Fuchsrot

If the notes didn’t mention Green Pepper I would’ve thought it was cucumber. I’ve been looking for a prominent cucumber note for the longest time. And I think I found it. This smells like a fresh drink at a fancy party. Refreshing but weirdly very Noire. I would’ve loved to know how this would’ve smelled without these big Violet/Iris notes as I think it’s an overkill. It makes it too familiar when it supposed to be an out of the box type of fragrance. And yet, I still bought it. I like it! I Mix it with a coconut fragrance and the combo is a great summer scent. All in all, good silage, good projection and it didn’t break the bank.

Currently testing this beauty. On my skin, a cucumber bomb in the first 30 minutes, then turns to gin tonic. Cypress on me is very forward with a soft violet touch, amazingly unisex in my opinion. I can imagine wearing it in the long run!

In this I recognize notes of tonka, guajac, vetiver on a watery green carpet of blue cypress and strong hints similar to liquorice, anise, mint, helichrysum... It has an interesting vibe, alcoholic, but fresh from shaving at the beginning which then evolves sweet and dusty and becomes suffocating to my nose over time. Strange. The finish is more mature, with a strongly powdery and not very "digestible" texture. Sorry.

I really wanted to like this fragrance, based on the description and especially the name, but it's to cypress forward for me (I hate it and it wasn't mentioned in the description on the website). It's a warm, herby scent, reminding one of dry summer days. I smell the tonka bean, which is a nice background. All in all not for me.

The opening smells like a fresh green bell pepper with a starchy texture, and it reminds me of something from Naomi Goodsir. Overall it reads more like a Comme de Garcons fragrance though- the smooth, aromatic leather comes through fairly soon after applying and feels as avant garde as Copper or Concrete. It's sophisticated but engineered to be weird, in the same way that CDG plays into odd, monochrome pallettes and textures. Bits of interesting notes come through the ozonic, vegetal iris-suede for some interest. I get a little sweet dustiness from mimosa, some aromatic woods, and maybe a gentle liquer note that is hard to pin down. I wanted to say there's a petrol vibe similar to Fahrenheit with all the violet leaf, but it's not really similar and could be the cognac accord I'm sensing instead. There's also a complex but subtle warmth I can't identify. Maybe it's a warm spice similar to anise like a reviewer below mentioned. At this point I appreciate the interesting freshness, but it does feel a little funky from the vegetable water vibe I'm getting from it. In its last and final stages I pick up the powdery tonka bean becoming more present, almost to the exclusion of other things. It's fun but I'm not sure it's attractive. It's something I'll come back to though.