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I must be seriously missing something here because I didn't like this. No scratch that....It's very difficult for me to dislike something, I could tolerate it, even enjoy aspects of it but put together Baraonda doesn't work for me. The opening to me smells like raspberry/strawberry, unctuously sweet and feminine with a jammy rose note. I didn't actually read the notes beforehand and sometimes alcohol notes can be hard to define but there's an undoubtedly malty, boozy note of positive whisky, which started to emerge. This leads into a chunkier and more Nasomatto base of musk mallow and modern amber. It's alright, I can see why fans of the slightly unusual would enjoy this. It comes from a more indy perfume place and is truly trying to innovate reminscent of slumberhouse or 4160 Tuesdays, something like that. I equate Baraonda to when contestants on Masterchef insist that wacky flavour combinations like, Halibut and stawberry compote go together, despite the experts warning them prior that "...They absolutely won't!" but they persevere anyway and their resulting dish is a disaster. Actually that might be a bad example because at least some balance is displayed here and the tart sweetness of the opening is counteracted by the robust whisky...I just don't like it is all. I will give it another chance to convince me but I'm always intrigued when there's love for something I don't understand. Generally speaking there's some degree of consensus among fragrance heads and the relatively easily pleased like myself, but I feel on the outside looking in with this one.
