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09/04/2018
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A journey from the Caribbean to Provence
I bought Ulysse on ebay exactly ten years ago - at that time there was quite a hype about the sun oil and care products of the small company that was founded on St. Barth by a German emigrant and her French husband who had deep roots there. If you look at the website, the company still seems to be flourishing. The branding narrative at the time was about Roucou oil, which was used by the indigenous Caribbeans as a remedy, but the fragrances were not local natural products, but professional industrial perfumery of European design, although according to the bottle produced on St. Barthélemy.
Ulysse, well, is, as the name suggests, a world wanderer, insofar as he does not use Caribbean T(r)opic, but devotes himself entirely to lavender. The intensity of the note is impressive, the Provencal herb is not airy, light and clearly orchestrated, but musky and ambry, while the Hesperides remain rather discreet. The spicy-herbaceous wood - artemisia, vetiver, cedar - reinforces this aspect of lavender and thus results in an almost narcotic fragrance: absinth-impregnated Provence dreams in purple fields. That is quite charming and also wearable by men, even if I like Pour un Homme de Caron more at the bottom line.
But this perfume has already been the subject of this revision, because years ago the visual and olfactory design of the fragrance line was more focused on the Caribbean and wellness, and Ulysse unfortunately fell victim to this revision as well. The life of fragrances is "unsteady and fleeting" (Homer).
Ulysse, well, is, as the name suggests, a world wanderer, insofar as he does not use Caribbean T(r)opic, but devotes himself entirely to lavender. The intensity of the note is impressive, the Provencal herb is not airy, light and clearly orchestrated, but musky and ambry, while the Hesperides remain rather discreet. The spicy-herbaceous wood - artemisia, vetiver, cedar - reinforces this aspect of lavender and thus results in an almost narcotic fragrance: absinth-impregnated Provence dreams in purple fields. That is quite charming and also wearable by men, even if I like Pour un Homme de Caron more at the bottom line.
But this perfume has already been the subject of this revision, because years ago the visual and olfactory design of the fragrance line was more focused on the Caribbean and wellness, and Ulysse unfortunately fell victim to this revision as well. The life of fragrances is "unsteady and fleeting" (Homer).
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