Irisia

this again is such unbelievably powerful chypre. the perfume shall have seasoned in the sense that I bought it around 2000, and in the sense that it ripened, macerated further in vitro, in the meanwhile also as legendary known artefect of a 'Creed's Woman Perfume', in such ladylike bottle which they were keen now to all replace them with a singular model. I do not have special feelings with that. even if it is more economical and less ideosyncratic and feminine as the unique and elegant flacon. I am still able to enjoy the strong Irisia perfume and strong it is. what I keep wondering is what it is I smell in the sense that I smell a development of notes or I smell this Monolith Wall of Chypric, Mossy, Ambergris and Patchouli or, and, the sheer violence of the used Iris, Violet, Mimosa and Tuberose. if you spray this perfume it immediately hits you in the face much as the (in)famous heavy and heady 1980s perfumes did. I remember smelling it in the late 1990s when Creed suddenly bursted on the scene in (sparse) Niche Perfumeries with already then 'wilthed boxes', so, older as that they were just delivered new. I was totally aghast, even if my favorite perfume decade is the 1980s, I remember where and when in the Hague, I smelled (and bought) first Irisia and Fleur de Bulgarie, then Jasmal and Jasmin d'Impératrice Eugénie and later on still Vanisia, Tuberose Indiana, etc. from Irisia and Fleur de Bulgarie I bought them in, luckily. this perfume had me stopped in my tracks and I also remember looking at the fascinating and very posh packagings, also those of the Men's perfumes. with Irisia you smell suddenly all, all at once. it was that way also in the (late) 1990s. and it befell me hugely. I guess it is a Woody, Flowery, Mossy and Patchouli, but especially rounded with the Ambergris uniquely sophisticated and present perfume. I immediately feel me like myself and then, more. it is as with those other chypres that stand like skyscrapers: Y, No19, Knowing, Estée, Ivoire, Cabochard, Eau du Soir, Soir de Lune, Eau de Campagne (Sisley, all), Mitsouko, Caléche, etcetera etcetera. they possess a coldness as well as an inimpenetrability and this last quality is perhaps best incorporated within this very perfume Irisia. Peach as one of the few fruits I can detect in perfumes, plus the Amber (next to Ambergris), the Patchouli, Sandelwood and Cedar lend both austerity as a heavenly Clôche of perfume so dense and asphyxiating I revel every microsecond in it.