Oh dear I made the mistake of wearing this on Friday evening. It was among a quite a large batch of samples that I tried a while ago and thought George was one I had liked but was yet to review conclusively. I try not to make the mistake of just wearing a fragrance wtihout trying it properly and knowing for certain I like it. I'm sorry...but George is awful! Truly awful. Reminds me of Vetiver dance by Tauer but not quite as awful to be fair to George. If anyone has seen the way Thierry Mugler made their AMen les parfums de cuir by soaking off cut strips of leather in a barrel full of AMen and leaving it to infuse. Well imagine the same process but with beeswax, root beer, plasters and bandages! Medicinal is not even the word it smells anticeptic! I don't even think that's fair really because there's something nice about the smell of germolene or detol and this just has other weird facets which make it utterly reprehensible to my nose, namely....white florals! Neroli is massive in here also and adds to the waxy awful general body of the rest of the fragrance. Needless to say I was not happy when I applied it to my skin and realised I would smell that way for several hours and I like to think I'm pretty open minded olfactory wise. There's a honey/beeswax element to this fragrance, an aloof coffee vibe which if it was more pronounced might have redeemed George somewhat and awful white florals & heliotrope! What a mess! Some people might regard this as perfume as genius, I'm not convinced as it just goes against my tastes like trying to force feed me squid and mushrooms. I will say this for it... It's a complex scent and my girlfriend liked it. Oddly enough she had a similar reaction to me in that George has this car crash effect of not being able to stop sniffing at it. Obviously for different reasons mine just in pure disgust, trying to work out why anyone would make this perfume or want to wear it? And hers in awe of a complicated and strange alluring fragrance. Luckily for me the longevity wasn't brilliant, neither was sillage but I did realise it was bad as I was applying so maybe I didn't put enough on?
George, from Jardins d’Ecrivains was released in 2012. The perfumer behind this creation is Anais Biguine. The notes are Bergamot, Coffee, Heliotrope, Musk, Myrrh, Neroli, Peru Balsam, Tobacco.
Oh dear I made the mistake of wearing this on Friday evening. It was among a quite a large batch of samples that I tried a while ago and thought George was one I had liked but was yet to review conclusively. I try not to make the mistake of just wearing a fragrance wtihout trying it properly and knowing for certain I like it. I'm sorry...but George is awful! Truly awful. Reminds me of Vetiver dance by Tauer but not quite as awful to be fair to George. If anyone has seen the way Thierry Mugler made their AMen les parfums de cuir by soaking off cut strips of leather in a barrel full of AMen and leaving it to infuse. Well imagine the same process but with beeswax, root beer, plasters and bandages! Medicinal is not even the word it smells anticeptic! I don't even think that's fair really because there's something nice about the smell of germolene or detol and this just has other weird facets which make it utterly reprehensible to my nose, namely....white florals! Neroli is massive in here also and adds to the waxy awful general body of the rest of the fragrance. Needless to say I was not happy when I applied it to my skin and realised I would smell that way for several hours and I like to think I'm pretty open minded olfactory wise. There's a honey/beeswax element to this fragrance, an aloof coffee vibe which if it was more pronounced might have redeemed George somewhat and awful white florals & heliotrope! What a mess! Some people might regard this as perfume as genius, I'm not convinced as it just goes against my tastes like trying to force feed me squid and mushrooms. I will say this for it... It's a complex scent and my girlfriend liked it. Oddly enough she had a similar reaction to me in that George has this car crash effect of not being able to stop sniffing at it. Obviously for different reasons mine just in pure disgust, trying to work out why anyone would make this perfume or want to wear it? And hers in awe of a complicated and strange alluring fragrance. Luckily for me the longevity wasn't brilliant, neither was sillage but I did realise it was bad as I was applying so maybe I didn't put enough on?