Kanat

Kanat is the scent that first sucked me into the world of Angela Ciampagna. It has a strong aquatic aspect, but I didn't even notice it first. Strange how certain flowers like mimosa, magnolia and cyclamen create the feeling of transparency, of clear floral liquidness, as if growing near a salty lake in the shadows of old trees. I somehow link this sweet floral haze to childhood the same way roses and tuberoses are linked to maturity. And there's something clearly nostalgic about the rest - a combination of wet stone, saffron and musk. At the risk of sounding too abstract, it evokes an emotion by creating space for it, a place that was there before you and will be there after you're gone. Nox is similar, but with a woody aspect instead of the floral.

I agree whith those Who say that this is a LOVE & hate perfume but for me because of a different reason. I LOVE the smell, It is powdery, elegant, a bit sweet and very salty. I see It as a mix between wood Sage & sea salt by jo Malone and a bit fríos if Bois d'oud by perris Montecarlo, with this papery dirty and fruity vibe. But i think that this fragrance has an issue with the performance, which on my skin is more like JM fragances than like perris Montecarlo o es.anyway this is a nice perfume for estoy time on summer that i would buy if It would perform just a little bit better. Scent: 9 Longevity: 7 Sillage: 5 Quality price: 5 Versatility: 8 Originality: 9 Global: 8

The opening is saline and at some points smells downright like salt mixed with toothpaste. Also, metallic. The dry down is wonderfully salty and floral. This scent is perfect for humid summers by the beach. A great balance of aquatic, salty, floral, slightly sweet with a touch of musk and vanilla, and that metallic thing lingering in the background to add interest. I'd say this is a unisex-feminine leaning scent. Kanat really just smells like warm, salty air blowing against your face as you lounge on the beach (Punalu'u, Big Island, Hawaii, maybe). I love how solar and sunkissed this scent smells, mixed with salt and a subtle sunscreen quality. Scents that Kanat reminds me of: - Armani Prive Bleu Turquoise (Kanat is way less sweet and vanillic, more salty) - Amouage Beach Hut W (Kanat is less minerally and less like floating driftwood, more feminine) - Phaedon Sable & Soleil (Kanat is less floral, less sweet, less tropical, but is similarly aquatic and still has florals)

Kanat is a pleasant salty white floral and I would seriously take this further if this was a combo I went for. Slight metallic-aldehydic components blended with a L’Artisan ‘salt’ accord, but for me it defeminises white floral enough to make it appeal to folks (both sides of the gender divide/spectrum) who are put off by white florals. Not enough for me, though, however I did really enjoy experiencing something different to the regular stuff I sniff...

Kanat begins with black currant and saffron that is nice enough. I did get a bit of a metal vibe that someone(s) else mentioned below, but I seem to get that with black currant, typically. Upon closer inspection of this fragrance, I found that the heart of this is virtually the same thing as the opening notes of Nox, which seemed at least minimally strange to me. It’s a salty, slightly alcoholic, ylang-ylang mix. It’s nice enough, nothing that would blow your socks off. The dry down is also fairly uneventful, a vanilla, salty musk. Overall I enjoy several of this creator’s fragrances, but felt this one to be rather blase - especially seeing the similarity of note scheme with Nox. I much preferred that fragrance to this one. Projection and sillage are also fairly weak or below average. Definitely wouldn’t purchase given the price, but some might really like this.