Patchouliful Laboratorio Olfattivo 2014

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7.5 / 10 109 Ratings

According to EssenceVitae Research Team A perfume by Laboratorio Olfattivo for women and men, released in 2014. Furthermore The scent is spicy-earthy. It is being marketed by Kaon.

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Main accords

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Clove

Bergamot

Cinnamon

Heart Notes

Patchouli

Frangipani

Orris absolute

Base Notes

Cistus

Musk

Cedarwood

Perfumer

Cécile Zarokian

Ratings

Scent

7.5109 Ratings

Longevity

7.885 Ratings

Sillage

7.186 Ratings

Bottle

7.277 Ratings

Value for money

7.523 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 03.04.2024.

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Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/04/2024

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Dmbfaninmass
28 Reviews

Dmbfaninmass

2

Ah Cécile… Ah Patchouli…

I think if I could go back in time 22 years to visit 22 year old nouveau hippie jam band concert going me and I told that 22 year old version of me that I’d come to love patchouli in my early to mid 40s, the 22 year old may have punched me in the nose for thinkin the sniffer wasn’t working. In those days of going to Dave Matthews and Rusted Root shows, among others, it was commonplace for every other gal to have seemingly swam in a bath of what I now realize was just horrible quality patchouli oil. During this same time frame and through my 30s I unknowingly warmed up to patchouli fragrances without knowing it considering some of my fragrances from those years were from the patchouli dominant Angel for men / A*Men line. I just paid no mind to notes / fragrance compositions in those days.

Anyhow, nowadays, my gosh can a good patchouli scent just be so darn delicious. Psychedelique, Crush On Me, Patchouli Nosy Be, Patchouli Intense, l’Instant de Guerlain, Sole Patchouli. There are just so many delicious patchouli dominant scents. This one is by one of my absolute favorite perfumers, Cécile Zarokian so that makes me love this one even more. This opens slightly citric and heavily warm spicy from the bergamot with clove and cinnamon. The patchouli is there right from the get go and I don’t know if it’s the notion that patchouli is from the mint family of plants, or it actually smells this way due to the mix of citrus and spices… but I get almost a fresh mint-like scent at the beginning, though it’s somewhat fleeting. The patchouli gets a bit more dense and I feel would get more earthy into the middle and to toward full dry down, however the florals of frangipani and orris come to play. That frangipani really sweetens it up so it goes sort of chocolaty candied patchouli while the orris just makes that a silky smooth cake-like quality - just absolutely delicious. Totally am biased cause I adore Cécile for sure, but my gosh does she do some marvelous things - I love her use of both frangipani, and patchouli in other fragrances and really love how she brings them together here.

The cedar, cistus, and musk play very well with the top and mid and seem to add a touch of density and lasting power with a leather, woody, ambery and sweetness that round out and support the silky smooth patch and florals of the mid. Outstanding work here and while I love Cécile’s work, there are times where it I lose this one in the midst of the several other path bombs I have but whenever I go to this one I’m left going “how… why,.. did I lose sight of this!?” It’s simply wonderful. Additionally I will say, though I’ve only got 4 from the house, and 3 of them being Zarokian creations, if I were in the market to add more to my collection, I would definitely be exploring the house of Laboratorio Olfattivo. If ever I make it to Italy, that will be a stop on the journey! Bravo!

04/27/2020

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Sniffsniff
20 Reviews

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Top Review 20

I'm in a bit of a pickle right now..

