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This is the perfume that grabbed my attention towards Fueguia and that got me keeping making sample orders to try more. It's really not a complicated perfume, to simply put it: it is a lactonic perfume; a musky fragrance with a cold milk note and a dab of sugar. To be fair it reminds me of an asian vegetable too, that presents itself as white, watery and fibrous on the inside. Yes you will get the beautiful Fueguia botanical pheromone feel. Overall I wouldn't recommend it as a blind buy or as a formal fragrance; while there are offerings from the house that are suitable for this I think that the whole line is based on mental associations and the chemistry between human nature and nature itself and such bond constantly remodeled by our past individual legacies. If you like a discreet milk note and are looking at Fueguia for the first time, this is where to start.

So many brands trying to market the next big thing as "a masculine rose" this and that.. in my very personal and humble opinion this has already been done in the past and this fragrance is one of very few of them. The first time I smelled it, so many years ago, I had a medicinal feel from it and despite having acquired it only recently it has been growing on me secretly over these years. I happened that not so long ago I tried it again in the store and I was baffled by how good was the aroma I was getting: fresh leather, still a little of that medicinal undertone and very light smoke, then it popped into my mind so clearly: this openness, this breeze is coming from a rose accord! Of course I should have noticed it earlier but back in the day I knew rose was there and it just blended in like in many woody orientals, let's call them this way. Too bad on my skin the rose shines too much, and therefore I wish to test the "flankers" (arabie, maroc etc..) to see if they lean even more into that perfect middle ground this is already very close to.

I have received a few compliments for my detailed yet not-so-long reviews but for this one I'll keep It short. I was disappointed as It appears to me like a fragrance with poor to no construction: it clearly makes a "freshie" statement but one of the flattest I have put my nose on. It's not bad but since I read more than 2 citruses I hoped for something bolder. Given that I tested it in the LV shop, with lots of people and perfume-y air, all I could smell was plain, diluted lemon juice. I hope to get my hands on this while being outside with way more time than I did and change the review.

I am in fact coming back here to add a few words to my review. I ended up purchasing it as other test runs proved successful. It is generally a little bland, but it has a great versatility and I began to wear this for work, an excellent easy-reacher. Overall I don't think you would be impressed if you are used to brilliant citrus fragrances (Acqua Viva, Perris Monte Carlo's ones and so on..) but there is certainly an audience for this product. Just on the expensive side a little.

Among all the variations that you can call or associate this beach / leisure type fragrance to is a damp t-shirt from your trip at the beach contacting with the sunscreen, to put it simply; provided that your sunscreen smells similar in the first place (ahah). I don't know if I have smelled other things like this before: there are a lot of salty, iodized, calonic, beach type of fragrances that want to portray many different facets of the experience but I think many of these are becoming a joke and depicting places in such a detailed way, using more than three or four visual hints, I agree with Pierre Guillaume: becomes ridiculous, well not this one. I think the closest beach-floral from the same category I have smelled would be Sabbia Bianca from Profumum Roma and although it has a different key-note and it's at a different concentration I place it in the same 45° degree angle of the spectrum.
I smell a very faint iodized note, not sure if it's entirely due to monoi oil or if there's also ylang. To me Ylang-Ylang is one of the lesser indolic white florals and has an iodized smell on top of a creamy one right after: this is where I start to smell solar amber, sunscreen. It locks in with a comeback to something slightly tart but it isn't all salty. Of course if you weren't trained to like white florals as I do probably you would consider this perfume misleading. It's a really brilliant blend of coastal human experiences bottled for everyone to use. Personally I love to use it to complement my late afternoons from may to september, the creaminess comes forth when you're blessed by the last sun rays and the white florals deploy like one of those gorgeous night flowers after blue hour.

The discovery of this fragrance was different from my typical store stroll. The atmosphere of the Arabian Oud shop on the Champs-Élysées is great. I loved the direct approach of the personnel too: I was given a lot of different fragrance to smell in a short time without a lot of fuss about philosophy. Despite me being a lover of narrative and story-telling in the context of fragrances, that's exactly what I was expecting from the brand: an easy to navigate repertoire with strong, statement-making fragrances. The offerings I was given were a bit similar to one another despite the fact that I was told that Resala was "different" and "on its own" but I must say I loved all of them and all of these different shades of Vanilla.
Resala is a bomb of sweet sandalwood (I don't talk much about vanilla because if you're a fan of the brand you know it's pretty much all over the place) with a strong siding of Rose for a very "prestigious" yet not-feminine effect, fantastic! There is saffron of course and the vanilla is sided with chocolate for just a different touch from the rest as mentioned. I don't think there is too much Oud here. The fragrance is a bit similar and redundant if you own the others like Aseel, Rosewood etc main differentiation being that Resala feels way more damp in comparison to the very dry Rosewood. It's on the same track of Intense cafe OG and Ristretto, an over-powered Starry Nights, Delox by Tiz. Ter. but with a very very special effect.