Au Dela

Thi is so beautiful, and so very comforting, yet just a little bit spicy, and I want to be the person that this perfume represents. She's genteel without a trace of snobbery. She is earthy yet airy, comforting and warm without being cloying. She is sexy and she knows it, but it's her knowledge. There's no need to advertise it. This is who I imagine myself to be in my daydreams.

This is a classic very sharp chypre. It smells like it was made in the 1970's. Sharp coriander and neroli in the beginning for the opening. Very green, dry and sharp. Pointed, gets your attention. It continues in the heart to remain green, sharp and bitter. The dry down is softer, orange blossom resting on an oakmoss and resin pillow. Very classic. I could see people who like Chanel no 19 or Patou's 1000 appreciating this very green classic floral fragrance. Beautifully done. I would love to try his Lilac fragrance but samples are hard to get. This reminded me a bit of Norell but that is much more animalic. This smells much cleaner. A cleaner version of mother nature. Women who wear this are to reckonned with.

I got a sample of Au Dela in the portfolio set that Bruno Fazzolari sells. I highly recommend getting the sample portfolio so you can try all of his fragrances. This has a very nice floral, dry powder kind of smell. I think of a classy older woman when I smell it. It is not for me, but does smell nice.

A scent your beautiful chain-smoking aunt would have lingering on her silk kimono. Don't know why I'm getting old cigarettes from this -- FZOTIC might just not be the house for me/my skin chemistry I fear. Despite that, I'd love to get to know the lady this makes me think of.

Au Delà by perfumer and artist Bruno Fazzolari is something very special. I first smelled it along with the other three perfumes of his initial launch into the perfume world last March at San Francisco Artisan Fragrance Salon. You can read about that event here. Au Delà immediately struck me as a fabulous perfume that recalled the great days of the house of Dior in the early 50’s. It is so reminiscent of such beauties as the old original Miss Dior. Not the silly girl she has become today in her reformulations but the beautiful confident woman she was at the dawn of post war glamour. I have to give credit to Hilary Randal who was the one to pinpoint for me what I was smelling in that bottle of Au Delà that day back in March. Bruno has in his collection all of which was released in 2013, Lampblack, Jimmy, Five, Monserrat, and Au Delà. Each are exquisite and should be explored by any and every perfume lover, but for me Au Delà is the masterpiece of the line. It is the goddess in a bottle, the essence of French chic created by and artist who grew up in both in France and the United States. This perfume was inspired by one of the major French composers of the 20th Century, Olivier Massiaen. And in this inspiration there is music, glorious music. To equate this fragrance to the inspiration just listen to L’Ascension by Massiaen and you have the tones and notes of this perfume. It opens with a simple clear, glowing note of coriander. This note is almost immediately obliterated by an unfolding song from a beautiful jasmine that is wreathed with Neroli and orange blossoms. This plays its melody with increasing sensuality as it is aroused by the arrival of the base notes of Amber, Oakmoss and something magical created by Bruno known as Immanence. Immanence is a fantasy note that is as ephemeral as a dream and as real as fairy dust. It is the God note that encompasses everything and exists in all creation. It is there in the base of the perfume and gives it wings, shimmering wings on which to fly. This Chypre is indolic, intoxicating and inspiring. It loves to live on the skin of both men and women and in so doing finds the essence of male or female sensuality in the meeting of perfume to flesh. Since its release Au Delia has won both the Gold Medal for Top Artisan Perfumer at the International Artisan Fragrance Awards and the Gold Medal at the San Francisco Artisan Fragrance Salon. I found this award winning perfume to be sublime with a respectable sillage and good longevity. You can find it at Bruno’s Webpage and at Tigerlily in San Francisco. Tigerlily is the first brick and mortar story to carry Bruno Fazzolari Editions. For a debut perfumer it is exceptional and I look forward to watching Bruno Fazzolari’s journey as an up an coming perfumer. Au Delà Five Gold Stars ***** (FOR THE STORY BEHIND MY REVIEW CHECK OUT MY BLOG, SCENTS MEMORY)