Today I had an aesthetic choc and an emotional (re)discovery. I smelled Emotionelle (del Rae), recently appeared in Paris. I've never seen such a huge and hyper realistic melon note, not even in the fruity reconstitutions. This is not a common fragrance.
This is pure Salvador Dali! A scent statement that is impeccable built like any masterpiece of the masters. The entire day I had the feeling that I was under the spell of Parfum de Thèrese where by a magic word the melon became a gigantic hybrid from another planet. A fruit that you open and inside its succulent flesh you discover a fragrance bottle. I think than only Dali could see inside a melon the maternal space that bears a divine child.
Michel Roudnitska is a perfumer like no other. I met him last summer in his garden but it is through the perfumes that I got a revelation. You might like them or not but all have several special qualities: they are well built, they have no relation with any perfume on the market, they are highly original. He seems not to care about the contemporary world and is not contaminated by any other fragrant idea. Another strange impression is that his perfumes do not bear any relation with the recent history of perfumery. It's like he never lived in the 80's or 90's and that's a great quality in terms of creation. I think he is a perfumer that deserves more attention and more briefs. There is something special there at Cabris in that beautiful garden on a hill.
Returning to Emotionelle, it is an excellent perfume if you tolerate the melon idea as an OVNI fruit. Usually a fruity note can crash everything when in excess, but here the fragrance is under control. Small flowers (rose, jasmine, honeysuckle), spices (cinnamon), light woods, violet molecules, lactones-chypre and vanilla are played in contrasts like in a Bach concerto and even a raspberry is noticeable in the end - a contrapunto effect like in Diorama. Like all other creations he did, this has an idea, a shape and an impeccable structure.
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