Though, it’s still less than the price of Ierofante ($235/50 ml). Unfortunately, I can’t even recommend buying it instead if you haven’t tried it before: these days its price online is quite steep. I like Black better: not only is its opening not as harsh as Ierofante’s, but it also is much smoother in development. But that effect of a foreign-to-perfume industrial chemical start that mellows down to a softer ambery base makes them reminiscent of each other. It’s hard to believe, but I told my story From Zero to Forty (ml) in less than 15… years: Bvlgari Black almost ten years ago!Īs you can see, Ierofante and Black do not have too many notes in common and are far from smelling identical. And suddenly, I realized what it reminded me of: if to substitute gasoline with burning rubber and instead of vetiver throw in the fire, so to speak, sandalwood, you would get… Bvlgari Black.Ĭreated by Annick Menardo in 1998, Black includes notes of smoky black tea (lapsang souchong), bergamot, rose, sandalwood, cedarwood, jasmine, leather, vanilla, amber, musk and oakmoss. I wanted to fully experience the fragrance that Steven Gavrielatos ( Ca Fleure Bon), Lola ( and Persolaise ( eponymous blog) considered one of the best perfumes of 2022 (which, if to think about it, might not necessarily be a compliment or indicative of how good the perfume is).Īs the gasoline accord was burning out, something strangely familiar started radiating through the remaining harsher smell. The nose behind this perfume is Luca Maffei.Įven though I immediately knew I would not want to wear that as perfume and was questioning the decision to spend even $5 on this experiment, I decided to go through with the testing. The complete list of notes for Ierofante (as printed on the sample card Fragrantica has a slightly different list) includes suede, gasoline accord, nutmeg, smoky leather, styrax pyrogene, golden amber, cashmeran and vetiver. And it was a shock: one just doesn’t expect a whiff of gasoline from their fine fragrance. I think this made me susceptible to “undue influence”: when I got an email from Parfumes Quartana (I used to know that brand as Six Scents Parfums) describing how their new perfume, Ierofante, had been named in three “Top N” lists and offering a sample for $5 (including S&H), my “no-buy” resolution didn’t even raise its head, and the sample was on its way to me.īefore trying it for the first time, I haven’t read a single line about or note of Ierofante. Very cool.ĭo you remember this? Did you get to try it?Īt the end of the last year, I looked at the miserable list of new fragrances that I managed to try and realized that I couldn’t do even the Top 5 – let alone any more significant number of successes. Not fragrant anymore but a sheer overlay. Can’t place it but that soft overtone on my own smell is bloody good. Well, clearly that’s some connection I’m making from past olfactory experience. Though this has very typically L’Artisan low longevity when it starts to fade off and meld with my scent it becomes a sexy me but WAY better. Funnily, Jin just bought persimmons and the scent is a little like them with woody overlay. I’m getting some very vanilla vibes, and some cedar-ish pencil shavings. This is immortelle light and if its presence is often a huge no for you then this will sit quietly enough I’m sure. The immortelle is clean, all that gooey, sticky, stanky fabulousness shorn off. There are still tinges of the opening, hollow reminders. Haven’t we all?Īnyway, let’s smell this long lost beauty eh? The happily strange greenly herbaceous citrus is gone way too quickly and overtaken by crisp green woods. Something you’d travel great distances to find. Also the name, it felt like love as an adventure. That it smelled like pieces of things I knew but nothing smelled quite like it. What I do remember is thinking how differently the pieces were put together. I do remember being told that L’Artisan were trying an All Natural route but smelling its now that seems highly unlikely. My memories of first smelling Cote d’Amour are very fuzzy now, the where is completely gone. Cool! Cote d’Amour by L’Artisan Parfumeur 2009įragrantica gives these featured accords: It caught my eye that this is a Celine Ellena fragrance. I thought you might like to enjoy one of my last ever wears of this beauty together. My decant is nearly 2/3 gone and after that there will be no more. Then it turned up on Surrender To Chance a few years later in the 8ml sale. I remember first trying it a few years later and it was already impossible to find, especially out here in Oz. Hi Crew, Cote d’Amour by L’Artisan Parfumeur was released way back in 2009.
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