Eau d'Ikar

after testing it again, the longevity is quite good. my wife smells this 4-5 hours after the application. The critics on the internet are so and so...for me and for some of the reviews, this is quite good fragrance, natural with an elegant touch. The start reminds older perfumes, citruses but there is something in that makes it different from other. This is the mastic and the first mastic perfume i tried. It is, i see it that it is unique and this matters for me. from all these creations the last years who are turning around 1 million etc, this is something that deserves attention and respect. The perfume was used by the family which is running Sisley and then, decided to put it in production for the public. Beyond that, it is considered for some reviewers unisex, but this is not something i would like to smell on a woman. there are many female perfumes that smell woman so there is no reason for a woman to wear male perfumes although some are saying that there is no gender in perfumery...but at least and personally me, i will never want to smell such a perfume on a woman. The whole thing is for a mature wealthy guy 30 and up and not for kids. give it a try and see the wonderful top notes, the elegant middle and the clean soapy base notes. lover of the original eau sauvage, give it a try....it is recommended for those that they do not want something to smell like many others. The compliments are high, both from women and men so what else we want on a perfume? the only problem was the longevity but after wearing it again and again and with 20C temperature, this is a jewel. It will be better maybe in summer but i consider it for all seasons and occasions, preferably formal though and office.

This is indeed a beautiful scent and although it starts a bit generic, then in some minutes the mastic appears and takes the whole thing in a different direction. i consider it natural, classy, smooth and high quality. in about 10-20 minutes, the perfume is dominated by the smell of mastic and citruses. I like it generally, either it reminds eau sauvage, which is a classic i like too, or is overpriced. For me, it does not remind something else from the middle to the base notes and especially, i like the smell of mastic generally. i dont know where some other see the relation with diot homme!!!!! come on now, we are talking for two completely different perfumes. I see that there are some longevity/sillage problems but i'm not in a position now to give feedback. i beleive though that this is a summer scent and weak in the winter especially after the first 30 minutes....will see when i use it for a while... for the time being, longevity zero...and indeed zero...i never had longevity issues with almost any perfume i used. Even Eau sauvage seems to last longer....its a pity!!! will see when i use it again because it must have some longevity.

Pleasingly STRANGE! Upon first sniff, the first spray it's loaded with citrus, but that is quickly fleeting. Just moment after the it's began to dry on the skin, it's weird starts to come into focus. This smells "Fizzy" or "carbonated" -- very vivid and very sharp. I quite like it! But, it is a smell I am not familiar with in the normal world. That is not to say it's synthetic, in fact it smells quite natural, but, like I said, it's pleasantly strange! I suppose this is largely due to the "Mastic/Lentisque" note... Which I have been admittedly unfamiliar with. If I had to compare this to something, I'd compare it to a dry-erase marker!! It also slightly resembles some iterations of vetiver which I have encountered, such as that of Route Du Vetiver or Givenchy Vetyver, even molecule 03! The scent has bite...it's not floral, or spicy, or woody. Not fruity or leathery or incensy...it's weird! (and I LOVE weird!) Rating: 8.5/10

Here is one that is so sorely misunderstood. It is appalling that it has a perfume rating of 3.64 out of 5 as of this review. This is complex, textured, brimming with natural ingredients, a left-field niche style composition released by designer house. The main note is without a doubt mastic. I am familiar with the resin and the essential oil and I detect both here. There is a certain effervescence when combined with citrus and spices, but as the top notes wane the jasmine and tea provide a great contrast. An hour in, the iris and carrot seed becomes more evident, and there's almost a creamy custard like quality; that may sound peculiar, but it is actually terrific. One could never accuse Eau d'Ikar of being linear, that's for certain. This is brilliance. 10/10.

Eau d'Ikar. Wearing it right now. I have pointed out once that tastes and noses are subjective and individual. This fragrance for me is not soapy at all. It is citrus, balsamic and creamy. That combination creates a beautiful Romantic aura. For if there is one word to discribe this beauty is ROMANTIC. It is a like an utterance of a kind word of love, a word full of warm feelings. It gives you calm, it gives balsam to your soul. The citrus embodies the freshness a tender word creates in our hearts. I felt on love with this unic perfume. A truly work of art.

i like scents that are different and this one is beautiful. an interesting and hard to describe affair, and unisex (i am female and wear it, after getting a sample i bought a 100 ml bottle because it wears well on my skin). powdery mastic and some unusual herbs are a great thing together, the fragrance us classy and unusual. on me, it is rather sweet, mode powdery than others describe, and i find it perfect for hot june days. as with some other sisley scents it makes me want to smell it again and again. it is sensual, nice and bold without being too loud.

