Outdoor use: Aromas with alcoholic notes
Text: Ksenia Golovanova
Aromas with alcohol motifs It has long been not uncommon, and this combination sounds elegant even at the idea stage. In the end, the basis of perfumes and noble drinks is the same. With the help of perfume critic Ksenia Golovanova, we chose the most interesting "cocktails", intoxicating and without drinking inside.
Baraonda, Nasomatto
10 500 rubles
The founder of the brand, Alessandro Gualtieri, is often blamed for provocation for provocation: why call the innocent floral musk China White in honor of the drug that was popular in the 1980s? Why do you ask for a hand-made article, which, according to your own words, you did not succeed - Blamage, that in German "collapse, shame" - 185 dollars? Or here: I suspended the Nasomatto line, promising not to update it, and could not resist. Released the same dashing, drunken, reckless Baraonda. In Italian, this is "guldezh", "turmoil", but there are quite different words here - onda, "wave", and bar, which sounds the same in half of the world's languages. Baraonda - a muddy and poisonous wave that covers you in your favorite bar: whiskey, cocktails, some sweet liqueur, dangerous shots as a gift from a barman friend. And the sour-fruity smell of wine cork, which you drunk for some reason, threw into the bag.
Batucada, L'Artisan Parfumeur
6900 rubles
All the "Brazilian" flavors are built on stereotypes: samba and bossa nova, pop and cocktails, sea and milk for tanning, almost shkvarchaego under the tropical sun. Sometimes from all of the above, it turns out, to put it in musical terms, vampuka - an example of that Amor Amor L'Eau, with which Cacharel jumped in to the Olympic Games in Rio. And sometimes, as in the case of Batucada, stereotypes work perfectly: if you wanted the sea, you would get a gentle, regular aquatic, ask for a cocktail — here is a caipiría with ice-cold cacha, cane sugar and a huge piece of pineapple.
Beagle, Fueguia 1833
11 800 rubles
A small but exceptionally ambitious stamp from Argentina makes fragrant sketches on the subject of Latin America, and brilliantly. Unfortunately, it is poorly known in Russia: it’s not so much the price policy that was to blame here and more, but the location of the only boutique in Moscow hidden in the inside of the Hyatt on Tverskaya. If you pass by, be sure to stop by and go up to the second floor to smell the Beagle. It is named after the ship on which Darwin walked around the coast of South America for three and a half years, but it smells like the inside of a pirate schooner: rum that crossed the equator in an oak barrel, salt and fresh green wheat sprouts, as if bags had sprouted from the damp in the hold with grain.
Acqua di Cuba, Santa Maria Novella
9920 rubles
The old pharmacy brand Santa Maria Novella in its range holds not only euphony lilies of the valley, jasmine and mimosa. There is, for example, such a fantasy on the Island of Freedom, without which this collection would obviously be incomplete. The composition is built like a cigar: drunk, fortified honey strikes in the head, black pepper provides smooth burning, and patchouli are leaves with strong Acqua di Cuba tobacco wrapped.
Aer, Angela Ciampagna
16 000 rubles
A green, impenetrable Aer smells like an Italian digestif, which is known to be made on herbs and roots and most likely invented by medieval monks, but nothing more: the full recipe is kept as holy relics for three castles. There is here both resinous vetiver, juniper berries, and licorice root, but there is neither viscosity usual for liqueurs, nor excess sugar - Aer "drinks" easily, like air in a mountain forest.
Floriental, Comme des Garçons
6555 rubles
Floriental is a warm oriental fragrance with a woody base familiar to Comme des Garçons and skillfully placed accents of sandalwood and vetiver. Those who are familiar with the perfume brand, it might seem boring - a kind of anthology on the golden period of CdG, if not for a juicy fruit chord, reminiscent of chilled plum wine. Not to say that strong - did anyone even manage to really get drunk on plum wine in Yakitori? - but certainly spirited and slightly rough, like the first glass on Friday evening.
Apple Brandy, By Killian
13 813 rubles
Apple Brandy is conceived as a fragrance that recreates the smell of Calvados - a French apple brandy with an amber dress and a strong spirit, which if desired can be "torn off" by a hundred threads: apple pie, caramel, chocolate, cigar - everything is warm in the Norman house. In local restaurants, Calvados interferes with apple juice in a ratio of one to two and call it "pomme", with an emphasis on the last syllable. Apple Brandy smells like aged alcohol with sour, astringent northern apples. In addition to Calvados, in the same collection there is an excellent Single Malt and Vodka on the Rocks, which, however, is not worth the money.
Photo: Nasomatto, Central Department Store, Imagine Parfum, Kilian, Rive Gauche, Aro-Mania, SpellSmell