1828

What fun! 1828 does honestly feel like you are being taken on an exciting journey through new and strange lands, though not in the sci-fi sense that Jules Verne preferred. The opening notes of juicy citruses, mainly oranges and grapefruit, are accented with a beautifully smooth eucalyptus note. I'm reminded of some walks I've taken in the Northwest California coast, particularly how I felt the first time I did so, where the marine air carries the smell of the eucalyptus trees across your skin in a slightly sticky and salty way. Combined with the wide breadth of citrus notes, there's this feeling of a huge expanse stretched out in front of you. 1828 is making me feel the way I felt during that first walk through a coastal eucalyptus forest - the smell of the trees, the ocean you can hear before you can see it, to finally emerge from the tree line and see the Pacific in front of you. I can't recall the last time I smelled a perfume whose opening felt so enormous, but without clobbering you over the head. For as big as it feels, it's not terribly powerful and overwhelming - just like looking out at the ocean from the shore, you get a sense of enormity and power without having to experience that power in full. It's an absolutely brilliant opening to a perfume. As these top notes begin to dry down you get this feeling of descent. The perfume begins to close-in on itself and get really tight by projecting earthy seed spice notes of nutmeg and cinnamon, yet it's a black pepper note - slightly fruity, spicy and piquant, round and glass-like - that gives the effect of your environment closing in around you. You're walking into the forest, dense and tight, visibility to nil. Or, you're descending into the bowels of the Earth through a tight cave as Jules Verne would have imagined. But before this becomes a bit overwhelming and unsettling, the perfume moves quickly through these heart notes to bring forth airy and luminescent pine, myrrh, and vetiver. After the experience of the heart notes you really get the feeling of a breath of fresh air and openness with these base notes, like I've just passed through the center of the Earth from the eucalyptus forests of California to come out the other side somewhere in Asia. The vetiver is typical vetiver, a bit wet, salty, swampy, and very green, but the pine and myrrh notes, which lock hand-in-hand incredibly well, are so effervescent and breathable that the vetiver doesn't come across as overtly swampy and close. The pine and myrrh allow the vetiver's more challenging aspects to actually be refreshing rather than cloying. Nothing in the base scratches at you or challenges you; it refreshes you, relaxes you while maintaining the energy of excitement that got you started - your amazing journey is over, now time to reflect. I am absolutely bowled over by 1828. Every stage is unique yet cohesively stitched together to be exciting and evocative, but never feels less than sophisticated and gentlemanly. Full marks to Sylvie Jourdet for a brilliant composition. At the end of the day, yes, this is another citrus and woody vetiver - one of a million. In that sense it is not anything special. But every single note played by this perfume is pitch perfect, perfectly timed, and of a high-quality timbre. It's that execution that allows me to go on a journey with it, one I would be very happy to repeat.

One of the best in my summer collection , with classic barbershop characteristic soapy freshness , the opening is too bright and brilliant ,1828 opens with citrusy piney woods and goes on as delightfully as possible , powdery spicy notes are mixed beautifully with green vetiver and soft aromatic eucalyptus , detectable nutmeg plays a major roll in pleasant performance , 1828 is smelling natural with lovely combination of boozy rum-like sweetness and bitter woods. 8/10 عطرای تابستونی و خنک با کمی ابتکار و ایجاد زاویه های عمیق تر و پیچیدگی بیشتر می تونن شخصیت و کاراکتر مختص خودشون رو بدست بیارن و مخاطب رو تحت تأثیر دنیایی که خلق کردن قرار بدن ژول ورن تا حدودی در این کار موفق بوده و به این مقصود رسیده و با وجود طراحی رایحه ای نسبتا کلاسیک و کمی صابونی و آرایشگاهی ، از وادی عطرهای سطحی و تکراری و حوصله سر بر تابستونی گذر می کنه و امضای مختص خودشو پیدا می کنه رایحه ای اروماتیک چوبی تمیز و کمی کافوری ، شفاف و صابونی با حضور به اندازه نت های سیتروسی و اسپایسی. در شروع رایحه تنه ی درخت کاج رو به وضوح می شه حس کرد در کنار سایه ای خنک و ملایم از اوکالیپتوس که به هیچ وجه اور دوز نیست و برای افرادی مثل من که طرفدار این نت نیستن اصلا آزار دهنده نیست ، به نظر من نقطه قوت ۱۸۲۸ در کنترل نت های سیتروسی از جمله گریپ فروت و نارنگیه‌ ترش و شیرین در طول عمر عطره به شکلی که از ابتدا تا انتها در حاشیه به گونه ای که حضورشو به رخ بکشه نشسته و شاهد بازی نت های دیگه اس و این در گرمای تابستون بسیار لذت بخشه ، بالانس فوق العاده وتیور دودی صابونی در کنار فلفل و جوز هندی از دیگر جذابیت های ژول ورنه ، حس بویاییم بهم می گه لاوندر در لحظات بسیاری از این عطر بازی گردانی می کنه در حالی که اینجا در نت ها ذکر نشده درای داون ۱۸۲۸ بسیار دلنشین و بوییدنش بسیار لذت بخشه که کمی یادآوره اودن سرجف با ترکیبی از نت های چوبی و رام و مرکباته برای من تنها نقطه ضعف ژول ورن نوعی نت تقریبا شیرین هستش که در برابره رایحه ترش و تلخ چوبی میوه ای مدام بولد می شه و دوباره به گوشه ای رانده می شه ، به شخصه ترجیح می دادم رایحه فضای بالزامیکی ‌ چوبی تر و تلخ تری داشته باشه کیفیتی قابل قبول ، ماندگاری برای این سبک رایحه عالی حداقل ۱۰ ساعت و پخش هم نسبتا خوب حد اقل ۲ ساعت 8/10