I agree with Perfumepsych, this scent can easily be worn by a woman. In fact, I think that this scent is more feminine, lighter than "eau de campagne". I just bought it today and 2 workmates asked me what it was. It ́s light green scent with a subtle but very original spicy touch. It ́s not these generic spicy male scents out there. It ́s very elegant, decent and refined. In my Skin, it lasts the whole day. A very well constructed scent. It could be indeed a niche scent. Top Sisley Quality!

DISCONTINUÉ 9/10 Signature fragrance que j'ai depuis mes années de collège. Performance moyenne hélas, mais quelle élégance, quelle merveille. Projection moyenne, tenue bonne, +7h

im loving this toilette. i would've liked it in a parfum instead because it's strength is rather weak. if it wasnt for this unique smell, i wouldnt have purchased it.

A masterpiece. Don't think too much. Try it buy it and enjoy life. 10/10 p.s got my 50ml at -30% discount at Boozt.com

This is so classy and comforting, I really need a full bottle. Like a more manly version of Infusion d'Iris.

d'Ikar smells good on your skin, definitely male. Feel spices, tea, maybe even the mastika.

Evocative, comforting and refined. A discrete work of art.

Buy a big bottle and as someone wrote, enjoy life.

'Sisley d' Ikar ': not for everybody, but then they don't try to be' Remember the horserider in the black and white commercial for Granny Goose Potato Chips? That was the slogan. OK instant strike out. Crickets. Blah blah blah. I have categories in my collection: Fun and Cheap (maybe even cloying) Animalic and private use, Mainstream and hot, High End(well. . . some) Synthetic and Shameless etc. It's just a mental note thing. This fragrance does not last long. Guess what? Lots of things don't last that are to be cherished. Just love them. The following info. is all from beloved Fragrantica which has really enriched my whole life!!! They give me the confidence to buy, and enhance my enjoyment so much. Thank you Fragrantica, just thank you so much!! Launched in 2011 after twenty years. d' Ordano family is from Cypress and owns Sisley. A tree in Cypress offers the note Lentisque or Mastic. Laurent Bruyere teamed with Dominique Ropion(Alien purple EDP and others) to create this fragrance. My initial opinion: It is hard to describe with just words. Why did launch take twenty years? I can offer: because this one is unlike any other on the face of the Earth. Mastic or Lentisque is really different. I am a true lover of juniper berries, cypress, oakmoss, pine needless. This is not at all like any of these. It is closer to a sap that is slightly astringent. I mean slightly. Acquired taste is what this is, but I loved it almost instantly. That is so fun. The bottle is by Polish sculpter Bronislaw Krzysztof. You wanna talk heavy? Heavy, heavy heavy. You would have to look at Dunhill bottles to come close. I so much enjoy this bottle in the hand. It is like a melting block of ice. It may be an abstract tree trunk with drooping leaves. The trunk is on the right front corner. 'Ikar' in lower left front corner. So gorgeous. The atomizer is a large rectangle surrounded on three sides by solid, silver color metal. It can only be depressed from the back. This is 'Square Biz' all the way--which I love in car interiors, car body styles and more. Squared-off bottle, Squared-off atomizer. Box is soft blue with yellow dots imitating the 'shadow fade' of gemstone setting in jewelry manufacture.( Like the shadow fade in micro-set small stones.) Top: Bergamot, Carrot Seeds (alternative to Orris Root--from Iris), Bitter Orange, Amalfi Lemon Middle: Mastic or Lentisque, Iris, Green Notes, Tea, Reed, Spices, and Jasmine Base: Vetiver, Sandalwood, Amber. I'm spraying this five times on the flat of my arm because I just don't know. It is a totally new sensation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Try it on your clothes where its notes perform really differently. Factor in that my skin is an absorption monster. I love Sisley 'd Ikar on my clothes so the notes can dance longer. Open: for a matter of seconds is the lemon. Seconds later is this scent described as 'Rhizome' from the carrot seeds. Rhizomes are fine roots almost like tentacles. If I am talking down to you, let's change positions. Think when you first pull a carrot from the ground. If you grew up in elevators and stairwells just forget it. It's OK. It is a wonderful earthy, dirt-like scent. Smell an organic fresh carrot, and it has a hint of 'soilness'. Wet dirt and carrot root--yep. Also, there really is a fleeting weed-like/grass/hooch/sweet- leaf scent that vanishes fast. It may be Green Notes and Vetiver mixed in with Reed. A good guess. In a matter of 90 seconds it gets to be a close proximity situation. The vetiver is not heavy/chocolatey or overly 'manly' it is soft/ bright like my idol Roja Dove makes. This fragrance is not sweet pine cleaner. Not at all. It is for people that really love natural things. Summary: this scent is unlike any other. Totally unique. Wear it for yourself because no one else will notice unless they are very close. If you like to have something no one else has; something that is so individual; something that is private; something that is SO natural--this would be a winning pick. The Mastic is like an earthy tree bark odor with a slight twang of cedar/pine/pine nut. This bark-like odor is never dank. It is not sweet pine or antiseptic. Gosh. . . it is so different. I know lots of words and none of them work for this scent. How about 'out of it special'? On the earthy component: It is hard because the vetiver, green notes,and reed may cloud the picture. There is nothing weird or oddball about this fragrance. Sisley d' Ikar is actually sensible in some strange way. It probably would never offend anyone, it is so carefully formulated and subtle. You're never gonna be popular by wearing this---doll. (I knew a Southern Girl that called me 'sweet baby doll'. God, I love her. Now. . in the far past.) It is so natural, so earthy, and you really have to just jump in-- love it or hate it. Joy, individualism, privacy, knowing . Geez!!! This guy is going into free association. Call the authorities. Just stop. Practical rating: Not so much. Unique rating: out of this world Collector rating: just for you, for yourself, no one else. Art and esthetics: shatters all records. Right in there with Alfred Sung. Dollar Factor: It is Sisley after all. Sisley is a tip-top brand. It ain't cheap, but it don't hurt either. Blind buy: no, but good luck finding a sample. Jump in, but be advised. . . it may not work out. Oh come on. . . there is no harm in it.

