Sables. Annick Goutal.

Perfumer: Annick Goutal e Isabelle Doyen.

Notes of wild everlasting flower, vanilla, Indonesiana and Madagascar pepper, Mysore sandalwood.

Once upon the time, in a summer holiday break, Mrs. Goutal and her husband were enjoying a beautiful landscape on the gorgeous island of Corsica. It was a hot noon, and the dune sand were steaming, all spotted with everlasting flowers.

Annick Goutal's husband, Alain Meunier, impressed of the impregnated aroma of the heat reflecting in the dunes blended with the scent of the inmortal flower, asked his wife to create a perfume for him that would smell like that hot afternoon.

Annick Goutal spent more that 5 years but that is the result.

A representation of the "Immortelle flower" (aka everlasting flower), the helycrisum: a dune shrub with a distinctive rubbery, maple syrup aroma, not an easy note for sure...

The oficcial launch was in 1985, and It's funny to see that during the developtment of perfumery industry, it appears it own predecesors,as this perfume was a reference for "Eau Noire" or "Opone" by Dyptique, (John Galliano, I caught you copying!), but even so, I'd stick in "Sables", because it just exudes originality, comparing other releases in the launching date.

The three perfumes share similar openings:
Dry, dark, gothic, overdoses of smoky sandalwood, the pepper notes that smells to me like saffron, really, and then the rose accord in "Opone", here, is subtitued by a syrup ambery helycrisum and vanilla accords.

I can detect a litle of licorice and curry, just on the opening. I assume is the mixture of everlasting flower and the vanilla.

Later, it's just like "Eau Noire" by Dior. Well I must correct, it's the opposite way: "Eau Noir" is a vague copy of "Sables".

In fact, spraying both in each wrist, don't detect any difference, apart than "Eau Noire" is slightly more vanillic and softer.

There's here too that particular raw, smoky smell of non threated leather, that you can easily detect at the Marrakech Zoco. Moroccan raw leather.
There's a prominent smell of burnt woods, like the smell of a bonfire, and the remaining black logs. There's something that I like about it but I don't know... In my skin still a wispher of curry and (I think) dissected lavender?
I'm puzzle, I may have to give it another go!.

I'm wearing today, and It's such a grateful experience, remains warm and heady, and create a aura surround you that make some people ask or turn around when you pass by..

Anyway.

Thumbs up!.. It deserve it!.

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