Paname

This fragrance makes me feel very calm and a bit melancholic. To me it more of a feminine than a truly unisex scent, as it is a bit sweet and gourmand, but it's not a girly scent oder a very seductive and sexy perfume. Maybe feminine with a slight tomboyish edge. To my nose it has a soft anise/licorice note, but also a bittersweet note that reminds me of dark chocolate. Maybe that's the mix of vanilla, spices and wood notes. Paname is something you can wear to work, as it does not have a great silage, and I think it's most suitable for fall. It feels a bit dark but also gentle and soothing.

Douce Amere twin with one major difference. This lovely baby fades away in a blink of an eye.

The opening of Keiko Mecheri PANAME seemed a bit sugary and suggested that this might be a vanilla oriental woody perfume intended for women. However, within about a minute the absinthe appears most prominently to aromaticize the composition, turning this into a somewhat less but still fairly feminine scent. I'd say that this closer to Bvlgari JASMIN NOIR than ABSOLUMENT ABSINTHE, probably because of the tonka/vanilla which makes the wormwood smell more like black licorice than the woody absinthe of the more masculine absinthe perfumes I've tried. PANAME smells delightful, but unfortunately the longevity is not that good, so for now I'll continue to reach for JASMIN NOIR for my black licorice fix. Oriental lovers with a sweetish licorice bent would surely like this creation, which is not nearly so sweet as LOLITA LEMPICKA but definitely sweeter than I've come to expect from fragrances marketed as unisex.

"Paname" is a marvelous perfume, it opens with a rich, dark yet refreshing note of wormwood and some aromatic/green notes. It was an instant love affair for me as I love everything "absinthe" related and "Paname" has the herbal, boozy quality of absinthe. It dries down to a very aromatic/sweet vanilla. This review is based on 2 hour wear as after 2 hours there is nothing left to smell. Such a pity.

KM has a perfume asthetic that doesn't corrospond with mine. Her fumes are far too sweet, too musky and too girly-polite to me. It's like the faiding memory of a fairy dream. I thought an "Aromatic Spicy" might be edgy enaugh to fit my bill, esp. with the accord description of "aromatic, bitter, woody, green, vanilla", but unfortunately even Paname is much much much too sweet, unedgy and uninteresting, with an absolute overdose of musk and tonka, which I cannot stand. The licorice does remind me of Lolita Lempicka, too, but I have to say, that LL is the better perfume. You'd get more spices and a better longevity for less money. My problem sometimes is, that I find the noses so very sympathetic, that it hurts me, that I cannot stand their creations; I have the same thing with Andy Tauer.