Review of Absolutely Vital by aad de gids

It is up until now I finally realise how dry, peppery and condimentary this perfume smells, as I previously was fixated on the Divas Rose and Jasmine and as they are defintely there but then in a heady concoction of resins and spices (not pepper but anyway). I guess this is the interesting trail of the perfume a, from the start frankincense-y very much with spices and resins drenched scent lending the flowers a kind of Vero.Kern, Calligraphy Rose and even Ex Idolo Thirty Three character. The flowers are not disappeared but add mystery to an already enigmatic perfume. It has a deft oriental presence as also at once the evenly camp haute poise the other Diana Vreeland perfumes also possess, if alone due to their price, packageing, jeweltoned heavy boudoiresque flacons. Yet it is the perfume which makes a stupendous fabulous impression not so much not making it to 'niche' but being beyond the staasi (often) esthetics of the nichiste bastion. This perfume harks back to Gloria Swanson, Jean Harlow, Lulu. It is a fantastic experience to walk out the door to your work wearing this formidable perfume with the heavy flacon WITH YOU for protection against intruders if already not the dense perfume had knocked them dropdead red. "Onda" and "Mito" definitely come to mind while the gorgeous sandelwood give reminiscence even, to "Oudh Infini" Dusitas Diva. Mona di Orios "Osmanthus Oudh" and the undeniable "Brand-DNA" of the other Diana Vreelands' especially Perfectly Marvelous. Yet the whole aura of specific sophistication goes to this spicey, floral and cinematic perfume itself.