Push your senses to the edge. My first real button-pusher was Lolita Lempicke Au Masculine. The Anise and the Ivy--who uses ivy? Well. . some. It seems like Sisley Eau d' Ikar may have some Ivy or Geranium but I swear it seems like Ivy in my opinion. Returning to Lolita Lempicke Au Masculine this fragrance pushed my buttons. My circuit boars ignited out of control I had feelings from the past, and strong bodily awakenings. Joy. It was joy. Maybe 'button pusher' is not as clever as I think. Ready to eject the 'button pusher'? 'Ikar' pushes my buttons. I really think it will push yours as well. Forget samples, you have to learn and revisit this one. Off the beaten path, you probably can't find a sample. The point: It took Sisley 20 years to launch this masculine offering. Lentisque or Mastic is very unique and it takes awhile. It's from a tree in Corsica. So interesting to me. I can see how it took so long. This scent is so different and kind of weird. To think I used to hate pizza as a child. Now I am ravenous for it. Try Ikar more than once with different application intensities. This strange blend is so fun. Rant on Atomizers: great atomizer-- more decisive than most and yet still fine mist. My goodness I thought only Dunhill knew how to make a great atomizer. Ikar has a great atomizer with good range. A good atomizer is very exciting to regular fragrance users. Side Rant Atomizers and Synthetics: I really do have a cheap side--oh yeah. I have a broad collection with some finery, some hot and nasty animalics etc. I also have Juicy Couture and all time favorites from an 'M' company. The atomizer is all important with synthetics. Too heavy and it can cause a mild burning on the skin at first. Too light and you miss the gorgeous, borderline crass fun of synthetics that just don't give a damn . Go where others simply cannot: synthetics. Why be real? Back on Track Ikar: Drydown moves from I think the Mastic or Lentisque into a great, welcoming and earnest green scent and some powder from the Iris. Is it tea? I am ignorant on tea. Is it Reed? Who is Reed? Kinda like smelling a rock. You can!! On its way to a really unique spot this fragrance has some carrot seed. Sometimes I see carrot seed blended in Vetiver and I have heard it mentioned as a less expensive alternative to Iris/Orris. Is this correct? Still. . .there is both Iris and carrot seed in Ikar. Ultimately, 'Ikar' settles to a close- to- skin situation that is very mild. On clothes it lasts much longer. Final state: It is different, pleasant and approachable. Mostly a natural green with a hint of Mastic. This level makes it commercially viable for pretty near any consumer. This deft touch is the Sisley magic. Buy it for the Bottle Too. Yep . Forget that reed diffuser decor. Forget all that crap in the inventory blow-out shop. (I love all that blow-out crap. Told you I had a cheap side.) Polish sculpter Bronislaw Krzysztof created the bottle and it is I think an abstract tree trunk with a square top. Check this artist out--so graceful. Weighty quality like the Dunhill bottles. Pleasing to hold in the hand for some reason. Building a collection would nearly insist on owning this beautiful lone wolfette. Sex: I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole. You're on your own.

