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11/09/2020
Landshark321
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Landshark321
Nice, fresh, slightly masculine, safe but with some intrigue
My third sampling Navitus Parfums’ Enamoured Collection is Elation, perhaps the easiest winner of the collection, a mix of citruses, herbs, florals, and woods, a universally-agreeable, mostly-fresh blend, that’s very smoothly and cleanly put together, smelling somehow both familiar and safe yet new and interesting, a welcome signature type of scent, a versatile crowd-pleaser that nonetheless has some quirks.
The key notes for me are a the citrus mix, particularly lime, along with petitgrain, juniper, clary sage, with a dry down of driftwood, musk, and nutmeg. It has mildly aquatic and dirty features but remains more wholesomely terrestrial, fresh, and clean. Still, the blend of the two counterpoints is what makes it more interesting than most of what’s out there.
The color of Elation’s bottle is blue, fitting in that it has the make-up of a fresh, semi-aquatic, semi-masculine scent with some “blue” DNA, along the lines of some men’s designer releases in recent years. It performs reasonably well and is, as I sometimes say, a fairly easy winner, in that respect. It feels comforting and easy to wear at any time, for any occasion.
Like the rest of the Enamoured Collection, Elation is priced at $195 for 100ml, which remains a good niche price point (at under $2 per ml), though certainly given the superior performance and uniqueness of the other entries I’ve tried, Exalt Nuit and Soir Exclusif, the pricing seems more difficult to defend than for those two. But the bottle size is easier to defend, so as a practical matter, it might very well make more sense to own a 100ml bottle of Elation than the other two, because one might very well wear Elation more often, and more of it, at that.
Overall, Elation is a welcome addition in new quintet, in my opinion, a great freshie option with slightly masculine touches like Primas and Navus in the original collection.
7 out of 10
The key notes for me are a the citrus mix, particularly lime, along with petitgrain, juniper, clary sage, with a dry down of driftwood, musk, and nutmeg. It has mildly aquatic and dirty features but remains more wholesomely terrestrial, fresh, and clean. Still, the blend of the two counterpoints is what makes it more interesting than most of what’s out there.
The color of Elation’s bottle is blue, fitting in that it has the make-up of a fresh, semi-aquatic, semi-masculine scent with some “blue” DNA, along the lines of some men’s designer releases in recent years. It performs reasonably well and is, as I sometimes say, a fairly easy winner, in that respect. It feels comforting and easy to wear at any time, for any occasion.
Like the rest of the Enamoured Collection, Elation is priced at $195 for 100ml, which remains a good niche price point (at under $2 per ml), though certainly given the superior performance and uniqueness of the other entries I’ve tried, Exalt Nuit and Soir Exclusif, the pricing seems more difficult to defend than for those two. But the bottle size is easier to defend, so as a practical matter, it might very well make more sense to own a 100ml bottle of Elation than the other two, because one might very well wear Elation more often, and more of it, at that.
Overall, Elation is a welcome addition in new quintet, in my opinion, a great freshie option with slightly masculine touches like Primas and Navus in the original collection.
7 out of 10
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