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05/08/2024
Musicandarts
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A beautiful cardamom-lavender perfume with mid-range performance
This review is based on a sample of the Le Male Le Parfum that I bought from MicroPerfumes, a US based decanter.
Incidentally, I was wearing La Nuit de L’Homme from Yves Saint Laurent the day before. Naturally, I was struck by the similarity between these two. Apart from the bergamot in the opening in La Nuit, these perfumes are essentially identical. The base notes are different according to the perfumers, but the end is so weak in both perfumes that this does not differentiate them.
Le Male Le Parfum opens with a bright cardamom. Almost immediately, the heart notes come into view. The transition from cardamom to the iris and lavender in the heart notes is so smooth that you barely notice the change. These two major notes - cardamom and lavender - do most of the work in this perfume. As the intensity peters out quickly, the base notes do not really make a strong appearance. Though I get a nice mild dry down, I am unable to pick out the vanilla and woodsy notes, supposedly in the ending. This is not Gris Charnel where you wallow in a fantastic dry down for hours.
Le Male Le Parfum lasts on my skin for less than 6 hours before turning to a nice dry down. The sillage is adequate for an office perfume. You can pick out the smell in the wake for a few hours but not if you are sitting. Thus the performance is similar to La Nuit de L’Homme EDT. Though I have not compared directly, Le Male EDT seems to last longer on my skin than the Le Parfum. But, these scents have very different ingredients and olfactory pyramids, not to mention different perfumers.
If you are looking for a nice but inoffensive cardamom-lavender scent for office, I would lean towards La Nuit de L’Homme over Le Male Le Parfum though both are very good.
Incidentally, I was wearing La Nuit de L’Homme from Yves Saint Laurent the day before. Naturally, I was struck by the similarity between these two. Apart from the bergamot in the opening in La Nuit, these perfumes are essentially identical. The base notes are different according to the perfumers, but the end is so weak in both perfumes that this does not differentiate them.
Le Male Le Parfum opens with a bright cardamom. Almost immediately, the heart notes come into view. The transition from cardamom to the iris and lavender in the heart notes is so smooth that you barely notice the change. These two major notes - cardamom and lavender - do most of the work in this perfume. As the intensity peters out quickly, the base notes do not really make a strong appearance. Though I get a nice mild dry down, I am unable to pick out the vanilla and woodsy notes, supposedly in the ending. This is not Gris Charnel where you wallow in a fantastic dry down for hours.
Le Male Le Parfum lasts on my skin for less than 6 hours before turning to a nice dry down. The sillage is adequate for an office perfume. You can pick out the smell in the wake for a few hours but not if you are sitting. Thus the performance is similar to La Nuit de L’Homme EDT. Though I have not compared directly, Le Male EDT seems to last longer on my skin than the Le Parfum. But, these scents have very different ingredients and olfactory pyramids, not to mention different perfumers.
If you are looking for a nice but inoffensive cardamom-lavender scent for office, I would lean towards La Nuit de L’Homme over Le Male Le Parfum though both are very good.
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