1740 Histoires de Parfums 2008

It's been a long time since I've been exploring the world of the interesting and at the same time highly intriguing fragrances of "Histoires de Parfums".
I also wrote a few comments on it, as I have come to love history and its stories very much.

Looking back, I couldn't understand why I only gave the fragrance painting "1740" one statement: Was the Marquis de Sade, to whom this fragrance is dedicated, not worth any further thought to me?

A glance at the pyramid and the notes I had dug out in the meantime showed me:
Our encounter took place too early; I was simply not yet ready for this fragrance composition.
At the beginning of my time here, I simply lacked the maturity to be able to recognize and appreciate such complex fragrances with a high patchouli, leather and smoky resin content.
I was only at the beginning of my journey through the world of fragrances!
In the back of my mind, patchouli was still too much a part of the "third world stores", from which I usually fled; it was only later that I got to know and love its special moist, earthy appeal, which always reminded me of truffles.
And leather? No, leather only existed as a delicate suede nuance as a fragrance note for me; any other form only opened up to me over the months through my great love of oud-rose compositions (mostly by Roja), in which leather is known to play a major role.

But it's not too late yet, and since I amazingly always find my notes again, I will now finally be able to devote myself to "1740", hopefully with the right dedication; after all, this fragrance with its independent personality deserves it.

So now I have already anticipated the most significant fragrance components and their effect; they characterize this creation.
Surrounded by a pleasant touch of bergamot and the spicy companions cardamom and coriander, now familiar not only in Asian cuisine, a rich, golden-brown patchouli fragrance landscape spreads out.
Immortelle, which I always find a little difficult to categorize in the fragrance flow (are they really as dusty as they often seem to me?), goes very well here with the expected leather accords, stained by the smoke of labdanum and elimi-resin: what a fragrance experience! The resulting dark fragrance is lightened by creamy-white, warm vanilla, perfumed by light woody cedar and birch aromas, a particular highlight:
It brings this fragrance composition out of the darkness into the light and gives it warmth and sensuality.

Sillage and longevity are typical of brands; they do not disappoint here either.

So it's always worth delving into your own stash, your own notes; sometimes you find something that only reveals itself later and it's nice to know that nothing gets lost that way.
Intensive rummaging between numerous small fragrance samples even led me to find an empty, slightly streaky vial of this fragrance: Dried up, but still meaningful.
This fragrance sample confirms the assumption I made at the beginning:
This fragrance treasure and I - we were simply not yet compatible at the time of our first encounter.

I first had to go down many main and side paths in our fragrance world, immerse myself in many foreign scents and rediscover myself in the process, before I learned that "Histoires de Parfums" created something with "1740" that is worth more to me than reading (only in flying visits) the memoirs of the Marquis de Sade.
Here, this step backwards and the reorganization of fragrance thoughts was worth it!