Histoire d'Eau

Someone here mentioned, it smells like old, tar, wooden boat. I was so curious, because of this originally written rewiew (which unfortunately disappeared) - yes. It smells like old, tar, wooden boat.

I've been sampling amber scents for a while to find my favorite, and Histoire d'Eau is the one for me. It combines a sweet resinous amber base with lively herbal and peppery top notes and longer lasting orange and spice notes, and it just ticks all of the boxes on my amber perfume want list. it much more intriguing to wear than some of the simpler ambers I've tried. I love its soft leatheriness. It omits the vanilla found in many ambers, which makes me very happy since I am not a lover of vanilla. I don't find HdE heavy and suffocating, which is how Prada Amber feels on me. Like Hermes' Elixir des Merveilles, HdE invigorates amber with some juicy orange, but Histoire d'Eau, in the EDT format, lasts longer on me and feels more luxurious than EdM, and at a much more affordable price. Histoire d'Eau has warmed and renewed my spirits during this long, snowy winter, and I'm so glad I ordered it as a blind buy, based on all the great reviews here.

Warm and luminous like an autumnal sunset. Spicy, rich, with salty and animal/ambery notes in the heart. May tire, if used excessively, but in small amounts it never gets bored. One of the most unique blends.

forêt - we can still go back and edit reviews after they have been posted. Lower right corner - dots. Click there. This perfume is quite unusual and completely unisex. It smells like drinking a citrus soda in, or near, a fragrant souk. Or a witch's potion room with a caldron over a fire and brown bottles of potion ingredients.

Is this the intermediate species between the classic amber oriental and the Lutens cedar oriental? Its 2002 birth date tells me no, but my nose says it could be. Histoire d’Eau is a smoky, spicy cedar/amber. There is just enough sweet amber to fall into the Shalimar camp, and enough cedar and fruit to be an SL Bois. It also has an opacity that sits right between Shalimar’s richness and SL’s transparency. Unfortunately, the middle ground is not necessarily the ripest locale for inspiration. I can’t help but feel with a few tweaks, this could have been spectacular. I’ve only smelled SL’s Daim Blond once, and while Hd’E does smell like it a bit at the outset, it doesn’t hang together like Daim Blond. It doesn’t so much fall apart as become flatter over the course of the heart. It rallies a bit in the drydown, leaving a pleasant but unexciting spicy cedar.