Iridium

When I hear "Iridium" in my mind, it sounds very sterile, making me think of the white padded walls of a mental hospital. The scent smells equally sterile. It smells like pure white crystals, if they had a scent. The angelica is green, and here it provides just the right edge to amp up the whiteness. On my skin it's musky with an herbal edge. For a moment the sharp angelica smells a bit like the sour flesh of a lemon. I also smell the strong Iso E Super, a note I cant stand if it is obvious enough for my nose to detect, but here I like it! Now here is a perfumer who doesnt just use it as a base but knows it well enough to really use it as a note, as the vetyver and angelica really compliment the Iso. Without the zesty green we would just have another boring and synthetic Iso perfume. This is an incredibly strange and unexpected perfume, but I really, really like it! It is crisp and clean...to the extreme. It could be full bottle worthy. Sillage was average, and it lasted many hours on me. Keep your nose away from your wrists, or you might become anosmic.

This is a much drier and woodier version of Malle’s Angelique Sous La Pluie. It’s more casual and simple but it’s none the less still refined and elegantly blended. However, one must like the smell the combination of cedar and ISO E, I usually don’t but in this case, it works. I’d love to try the 71% version but unfortunately, Tom Daxon does not sell samples of that rendition. Somehow this beauty reminds me of Spice and Wood also, I love this one.

I bought this after buying the Gloved Cedarwood hand soap. I find they have a very similar smell. I also find it quite masculine. Doesn’t hang around for long though but whilst it’s there I love it!

This is what I expected ELDO Ghost In The Shell to smell like. I can smell the hot LCD display and wires. Such a pleasure, addicting.

Am I the only one who smell a LCD monitor in this? I looooove it!