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voice – :
I this would be my signature smell if it lasted longer and had more Sillage!
If anyone knows a better version of this please let me know.
VladimirI – :
Opening is Pure Malt, then it turns to a pure tonka bean with some plushy cashmere feeling in the background, which faintly reminds me of Ambre Cashmere Intense by Nicolai. Love it!
Longevity and sillage are great, lasts all day.
valia – :
A soft, silky fragrance that does smell vaguely similar to Mugler’s Pure Malt, as another reviewer has noted. The performance is staggering for a Zara scent – it projects strongly for about two hours, especially if physically active, and I was still able to detect it on my inner forearm eight hours after a single spray. If you like the scent it’s a worthwhile purchase but the synthetic vibe of it could be polarizing for some people.
ZMEI – :
This is a straight up clone of Mugler’s Pure Malt. At this price point, you mine as well get the real thing.
Kracker777 – :
Well, today I have tested the trio of zara fragrances from the molecules collection.
Before say anything about it, I want to say that is very curious how Zara alocate its collections, clothes and complements, as well as its fragrances, even in diferent shops in the same city. They adapt and sell only the portion of the season collection focused in the kind of people with an especific profile. This situation makes difficult to find some products oferted in web who imperative needed to be tested before buy as in this case their fragrances.
In the zara shop near my home I found two weeks ago or so only c4shmer4n. I visited 5 shops more in different ubications and shopping centers and don’t found any of the three fragrances, but today I went to a shopping center just outside the city and there was the complete collection waiting to be tested, so I did. The test was made in my skin, not on blotter. Here are my impresions:
C4shmer4n is the best of the trio if we talk about longevity and sillage.
I think its very unisex fragrance and althought personally I dislike its odour, I must admit that it has the best performance of the three. I think that despite it belongs to a molecule collection, it has nothing in common with excentric molecules fragrances, I mean, the fragrance is a mixture of the synthetic component with more ingredients to make it more complex, but in this case, c4shmer4n is a mixture of that and other musks. It reminds me a lot to grey amber, so I would have called it 4mbrox instead.
4mbrox fragrance is like a diluted version of Ambre Noble (from their Tag Collection) with its characteristic amber accord but without the woodsy complements of norlimbanol. It has a high longevity but with very faint sillage. Its high and very first notes makes a characteristic sweet ambrox accord but quickly it turns into the ambre noble note.
Finally, Cor4nol is the third fragrance belonging to the trio with the best smell in my humble opinion. Its a pity that also has poor longevity and a very faint sillage, so the price ratio for only 50 ml is high.
The notes listed in the fragrantica page description are so accurate. The fragrance develops to a precise cardamom note surrounded by the cedar-coranol accord. This aromachemical hasn’t the iso-e-super characteristics, so the fragrance lacks of the luminosity and woodsy accord that it would provide, but love the spicy cardamom smell, so this is my favorite despite its low performance.
Regards!
INGOLFFF – :
This is just about the opening of C4SHMER4N, smelled from a tester strip.
The opening of Zara C4SHMER4N smells like overripe fruits that are so overripe, they are brewing into alcohol. It’s like bad homemade wine smell, maybe even a bit rotten, sweet, repulsive and at the same time so, so wonderful!
Unfortunately I lost my interest after the opening was gone and I didn’t want to spray it on my skin. But that opening was something I never expected. It was discusting and wonderful.
I wish I had a big bottle of that opening smell.
nikolaspb – :
30 mins longevity, opens with the casherman smell then turns sweet then its gone, also bottle is cheap plastic box.
Guestweb – :
I see them here on fragrantica as Molecules Collection…..but my box says Overdose Collection on top.
bnw767Unlogrere – :
I tested all 3 of them since they were only $25 each. They all sadly have little to no longevity, with the exception of C4SHMER4N. Of the 3 releases, C4SHMER4N is the best. Followed by 4MBROX. However, 4MBROX smells like a burst of rubbing alcohol for the first minute then settles very nicely into a beautiful soft musky scent. It lasts for all of 15 minutes though, if that, which sucks because it starts to smell amazing once the rubbing alcohol scent dies off, then just fades away. COR4NOL smells like pine, it reminded me a lot of Christmas.
C4SHMER4N is amazing and I’ve received countless numbers of compliments within the week span that I’ve had it. A beautiful Tonka Bean dry down. This one however has some type of longevity. When I tried it out it for the day it lasted for about 4 hours before I started getting random whiffs of if afterwards. When i tried it out during a night later in the week it lasted all night. Purchased 3 more afterwards. This is certainly more or an evening scent, for me at least. Think of a baby Tonka Imperiale by Guerlian
jaysonX – :
zara you are wonderful. this fragrance is amazing!