IrisMann

Here I have done something, which one should not do actually as a perfume lover. The fragrance is often described as challenging and I still dared to buy it blind. I find the listed fragrances very interesting, there are great reviews and I already liked the bottle at "Pour Monsieur" very much.

And now I'm sitting here undecided if I can wear this scent. I am the powder, flower and oriental type with a penchant for the opulent scents of the 80s and 90s.

The composition is often described as green and fresh. I can fully agree with that. But I also find the scent cool and austere. The hyacinth is constantly present on my skin. A spring flower that is often offered as a pot plant in spring. But hyacinth can be very dominant. No lovely tidbits, no golden daffodils. No, a hyacinth is already broader on the outside and is also noticeable with its scent.

Here the hyacinth distributes herbaceous aspects. The citric freshness at the beginning is very volatile. The rosewood serves only as a base in the background. The base note is not soft. No warm soft chypre base awaits you. Here the moss grows on cold ground. When I smell Chanel's Cristalle, the image of a mountain slope comes to my mind. Sparse vegetation, mosses and lichens on a rock crystal. There is still a light layer of snow over the whole area.

What kind of person do I have in mind at Cristalle?

I see a woman, not a girl! Dainty figure but very aware of herself. A certain severity distinguishes her narrow but beautiful facial features. The skin is very light. You can partially see the veins. The hair is combed back and tucked back to a firm knot. A confident woman. When she enters a room, a cool aura surrounds her. No diva! The clichés of ballet teachers or piano teachers immediately come into my head.

I'm not all of this! But I'm gonna wear cristall anyway. I'm waiting for a cold, sunny morning. I am hoarfrosting on the fields in Münsterland and then I will be surrounded with the unapproachable aura of Chanel Cristalle.

A wonderful olfactory experience.

Finally I made it directly to our provincial capital Münster today. There is not only one of the turquoise branches there. I wanted to test also times this hot discussed smell waterchen.

So headed straight for the Gucci shelf. The beautiful packaging already smiled at me. This beautiful green shade with the golden stars already looks very vintage. Looks like 50s to me. But the tester was gone. The very nice saleswoman not only seemed to have professional competence but also quickly found the object of desire again. A beautiful classic bottle that reminds more of the 50s than the hippie era.

Let's get up on the test strip and on the skin. And the fragrant round is opened with a cup of lukewarm chamomile tea with honey. I remember the smell from my childhood. The household remedy for a severe cold. The top note lasts about half an hour. Then the heart note appears and strongly reminds of moist new paper. I believe that Mr Morillas copied a little from Mr Frédéric Malle and the "Une Fleur de Cassie" that appeared there. With this high-end fragrance one also finds a little of this mustyness, which dissolves into deep melancholy. For the base note, Mr. Morillas used another creation from the Edition Malle, Geranium pour Monsieur. Both base notes are very similar to each other.

The scent's something else. I'm glad you did. The durability of the Bais is not bad at all. It's been over six hours with me. The Sillage is grotty for that. The fragrance remains very close to the skin.

Conclusion! For a label like Gucci, which has often attracted attention recently for its mediocre mainstream ware, this fragrance composition is very daring. You can also see it in the very controversial discussions and very different comments and statements. But at last something is being dared again. Of course you can also fall on your nose, but only the same synthetic scented gel or the sugar sweet slightly flowery arbitrary scent have got on my nerves in recent years enough. Let's praise the people at Gucci for a perhaps not so easy decision to launch this fragrance. It's not so much on the perfume market anymore. In the end, the product is supposed to earn money. The great times of the fashion designers who sold a luxurious dream are unfortunately over.

Slowly the companies and the perfumers dare something again. After Cartier's L´Envol and a few other dark and/or powdery new fragrances, Givenchy now also dares a little something.

Gentleman Givenchy Eau de Parfum begins in the top note herb-fresh. No sour fruit pops around your ears but lavender and a light portion of pepper clear your nose. Unusual after all the synthetic-fresh waters of recent years.

The heart note is Dior Homme pure in a bed of lavender. The lipstick chord is there and with the light breeze of the lavender is shifted a little bit into the harsher right and thus gets a more masculine side.

Then the base comes relatively fast and I had to rummage in my memories. The smell seemed so familiar. But no modern Synthi water smells so velvety. And after some thought, I came upon Calvin Klein's obsession for men. Immediately a comparison test was started and really, the basic components of both fragrances smell very similar.

So I mean that here the 2000s meet the 80s in the sun-flooded lavender field.

A great novelty that could have a bit more "Wumms". I can't help it! ;O) I'm just a child of the 80s and 90s.

I hope that more innovative new releases in the medium price segment will come onto the market in the near future.

Just a small warning to the friends of the eau de toilette of the same name. The Eau de Parfum is an independent fragrance and has very little in common with the Eau de Toilette published last year. So it's better to test first. But I think it's worth it.

I wanted to think the smell was bad. "Another one of those synthetic chemo pads," I thought. But I was ingested by Dior Sauvage Very Cool Spray. Chemical-acidic-fresh is still not my favourite scent, but this offshoot of Dior Sauvage Eau de Toilette is really well done.

First comes the sour grapefruit with a touch of bergamot. Then a synthetic fresh note envelops you (Is this the ambrox?). This freshness lasts for a very long time. The whole thing is underlaid with a little pepper. When the fragrance calms down and the base comes out, and you have to have patience for that, a very beautiful base note appears. I find the basic composition more natural than one would expect with this kind of fragrance. The rose geranium and vetiver create a green balsamic residual scent on the skin.

I also received direct compliments from several women around me for the fact that I would smell great. Apparently, this freshness kick to men's skin is especially well received by the ladies. So you did everything right, M. Demanchy.

The design of the spray can is really well done. Looks very modern to me. But I am not twenty anymore either. The spray button behaves like the spray button of a deodorant spray. So you spray a large amount of eau de toilette with one pressure. I assume here that by using a propellant the durability of the liquid in the can is less than with a pump sprayer. Therefore a quick consumption is perhaps also desirable.

I will use Dior Sauvage Very Cool Spray on hot days. You smell clean and fresh for a long time. This showed me again that you should not be guided by your prejudices. The old adage, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" still applies.

This does not mean that I am not still critical of the synthetic-fresh fragrance. And if in the future a cheaply made chemical club gets under my nose again, I will continue to complain about it. ;O)