The grand delusional art of synthetics.

Maybe it all started in 1984 when Pierre Wargnye added a detergent chemical in the composition of Drakkar Noir for Guy Laroche, it made his portion so cleaningly green and its conifers and herbs so ultra fresh that the fragrance got instant success and was considered a novelty fougere, away from the too leathery compositions which shouted "I am a macho man!" The chemical was dihydromyrcinol. In the versiion of the fragrance available now is not included and though quietened, compressed down I quite love this fragrance now. It is a clearer and crispier Dtakkar Noir. But let's go to nowadays and talk about gourmand, for example. How do you expect your perfume to smell of cherry? chocolate?caramel? toffee caramel?amaretto? By nature's resource? lol...Of course not. They are synthetics! And of course there are qualities and differences even in synthetics. Synthetic oud, synthetic amber, synthetic ambergris! Oops, my worse scenario is a fragrance to contain ambergris in the dry down. I know, I know...It is supposed to be powdery skin scent etc I am.still wondering why another powdery dry down?...

Let's be honest and see a couple of the finest examples of this contemporary art diving in gorgeous synthetics. In 1996 we probably saw the first man's gourmand and that was A*men by Thiery Mugler. It featured notes of rum, caramelised sugar in butter, lactonic notes of milk and coffee beans. All notes mentioned were synthetic and gradually the fragrance became popular ,I bought it in the turn of the  millennium during a trip to London. I loved it because when you think of London you think of Indian spices and buy curry and rice from Indian restaurants. And somehow this fragrance was rich in spices and patchouli and I combined it in my mind with London! The perfume made a brand for men and women. Moreover what was your initial impression when you first tried Baraonda Nasomatto on your skin?Didn't you feel you have discovered a woodsy clean, absolutely clean fragrance? However, Alessandro Gualtieri had tricked you all! When you visited Basenotes or EssenceVitae among the notes included you read: whiskey and ambroxide. Two synthetics with woods a bit of rose and rosewood. Genial! Finally we are moving on to 2022 to the latest update of Kenzo pour homme edp. We read  the list of notes which is only three notes : leather, sea notes,patchouli. But actually there is no patchouli at all in the synthesis. The devious perfumer has managed to synthesise palo Santo wood with peper! Thank you for reading this article and I hope you didn't feel like wasting your time! What is your opinion on the art of synthetics?