Perfumist: Jacques Cavallier.
Countains: lemongrass, mandarin, elemi, balmasic ginger, badiana, rosemary, star anise, rose absolute, nasturtium, palmarosa, patcholuli, sandalwood, amber, musk mallow, rose wood.
I'm really aware that the launch of this perfume has create a beginning and an end of a new spectre regarding perfumes.
So many reviews about this juice. So many many fans, so many people agaisnt it.
The real fact is that is not a lunch for the mainstream public. It's a real love at first sight or hate.
Even now, i can't really figure out, in which group should I put it; there's lots of notes in its simple but a the same time very complex soul.
I originally tried this scent when It was first launched in the summer of 2004. I quickly dismissed it when in summer we easiy raise the 40 degrees in the shade, and with this kind of heat, the fragrance produced me an instant headhake, (definitively is not a summer perfume). The rosemary and balsamic notes standed out that much on me that people even asked me if I had just applied Vicks Vaporub or something when I was wearing it.
Then, a friend of mine commented that to him, it smelled like a country meadow, so I just decided that I had to resample it.
It did again on fall, and thank God I did it; what a nice difference!.
The composition start with just a little splash of mandarin surrounded with pugnent herbal notes, nothing calm here, just chaotic and unbalanced. The "balsamic ginger", aniseed and rosemary really stands out. Not in a great way though. But be patient. After 15-20mt the notes calm down and get into something more settled and marvellous.
Is then when a nice touch of may rose, just a ghost and a earthy patchouli embraces mostly all, accompanied with (for me) the marvellous hint of nastortium while rosemary still present.
I never had approached nasturtium flower in a fragrance. It's unusual by itself, velvety, rich, dark, even highly masculine in my opinion.
I know well the nasturtium scent, orange and yellow flowers growing wild in the lands of Galicia.
Actually, smelling the flower directly cut for the herb, now, my olfactory image is just the blue bottle of Bleue; the smell is so vivid in it, that I found this note a fantastic addiction into the formula.
Basicly the perfume could be tagged into the herbal, tonic group, but i really think so that is so unique that can't be really catalogued.
So, for its own ambiguity I can't stop adding it to my perfume collection.
Some old Miyake fans hate this fragrance with passion, but oh well, I'm sure it will always have fans admiring its complexity.
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