Ciel d'Airain

I was very surprised when this masterpiece didn't evolve well in daytime. i thought i bought the wrong fragrance, i tried it in the evening just before the perfume shop closed. I loved it from the top notes to the base. next day i sprayed twice, on skin and on my shirt. both areas gave me exotic fruity vibrations. i was upset and smelt only coconut, like in bronze goddess 2010. In the evening i gave Ciel d`Airain another chance to show me hidden treasures of Pierre Guillaume and it works. I felt indescribable mix around soft fruity accord with delightful sharpness. It tickles your nose and keeps your thoughts not in this world. I'm very pleased to feel this modern and minimalistic music suite. It's like one thin sound which knits with random piano. It's like ryuichi sakamoto piano experiment. I definitely think this fragrance stands out from the others few components perfumes.

Coconut milk, ripe figs, and threading through it all, the unmistakable scent of olives. If you turned your head and inhaled of an evening on a walk in Tuscany, this might be the fragrance you caught on the wind. I love this perfume, it's versatile enough for day or night but quirky enough that in a social setting it would stand head and shoulders over more pedestrian choices. Great conversation piece too.

The perfumer’s intent was to produce a feeling of being in an orchard just before the rain, taking refuge under a pear tree. Hence in Ciel d'Airain you have the bark and leaves accords rather than the fruit, all shaded with ambergris for that dense just-before-the-summer storm effect.

Having tried Philosykos, Premier Figuier and Premier Figuier Extreme, the hunt was on for a fig fragrance with that added extra something. This is it! Ciel d'Airain is fruitier and fuller than Philosykos, which was a tad too green for my taste, not to mention a little thin and insubstantial. I prefer it to the L'Artisan creations - I found those a little heavy on the coconuts. I LOVE this perfume. It's the perfect balance of fruits and woods. It feels full-bodied and well-rounded compared to other figs I've tried (could that be due to the presence of amber?). Having said that, this is not a heavy scent and I would feel comfortable wearing this any time, any season, any place. Once it dries down to base notes, the amber is more noticable and quite lovely against the coconuts. My only reservation about this is the longevity. It's very faint about 3-4 hours after application, have to press my nose very close to my skin. Need to retest, see if I can make it last longer! Lovely stuff :-D May not be a very "true" representation of fig, but it is a truly lovely scent.

Fig is mentioned very briefly and in passing on the PG website, so not sure how important a note it is. Personally, I don't get anything remotely fig-like. What I get is a fruity note, which I find it hard to place; happy to accept that it is pear tree leaf. In the end it comes across as a fruity-freshy; I smell like I just got out of the shower and the shower gel was a pear one. This in itself is not bad. In fact, I would say this is a nice composition overall, but it's not stormy day in northern Italy. This is a summer fruity scent for holidays in the sun. The notes above are wrong: there is no amber in this perfume; in the PG website it clearly says ambergris. However, I get no ambergirs in the drydown (perhaps it's there in a small quantity).