Ballena de la Pampa

It is all about whale. If you like salty, animalistic, very natural aura go for it. Ballena is changing constantly balancing between beauty and dirty nuances. Resinous aspects dominate whole fragrance however fresh, mostly airy nuances, are also prominent. I never had a chance to smell real ambergris but if fragrance imitates this material I'm in love with it. No flowers, no sugar, no fire, no fruits, no incenses and still wonderful smell .... can you imagine? Ballena lasts long time on my skin, more than 12 h, but sillage is moderate. People around ask what I'm wearing as it it is very unusual smell. Perfect for Christmas as today we have Christmas Eve.

The ambergris shocked me the first time I tried this perfume. It was so strong and salty that it almost made me gag. I gave it a second try and the ambergris didn't seem as strong. After the opening it went back and forth between musky hay (who knew hay smelled so good?) and the saltiness of the ambergris, feminine and masculine. If you've ever lived near the ocean you'll find this perfume similar to the way coastal air smells on humid days. The magical image of the whale on the pampa perfectly encapsulates this unique scent. Total love.

Devastatingly beautiful ambery natural scent designed as a tribute to the Patagonian whale. The scent is mostly a soft buttery ambergris whose beauty is enhanced with the addition of plant based pheromone musks as well as grassy and hay like natural notes. The feeling this evokes in me is of a trip to a green lush island in the middle of the ocean. The unisex scent is linear with moderate sillage and very good longevity. Naturally beautiful. Enjoy!

I was worried about my sense of smell until I noted that a fellow reviewer had the same impression as mine. The accords for this read musky/amber/animalic but what I got was a fresh exquisite floral that stayed close to the skin but whose longevity is remarkable, more than 8 hours and still counting. I wore this to bed and had pleasant images of strolling through sun-dappled gardens with flowers of all riotous colours nodding their heads and dancing in the breeze. If you have tried Maison Francis Kurkdjian's Amyris Femme, this has the same vibe, not the same smell. After the fresh flowery opening, late in the drydown do I get the warmth from the amber but this doesn't turn musky or animalic for me ( I love both accords). I would put this more as a warm floral if there's such a catergory. It wasn't the scent I was looking for but it is a lovely scent and I fully recommend it, but try a sample first in case you were also looking for musky/animalic and not a floral, as beautiful as this one is.

I'm having a tough time finding the notes in Ballena de la pampa. For once, I can say it's a dry scent, probably from the hay. Almost like an old book smell. Then you get sweet musk and the ambergris comes and goes like little waves. I smell some tobacco or something similar. I grew up in Argentina, so I have a vague idea of the interpretation of this perfume. La Pampa is a fertile region, as flat as you can find, imagine a gaucho riding is horse on a never ending field of sunflowers (or I should say soy this days). And the coast of the Patagonia (where the wales come every year) are rough lands, a place that looks like a desert and yet is full of life (large colonies of penguins, seals, orcas, sealions, etc. live there) the wind blows constantly, hardly any tree grows, just grasses and some bushes. It's an interesting take on a 'dry-marine' scent. Masculine, and at least on me, the tobacco and musk are prominent.