Darling Rouge

this is a more intimate perfume as I expected, hoped, thought, felt. yet it is also so intimate that it is a great art of refinement, detraction, unobtrusiveness, elegance. the rose scent hovers along my head, persistantly but also as refined as a rose can be. no Nahéma, no Gem, no Fleur de Bulgarie. Mad et Len's (I see that their whole portfolio is changed...) 'Nin-Shar' (the 50mL (actually 50+7mL) perfume that topped la Dusita, or le, in price with E.430 where Oudh Infini did E395) resembles much, or reverberates with this perfume. there are no Dramatics nor Hysterics, which I so, so love. but a study in demureness and soft morphology is also nice. as that they called Guerlain's 'Guet-Apins' (I hope not that that prick Luca Turin said it) 'a Study in Amber', which it is. a fine rose, and the Musc, Labdanum, Sandelwood and Vanilla, soften things up. and then, two hours in, I sniffed my pulse. a WALL of Ambergris, destroyingly Concrete Salty and Visceral. I love it. but also its working (the Ambergris) diffusively and in the coulisses of the play. I also thought, all learning from Fragrantica and the reviews below, I have to live with this perfume longer. because I have two now, on the other side of the de Gabor spectrum I think I chose the heaviest and most confrontational: Leather Forever where I thought the same: I have to get used to it. now I am all in for crass, Anti-Theater, Baader-Meinhof perfumes. yet de Gabor throws in antics to which I have to groom myself. not so sharp, but I had prejudices, and always buy Full Bottles, and never shunned a perfume I finally had in my house. (they are all heavy and expensive hooker perfumes.) I also liked classic perfumes inbetween, never 'light' and certainly NEVER perfumes that characterised the 1990s, but for instance Miss Dior, Rochas Madame, Chanel No19, YSL's Y but I realise there are people that find those perfumes already too much. de Gabors perfumes are fine and sophisticated, the rose scent is exemplary. (I notwithstandingly like my roses Satanic and Vile, with thorns grasping in the Night.) I love this perfume and shall have to revisit the review part once again. (50mL parfum 295,00 €)