Ivre de Vie

Hello there! This is quite the opening. I smell sweet stuff with a delightful sharpness that excels in subtlety. To me this is fruit, pink pepper and - very strange - something of a Dutch snackbar, the equivalent of the British fish and chips shop. It's where they sell ‘nasibal’ a ball of fried rice with spices, covered in a crispy jacket. Now I happen to love nasibal, so that’s bull’s eye! There’s also this smokey quality to it. To me this is spicy fruit. And while I usually find fruity scents intoxicatingly sweet, this stays mysterious in a way, and interesting.

I dont know really what tonthink about this fragance... LOVE the opening, It is sweet and ácid, with the rose and fruits...and i thought...oh! What a wonderful fragance! But to the dry down It becomes a bit dirty and sour on my skin. Maybe is a issue of my skin but i diliked It a bit and It remember me a bit of the developing of perfumes like kouros. As for the performance is great. The sillage is just moderate butnthw longevity is incredible. It lasts until the Next day. It is a pity that i dont like to have this smeel so many time on me. However the quality is so high! Scent: 6 Longevity: 10 Sillage: 7 Quality/price: 5 Versatility: 8 Originality: 9 Global: 7

When i first sprayed it on my wrest i felt it was too cloying, but when i sprayed it on my chest i got the aged dusty sweetness that is held from the red wine, cassis, hints of grapes, and the plastic which comes from the vinyl. It whiffs between sour sweet (blood oranges), and aged sweet (red wine, and grapes). I can detect powdery amber, and dusty patchouli as well. It's not a love at first sight as i first thought it is a designer's kind of blends but then i realized that the kind of it's sweetness is quite amusing and alluring somehow. I can't deny that it would lean towards the feminine side although i don't believe in gender perfumes but this one is quite amusing indeed when applied on skin generously.