Kleannor

I think it was the name Francis Kurkdjian that made me realize for the first time that behind the scents and their houses there are also creative noses. Like so many other perfumes, I started my fragrance life many years ago with the two well-known mainstream perfumeries. After a long time of scent disinterest, my revival began with Kurkdjian's Le Male, which I don't like to say I actually discovered years after its release. Until then I didn't know that Le Male was so successful, so often used and therefore despised. Without this knowledge, however, I found the fragrance great; and now, for the first time, I became interested in perfumers. I followed Kurkdjian's trail, but was disappointed at first, because some highly praised scents like Masculin Pluriel or Lumiere Noire disappointed me in every respect.
Only Baccarat Rouge showed me how ingenious Kurkdjian is: to create a fragrance out of so few ingredients that is so unmistakable, so harmonious, so delightful!! What an art to create such a fruity scent (for me BR actually smells like orange) without fruits! So far I don't have a fragrance in my (still clear) collection that is so fresh, but at the same time so warm.
All in all, Baccarat Rouge is a fragrance I wouldn't want to miss anymore

"Wow, what is that?! Great thing! Could be my signature scent." - So were my first impressions when I took Byredos Oud Immortel (the encore of my favorite fragrance house). This is certainly an extraordinary fragrance. Rarely, however, has an overwhelming beginning turned into the opposite for me.

It begins with an almost brutal artificial fruitiness (the limoncello?), perhaps pushed by the patchouli, although the papyrus is highlighted in the fragrance pyramid. (I have no idea what papyrus smells like.)

In any case, it remains with this beginning and this fruitiness also in the next hours. It reminds me a little of the "fragrance process" in the ripening process of a mango. I love mango, but when it is overripe, the smell in its obtrusiveness is hardly bearable.

Apart from this fruitiness, Oud Immortel ultimately offers little; the impression remains of a very loud, one-dimensional fragrance that has no development. I will probably no longer wear the scent and only store it for "study purposes", because - as I said - it is already interesting

That scents can be like that!

I haven't been in the fragrance world that long. Designer scents were all I knew. Through the intensive occupation with the art of smell since half a year, I got to know so many scents and names. Among them the house of Luten.

I remember half a year ago when I first contacted Ambre Sultan in a perfumery, I still turned up my nose, but at that time I was always drawn to the small magical strip of paper. Now, after buying a small bottle, the warm spiciness of this fragrance envelops and fills me. I'm not ready to smell single ingredients yet: But to look forward to a fragrance in the evening that you can spray on in the morning is pure luck.

And there's still so much to smell. Where may my nose lead me to?

I got caught, like, "in fragranti." By chance I read the descriptions of this fragrance, saw YouTube videos. So I came to Parfumo, got to know the Souk, ordered a 10ml-TZ - I became curious. (Many thanks to Greeni07 for multiple wonderful deliveries!)
Then the revelation: What a distinctive, unmistakable scent that even in the deepest winter let the sun rise, catapulted me to the beach, into the deck chair! He doesn't smell like the sea, but he suggests the sea. No matter where you are. The ideal fragrance for the summer, but also one to survive the winter. I was so taken with it right away, I had to have more. After some searching I got it also still in the Internet.
I read that many don't like the bottle because it doesn't stand, but I found the Maritime that this fragrance offers well reflected in this spray shell.
Of course, I was overdosed with enthusiasm at the beginning. You have to be careful: Sillage and projection are very pronounced; AA can quickly become intrusive. It is better to spray in between, but this is not so necessary, because the shelf life is surprisingly good

I thought for a long time about which fragrance I would write the first comment after the first months of rather passive membership in the community. I think I've found a worthy entry with L'Air du Desert Marocain.

For months I watched, sometimes with slight concern, as the addiction to scents grew. Therefore with concern, because for me as a musician music was the only real addiction. But the occupation with scents has been so intense for half a year that I felt something like infidelity towards "my" music.

But AdDM opened my eyes, because it's the parallels to the music that make the world of scents so fascinating for me. In music I especially love the dark timbres, in which bright spots like islands occasionally light up. Music by Gustav Mahler, Karl Amadeus Hartmann or Aulis Sallinen, but also Depeche Mode or Radiohead are such sound colour wonders for me.

For me, AdDM is the olfactory counterpart to the music I love so much. A fragrance in which one is safe, in which one is caught, which reveals dark depth, but also cheers. If there were concerts in which fragrance would also be "played" at the same time: That would be my heaven