I'm so so sorry Serge! I really like SL fragrances pretty much across the board but this one is a personal preference nightmare. I like Tuberose & Cedar and Amber (even clove in small doses) but mix them all together and you get a gross cider urine accord! That's what I get in the opening...PISS. That's right. However, after that initial half hour or so the tuberose becomes pleasant and the drydown is really nice, with the cedar and amber coming through. Unfortunately I can't just focus on base notes although they're arguably more important. This is a interesting fragrance I don't hate it by any means the opening is just harsh for me that's all.
Well this is my second review of Cedre and I've returned to sample it over 12 months later hoping perhaps I had grown in that time and maybe now I could appreciate this scent...I'm afraid not. The opening notes are interesting, classic, strongly musky and full of cloves. Then the dry woodiness of cedarwood and resin with the floral power of tuberose. Tuberose and I have a love hate relationship and much like many florals (in fact many 'notes') can manifest itself in very different ways. All this just seems to conspire to make an odd pissy note which is at the back of what is an interesting work and I almost think it needs it to lift the whole thing and make it more daring, which it certainly does. What differs from the last time is after wearing this I also sprayed it on a card to see how long the unpleasant note would last long after I'd washed it off my skin. Well I can report that the later drydown both on skin and now three days later on the card smells lovely! I mean really pleasing and much more of a soft woody floral smell, all the sweetness of tuberose with non of the nastiness. I couldn't put up waiting for several hours until it becomes a nice skin scent though what would be the point. Still not for me I'm afaraid, this is one for true perfume lovers.
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Cedre, from Serge Lutens was released in 2005. The perfumer behind this creation is Christopher Sheldrake. The notes are Amber, Cedarwood, Cinnamon, Cloves, Musk, Tuberose.
I'm so so sorry Serge! I really like SL fragrances pretty much across the board but this one is a personal preference nightmare. I like Tuberose & Cedar and Amber (even clove in small doses) but mix them all together and you get a gross cider urine accord! That's what I get in the opening...PISS. That's right. However, after that initial half hour or so the tuberose becomes pleasant and the drydown is really nice, with the cedar and amber coming through. Unfortunately I can't just focus on base notes although they're arguably more important. This is a interesting fragrance I don't hate it by any means the opening is just harsh for me that's all.
Well this is my second review of Cedre and I've returned to sample it over 12 months later hoping perhaps I had grown in that time and maybe now I could appreciate this scent...I'm afraid not. The opening notes are interesting, classic, strongly musky and full of cloves. Then the dry woodiness of cedarwood and resin with the floral power of tuberose. Tuberose and I have a love hate relationship and much like many florals (in fact many 'notes') can manifest itself in very different ways. All this just seems to conspire to make an odd pissy note which is at the back of what is an interesting work and I almost think it needs it to lift the whole thing and make it more daring, which it certainly does. What differs from the last time is after wearing this I also sprayed it on a card to see how long the unpleasant note would last long after I'd washed it off my skin. Well I can report that the later drydown both on skin and now three days later on the card smells lovely! I mean really pleasing and much more of a soft woody floral smell, all the sweetness of tuberose with non of the nastiness. I couldn't put up waiting for several hours until it becomes a nice skin scent though what would be the point. Still not for me I'm afaraid, this is one for true perfume lovers.