Nothing is as constant as change, after the tide comes the flood. And so on and so forth ...
I have recently noticed that my fragrance selection behavior seems to be knitted according to a certain cyclical pattern. These are successive phases in which a particular fragrance component comes into focus and causes me to stagger from the hundredth to the thousandth. First vanilla, accompanied by excessive gourmand excesses (a bit of chocolate here, a shovel of caramel there), followed by an incense-laden winter. Sacral, unsacral, **> not important. With wood, cinnamon, jasmine, iris, wearable, unbearable, pleasing, experimental and now and then tends to be unbearable. And then suddenly there was an end to eau de altar boy. The buffet grazed, my olfactory stomach well filled. No, that's an understatement. I literally gorged myself on the incense, sorry, I smelled And as chance would have it, a new victim hopped right in front of my shotgun, which from now on had to be dissected in all its varieties. Patchouli. It's funny that I've kept the subject off my mind for so long. In my youth I was first at home in the punk scene before I was drawn to black metal via gothic. So I spent weeks in some private basement clubs, where the smells of various smoked goods mixed with spilled red wine, stale beer and the patchouli-soaked clothes of the girls present. I associate wonderful memories with this time, but this patchouli oil from the (only) "scene shop" in the wild Lüneburg, which was common at that time ... no, leave it alone Incredibly dull and musty. Absolutely morbid stuff.
Peer group or not, I preferred to bathe in the freshly launched Gucci Rush (which seemed incredibly mysterious, dark and wicked to me at the time - today I find it cheerful, flowery and bell-bright) and felt vastly superior to the stinky clubs in terms of fragrance.
Probably it is this late pubertal cellar trauma that made me fade out the patchouli theme. Until, yes, until I found a blind test video on a perfume-affine YouTube channel, in which a fragrance that proudly carries the capital P in its name wasn't rated that bad at all.
I immediately ordered the fragrance blindly and since, as is well known, luck is often with the stupid, this result of a short-circuit action was then an absolute bull's eye. Patchouli from Micallef. I was hooked. Incense? Who's frankincense? I need to know what else Patchouli can do. All varieties, the full range. If I were a famous painter, in retrospect, they'd probably say this "awakening moment" heralded my "earthy period".
And so my patchouli tour finally led me to my esteemed Italian friends from Avigliana. With Alambar and Vanhera I already have two fragrances in my collection that are among my absolute favourites, but with Alkemi and Nerosa I didn't warm up at all. A certain risk that Patchouliful might join the latter could not be denied. Nevertheless, the next blind buy followed on the heels, luck seems to make you careless immediately.
But obviously the very stupid ones are the ones who have the most luck, because I also like Patchouliful.
Although it does not trigger cries of rapture in me, it is warm and spicy and earthy and gives me a feeling of closeness and security.
In addition, Patchouliful looks very natural and cuddly, nowhere do ugly synthetic corners stand out, which could cloud my fragrance experience.
The top note starts with a tangy bergamot, which is already accompanied by pleasant spicy notes. Cinnamon is most prominent here, while the clove remains somewhat in the background. The cinnamon remains present the whole time and only fades away together with the base. Nothing becomes earthy and musty here, on the contrary. After about 30 minutes, the iris appears on stage and lightens the fragrance a bit with its light powdery texture. With time Patchouliful becomes sweeter and sweeter, but never slips off towards stickiness and keeps its slightly tart base note. Musk, cistus and cedar form the base and are well balanced. The cedar is round and soft and has nothing of freshly sharpened pencil. Also the resin note does not push itself into the foreground, but is accompanied by soft musk, which gives the whole thing a Miniprise Animalik for beginners. I think a little vanilla would have suited the composition, but you can't have everything.
Cinnamon and patchouli dominate a well-balanced woody base and create a truly wearable and thoroughly everyday unisex scent, which is probably even more effective in winter than at our current temperatures of around 15 degrees.
I perceive the Sillage very positively, the scent radiates properly and remains well perceptible for a really long time. Even after five hours, clear scent sequences keep coming into my nose. Patchouliful has power and performs with a lot of energy to my great joy. Because let's be honest - what is more senseless than a perfume that I can't perceive myself after 30 minutes? I have a few of these paperboard creatures in my collection and I feel that they have cheated me of my right to fragrance. It doesn't help me either if I scent half of the teachers' room and don't even notice it myself. After all, I paid for the expensive booze and not my colleagues.