My first impressions are that it is much softer than expected. It opens fresh but there is nothing harsh or sharp in the opening. The opening is lemony citrus with a hint of the bitter orange note but has a creamy softness. In the mids I’m hardly picking up on any iris. I pick up more on the tea, green notes and some very soft spice like a hint of cinnamon. On my skin the mastic note (think bathroom decorating sealant) is there but is beatified by the jasmine florals. It’s probably that combo which is most interesting in a very nice way. In the base I pick up on some sandalwood and soft amber and the Vetiver smells clean and a little soapy along with some of the powdery iris. Interesting take on a clean scent. One that I feel you wear for yourself as projection and silage is soft. Overall a clever scent in that in the first hour of wearing each time is smelled myself I picked up another facet of the scents character. The blending is excellent and transitions seamless. I’m pretty sure I’ll go through this bottle fairly quick given how it’s almost impossible to overspray. I doubt it would pick up many passing compliments unless someone was to get close and even then they may think it’s an impressive smelling, creamy, luxury soap. Full bottle worthy? Hmm at the moment I’m thinking I could easily treat this as a dumb reach for warm spring/summer days given how easy it is to wear. Will see how this grows on me over the next week.

This is one of those rare beauties that has not found general appreciation but for some reason I found alluring and have always had a bottle in my collection. One of the reasons why is because it is such a genre bender. Not entirely citrusy, not really a spicy oriental, not too floral, not all that much of an aquatic. The selection of notes is just eclectic. It opens with bergamot, lemon, bitter orange and carrot seed, and then moves to iris, jasmine, white tea, reed and other herbs and spices, and finally settles into wood tones of ambergris, sandalwood and vetiver. Utterly unique, constantly shape shifting, and never predictable, this is an edgy first time masculine offering from a reputed house for primarily female oriented perfume and cosmetics. Approach this one with an open mind and you will not be disappointed. A lovely composition.

I would like to give a clue of what this fragance is about to all those people that (just like me) haven't had the chance to experience the the scent of mastik: this is actually a resin very popular in Greece (you can even taste it on candies and ice cream) and even though I spent last New Year's Eve there I didn't take the chance to try it myself (shame on me!). Eau D'Ikkar is a very clean scent, my girlfriend loves it exactly for this reason but to me is more like a green scent, just imagine squeezing a bunch of green juicy plants (maybe some from the cactus family) and smell the result of it, is a greenish slap that might be overwhelming for some people. Definitely it is worth to try if you are looking for something green and clean, but with a very particular style. Hope this helps.

Weird and wonderful! I like it but I don't love it! But I love the fact the perfumer has given a go to a new concept (I mean who dares to put carrot seeds and a never heard of tree sap into a modern fragrance, plus Reed, the water grass, except Bond #9). Therefore I commend it as an alternative to, say, BVLGARI Man that I would classify into the same realm of modern, underrated and understated "non-aquatic" men fragrances. Longevity is poor (as is with BVLGARI Man) but the classy, crisp, sharp and sophistication is ACE. 9/10 for vision, concept and daring to be new and different. 6.5/10 for all-over result. Good but not great. P.S.: Ideal gift for a vegan or gardener friend!! (Carrot seed note!)

very elegant perfumes , and here i can say elegance is always my 1st attempt to choose any perfume , nice combination even if my expectations were more from Sysley fragrance house . The perfume is quite nice unique yes unique but not that special , added that main lux ingredients are not dominant . Anyway i enjoy it but i dont repeat buying it . Hence it is very remarkable that this perfumes needs a specific skin to fit on it , we can see that on the rating for longevity & sillage since it is divided between moderate & heavy almost nothing in the middle . Hope to hear about new male perfume from Sysley which may shine this name like eau du soir .

