Eau de Mure

So, after reading that this is "floral fruity" I expected this to be a very sweet and girly perfume, but boy how wrong I was. This is how it smells to me: It's been raining all day, it's cold outside, the grass and woods are wet and there is a large bush of red berries, just ready to be eaten. I take the berries and eat them, they are sour, at the beginning it's hard to cope their sourness, but after a moment it get's more and more addictive and I eat, eat till all my mouth is sour. And the berries with the wet grass&woods make this fresh, cold smell in the air, very natural and beautiful. This is how Eau de Mure smells to me - cold, but so addictive. Not for girlie girls. And yes, very mouthwatering, oh. I really love this.

What a poem of a perfume!! Full of contradictions, mysterious, perfect for the summer, but also when in winter you need the summer-rays to lift your spirits!! The berries are ripe, aromatic and somehow bitter, like grapefruit. But that's not all: it has a crunchy, bread-like feel, like there's some flour hidden in there! The mastic, sandalwood and amber support the scent with an oriental vibe. I don't know if the celery is what gives it this surprising bitter edge, but i'm smitten! Magnifi-scent!! PS: It is very long lasting - 12 full hours - and unisex imho....

le prime note di questa acqua sono assai simili a quelle di Mure et Musc dell'artisan, ma la somiglianza tra i due profumi si ferma qui. una volta che i sentori volatili di frutti di bosco evaporano, stavolta ci si trova con un accordo che insieme al muschio (che non compare nella piramide olfattiva) mostra ambra e qualche accenno cyphre , molto classico e femminile. la persistenza, a dispetto della denominazione "acqua", è piuttosto lunga; il sillage è invece quello di un profumo di pelle: non si lascia la scia indossandolo. gradevole e ottimista, nell'insieme è decisamente più complesso di Mure e Musc (che-per inciso-sembrava uno shampoo ai frutti di bosco e poco più). un piccolo gioiello che mi fa pensare a mitsouko mentre gusta more, ribes e fragoline di bosco.

This fragrance was something different form my original expectations: on me, it smells more like a berry drink, sparkling, but not very sweet. After that it becomes a bit floral and quite musky, and gets even muskier with dry-down. Not a conventional berry-scent for me! It seems this is one of those fragrances that may grow on you or you'd never like it. It wasn't warm or inviting, more of a "cold" fragrance. I read that the creator of the line made his perfumes in the old French tradition. I could see that reflected in the bottle's design: very heavy cut old-style flacon, but I don't find it very attractive. nevertheless, I think it's a very interesting fragrance, not very mainstream.

Oh dear, this is not for me, not at all. Initially, on my skin it smelled like regurgitated baby milk mixed with faux berry flavour and salty body odour. It actually made me dry heave. It does settle into a drier experience, kind of like the stain of spilled milky berry drink in the carpet that someone tried to absorb the moisture out with salt. Bearable but not pleasureable. I think this is one of those perfumes which choses its owner and woe betide anyone else who tries to usurp its identity.