Perfumer: Bertrand Duchaufour.
Countains notes of: blood orange, red chili pepper, angelica, saffron, nutmeg, cardamon and tomato.
This is a radiant, fantastic, fresh, juicy yet spicy perfume.
Harissa is a spicy red powder spice produced from the chilli peppers, originally from Tunisia, and used for culinary purposes across the North Africa.
The perfume starts as fiery as juicy; the blood orange is quite prominent blending deliciosly with the hot chilly. There's a tomato note going on straight away, playul, that remind me of a scented image:a fresh tomato juice.
It could sound odd but everytime I sniff the top notes of this perfume, my mouth goes wet. It's a superb combination.
Waiting a few minutes the cardamom enters and claims the spicy initial touch, burying the initial citrus blast of the orange and preserving the tomato odour, that gets, now, closer to crushed tomato leaves, which I find very unusual, fascinating.
The tomato note goes heady and the composition gets a little more spicy, the angelica root, hardly recognizable ( you'll detect it if you smelled it isolated), appears shy, coming and going between the chilli and the tomato.
At this stage it reminds me vaguely to the famous amercian "bloody mary cocktail" just for a bit thought. The saffron shows off now increasing the hot-spicy feeling with a hint of powdery note.
I can't detect the nugmet anywhere.
Even so, it's a really peculiar and fascinating "colonia", for those that like different smells.
If you don't mind the initial blast (some people find it too much fiery), keep sniffing and you'll love it.
The lasting power is quite average, as it lost projection after 50mt of apply. The whole scent gets very close to skin for a decent 4/5 hours.
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