To the initial smell i get a blast of sharp bitter citrusy notes which i don't like but then it gets softened to a bit floraly kinda iris-powdery feeling which feels expensive and while it settles to your skin later on has a complex, nicely done blend of light citrus-powder-floral somehow sweetened. It's unique in interpretation and once you get over the initial smell, the rest surely gets better !

Citrusy and a bit smokey and resinous. It’s soft and elegant. It’s inoffensive but interesting. It’s mature, sofisticated and timeless. Simple but well done. I imagine a rich heir wearing it, he is classy, masculine and confident. Very nice fragrance. Final note: 9,5/10 Good for sunny days and it’s signature worthy.

There is one word that describes this perfume very accurately: soapy Even a friend of mine told me that i smell like an expensive soap! Eau d'Ikar is different than many other mainstream designers. At the same time it exhales cleanliness which makes this fragrance extremely easy to wear. This is a grab n go. 7.5/10

Classic men fragrance! Opening is somewhat strange : fresh, green and grassy but the drydown is gorgeous : green, woody, fresh citrusy scent with a powdery/soapy iris undertone. Very unique. Sadly discontinued.

I bought it to my husband for Christmas. I adored it when i smelled it the first time. Very fresh and elegant. A modern vetiver. I like smell it on my man.

gorgeous bottle. i found the fragrance fades almost instantly, but it's lovely & costal in an antiseptic way while it lasts.

A green, dry, grassy aromatic, inspired by the island of Corsica, with lots of woody vetiver, some bergamot for depth and, coming through on my skin, plenty of iris to round it out. Carrot seed, coriander & tea provide the aromatics. The mastic is there, especially in the opening, but it's not huge, compared to say the iris or even the tea. Eau d'Ikar is certainly original and it dries down to a lovely musky, woody powder. I like it — I keep burying my nose in it — but personally I'm not 100% sold on the aromatic powder idea. It seems a little fusty without something say amber-like in support. I'm setting it aside to try again in Spring.

The beginning is a combination of bergamot / lemon with a touch of herbal (originated from a plant called mastic). The output is very sour citrus, arrives to give the feeling that catches the tongue, but so far no problem for me. What really bothered me was this herbal, here's this kind of note not my style, Sinti the same kind of note I met boisee Kenzo and Gucci Sport in a bit too. It's something that reminds me of a bush or something. Maybe I can get used to me one day with this note, but now I can not stand. With over a 15 to 20 minutes herbal note eases a little, yet it stays the citrus, but something comes floral iris feel something in the background, but I imagine qo is a predominance of jasmine. I'll look for that single note to make sure. It also rolls a touch powdery. With little more than an hour to go disappearing citrus notes and sandalwood can feel the load of something else must be the sum of vetiver and amber (it is a woody scent with a median body weight). Perhaps this is more suitable for warm days. Projection medium / low Fixing: Dei six sprayed sample and even a 6-7 am could still feel it. Anyway I rate 7/10, I recognize the quality of the perfume, but not my style. Just do not give a higher score because of longevity.

Eau d'Icar has a citrus, fresh and with a very original effect due to the mastic that provides a very bitter and somewhat earthy touch input to the fragrance, which makes it a different option to many other fresh openings usually we usually find with other fragrances (plus). a contribution of influential green notes in the resulting aroma that brings us to the heart notes I feel pretty synthetic and produces significant imbalance that at times produces an effect halfway between the cheap and liquid soap household cleaning that spoils appears this phase of development and detracts from the effect of aroma of iris and jasmine (negative). The woody and balsamic sweetened dried due to the contribution of amber, vetiver and sandalwood causing a shift in the fragrance that has left me somewhat indifferent by its simplicity and nondescript medium-low (negative) qualities. The duration is moderate and the trail of weak to moderate: at the beginning it is good for a half hour after drop significantly and become pegadita to skin, like thousands of other fragrances on the market. As experience was not bad for the nice initial contribution of mastic but little else. Rating: 4