My first thought upon sniffing this is “Dad would love this!” He probably wouldn’t; I shudder to think what would happen if I actually bought him a $210 bottle of perfume. But the bone-dry abstract cologne opening of 1828 reminds me of something my dad used to wear when I was a kid. And, as such, it gives me an unbelievably powerful scent memory. All’s right with the world, you are being hugged by your Daddy who knows how to do everything, who can draw a horse with realistic musculature and speaks every language in the world and knows things about cars and airplanes... more prosaically, it’s a dry, crisp, gray-green, classically abstract masculine scent chord. Luca Turin calls it “direct, effortless, virile elegance” and he’s right. there’s a sort of late-90’s “hi-tech” radiance about the aromachemicals — it was released in 2001, after all— and some commenters think it smells like cK One. In my book, that’s no bad thing; there’s nothing wrong with clean, crisp aromachemicals if they’re done right, and (say it with me now) The 90s Were Good Actually. a few minutes in, 1828 has a warmer, mellower creamy-spicy brown nuance (the nutmeg?) complementing the dry bitter pale-green opening. and half an hour in, there’s a pale coumarin (tonka?) glow underlying the whole thing...while it still retains its dry crisp freshness and aura of masculine expertise. An hour in, 1828 has landed, in a creamy-spicy (yet still light and radiant) coumarin-nutmeg place, ivory flecked with copper. It reminds me slightly of the cheerful masculine vanilla-tonka note in The Third Man; it’s innocent, honest joy, a guy whistling unselfconsciously in the bright air.

I am so mindblown by this fragrance. And I can’t for the life of me figure out why most reviewers here believe that women can’t pull it off, because to my nose and on my skin it is perfectly unisex. Histories de Parfums missed the mark deciding not to market this in their officially unisex category. (They’re rare in that they use the categories “for him”, “for her”, and “unisex”.) The citrus top doesn't feel energizing and bright as citrus tops typically do. Instead of the norm, 1828’s citrus is immediately and deeply calming , wrapped up in that soothing eucalyptus, cosy nutmeg, and smooth incense. If I could only use one word to describe 1828, that’s what it would be— smooth. It’s well blended right away. Sweetness (sap?) dancing with evergreen and camphorous aromatics, one of my favorite kinds of perfume magic. I don’t get the grapefruit, and I don’t get fresh orange juice. I get an aged orange tea, and it’s so beautiful. This is quintessentially versatile in both time of day and season. The slight sweetness and deep incense lend 1828 to day or night, winter to spring to summer to fall. As far as value? You can pick up 60mL for around $70. That’s a steal for this quality. I blind bought this, and it was a safe blind buy in my eyes. Even if it doesn’t wow you like it has me, I can’t see anyone finding this unwearable putting aside very rogue skin chemistry. Women who love unisex scents, try this. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. And to the men— if I smelled this on a man, I’d never be able to take my face out of his neck. Sexy and cosy. Wrapped up in blankets.

1828 is a tribute to Jules Verne, but since Beethoven died in 1827 (so close!) I'll compare this beautiful perfume to a Beethoven symphony. Exposition: one of the most beautiful grapefruit notes I have smelled in perfumery. It is so realistic, it actually transported my mind back to a time so far back in my childhood when we used to eat grapefruit (doused in sugar of course) every morning. Main Theme of citrus gives way to the secondary theme of pine and they blend for the remainder of the exposition. Development: Nutmeg joins the swirling themes from the exposition. The warm spice modulates with camphorous eucalyptus into remote keys, far removed from the opening citric harmonies. But the reminder of the citrus never fully fades- there is a sweetness emerging that is both delightful and unexpected. Recapitulation: As the composition comes to a gentle conclusion, we are left with the most beautiful sweet dry down I have come across. Do not think of designer-scent-level syrupy, overwrought sweet accords. This is subtle, gentle, and so incredibly pleasant. It must be the nutmeg and remnants of citrus with a slightly green woodiness. This is an amazing coda to a fragrance masterpiece. A rare 10/10 for me, I would wish to change nothing about 1828. A gentlemanly perfume of the world. If I could only have one fragrance, this would be a contender! Beautiful.