Le Baiser Du Dragon – Parfum

3 Reviews

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   boastfulChile6

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   This reminds me of EL Passion a bit (which I like) but more firey.. peppery and full of amber Very heavy fragrance (did I say HEAVY?) fragrance. So much so that it feels like you’re wearing a wool sweater in July! If you do wear this and love it, I hope you’re in a cold climate, on a freezing cold night. This will warm you up. I’ll have to pass on this one though.

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   blissfulDoves3

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   I don’t actually associate it with a dragon, but with some of my childhood memories. I imagine a loft cabin, at winter. Me and my father coming back from a ski trip. He still smells a little bit of aftershave – he shaved his beard mostly every day. We take some firewood with us and go inside. The wood is pine and all sticky from the resin. We put it in the fireplace, which is already lit. The resin warms up and the smell lifts. Mom comes in with warm chocolate for me and dad, who puts some amaretto in his. He was always a fan of XO cognac, but amaretto tastes much better with warm chocolate. We sit down in front of the chimney and relax. Then dad comes up with some of his witty wise words, like he always did after a successful trip and I we laugh.

   This is also very much how I imagine the smell. The perfume contains ingredient with pretty strong smells, but they mellow down to something soft – it’s a memory or fantasy. First I smell something slightly manly, but it disappears quite fast, then the amaretto. The smell of almonds is not like almond oil, which I find sharp – it is a creamy almond. The vetiver is easily recognized if you have smelt it before – it gives off an earthy, but mostly smoky scent. It blends nicely into the resins that come after and makes the whole composition smell fiery, but in a smooth way (amaretto-resin-smoke). When the smokiness, resins and vetiver settles further, you begin to smell chocolate, caramel and a slight continuation of the amaretto. Until these sweet notes arise, I think the fragrance is almost unisex, but these chocolate notes are very soft and feminine. They are far from as sugary as many perfumes nowadays, that makes me feel sick. At the end I again begin to smell the vetiver, but the other side of it: the slightly green, almost bitter grapefruit smelling. It might seem more mysterious to those that haven’t smelt pure vetiver though, because it seems to be the ingredient that transforms this from sweet to smoky to green and back. On me it definitely doesn’t smell flowery though.

   Not a perfume for everyone – I got used to smoky, liqueur-y, heavily sweet notes when I was little, so they don’t scare me, although this perfume might be too heavy and suffocating to others.

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   joyfulPie4

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   I wear this because I don’t want to smell like a candy bar or a teenage girl. The EDP lasts for hours. Sexy yet classy. Worth the bucks.