Navegar

Navegar is nice, very nice fragrance. Safe and delicate ... not very loud not screaming not overpowering, just right and proper for any time any season. I know opinion that if something is for everything it means is for nothing but Navegar is perfect if you have bad days, if you feel tired by strong perfume, if you are looking for not common, not strange but still unusual niche and beautiful fragrance. In my opinion Navegar is unforgettable kiss of gentles creature born on our planet. Most delicate wind of sunny morning - the Mediterranean vacation on the Greek coast. A little journey in smal boat with friends. One of the most suggestive perfume I found in my life. I don't want to be bastard but IMHO Navegar is not for everybody... to understand it's beauty I would suggest to compare hundred of other fragrances with similar notes. If you are fragrance lover try first other fragrances by Olivia Giacobetti - Navegar hold her soul. It is so well balanced and delicate as her other most most sophisticated beauty. But let's go to perfume. In my opinion Navegar is a little related to Chanel no 18 - fruity, citrusy, a litle dirty. Gentle but still prominent for long time. This is for sure skin scent that will refresh you giving good feeling in bad moments. Ginger is prominent but it isn't strongest note. Together with anise both play first role as sweet-fresh-hot elements. The freshness is green, fresh elements are watery, hot is peppery. Than woods develop with rum. The combination of green elements with rum and woods make Navegar very unusual. I don't know other scent that is based on combination of so different and not related notes. But we have to remember who is the nose behind Navegar - the Quinn of perfumery Olivia Giacobetti. As in her other fragrances she gave us perfection, just perfection in the beautiful bottle that will never let you down.

Navegar is kind of an odd scent. It has the light weight and general transparency of many aquatics, but is in fact quite woody and peppery. It's not woody enough though to be mentioned alongside Hinoki or Tumulte or what have you. It's a hybrid scent that doesn't clearly fit into any category, and maybe that's why it gets little love (that and the fact that many have longevity issues with it. I find it lasts all day, but can lose the scent for long periods and think it is gone when it isn't.) So why do I love Navegar and think it deserves more love here? Simply because it is evocative. Navegar really does call to mind the sailing on the ocean. No, this isn't sipping drinks on your yacht ala Erolfa, or those same drinks at the oceanside resort ala Virgin Island Water. This isn't some imagined paradise full of ripe melons ala Acqua di Gio. Navegar is the scent of an ancient trade ship loaded up with black gold; cedar barrels packed to the brim with peppercorns. Hints of the smooth and intoxicating scent of anise, the other spice on board, are also carried by the gentle breeze. Navegar is the scent of standing on the deck of that ship, under an endless expanse of blue sky and surrounded by an equally endless expanse of blue waters. It's the scent of the salty sea spray that intermittently caresses your face as the ship cuts through the waves. There's a sense of space and a sense of.. freedom. That's why I love Navegar.

This scent echoes the sunny, lazy days at the beach of Punta Faro on la Isla Mucura, in a shade of a palm canopy letting some scorching sun-rays down on me, with an icy-cool lime-ginger-spiced-rum drink in one hand and another one dangling on the side of a hammock playing with the glistening white sand bellow while the sounds of the sea and a very distant clamour of locals puling the nets laden with the fruits of the sea fill the breezy hot air around me...some pelicans steal the fish with seagulls and cormorants circling in the sky above. I could jump into the cool seawater few yards away to refresh, but just cannot be bothered to. Time is drifting sloooowly on the calm surface of the Caribbean see and life is just perfect at the moment with no need to change absolutely anything. This is a scent of a memory of the perfect paradise island stay with the love of my life...thank you Olivia for creating it!

Quite nice stuff with a strong cedar note, with no hints of cloying undertones, so something quite a bit different than citrus for summer. I purchased this on a whim when I saw it at discount some years ago, and must admit to not treating it with much respect at the time. But as is so often the case, I came to like it more and more, but yikes - It's been discontinued ! It's true, it has many of the shortcomings associated with this house - poor longevity and the works, so you may have to bathe in the stuff. Plus you'll likely have to pay through the nose should you find it on e-bay. Are there other frags which smell like this, which may be stronger and more available ? Perhaps. But now that I've located a backup, I'm feeling less insecure.

It begins as a gingery, woody spice, but within 20 minutes it has faded to a smell which is overwhelmingly pencil shavings to me. With that change begins my reverie and I'm back in a 1960's classroom following that girl up, again, to the big, metal, communal pencil sharpener - strange how you always seem to need to sharpen same time as her... To many this will be a woody incense-like smell, pleasant but perhaps not something most would wear - some of you may even smell a little wood smoke running through. To me it's the smell, from over her shoulder, of newly shaved wood shards mixed with a smell of Nivea like skin cream of the Pencil Sharpener Girl. Intoxicating. Intoxicated. Transported.