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.

It's a relentless tobacco scent. For some reason Fragrantica often seems to miswrite Fueguia's notes. According to Fueguia official information, this is Tabacco, Hay, and Ambergris. My nose feels that way too. I am a non-smoker and I hate the smell of real cigarettes. But I can enjoy the scent of tabacco perfume as one genre. Often it is pleasant with a sweet scent. But Ballena de la Pampa is... not sweet at all. A very bitter and burnt scent that makes my vision look dark brown. It smelled so close to real cigarettes that I thought I would never use this perfume again. But strangely enough, this perfume strangely appeals to me. When I put it on my skin, I think, ``This is too tobacco, I can't do it''. But after a while, I want to smell it again. why? don't know. At least it doesn't smell as harmful as real cigarettes, and obviously this is not my scent, but it is interesting.

A stylish colleague complimented on my perfume saying that it smelled very « exclusive ». It’s my everyday perfume thanks for its capacity of paradoxically being discrete and prominent at the same time. For me it’s definitely feminine. It’s more dry than sweet, it’s more vague than concrete, so I guess it adapts easily with the person wearing it. I feel no tobacco. However, the musk is (thanks heaven) not animal, which gives a synthetic and artificial feeling. For this reason I might not buy it again, but I haven’t found anything similar to replace it with.

After testing a number of tobacco dominant/based fragrances, finally i found some that suits me better.Ballena is the only one i truly liked.All the other perfumes are too sweet for me. It lasts very long time, but i guess it doesn't project at all and you can smell it if you stick your head into the perfume wearer. Fueguia is not a popular brand, but what they do is simply amazing..

Start wild, with rough seas on a sunny day and a salty breeze that runs through lush flora and yellow flowers like broom. It reminds me of some Penhaligon 's in style. In the middle I notice echoes of the Alhambra as in Methaldone of Aether parfum that recall the woody smell of the benches in a church. I also have sweet whispers of pink candies that transport it to women's areas but it is mostly green and musky with fruit peels. The sillage is strong especially the first hour and I find the note salty too hard a short distance. The consistency makes me think of a bubble bath ... Not for me because it reminds me of Aria di mare from Il Profvmo that I do not like at all for the note of dyer's greenweed. Ballena it is however better especially on the skin. Strong and wild. Step.

My least favorite from this house so far. It seems like it is suffering from an identity crisis. I barely get any of the notes it is supposed to contain. It smells like iso-e-super and concentrated grape juice. I love musk, but this is not particularly musky, just plasticky and very synthetic. Unmemorable.

Very very strange, not easily recognizable smells if you haven’t smelled ambergris in it’s pure form, which I have not. Initially I am reminded of Frapin 1270, you can tell they are very different notes, but the final accord is somewhat similar. Frapin has easily recognizable notes of fruits and woods and booze. Ballena on the other hand is something much more abstract; overtones of humid sweet hay with a base of ambergris musks. The ambergris musk is of course the hardest part to describe because I can’t really make reference to anything I’ve smelled before. I guess Ambroxan is a good starting point, here you see how ambroxan is related to ambergris: the sweet amber of Ballena is so different from the classic vanilla/resin amber, it’s something more like the transparent white amber of ambroxan. Im contrast to ambroxan however this is more full and is absolutely dancing with life. Every sniff has a different facet: soft woods, Matte florals, sweet, green, slightly oceanic but reminding me More of fresh water actually, slightly furry, exquisite suede, very mild saliva, very mild spices, dried papyrus, dried rose, cooling aquatic sage .... Aaaasshhhhh this will make my brain explode with how this weird cloud of aroma keeps hitting me with a new surprise. Guys this is isn’t my favorite smelling fragrance in the world but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that it has seriously put me in trance states of closing my eyes and trying to understand wtf I’m smelling, and in that time I’ve grown very fond of it, I don’t exactly want to smell like it. I feel like I’m walking in a olfactory museum exhibit everytime I spray this. It’s like: what in the world am I smelling? Why am I actually enjoying this? And why is it randomly reminding me of frapin 1270? Overall feels like a fall fragrance, but next I will experiment doing just one misted spray as a layering tool. Edit: interestingly, when layering this tends to make fragrances more floral ambery! The surprising part is how random florals appear out of nowhere wit this.

I've had a sample of this for a few years, and I FINALLY got around to testing it out! Unfortunately, the sample has split somewhat, and it's a milky white, like ouzo with water added to it -- but it smells good and hasn't turned, which is a bonus. A largely marine amber (ambergris and salty notes), with ambroxan and cashmeran really tie this all together -- I'm not sure I LOVE this scent, but I like it -- is that enough? I'm not sure... There are also cooling, tropical fruit elements, too, which spar wonderfully with the marine elements -- this works well on so many levels, and I legit see myself considering this scent -- I'm going to be in Tokyo next May -- so, I really TRULY do not know! Maybe? I need to roadtest this out a few more times, but I do enjoy when I'm getting so far...

Ballena de la Pampa immediately transports me to a specific ice cream and candy shop of my childhood in Sweden, where the sweet, slightly boozy scent of zabaione ice cream and a background of sweet, salty and fruity hard licorice candies fills the air. My nose also feels a hint of apple juice, but the rest is the sweet, sweet comfort in nostalgia. After some time, the scent becomes slightly "filthy" with a scent reminiscent of what stays behind in clothing, towels, and hair after a walk or day at the beach, especially if that beach has dried seaweed washed up on the shore. I suppose this is where the whale comes in. I should add that I have only used this scent during summer and mostly in tropical weather.

This is so strange... I usually stay away from musk but this one on my skin smells like amber, musk, and some light leather... I dont know why but to me it seems a like a better version of Bottega Veneta. I love it for spring ! When mixed with the chocolate, it makes a great winter perfume.

If anybody has a full or mostly full bottle for sale, please let reach out to me!

Hay, Ambergris, Tobacco Signature secnt worthy,