How this scent ever won any awards is beyond my imagination. I remember trying it the first time some years ago in a perfume shop in Berlin and actually thought the bottle had gone bad from standing too long in the showroom. Fast forward to 2017 and receiving a 10 ml decant from a fellow Fragrantican - lo and behold : It's the same crap. Very bitter, very earthy, dry, medicinal and soapy with a nutmeg vetiver background - picture leaking bottles of Prada Infusion d'Homme and Guerlain Vetiver being buried in a landfill close to the sea and dug up after a couple of years. It might be the mastik which is not to my liking. I'm not sure how it smells on it's own but I get no similarity to cedar which I quite enjoy. Bitter citrus and grapefruit. Longevity and sillage are equally disappointing, overall this is just a ridiculously bad fragrance in my humble personal opinion. But then again, could also be the iris which I hate that ruins this for me. Fortunately longevity is rather minimal, after two hours it's a skinscent and two hours later it's almost gone. Overall, this just doesn't work for me.

One of the most weird scent what I’ve smelled... Very very unique. Nice to see that contains many rare elements (mastic, carrot seed, reed), but it doesn’t working... This one is a bitter-sour, unpleasent scent. When I tested at home, many of my friends were here (3 boys, 3 girls), and all of them said this a terrible scent. The opening is a hard combintation of begamot, bitter orange and carrot seed. The carrot note is too strong, simply unpleasent to my nose. The mid is interesting too. The mastic note is powerful, good, but not working with the iris. Beside this note I can sniff maybe some spice and green notes. The base is milky-woody type, this part is far better than top, or the mid note. As I said this is an absolutely unique stuff, but hasn’t got a classic perfume smell and I don’t like it. - Spring/summe/fall, day time scent. - sillage is better then average, longevity around 6-7 hours - try before buy Scent (open, top-mid): 4/10 (x2) Scent (drydown, base): 6.5/10 (x2) Sillage: 6/10 Longevity: 6.5/10 Uniqueness: 10/10 Versatility: 6/10 Total: 6.188/10

You have to like old school soapy fragrances if you're going to like this. It starts with the usual citrus opening and transforms into a green, floral scent that is distinguished and not at all aggressive or typically "masculine;" in fact, it could be marketed as unisex and I wouldn't bat an eye. Recommended for fans of Boucheron Pour Homme.

This one just doesn't work for me. There's something repulsive in it from the off that makes me want to cringe, and that's mastik. I've always hated it and I could never drink Ouzo for that matter. Perhaps one of the nastiest smells and tastes for me... alongside raw onions, garlic, vinegar and pickled veggies.

This is like the worst male perfume ever. If you can call it perfume. This thing literary stinks! It made my boyfriend and I sick. It smells like some rotten herbs. I think Sisley should have spent 20 more years before launching a perfume...

"It took twenty years to make this new launch by Sisley..." It did? WHY? It begins with a mildly citrus note and proceeds to an odd, indifferent milky basenote. Hardly earth-shattering. Not impressed.

Oh my goodness, who wears this stuff? At first it smells like freshly burnt human meat (!), then in turns into some heavily perfumed medicine that no child ever would swallow. Avoid. *

The opening is nice and fresh but the drydown has a weird synthetic plasticky smell that is quite off putting.

I can understand the soap comparison, it’s that dry sharp smell you’d get if you cut into a bar of soap, you feel it in the back of your throat. This also has a food smell to it, maybe a jasmine rice with a waft of curry in the background, almost an immortelle scent, perhaps it’s the mastic I’ve no idea what that smells like. Not for me at all, I’m going to wash it off.

This is awful. I just get pet shop or rabbit hut. Very grassy almost like hay but not in a good way at all. Glad it’s discontinued.

