The Mariner's Rhyme 2024

The Mariner's Rhyme by Francesca Bianchi
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6.5 / 10 34 Ratings
According to EssenceVitae Research Team A new perfume by Francesca Bianchi for women and men, released in 2024. Furthermore The scent is aquatic-synthetic. The longevity is above-average.
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6.534 Ratings
Longevity
8.031 Ratings
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7.429 Ratings
Bottle
7.223 Ratings
Value for money
6.115 Ratings
Submitted by TheBladi11, last update on 29.04.2024.

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Friesin

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Friesin
Friesin
Top Review 15  
BUDDA WITH THE FISHES
So, I'm just going to say a few words here because I just go through with things - except diets, sports programs, cleaning up...
Um, so I don't follow through much, but with my reviews of Bianchi fragrances, I feel like I have to follow through - even when it gets tough.

Sticky Fingers, Under my Skin and Lover`s Tale are among my favorite fragrances of all time.
The likeable Francesca Bianchi, who lives in Holland, has really shown a self-taught hand. Other of her fragrances may not have been to my taste, but I could recognize the perfumer's signature.
However, after many tests, if I now give it the Nordic 'butter (pronounced "budda") by the fish'
i have to say: The last fragrances from Bianchi were all at best 'so-so' for my taste and if you look at the review density here on EssenceVitae, you generally tend to keep quiet about them.

With 'The Mariner`s Rhyme', my fandom has now come to an end, and it is only out of the knowledge that F. Bianchi once created great things that the rating is not even worse.
What's the point of great longevity if the fragrance is no good?

The previous speaker's suggestion that this is an artificial fragrance also sounds more like a big BUT to me. The perfume is not wearable, BUT it also wants to be art...
Ms. Bianchi doesn't even make that claim. In the newsletter and on the homepage, she talks about a fresh, modern fragrance. M.Rhyme is supposed to reflect the complexity of the sea and the dramatic character of its creator...hm.
I don't know much about dramatic characters, but as a captain's daughter and a sailor, I would say this: If the sea smells like that, you should call the coastguard and you can be sure that Greenpeace is waiting in the wings.

The aldehydes listed, valued refreshers and stimulants in chypres, open the fragrance in a shrill and unpleasantly rattling manner.
As it progresses (let's call it that), Mariner's Rhyme is maritime in the sense that it smells like the stale water in the footwell of an inflatable boat - on a hot day at the lake.
Hot plastic mixes with suntan lotion and the remains of Autan.
A bit of freshness comes from the `Axe Lavender' sprayed by the pubescents on the shore.
Unfortunately, the only rhyme I can think of is: The skipper is a bit out of tune when there's only plastic floating in the scent...

There's nothing to be said for it - at least not by me - so I'll end this review of a fragrance that has fallen flat for me (sorry, I'll stop now) and wish you a handful of
good stuff in the collection,
Friesin
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Yatagan

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Yatagan
Yatagan
Top Review 48  
Me, ghost driver
First of all, I'm well aware that I'm probably driving in the wrong lane here: once again in the wrong lane. This may also have something to do with the expectations of many lovers of Francesca Bianchi's fragrances: most creations are resinous, animalic, spicy and leathery, some powdery, but so far not aquatic or artificially synthetic. The Mariner's Rhyme | Francesca Bianchi" changes this fundamentally. The new FB could come from Christophe Laudamiel, who likes to provoke, compose loud and garish, innovative and edgy synthetic fragrances. I strongly recommend his compositions for unbiased testing.

for me, The Mariner's Rhyme is initially a powdery, dry iris fragrance and thus sets a counterpoint right at the beginning to the aquatic synthetic siren that follows shortly afterwards, which is composed of classic aldehydes and postmodern ozonic notes (again, an obviously deliberate contrast). This unconventionally shrill tone is heightened by the hersperidic, consistently acidic accents of bergamot and grapefruit. The incense mentioned above is not sacred, but rather very bright, sparkling, almost diffuse, which brings us full circle to the dry iris at the beginning of the fragrance's development.

As with the Laudamiel fragrances mentioned above, it seems to me that the decisive factor for acceptance is the restrained dosage. I applied a tiny spray to the back of my hand this morning and the fragrance has stayed with me all day: contrary to most previous reviews, the longevity and projection is enormous.

If you combine my impressions described above, the result is indeed a very artificial impression of plastic, sunscreen and chlorinated water (I can well understand Ergreifend's association with the rubber boat - and cognitively also the resulting rejection, but I myself am affectively reached by the fragrance).

Anyone who appreciates fragrances in the style of The Zoo, Humięcki & Graef or Comme des Garçons should give it a try and then correct my impression anyway. I've survived here long enough as a ghost driver.
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Ergreifend

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Ergreifend
Top Review 21  
He has a bright red rubber boat
... warbles Antonia from Tyrol.

And with this rubber boat we go out ...
Into meaningless nothingness. Into the hole in the ozone layer. Or maybe somewhere completely different, where nobody will see or smell us.

Well, what can I say here?
The first contact actually reminds me of semi-hard rubber plastic, which is just living out its existence in the sun.
Very artificially underpinned by an immense plastic cardboard note. Bianchi probably had a bright red rubber boat running in the background when she finished the composition. The fragrance is almost obsessively coated with a lukewarm freshness and it all seems very artificial. I also catch a hint of flowers, although this is more like a floral water. There is also a slight scent of incense. Towards the end, the bright red rubber boat burns off and is literally covered by the not entirely force-free freshness, which is somehow totally out of place here. That's pretty much it. Freshness paired with burning plastic and a few flowers. A bit of incense and we have a sailor romance. Or maybe not. What is that keeps running through my head over and over again. I find absolutely no guideline here and for me personally, it is one of the worst fragrances I have been able to test recently. Accordingly, my assessment is also devastating, except the bottle is kept simple and the durability and sillage are quite okay.

If this is art, then I personally won't buy it at all, because it doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. Someone must have been looking for a maritime low point and probably found it.

I wasn't expecting much anyway, so I'm not particularly disappointed. What's really bad now is that the scent reminds me of the awful song I used to listen to up and down in my childhood. Because: I grew up in a ski resort.

Antonia was only right about one thing in the song:
Quote: Kissing on board is forbidden
I'll also tell you why
The boat is a construction
It tips over when you kiss...

And it's not just me that tips over here, but also the complete misconstruction of this fragrance. Thank you, I'm done!
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HolscentbarHolscentbar 24 days ago
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I am not a fan of the marine genre, this one is subtly elegant, wearable like a sea breeze in autumn on the seafront
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