Perfume Minotaure Paloma Picasso 75 ml

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Still thin, of course, but I prefer it to what I tested 5-7 years back, so I'm thankful for the reviews that built some trust. I smelled this perfume in a friend and thought FANTASTIC, THE BEST MALE PERFUME I've ever felt in my life.

I never wore Minotaure when it first came out, but I remember it being a loud spicy scent from my tests.I have wonderful memories of when I wore it, Minotaure met a few years before and started using it in 1995. This is a warm, creamy, sweet orange vanilla/leathery scent (with hits of lavender and jasmine in the background). The leather note as the basso continuo of Minotaure is what most impresses me and no other fragrance has ever succeeded to recreate it in such perfection.

This is how a sandalwood ship, beaming her eyesome graciousness while sailing on an primordial sea smelled like. UPDATE: I recently sampled a non-original version and it doesn't seem to have the sandalwood note (or it's a lot weaker). We've got understated Chelseas as well as biker-inspired iterations featuring oversized rubber soles and buckle fastenings.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I was always intrigued by this fragrance and it wasn't really love at first sniff, but I was drawn into the whole packaging and the name Picasso sold it to me. The drydown seems like one big accord but nothing blobs together, likely due to high quality ingredients and an intelligent composition.

The fragrance starts off with somewhat screechy aldehydes and galbanum, but quickly mellows out into a lightly spicy, fruity-vanilla scent. Also, there are different grades of "real" sandalwood, and some are much more expensive than others, whereas some are just not used due to overharvesting, etc. I still have a tiny, tiny bit left in a bottle, a remnant of my college days, probably no more than 2ml. Given the rarity of good fruity woody orientals, it's a decidedly good predecessor to YSL's L'Homme. That's not to say this fragrance just imitates them, it makes them its own and makes them stand out from the other frags with the same notes.I'm not altogether certain how well all this works together, and though I like it, I'm not sure yet whether I love it. My admiration for her has less to do with who her daddy was and more to do about how she brave-faced the hisses and boos wearing 1940s vintage to 1970s Paris catwalk shows long before "alternative" fashion was a comfortable choice.

I also think that (due to the wide range of notes) this could be worn by a woman - in the same way Habit Rouge could.Throughout his work he featured the theme of a "Minotaure", a mythical beast half-man and half-bull. That is not to say there isn't anything substantive here: beneath this is a warmth and woodiness that belies the candied fruit, and a floral accord with what my nose detects as a sheer lily of the valley washing over the sweetness, adding this alluring contrast. This is how the sidereal veils over Crete, bedecked by the beast's blood, whose real name was Asterion (starry), smelled like.