I was testing Sisley Izia (dreadful) when I chanced upon Ikar. I don’t know that I’m buying it either, but I thought it interesting enough to merit a note. To my mind, it’s unisex, possibly even leaning on the female side. The use I see for it is as palate cleanser and clean fragrance for extreme heat. The opening is both green and clean and reminds me briefly of Eau de Campagne. But the greenness disappears before I can even put my finger on it (wait, was that galbanum?), so I’d never call it a green fragrance. I’d call it an abstract fragrance that emphasizes the clean part and treats it in a pleasantly unusual way. It doesn't go soapy-clean like aldehydes, laundry-clean like an excess of musk, or stridently disinfecting like whatever it is they put in so many ‘fresh’ scents these days. It renders cleanness as two different textures, one after the other, and if I had to assign a color to it, it would be milky white. The first texture to emerge is dry, almost mineral, and gives one the feeling that one couldn’t be compromised by any amount of humidity and heat. Within the first hour, it’s replaced by the second one, and that one you’d better be prepared for because it'll stick around till the end. This one is creamy and a tad greasy; in conjunction with the cleanness, I'm surprised it makes no one complain that Ikar smells like Nivea. Not that it does, really, but it does, on the whole, put one in the mind of an 'unscented' body lotion. The effect goes all the way to that bit of bitterness you’d get if you licked freshly moisturized skin. And while that might sound like not much, in today’s 35dC heat, it was unusually reassuring. Everyone I passed by on the street seemed to be trailing a cloud of garish olfactory noise—kshh, citrus, kshh, floral, kshh, skrreek—while I, wearing Ikar, felt immaculate and self-contained. Worth a sniff for sure, but do test before you splurge.

First thing I want to say is that the bottle is simply gorgeous, made of thick, heavy glass and with an obvious artistic craft. The fragrance itself opens with a sharp blast of unripe lemon and bergamot, followed and, later, softened with a mastic note. The heart has all of that, but with a slight dose of earthiness from iris and/or carrot seeds, which complements the resinous, somewhat creamy mastic note very well. The drydown is made of woods, mostly vetiver, but with a trace of lentisque note as well. When it's about performance, I don't have any kind of longevity problems with this one, as it stands here on my arm for seven hours and counting. It projects reasonably well, with more projection in the beginning with all that, almost screaming, sourness. It is very versatile season-wise, as it can be worn pretty much in all climates, IMO. However, I do think it's a bit more for the mature people, as I don't feel that a young guy can wear it as successfully as, say, a man in his 30s or 40s. Also, I don't like the fact that it's on the expensive side of the designer's fragrances. All in all, this is quite unique composition with a less-known main note, and a lot of sharpness and tanginess. Eau d'Ikar is a classy scent for gentlemen with specific taste, a scent with character. 8/10

I have been quite intrigued when Sisley first announced Eau d'Ikar - probably this was due to the memories I had since first becoming interested in perfumes decades ago - in your 80's European perfume store, their Eau de Campagne stood out as a particularly odd composition, between all the more promoted brands back then - and I do appreciate Eau d'Ikar, the bergamot and orange components are all somehow muted or passed through a heavy perceptual filter made from the mastic, carrot and iris. I was puzzled for a while where I came across such a rendering before - and well aware that this is considered pure heresy, this way of dealing with citrus mastic triggers waves of recalling what Françoise Caron did with olibanum and bergamot in Helmut Lang's Cuiron - less the synthetic leather of course. The bottle and packaging design is really lovely, if Sisley only did not state that bluntly that it took them such a long time to make this fragrance - I can see it came out at the heights of slow food, and of course the company itself had a beautiful slow pace with their fragrances but alas, not really needed to put that in the press release ... in any way, quite a particular fragrance - recommended !

I don’t know what mastic smells like so I’ll describe it in terms I do know. Initial spray it has a green bitterness & the citrus. It is also really creamy & rather earthy smelling, very similar to a fig leaf note, imo. If I was blind sniffing this, I’d guess it was fig leaf scent! It progresses to very clean/woody, but to me it doesn’t smell soapy in the usual sense. I can smell a hint of tea but I can’t really detect definite iris. After a few hours & a couple of hand washes, the traces left on the back of my hand smell like clean slightly salty sun warmed skin. I think this will be lovely in Summer. Longevity seems pretty good to me, based on a couple of skin tests. It’s an unusual scent, bordering on weird ...but I feel compelled to keep on sniffing. It smells natural (as in not at all chemical/synthetic), but also very different & something a bit “outside the box” to my nose. I think this is easily unisex, but I do like a lot of so called “masculines” because I’m not keen on very sweet “girly” type scents. I don’t have anything else that smells like this, & I don’t think this is a crowd pleaser. Anyway, I really like the interesting & unexpected - I want a bottle & I’m getting one!

