Review of Le Sel d'Issey Eau de Toilette by aad de gids

this is an unusual review as this is a perfume which I normally never would have chosen but it is illustrative to see how 'perfumery' is a subjective and emotional issue heavily influenced by what you read and have made an impression from which factors one contributes her', his', own opinion. I still remember that 'Escape' (for women, but I guess it is the same aura of the perfume for men) to me was a disappointment after having reveled in 1st Calvin Klein's Obsession as one of the veritable 1980s 'Hooker Perfumes' (and later his 'Eternity') as how I lovingly refer to with Giorgio, Poison, Coco, Knowing, Moschino parfum de toilette, GEM by van Cleef & Arpels, Creed's Fleur de Bulgarie and Irisia, Guerlain's Nahéma, Cartier's Must and Panthere. Giorgio Beverly Hills 'Red' and Fred Hayman's 273, Bijan and in 1990 Gale Hayman's Beverly Hills and Vivienne Westwood's Boudoir. in these perfumes I swathed myself, i.e. in the ORIGINAL, totally over the top and perhaps faux, sinister and alarmist perfumes. then we got Montale and his Rose-Ouds which I loved from c2003 until now. there were now two reviews, the one of Le Sel d'Issey, and of Montales 'Crazy in Love' and, accidentally, my reading in in the world of iso-E-super and of the other super molecules Ambroxan, Javanol, Hedione, Ambrofix etcetera and etcetera. from Miguel Matos I read his quite humorous and negative, yet very informative and subtle, review of 'le Sel'. and now I have spritzed it on my pulse, with this whole load above behind me. what interested me is the sheer super persevering almost like a laser beam from off my pulse into the universe, and very persistant and relentless projection as also unchangeability (seemingly, but it is rather true), the sheer power of this perfume and of Quentin Bisch's creations in particular. as a 'Nez' John Biebel said it much more aromatechnical and yet very humoristic. now chance will have it that I, after having relished, sunken and drunken myself in the heaviest and headiest, faux and vulgar, chique and neopost classic hookers of the 1980s and the Montales in all their variations on that one theme Rose-Oud which I happen to love, that I, was drawn to the penetrative, enduring, long-lasting, nostril-etching qualities of this 'le Sel' and I was not disappointed but was also good prepared due to Miguel Matos. (his review is mentioned above, so you can click it and laugh.) from oud I also got a course in endurence and acceptability of scents, of which I am affirmative toward all ouds. Dusita's Oudh Infini, Ex Idolo's Thirty Three, the both Terryfic Ouds (the first and the Extrême) of Tierry de Gunzberg, attar Sultan Pasha 5ml for $225 'Douce Amere' Bittersweet which is fantastic, Al Oudh by l'Artisan parfumeur and Midnight Oud by JHAG, etc., etc. Maître et Parfumier's Oud Extravagant'. and now Crazy in Love by Montale which is toxic and code 4 as hell. the point is now that I have great admiration for Quentin Bisch and le Sel d'Issey. my favorite perfumer is Domique Ropion (and Pissara Umavijani and Vero Kern). now I am all in for the Fugazzi, Guerilla, Renegade and Rage against the Machine neo post perfumery. and as it now appears, which some reviewers already noticed, is this projection not only fairly linear and strong but also ad nauseam intruding, monotonous (a kind of cucumber, salt, seaweed smell) but then on steroids. then I'd rather have Bulgarian Roses and Ylang on steroids, as in my newest Montale. luckily I didn't bought a (nice looking) flacon of the fucking perfume. but yet I keep interested in the molecules and expensive, billowing, not smellable by me, yet nevertheless potent molecules.