote very aptly to HlE "the moaning virgin") and the black Diva.
I don't know if I would wear the scent at work, but at home as a mom I find it just as wearable as in the evenings/nights in the bar. Currently I spray him very much also to go to bed on.
A beautiful fragrance all around. Very feminine (on men he would be almost too sweet to me..), the fragrance as a statement for itself.

Habanita l' Esprit was one of my favourite fragrances for a while. I was all the more excited about the original Habanita and the Cologneversion. I write the commentary from memory, I tested the scent last week in France, so I can't give you the exact details anymore. The fragrance starts (surprise!) fresh, nice fresh, citric, bergamot, everything ok. I had a bit of the impression you get from some American 90-minute love films. It's all clear after five minutes anyway. So nice start, then in the heart note rather unspectacular and then however: Bummbummbumm... Shalimar?! You're serious? But not so good, so deep and so smoky. A Lightlightlight version (like finding a cheap copy on the rummage table). Please contradict me or stone me, but then I thought to myself "No, then I'd rather have the real Shalimar" (by the way, I discover right in the groin: "If you like Habanita La Cologne, you often like Shalimar" ... funny coincidence... Unfortunately the fragrance didn't make it on my wish list...

My heart beat faster when the flea market seller opened a still original closed bottle from the fifties (or even older times) for me! The question is always when you find such old treasures: Carry or store? And if you decide to wear it, what if you fall so in love that you can't find a similar scent? With all vintage fragrances, I still have to test them first. What I like so much about this Cologne is the bergamot, which is still very present right down to the base note, as it can be found in the top note of many fragrances and disappears relatively quickly. I love bergamot. The lavender gives a certain coolness. Lavender is usually a striking component of more masculine perfumes, but why more masculine? I find the fragrance absolutely wearable for women. The spicy components further distinguish this fragrance for me, as it is not only citrus-fresh. He goes beyond that. As nice as purely citric scents can be (e.g. Eau d' Hadrien), more interesting effects are achieved by the citric scents, which are framed by further e.g. floral notes and thus come to the fore even better. In principle I appreciate a certain durability (here typical for cologna about half a day) and an exciting fragrance. This fragrance has a very linear progression and gives mainly freshness with a portion of understatement. A beautiful, very classic and for everyone very wearable fragrance, especially in the summer heat