Frédéric Malle and Carlos Benaïm talk about Music for a While.
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Frédéric Malle and Carlos Benaïm talk about Music for a While.
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I really enjoy this video even though the notes don’t really appeal to me. And I wonder if it will smell a bit like Jicky?
It doesn’t smell like Jicky! Hope I will manage to review it next week (and do see the comment below).
Hi, Robin: I’m a long-time reader and fan. I’m moved to finally comment because I received a sample of this recently, and was eager to try it — I worried that maybe the pineapple note would make it too sweet or too heavily gourmand for me. Instead, I find there’s a strange tension between the citrus opening and lavender/patchouli mustiness. Is it the bergamot and pineapple that give kind of fizzy quality at the beginning? Maybe the lavender isn’t a storybook lavender — but is it really typical lavender at all? I’d swear there were aldehydes crouching in there to leap off the top. I don’t get any vanillic aspect at all. I hate to say it, but the overall effect for me is a little sneezy and strangely medicinal. The mid-section reminds me of — of all things — Lysol. (My first comment, and I sound like a Philistine!)
I so wanted to love this. Bigarade Concentrée is one of my favourite things, and I think the Éditions de Parfum line is at the very least usually interesting. But this one’s just too weird for me. I’m interested in what other make of this.
Hi Sandman!
I meant to review it this week but life got in the way. It’s likewise not at all what I expected and it might be too weird for me too — but really should spend more time with it before I say much more. Will just add that lavender is rarely “typical” anymore in any fragrances because they’re all using molecular fractions. I bet many people wouldn’t even think of lavender at all when they smelled Music.
Anyway, you don’t sound like a Philistine at all, and glad you commented.
Whew!
At the risk of being literal-minded, I did think it was odd that music features quite prominently in the video, but not a hint of the musical composition that inspired (or at least shares) the name of the fragrance, Purcell’s “Music For A While.”
No mention of it on the FM site, either. It is kind of strange, but maybe they just don’t figure it matters for marketing.