Luce

I’ve tried a few of these now. Imprezzabile can basically do no wrong in my eyes. He has the mysterious, inscrutable, air to both the man and the work he produces. It’s funny because there’s nothing mind blowing here, nothing I’ve absolutely adored, but just a steady stream of creative, and original perfume with his signature something all over them. It’s not an easy thing to do, creating a movement or a style or perfumery. Its like perfumes I adore like ‘Muscs’ (perfumes with musk in the name) based around a kind of creamy, ethereal, base heavy, warm vibes. I love them, they are brilliant and some perceive them as lazy or not challenging enough and too conventional. However they are not easy to get right. This is the same. Nothing special, and yet they are special. The opening of this is knocking me for six. It’s smells of musks and warm ambergris like qualities, with vanillic pastry and almonds in the background. It’s almost fougere warm and sweet but with textbook Meo herbal tones. It’s quite an emotional work to me. I’m quite taken with it.

Creamy/buttery woods and sweet vanillic benzoin, with a (very subtle) tobacco-ish undertone. I can tell that the ingredients quality is superior to average, but it remains nonetheless a quite simple and linear fragrance. Furthermore, I confim what others have said before me, that is: EDP's projection is abysmal on my skin (but longevity is decent). Given that, I will politely pass on that one, and would be interested in trying the Parfum version, to see if the performance issues have been resolved. Still, worth a sniff. Great, but not $220 great, imho.

Given the notes you would expect this scent to be more masculine but on me it really isn’t, it’s a soft smooth woody perfume. No it doesn’t project much on me either, but I can still smell it on skin 6 hours later - I do have to sniff my arm to pick up in the scent. Its warmth is delicious in the heat of this summer.

Leathery, woody, creamy black licorice with chocolate-like patchouli. An instant love.

Out of the notes I can smell maybe benzoin and birch/sandalwood. It reminds me T-Perfume's Blanche which is equally very light and airy. The opening of Luce is the best but it stays very short time. Not bad scent overall, even interesting, but I wish it was stronger. The idea behind the scent is light and silence, minimal architecture by Kahn. Checking the homepage surprised me because I saw that now some of the scents have 10 ml options which makes it more financially possible to get something good. I have already bought two other full bottles at the same time, because the scents they do are absolutely gorgeous. Luce is definitely too weak/airy to me but not every scent has to be strong.