I´ve been wearing L'Heure Bleu for two days in a row, and having admired it before I am now getting attached to it on a personal level. It should be mentioned that first time I ever smelled it I could not take its sweet powderyness at all, it almost made me nauseated.
Anyway, until now I have been most fascinated by the initial state of L.B., beautiful but far from pretty, with its untransparent boquette, heliotropine, the iris note, spicy pinches of anice and coriander...whatever the full list is they melt toghether in an unmistakable unity. Though feminine, there is a tomboyish element somewhere in there.
This has been the first time I have really thought about the drydown and how the powdery base of vanilla/benzoine slowly takes over the scent. I am wondering though...on several occacions could swear that I smelled patchouli. I think 1912 must be long before the patchouli-era in perfumery (?), so I am wondering what this could be. I some listings I have seen opoponax mentioned, and in others not. Does anyone know if these have anything in common, or what else it could be? It could of course be some combination that has this effect for me.
Anyway, until now I have been most fascinated by the initial state of L.B., beautiful but far from pretty, with its untransparent boquette, heliotropine, the iris note, spicy pinches of anice and coriander...whatever the full list is they melt toghether in an unmistakable unity. Though feminine, there is a tomboyish element somewhere in there.
This has been the first time I have really thought about the drydown and how the powdery base of vanilla/benzoine slowly takes over the scent. I am wondering though...on several occacions could swear that I smelled patchouli. I think 1912 must be long before the patchouli-era in perfumery (?), so I am wondering what this could be. I some listings I have seen opoponax mentioned, and in others not. Does anyone know if these have anything in common, or what else it could be? It could of course be some combination that has this effect for me.