I had to delete all my chaotic reviews and decided to write a solid one. Mastic is present all the way through while this fragrance lasts on my skin. It's definitely unique and stands out from the crowd. And IMO it's the "main player" in this composition. In the beggining it's blended with citruses and smells quite sharp. While it dries down, going into the heart, it gets smooth and creamy - and I feel it! I'd say that iris and tea are most detectable - along with lentisque of course. Later I get a little bit(but just a bit!) of Terre d'Hermes, but without pepper - vetyver and bitter-sour citruses mixed with woods. And that's pretty much it. Very complex scent indeed. Longevity is superb - 10 hours on my skin while it projects good for about 5 hours and goes to a skin scent later on. I love it and it could easily be my signature scent if something happened with Gucci PH II....

My mom used to wear eu de suar and now rocks with suar de lune, so I cinda have expectation from Sisley. This one a bit disappointing as it smells like more soft round and light version of ceruti 1881 for men. The smell in the opening is fresh but to sour for my nose and powdery (maybe it is because the tester bottle from the counter looked old and allmoust empty..) After an hour it becomes great fresh limoncello bitter smell with tickeling grass and surprisingly less powdery then at the beginning. I can smell the quality but it still reminds me 80s early 90s male colognes. The dry down is beautiful but not exciting, very mature. I intent to sample it again in the summer. P.S. Ok! After 3 hours it is very dry soapy and powdery, on the one hand nothing outstanding on the other hand keeps me wanting to smell it again and again - quality ...

Interesting and Unique... This fragrance has a series of notes which I haven't smelled in other fragrances before (or at least not in this quantity). I think what gives Eau d'Ikar it's unique vibe is the note of mastic (a type of desert gum resin). It really smells of that substance which is in trees all around the Mediterranean and North Africa. There is a wonderful citrus and gum opening with some dry herbs. It then progresses with this mastic note into a slightly powdery, dry amber laced finish. Along the way we encounter carrot seeds, jasmine, tea and vetiver. It's such an interesting ride. The only drawback I find here is it's projection and longevity. I love the uniqueness of this fragrance and the glass bottle design is a work of art. This is my first time trying a fragrance from this house and I must say I am impressed.

For such a long time I haven't tried a men's scent that is so beautiful, rich and well composed. To me Eau d'Ikar is a great balance of modern and "old" perfumery. It starts strongly - citrusy herbally reminding colognes of 70's or 80's (imagine Eau Sauvage for example). But soon it turns into a weird creamy (or milky) fresh (but still warm!) scent. I really like this softness came from the tea accord. Moreover this base is enriched by a clear vetiver note. Finally the composition transforms again, now into something light and irisy (but not sweet!) As you've understood Eau d'Ikar is an extremely complex and versatile fragrance constructed of high quality components. For 2011 it sounds like a masterpiece, though I'm sure some will find it too soapy.

I blind bought this perfume after looking up the mastic note since I’ve loved it in Velvet Iris by essential parfums, I know the perfume is discontinued but I managed to find a remote shop in Italy that still has it. It starts off with a blast of citruses and then slowly becomes mellow and sweet. The mastic note in this perfume is very sweet and powdery, there’s something almost marshmallowy even. I expected something much more turpentine, resinous or woody, green notes are very subtle and almost non existent. This does remind me of Corsica furiosa, a tamer, classier, less rugged more feminine sibling maybe. Edit: the opening is amazing, the dry down is a let down, I think this needed some lavender.

Antonpan, you nailed it! It makes me a very happy man to see that sometimes there's someone out there working hard, with a vision and willing to keep up with the highest standards like Sisley. At first it's similar to Eau de Campagne from the same brand, then turns into a milky-green accord with volume, depth. Dont know how lentisque smells, never had the chance but at this stage Eau d ́Ikar reminds me of Prada Infusion d'Iris for men, both including lentisque as heart note so maybe this mentioned green & creamy note belongs to it. Vetiver appears later making the whole composition noble, educated. It's green, it's like spring in a bottle. I covet it!