Limanakia 27

Limanakia is a refreshing, clever take on the generic ‘sexy white-flower scent to wear in summer’. Don’t get me wrong, I love those as well, but they do get boring over time. Now this fragrance here is sure to surprise you if you’re expecting a creamy combo of tiare and jasmine. You actually will get some creamy white flowers closer to the drydown, but first you'll have to deal with some mineral animalic. Yep, my friends, this smells like dried saliva. Was it brought here for an extra punch, for the sake of art and its fun? Or should we really think of this 'naked bodies on a rocky beach' stuff? We'll never know. So yeah, for me it's a formula of jasmine, tiare and saliva. Seriously though, I adore this fragrance for being so unique. For me, it embodies those days at the beach: you're laying on a sunbed, drops of salty water still trickling down your skin, the pebbles on the shore are so hot from the sun that you're almost lazy to go for the next dive - you simply want to stay in this hazy bliss forever. There is the burning sun of Attica, the white stone, the turquoise sea and the blue sky. The longevity is very impressive, it stays on even after several actual dives (uh yeah, I usually wear frags to the beach). I got a lot of compliments on Limanakia from both sexes so I suppose its sillage is on the moderate to strong side.

PG is one of my favourite perfume houses because not only is Pierre Guillaume highly skilled, he's also never boring. At the same time, his creations are interesting without ever feeling like they're trying too hard. Limanakia opens with the smell of hot stones, slightly ozonic, a real dry summery smell with a hint of floral sunscreen. About ten minutes later, I got a whiff of a curry house, like freshly-made poppadums - ah, there's the cumin! It grows to become the most prominent note and it juuuust stays on the pleasant side, not going sweaty or overpowering. But it's close, so if you really hate cumin, you won't like this. In the drydown it becomes weaker and the floral notes shine through a bit more. Like Andy Tauer's Le Maroc Pour Elle, this is a fascinating and skillfully-made fragrance, even if it's a bit odd and not for every day.

PG27 is an animalic mineral; a unique proposition that ties together very human memories of a rocky beach that’s been beaten by eons of sun and surf. The idea of bodies throbbing and rubbing together on a shore or coastline thats ravaged and sculpted by the elements for ever and a day. Mainly characterised by a salty fractioned patchouli thats tinged with the vegetal animality of labdanum, PG27 also uses wormwood to refresh the initial mineral aspects created by the cocktail of salicylates and cumin. The fragrance’s floral heart of jasmine, lily-of-the-valley and tiare is coloured by the spicy facets of immortelle and the wooded, earthen notes of patchouli.

Limanakia is one of those fragrances that will always remind me moments full of passion and emotions. Flowery, mineral, crisp and warm, also refreshing, sea shore rocks covered with sea salt. I absolutely love it. I am happy I still have the possibility to have and wear it.

I get ylang ylang and tuberose more than the listed notes, but it's not bad. It reminds me of Embruns d'ylang. I really like this, it has grand, honking floral notes but with an original twist.