How 'in' of Lebreton to have a perfume named perfumista because that's exactly who this brand seem to be for, by my estimation. I mean this certainly tickles my fancy, you can tell by the opening that it's a classical perfumery trope turned up to 11 and that would be hyper, chypre, powder with musty, aloof, haunting of roses which comes on stronger and stronger until it's almost Arabian in stature. Not for the faint of heart and certainly not for those who moan about folk smelling like an old lady. To me this perfume opens in such a bright, powdery way with hints of exotic floral like ylang or something but it's so shortlived before locking into a much less spacious but much more diffuse musky rose and patchouli, which I have to warn you although not loud is pretty prominent for the next 12 hours or so (at least it was on me) then the dank in the base!!! It was there all along but genuinely couldn't smell it until the 14 hour mark or so....and reminscent of Amouage gold in this sense, the animalic base comes chiming through but in quite a muted, skin scent sort of a way, exactly how it should do!!! I found it to be that spicy, dirty hair and civet, saliva skin thing of the costus based, Kouros/animalis type of base, but very subtle and nestled in to a pretty huge, dark-ish powdery rose perfume. This is the reason why this perfume is so good, that lurking depth which sets it apart from a billion and one overly strong and silly rose perfumes. What a ride!!! Highly recommend this, even though you may mistake it for another rosey dominator, the subtle differentials and progression make this perfume great. The relatively, cleanliness of the opening, evoking fruity, powdery chypre, to the more hardcore perfume fan heart and the dirty bird base, perfumista should appeal to perfumistas, it definitely does to this one and I didn't think I could get so enthused over a massive, fairly opressive rose like this but I did!!