Review of Promise Parfum by aad de gids

(aug 2020) THIS, is perfume. quickly I ensured myself of two flacons. the parcel came in and the perfume was smellable terminus post quem, from THAT period. the flacon wasn't even open, even not the parcel ! I found that such a characteristic for the perfume and of course for Domique Ropion. then I spritzed the first spritz. I found myself glueed to my pulse. the first and one would say (especially in the beginning) note one smells is cypriol, big, major. this is not a Heidi-on-the-Mountain perfume. I must say it took hours that day to discover any other note but twelve hour in I could smell the loveliest roses de Mai. and were they pervasive ! I also detected the castoreum and the clove-oil. these first impressions (hours in) did won the perfume for me to the max. I also found it a very unusual perfume. there are some similarities (they are not clones) with Dusitas 'Oudh Infini'. not a 'je ne sais quoi' but a [fuck you fuck me] attitude. Ropions 'Portrait of a Lady', 'Carnal Flower', 'Cologne Indelibile' (for my straight twinbrother) and 'Monsieur'; 'Fleur de Cassie' show the same intransigence which i do so, so love. for one parfumista [the scented salamander ?; Çafleurebon ?] this was 'the rose from Hell'. 'approach it with witchcraft and spells'.... thát perfume can still bewitch me after all those years (from 1975).