Description
A roadtrip across the “riviera”
It was like blending in the backdrop from a 1960 French movie as I was driving on those little-used roads winding their way up and down through the unspoilt countryside. Hues of green, grey and blue, shaded orchard-covered hills exhaling their leafy fruity fragrances alternating with lanes of fragrant purple lavender fields; the sweet scent of artemisia mingling with blossoming orange trees… the apparent bareness of the landscape was an actual delight for the senses. The road was literally carved out of the mountainside, snaking along like a powerful fragrant trail.
As I took the last turn and caught sight of the glittering lights of the town down there, I thought of you, your cheerful smile, the dinner we would have in our secret place next to the sea, and could almost smell its comfortable scent, an elegant blend of amber, musk, and vanilla.
24 Elixir Azur was launched in 2017.
maslach – :
I am a huge scentstory fan I own 7 of there fragrances this being my most recent and this stuff is unique and well blended like any of there other fragrances. I get this really nice minty musky kinda smell with a touch of sweetness and it works really well lemme tell you. Easily 8+ hours of longevity with better then average projection. 8/10 respectively.
Sunnick – :
Just received, tried once, one word. Horrible. Smells like old laundry dryer sheets. Maybe its me but I can’t see how anyone could like this smell. Very chemical
Netyazhuk – :
Not horrible. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to resort to using the word “bubblegum” to describe this, but there’s really no way around it. Elixir Azur features a pungent bubblegum accord as its central theme, the smell of original, pink bubblegum, but it’s made more herbal and aromatic through the use of some added spices and a slight tanginess (like a tangy orange note). The note pyramid doesn’t do a great job of capturing how this smells. There’s certainly musk, and lavender and vanilla/Amber, but they’re all very much blended into this one spicy-fresh pink bubblegum scent. Somehow the composition avoids smelling juvenile and that’s probably because while it’s sweet, it’s not sugary or cloying. And although Azur is synthetic in the chemically manufactured, obvious sort of way, it’s not especially harsh or abrasive either, so unless you’re sensitive to aroma-chemicals that aspect of it probably won’t bother you. There are lots of scents which, due to their synthetic nature, don’t smell so great up close, but they give off a nice aroma from a few feet away. Such is the case with Azur, which feels sort of rough and scratchy up close but pleasant from a distance. And while I personally might find its smell a little annoying or tiresome over the course of a day, it could work well for the right person. It’s pretty well-composed and it performs very well, with strong projection and good longevity. In comparison to other fragrances, Azur reminds me most of 1Million. Similarly, it seems well-suited for a bar or club environment, or any casual occasion. I’m going to give this a thumbs up overall, but definitely recommend sampling it versus a blind buy. While decent quality, the linearity of the fresh bubblegum accord may grate on one’s nerves over time, and if you’ve already had your fun with 1 Million, this may feel a little dated, or behind the curve.
EDIT: I wore this again today and I really enjoyed it. While I don’t think this is necessarily a GREAT scent, it has a really pleasant quality to it and I think 24 achieved what they had set out to do, which was create a kind of sweet, fresh, and cheerful men’s scent. Again, what impresses me about this is that somehow they managed to make it feel mature (enough), and they never let the sweetness get out of hand or become too much. As a result it pushes the boundary of sweet and youthful, but never crosses it. I also think a light application might be key with Azur, just a few sprays. I feel like a heavy application is what will bring out some of its potentially annoying aspects. There will be many people who don’t like this simply because it fits a certain style to a tee–but within relation to its genre it’s quite capable and pretty well done.
Just for kicks I sprayed Azur on one hand and Invictus on the other. In comparison, Azur is fresher, brighter, and more uplifting. It’s also sweeter and a bit smoother. I’m not saying it’s necessarily better–I’d have to wear both a few times and compare the overall experiences to do that–but as far as its smell and register, this is how it compares (just to give you an idea).
Serzh – :
Bubble gumish as it starts off and as it dries down, the more herbal, and musky qualities become more prominent.
I guess if I were to try to tell a story or a image to imagine would be, youre out in some field or the grass or whatever, and your just taking a nap out in the sun. Chewing on some bubble gum, and everytime you get a gust of wind, you get herbal smell from all the plants around you tickling your nose. Slowly but surely you finish your bubble gum, you still have a bit of that sweetness left, but now again the herbal sorta smell is much stronger, and you have more of a sweet musk coming out. Almost like walking through a store and you walk down the mens aisle of shaving cream, shower gel etc.
I feel like the name and the color are a bit misleading as when I see it I imagine something darker and more sexy to say. But at the same time I like sweet scents so visually misleading or not it smells fine to me.
wiser34 – :
I tried this Elixir Azur from a fragrance exhibition and it’s quite incredible how they managed to make a fresh fragrance yet very powerful, different and long lasting ! Nice work !