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Simply delightfull
Parfum d'empire has a very dear place in my heart, one of the very first niche brand that I heard of and probably one of my absolute favorite house.
I ordered the whole sample pack and hardly could find anything that would stand out as everything was so original, artistic and well made.
But this one really grabbed my attention.
Every summer since even before I could walk I go to an island in the french atlantic coast where you can find the so called everlasting flower growing everywhere in the dunes.
That's the smell that strike you immediatly when you get out of the car for the first time and last time you had fresh air it was the polluted one of the city or that of the highway station.
So the smell has always held a special place in my memory even before I could attach it to flower where it comes from.
This is not exactly the dry and spicy immortelle from the beach, this would be Sable by Goutal.
This is every facet of this complex flower with addition of Apricot lemon and oakmoss.
M.A Cortichiatto said that he had the idea of lemon and apricot to complete the picture after discussing with a cook who told him that going with ingredient the same color was an easy to find good associations.
To be honest I don't get lemon at all, this is not a citrus fragrance, this is heavy from the start.
The opening has something very boozy like a very strong eau de vie.
It's also very leathery and of course spicy, you get the curry like aspect eventhough it's not that dominant compared with other immortelle essence I had smellt before.
Some people see this as a Chypre and I can see why.
With the apricot and oakmoss this could be a more masculine heavy and spicy Mitsouko.
This is very rich so don't wear this when going to the beach please.
Anyway I find this to be an absolute masterpiece and will probably get myself a bottle in a near future : )
I ordered the whole sample pack and hardly could find anything that would stand out as everything was so original, artistic and well made.
But this one really grabbed my attention.
Every summer since even before I could walk I go to an island in the french atlantic coast where you can find the so called everlasting flower growing everywhere in the dunes.
That's the smell that strike you immediatly when you get out of the car for the first time and last time you had fresh air it was the polluted one of the city or that of the highway station.
So the smell has always held a special place in my memory even before I could attach it to flower where it comes from.
This is not exactly the dry and spicy immortelle from the beach, this would be Sable by Goutal.
This is every facet of this complex flower with addition of Apricot lemon and oakmoss.
M.A Cortichiatto said that he had the idea of lemon and apricot to complete the picture after discussing with a cook who told him that going with ingredient the same color was an easy to find good associations.
To be honest I don't get lemon at all, this is not a citrus fragrance, this is heavy from the start.
The opening has something very boozy like a very strong eau de vie.
It's also very leathery and of course spicy, you get the curry like aspect eventhough it's not that dominant compared with other immortelle essence I had smellt before.
Some people see this as a Chypre and I can see why.
With the apricot and oakmoss this could be a more masculine heavy and spicy Mitsouko.
This is very rich so don't wear this when going to the beach please.
Anyway I find this to be an absolute masterpiece and will probably get myself a bottle in a near future : )
Skatolic