Au Pink Flamingo

Oh wow! This smells like The Mambo Kings. The movie. When I first sprayed this on, when the perfume was still wet on my skin, I detected a weird nauseating note (I actually thought I hated this scent) - but as soon as the perfume dried down the unpleasant smell went away and the scent bloomed into a sizzling hot, dark, intoxicating concoction. There's a strong tobacco and sigar smell, a sweaty, sexual cumin note and a dark ambery woodiness that feels intimate and alluring. This has to be how Armande Assante and Antonio Banderas' characters, the brothers Cesar and Nestor, smells like in the movie The Mambo Kings. Thick sigar smoke. Warm, sweaty, sensual masculinity. Small, dimly lit Cuban salsa clubs with dark, wooden walls, filled with sensual people dancing something that can only be described as a form of dirty dancing. After a few hours on the skin the scent mellows into a semi sweet vanillic cedar smell. Some of the intimate sweatiness still lingers, but it's toned way down. The scent feels sensual in a cozy, relaxed way - like you've found a sofa in a quiet corner of the club, just lounging while observing the other dancers still doing their sensual, provocative thing on the floor. This scent took me completely by surprise. I expected something pink and cute and powdery. Something fluffy and candy like. I'm so glad this scent is everything but those things. Au Pink Flamingo actually feels like the masculine counterpart to the very sensual and sexual femininity of Papillon Salome. I think I love this. And I think I need a bottle for my collection. It's an awesome creation! Very atmospheric and deliciously provocative. Sillage is a solid medium on me. Longevity is good, it lasts over 7 hours on my skin.

My first encounter with Au Pink Flamingo created an initial feeling of surprise and confusion. I was not sure whether it was a "Yakki!" or a "wow!” After trying it on a couple of times, I think my first bewilderment comes from a slight overdose of cumin in the initial top note. However, it settles rather quickly and my bewilderment is replaced by curiosity over the progression. The heart of Au Pink Flamingo is a wonderful scent of old wood and tobacco interwoven with light strokes of rose. In this phase Au Pink flamingo could easily qualify as a favorite scent.(for some reason I imagine that this heart phase scent would make a great success a in high quality beard oil). The dry down is very skin close and ambery. Traces of the birch tar remains for a fairly long time but finally there is only a pale and soft presence of amber-frankincense All in all an interesting scent and very worthy of trying as a sample.

vintage makeup after an energetic show in which the dancers have sweated, moved their legs in impossible ways and their spines have twisted infinitely. Animalic, buttery, dry tobacco, it is not an easy perfume but it is an absolutely fascinating perfume. I will gladly wear it on days when I take the time to do good makeup.

I just KNEW I was gonna love these. After trying all 3 in this line, this one is my least favorite. It smells like stinky arm pits, so it’s a good thing they all have zero lasting power. NOT a blind buy.

Very distinctive and very ugly.