Review of Soir d'Оrient by aad de gids

(edited) Soir d'Orient indeed is a phenomenal perfume, as one reviewer points out. perhaps the most striking feature is that the first three perfumes strongly reference to each other. Eau du Soir: I remember where I first smelled it and was transported to another dimension, contributing to this also the exorbitant price. I remember where I first smelled (and bought) Sisley's second perfume (for me the best, but nary): an elegant town in Holland where one doesn't come each week, especially without a car. Soir de Lune totally blew me away and I immediately sensed the strong resemblance with Eau du Soir. these perfumes are posh, elegant, make you feel like a million bucks. they also have something austere, haughty. in this they resemble Knowing, No.19, Joy, Calèche. Soir d'Orient is almost an oudless oud. it has the strength, tenacity, rose of a Montale (which in my opinion is excellent). the interconnective aspect of the first three perfumes is MOSS. then along with the fourth perfume IZIA we also have galbanum and angelica which all lend these perfumes sparkling greenness and overflowering luxuriousness. in all the perfumes roses, oh how I love roses not as in girly but in the roses of the Grande Madame. for each perfume count and countess Hubert and Isabelle d'Ornano hired quite sophisticated perfumers and now I also know why Soir de Lune is my favorite: it is concipated by my favorite perfumer Dominique Ropion. yet the other perfumes are masterpieces too and the Ornano's had a great hand in it. what makes Soir d'Orient so ideogrammatic is the combination of rose, galbanum, saffron, incense. a veritable spicey rose never sweet but orientalist silk-route traveled. let us not forget pepper ! the gorgeous flacons do the rest. it is all very artfully done and these are real perfumes. I have them all to not miss upon showstopping entrances. EdS [& moss] The top notes are mandarin orange, grapefruit, spruce and carnation. The heart consists of seringo, jasmine, rose and lily-of-the-valley. Musk, amber and patchouli are in the base. SdL Dominique Ropion used a sharp chypre essence for its main composition; a voloptous floral heart made of rose, mimosa, jasmine and lily-of-the-valley, while the trail is a more intense and richer thanks to the sweet and darker base. At its heart, a cool freshness of iris is opposed to a honey-sweet mimosa note. Main notes are: lemon, bergamot, orange, mandarine, coriander, nutmeg, pimento as top notes; the heart note is composed of May rose absolute, mimosa absolute, jasmine, lily-of-the-valley, peach and the base note includes moss, musk, patchouli, honey, sandalwood. SdO Top notes are bergamot, iran galbanum and saffron; middle notes are black pepper, turkish rose and geranium; base notes are incense, sandalwood and patchouli. Izia Sisley Izia is a "modern, new and multifunctional" perfume with a focus on the note of rose. The composition begins with aldehydes, white bergamot and pink pepper. A rose accord in the "sophisticated" heart of the perfume is enriched with transparent floral notes and angelica. Amber, musk and cedar form the warm woody-musky base of the fragrance.