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Dry woods and fig, powdery iris and sweet tonka. Class in a bottle and one of the best Iris fragrances out there.
This is my rainy day scent. It is absolutely unisex and I see how people say it has a comforting quality. Despite that I always find it a bit cool and distant. In the best sense possible. It is an adult fragrance. It has an underlying melancholy to it, that I love but it is not a good mood scent. For me it has more Weltschmerz vibes. When encountering others it might confuse them with „hug me, no stay clear, I am the lone ranger“ vibes.
Gris Charnel from BDK Parfums is a scent that I find confusing and disappointing. Mostly, I think I am disappointed in myself, for not having read the perfumer’s inspiration for the fragrance. Some dribble about two tourists whose glances cross paths, they dance until dawn and then slip away for an intimate encounter. Yawn. I got bored and checked out several times just now while trying to sum that up. Now if they slid through a portal into an Edward Allan Poe story while they were making out in a dark alley, then I could forgive myself for getting thrillingly suckered in by the copy (and to a lesser extent, the darkly poetic name, which I feel somehow tricked me into thinking it was something that it was not.) It must have been the notes I was excited for then, which mention black tea, fig, and cardamom essence. That sounds really lovely. But I’ve tried this several times and I don’t sense any of that loveliness. Instead, it’s a bit like a low-end tea sampler that includes selections with various unspecified “fruit flavors” but in reality, no matter which one you brew up, all they taste like hot Kool-Aid water. And there’s a weird, acrid smoky element that hovers unpleasantly, like charcoal heated air...so imagine smoking hot Kool-Aid water in your hookah. Even if I pretend an olde-timey goth poet was smoking that hookah, it's still a bit of a dud.
I wish I liked it more. I only get iris and fig. I don’t smell tea or woods. The Extrate is a bit better in longevity and silage. This really reminds me of Prada L’ Homme, which IMO smells better. The temperature outside is in the upper 80’s, maybe I should give it another try when the weather gets cold.