Absinthe Gaïac

What a interesting perfume, warm from the amber yet cold, juicy & smooth, sweet and comforting! I get the rose, the nutmeg, a sweet fruit cocktail and a little vetiver and clean musk. The patchouli is just stunning, exactly how I like it. I never thought I would love this based on the notes but it’s absolutely amazing and intriguing. Performance is a little softer than the others but it’s still pretty good and it projects. 7/10 and i would repurchase!

In my opinion this is a fantastic scent, perfect for Office and yet suitable for formal occassions. The tricky part is that it shouldnt be oversprayed but used really gently. If used properly it could be a delicious creamy fragrance with many notes coming up. If oversprayed it is dominated by leather and then you cannot smell other notes. In that situation it can be off putting.

Gorgeous fragrance....surprised this doesn't receive more love. Unique scent profile and a complete departure from my normal leaning towards fougere and chypre genres. Unisex but leaning more male....prominent absynth and woods, long lasting...I was burying my nose into my arm all day, so pleased I acquired it..strongly advise you to do the same :-)

Wait for the dry down !!!!! Panouge is dare to take the risk (for all line !) so be open mind ! this is out of space unique scent !!! Take your time ! Hard to like but you never know !

I agree with pepe7111, Absinthe Gaïac is mild and easy to wear. However I do smell the rose and leather together. It's a Lalique style of blending, luxurious impact, and certainly comes in high luxe presentation. It reminds me of Lalique Living though of course the notes vary a bit, something about the controlled powderiness, perhaps hiding spiders. Absinthe projects more yet has a simpler composition. The rose and leather are beautiful, rounded, and project for a few hours especially on fabric. A dried rose petal or rose water but not fresh roses. The mid is a tiny bit sweet, just like nutmeg is! The base is overwhelming on my skin so I must spray my clothes as well to have the full impact. I tend to think Absinthe in a perfume title is used evocatively rather than literally. Wormwood plants smell green and herbal and some varieties are OK smelling, even sweet (the flower spikes), while others not so much. When I spray this I get a brief glimpse of Chanel 19 greenness but it's gone in a flash. Wormwood roots give the flavor to real Absinthe and I don't know if they have an odor - they taste good (and not like licorice). This isn't green. It's a gauzy fragrance so perhaps that is the figurative connection to absinthe. I've enjoyed the artisanal Absinthe containing tiny amounts of thujone in the Jura, and it's not a gauzy feeling, so let's move on. Any brightness in this fragrance blows off within 30 minutes. After that, it's a "classy" amber. There is a projecting modern molecule in this but I don't have the technical nose to identify it. It's controlled but just and could give headaches to some. It doesn't evoke the outdoors, rather plush rooms. I bought it heavily discounted under $50 and it's fair value for that.